Travel to Japan

Japan by Rail: Includes Rail Route Guide and 29 City Guides

Format: Paperback
Author: Ramsey Zarifeh
ReleaseDate: 12 February, 2002
Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
Rating:

Great resource
There is a lot of very helpful, accurate, and detailed information. I just came back from a very nice trip to Japan, and having this book was really helpful. I covered 4 cities, and rode every form of rail transportation. This book helped me with diverse tasks from how to choose which sites to see to how to navigate through the airports and train stations.

Get a JR pass and this book and you can cover Japan!.

Not useful at all!
I lived in Japan for more than a decade and I was planning a short excursion so I bought this book. This book is terrible. It was not helpful at all. It covers the greatest hits of Japan but has very little detail about most places. It seems to assume that you'd want to just ride the train all the time without ever getting off. Most of the suggested trips are incredibly unrealistic about the amount of time it would take to visit the listed places, almost to the point of ridiculousness. I do not recommend this book at all! Any other guide book and a rail map would be much better.
If you are planning on traveling in Japan, skip "Japan by Rail" and get "Gateway to Japan" published by Kodansha. It is the best!.

Japan By Rail
Recommend the publication to anyone who will be travelling to Japan. An excellent book to have with you whilst travelling around Japan by rail. Has excellent places to visit on a budget.

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	The Rough Guide to Japan, Third Edition
	Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (3rd Ed.)
	Frommer's Japan (Frommer's Complete)
	Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide)