Travel to Japan

The Rough Guide to Tokyo, Third Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Jan Dodd
ReleaseDate: 21 March, 2005
Publisher: Rough Guides
Rating:

Good overview -- some details wrong
The overview of the regions in the city was particularly helpful, as were the transportation guides (although similar information was available at subway stations. The Rough Guide to Tokyo provided a good overview of the city and some of the best tourist destinations. )

Several times during our one week visit, my wife and I attempted to find a restaurant or bar that was recommended or described in the Rough Guide, only to discover that it had closed some time ago. This was particularly frustrating as the 3rd edition was less than a year old at the time of publication.

Overall, a convenient way to get your feet wet, but ask the locals where to eat for dinner, they gave better advice and the restaurants still existed!.

Decent Restaurant Listings and Maps
You could certainly take it as your only guide book if you were going to Tokyo. This book scores high marks for excellent maps and very extensive listings of restaurants.

However, I was still quite disappointed by the descriptive text in the book. Too often, the neighborhood descriptions were very superficial and bland. Fortunately I didn't rely very much on these sections of the book. However, since so much of the book is comprised of these lengthly text passages, it felt as if the book was about twice as heavy as it needed to be. .

Recommended For a Short Trip
Bought this book and thereafter used this book for the next three weeks to roam around tokyo . I went to tokyo and got lost in Shinjuku railway station. This is an excellent book for those of you going to tokyo on a short trip .

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