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Title: The Rough Guide to Japan (ROUGH GUIDE JAPAN) by Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond, Tada Taku, David Waddell ISBN: 1-85828-699-9 Publisher: Rough Guides Limited Pub. Date: 02 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: My choice of guide to Japan
Comment: I am constantly looking for good travel guides to Japan. I've used three of them. I choose to use the Rough Guide now. It is the most accurate and the most interesting, and also the most recent.
I am surprised that the maps have been criticised. In some cases (Nikko, for example) they are much better than those of other guides.
Finding things in Japan can be harder than elsewhere, and books can only help you so much. I had trouble finding a particular restaurant in Kumamoto because the book only gave its address and map location, but another well-known guide gave no contact information for any of the restaurants it mentioned.
The Rough Guide is my first choice. The Lonely Planet guide would be my second choice. None of the other guides come close to offering the right combination of practical data and background information to help you enjoy what you see and do.
A useful tip to people who get very upset over errors in guide books: first, learn to expect some, second, take two guides if you can afford the extra space and weight - if a phone number or address is wrong in one of them it is usually right in the other.
Rating: 1
Summary: Movie Synopses are just plain wrong
Comment: I only encountered this book while searching for Japanese movies on amazon, but after skimmin the movie synopses, I've found that a lot of them are misleading and a surprising amount are just plain wrong. Swallowtail Butterfly is about Chinese immigrants in Japan, it's not sci-fi. Black Rain is about the consequences of the bomb (radioactive rain), not yakuza. Admittedly I havent read the entire book, but if the sample pages are any example of the whole, this book is fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guide Book on Japan
Comment: The Rough Guide is hands down the best travel guide on Japan. The writing is fresh and informative, the practical information is up to date and helpful, and the data is accurate. For the amount of material covered, the depth is amazing ... From Hokkaido to the islands of Okinawa you can navigate the entire country with just this book. And not just "navigate", but plan what to see, where to eat, and where to stay with a variety of options.
The main complaints previous reviewers have concern the occasional mistake and the lack of pictures. Of course, when you try to summarize an entire country in a thousand pages there will be mistakes and omissions, and of course information will go out of date. Which is why you should always double check your sources, or be prepared to roll with the punches. Most places have websites and even the smallest cities in Japan have at least a little bit of tourist information in English. If you're spending the time and money to come all the way to Japan, what does it hurt to spend a little bit of extra time on the internet double checking the details on places you want to see.
The same goes for pictures. Personally, I'd rather wait until I get to a place and see for myself what something looks like, but when it comes to pictures (or maps) the internet is a treasure trove of information.
No matter how well you plan things, there will always be hangups. Traffic is bad. A place you want to see is taking the day off. A bar you want to go to has closed its doors. The best you can do is get as much information ahead of time and hope for the best. From my experience living in Japan, if you are going to rely on one main source for your travel information in Japan, use the Rough Guide. It's better than anything else out there.
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Title: Lonely Planet Japan (LONELY PLANET JAPAN) by Chris Rowthorne, Andrew Bender, John Ashburne, Sara Benson, David Atkinson, Craig McLachlan ISBN: 1740591623 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook (LONELY PLANET JAPANESE PHRASEBOOK) by Yoshi Abe ISBN: 086442616X Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook Japanese (ROUGH GUIDE PHRASEBOOKS) by LEXUS ISBN: 1858289203 Publisher: Rough Guides Limited Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide) by June Kinoshita, Nicholas Palevsky ISBN: 477002018X Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Fodor's Japan: The Guide for All Budgets (Fodor's Japan) by Fodors ISBN: 067900890X Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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