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Title: Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide) by June Kinoshita, Nicholas Palevsky ISBN: 4-7700-2018-X Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of the Lot
Comment: I recently completed a 19 day trip to Kyoto and Tokyo. If there is a perfect comprehensive guide to Japan I have yet to find it, despite buying 6 of them. This was the best of the lot. Especially helpful was the star ranking of sights which was very well done and generally reliable. The descriptions were a bit brief for my taste but more comprehensive than the other guidebooks I had. The historical and cultural information was outstanding. The restraunt and hotel information was useful although I supplimented it with other books. The only glaring weakness was finding sights using the maps in the book. The sights aren't numbered, and it was sometimes hard to even find the right map to use. Because of the map problems, it would be too frustrating to use this as a sole guide. In all other respects, it's good to excellent. I primarily used this book and the Eyewitness Japan guide for sightseeing. They made a good combination.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't leave home without it
Comment: Simply the best guide book I've ever used. The first third of the book explains, in easy sections, the key issues that drive the country and civilization. Shinto, Buddhism, History and Social Structure are well presented. The top sites are detailed, but you'll understand why they are important to Japan and what you should look for when you visit. During several of my side trips, I found myself (and the book) serving as the primary guide to my expatriot hosts who had visited the same sites many times. You'd be well served to bring along another guide to Tokyo or any japanese city for restaurant and hotel listings, although there are some suggestions in the guide.
Why can't other guide books be like this?
Rating: 5
Summary: The greatest
Comment: Having lived in Japan for the past 6 years, I've had the opportunity to use all of the major guidebooks (and quite a few of the minor ones as well), and without a doubt, the most useful and informative guidebook is this one. Of course Lonely Planet has lots of information about restaurants and hotels, but you can get the tourist information center to help you with hotels and wherever you walk you can find plenty of nice restaurants. What you really want is a purpose to visit the places that you are visiting. Lonely Planet just tells you what things are, but this guidebooks tells you the history of each place, so you can understand why each place is important. If you're looking for a guidebook to tell you where the clubs, hangouts, and youth hostels are, then maybe this isn't the book you're looking for. However, if you're looking for a nice meaty book to feed you mind on, this is it.
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Title: Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook (Japanese Phrasebook, Ed 3) by Yoshi Abe ISBN: 086442616X Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Japan (Lonely Planet. Japan, 8th Ed) by Chris Rowthorne, Andrew Bender, John Ashburne, Sara Benson, David Atkinson, Craig McLachlan ISBN: 1740591623 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Japan: A Bilingual Atlas (A Kodansha Guide) by Kodansha International, Kodansha Ltd, Atsushi Umeda ISBN: 4770015364 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Japan (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Dorling-Kindersley ISBN: 0789497190 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Fodor's Japan, 16th Edition : The Guide for All Budgets, Completely Updated, with Color Photos and Many Maps by Fodor's ISBN: 067900890X Publisher: Fodor's Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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