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June 16, 2009 Travel Guide
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Japan!

•Updated frequently, Fodor’s Japan provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

Fodor’s Japan features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Japan.

•Experience Japan like a local! Fodor’s Japan includes choices for every traveler, from visiting ancient temples and shrines to taking in Tokyo's futuristic department stores or Okinawa's war memorials, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

•Full-color pullout map

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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"In terms of comprehensiveness of coverage, the very accessible format, and the enthusiastic tone, this series remains one of the best on the market." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's super-informative guidebooks are known for accuracy and attention to detail…" –The Sacramento Bee
 
"The Fodor's guides are notable for their ratings of sights, restaurants, shops, accommodations and attractions." –Chicago Tribune
 
"The great detail, infectious spirit, and attractive format are distinguishing traits of these guides, which are entries in one of the top series in the business." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's can help you plan the perfect adventure" –The Arizona Republic
 
"Always thoughtfully written and easily readable, Fodor's travel guides have become a must-have when traveling to unfamiliar destinations" –Mid South Magazine
 
"Widely recognized as the gold standard of mainstream travel" –Honolulu Advertiser

Product Details

  • Paperback: 768 pages
  • Publisher: Fodor's; 19 Org edition (June 16, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1400008271
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400008278
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #869,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars informative but a little disappointing, January 25, 2011
This review is from: Fodor's Japan, 19th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)
we're going on a trip in april to japan, and took the fodor's guide out of the library to read up on what to do on our trip, and to decide if it would be worth it to purchase. Overall, the book has all the nuts and bolts you need, and has definitely helped in planning our trip. However, this guide has some key shortfalls - not enough maps or pictures. There's a handful of pictures in the front, and then only one or two maps of all of japan. In their itinerary suggestions it's almost impossible to follow since they don't reference them back to a map that you could follow. The chapters dedicated to certain areas only show a close in area map and not where it is in reference to the rest of the country (unlike say the rough guide).

I love reading guidebooks to help me get inspired and to inform me about my trip, but i found myself frustrated reading fodors, not being able to get a full sense of the country reading it, and i can't fully pinpoint why...maybe it could be when they describe a beautiful temple you don't see a picture to inspire you to go there. Also, i found some suggestions hilarious, such as for purchasing the Japan Rail pass, they casually suggest you upgrade to the first class ticket, which they say is a "negligible" price, about $100 more a ticket! i would rather that money in my budget go to a meal or a better lodging choice.

Again, the fodors guide is a good functional and thorough guide, but I would not want it to be the book I have with me throughout my trip.
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This travel guide has been very helpful as all of their travel guides are. It will make my trip smoother and have fewer unexpected issues.
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