Insight Guide Japan (Insight Guides Japan) [Paperback]

Scott Rutherford (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Insight Guides (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887295886
• ISBN-13: 978-0887295881
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,776,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars As always, the Insight Guides bring the experience, July 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Guide Japan (Insight Guides Japan) (Paperback)

As a Insight Guide fan I feel this is a great visual guide to Japan. You can buy much better detailed traditional-style guide books with more information, but Insight Guides arent about that imho, they aim to bring the living experience of a country or an area to you via images. Content is lightweight as with most IGs. If you can afford it buy the Lonely Planet Japan for sheer information plus this book for the experience and you cant go wrong when visiting Japan.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best guide for Japan, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Guide Japan (Insight Guides Japan) (Paperback)

This is the best overview guide to Japan I have seen. Not necessarily your best bet as a travel guide if you need detailed lodging info and such, but this book has beautiful pictures and great text to introduce you to the country.

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful pictures - but hardly useful when travelling, July 2, 2003

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Andrius Uzkalnis (Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Insight Guide Japan (Insight Guides Japan) (Paperback)

It is very good as a coffee-table book: publishers pull all the stops with beautiful, expensive, high quality photographs. There are loads of good cultural and background information, and these articles also read well (unlike writings of some supposedly insightful books like Rough Guide which are terminally, heart-stoppingly, mind-numbingly BORING).

However, the guide is thin on practicalities, and all this premium quality glossy super-paper is too heavy to carry around. It is a pleasure to leaf through at home, though.