Customer Reviews

Streetwise Tokyo Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Tokyo, Japan

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This is a good detailed map to Tokyo - for once I didn't get completely lost. I wish I had had it on my first three visits when (among many other mis-steps),I spent hours confused on the subway where it is difficult to read station maps becasue of the serious crowds. Trust me you need your own so you can read it at your convenience. Too the architectural drawings of major buildings in different districts are a good visual aid when walking around. Tokyo is a difficult city alright and without a detailed map you are doomed.

Unless you want to carry around an encyclopedic street guide weighing five pounds this Street Wise is the one for you. For the casual or business traveler this compact laminated map is the best I've found....and I've tried too many to list.

We travel a great deal and have to admit- Tokyo is amazing, unforgetable and daunting to find your way around without this map. Often we're just fine with whatever you can get at the local I. Not so with Tokyo, save yourself a lot of frustration in being disoriented- this is a huge city tightly compacted and not to be missed. We were there 5 days and this map was priceless- we rarely buy maps but this one made a Huge difference for us.

This map is not helpful as it excludes relevant portions of the city. Portion relevant as Tokyo is not a centralized city as many others, but lives on various epicentres as Shibuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Ueno, Asaksa etc. which have thir own suburbs bustling with life and activites of every day relevance.
If you're only interested in the main area of the city then this map is otherwise excellent.
Tommaso

This should be a must-have if you're traveling to Tokyo. The ability to correlate desired destination locations with the proper subway stops was invaluable. After a quick glance, I could immediately tell which subway line I needed, (Line Color) what stop to get off at (Station Name and Number) and what exit number I should take so that I wasn't completely confused once I arrived street level. Starting the first day, I could navigate the major areas of Tokyo as if I lived there for years.

Only criticism: Subway Transfer locations should be better labeled to see what lines connect a little easier. Just carry the free (English) subway map for that as a backup.

You have to be brave to go to Tokyo, it is very different from any other city, the crowds and the subway only add to the confusion. This map was wonderful for helping us to decipher the subway system, which is quite overwhelming. this map did a great job of getting us safely to our destination and pointing out important landmarks. I wouldn't go there without this map!

I buy from this Street Wise series even if I am only going to spend 2 or 3 days in a city. Shows the train stations, some buildings by name, and the Tokyo map even shows if there is a street light at an intersection. I generally prefer StreetWise over a paper map because I just have to fold it left to right, not top to bottom as well. And the maps are hardy.

Someone more familiar with the city might be able to you why the train station "Aoyama 1 chome" in the 2010 edition of the map is sometimes written as Aoyama i chome in other sources.

Free advice: take a small skinny sharpie to mark / circle where you want to go. Tokyo is such a big city that you might wish you didn't keep having to locate, for example, your hotel or Tokyo Tower every time you open it. Since it's well laminated, a sharpie marker will probably work best.

Took a vacation to Japan in the Spring. If you do not speak Japanese and are not on a tour, this is worth picking up.

This is a really good map of Tokyo but I recommend to those who have problems with small characters to take a magnifying glass with them. In that case they would be able fully enjoy qualities of this map. Of course I also appreciate that it can be easily used even in rainy and windy weather ....

no help-not enough information on the map, the metro stops are only numbered which meant nothing to me before I arrived in tokyo. it just confuses an already confusing city. (well for me)

The STREETWISE TOKYO MAP was really helpful for my first trip to Tokyo this month. Not only does it break Tokyo down into the separate districts like Shibuya, Shinjuku, Asakusa, etc., it provides icons for big hotels and landmarks, so that you can figure out where you are, and there's also a Tokyo area map showing all of the districts within Tokyo.

Another really good thing about the map is the listing of subway/train station numbers and lines. This was really helpful in figuring out the route from point A to point B. We learned the hard way that Tokyo isn't an area that you can walk from one place to another, unless you're really familiar with the streets, because they aren't logically set up like here in the states. The streets of Tokyo branch out and twist and turn and you can get lost very easily!

We got lost about 3 or 4 times, even when we were walking in what seemed like a straight line. Luckily, the STREEWISE TOKYO MAP shows the subway and train lines so you can just follow along the appropriate line to get from where you are to where you want to go and then head down to the station. Because the subway lines have a combination of letters and numbers, i.e. the Marunouchi line is listed on the map and in real life as "M" plus a number denoting the station stops, it's really easy to figure out which line you need to be taking and at what number stop you need to get off at.

Trust the map and the numbers because there was one anomaly that appears in the Shibuya area of the map and Shinjuku. Actually it isn't an anomaly but if you walked the area, we walked from the Tokyo Gymnasium back into Shinjuku where we were staying, it would seem that Shibuya is actually above Shinjuku, but it's not. So when we decided to ride the Fukutoshin Line to get to Harujuku, after getting hopelessly lost on foot, we noticed that the station stop numbers were getting higher, instead of lower, but it was right on.

The above probably makes no sense, but if you've ever walked the streets of Shinjuku and Shibuya you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Anyway, the map is great for finding your way when you become lost, or may actually prevent it, and it'll help you figure out the subway and train lines so you can get to where you need to go.