Tokyo Guide [Paperback]

Patrice Fusillo (Author), Noriko Araki (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2001 | Series: Open Road's Tokyo Guide

Tokyo offers soaring castles, peaceful gardens and parks, modern hotels and restaurants, coffee houses, art galleries, nightclubs and shops. This is a guide to Tokyo and its attractions. It discusses how to visit the Imperial Palace, the Meiji Shrine and the Korakuen Garden. It advises on how to find delicious sushi, department store bargains, and authentic woodblock prints. Various excursions are offered, including the former capital of Kamakura with its multitude of temples; Nikko, with its ornate shrines; the port of Yokohama; and Mount Fuji. As with all "Open Road" guides, this volume has been written with the traveller in mind. There is travel planning advice and information, along with maps and sidebars.

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Patrice Fusillo lived for 12 years in Japan, and is the author of Open Road's Japan Guide and many articles on Japanese culture and travel. She now makes her home in Oakland and is a cross-cultural consultant.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Open Road; 2nd edition (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892975556
• ISBN-13: 978-1892975553
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,638,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly the book we needed for our trip, January 5, 2003

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russiananimation.com (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tokyo Guide (Paperback)

I bought this book just before our first business trip to Japan and read it cover to cover while sitting in Superior Court waiting to see if I would be called to jury duty. This book is a must for anyone who really wants to explore Tokyo and has been scared off by the stories of $300/lb steaks and $450/night hotel rooms the size of a postage stamp. We are proof that you can really do Tokyo well, at a reasonable price. We were in Tokyo on business, but had some free time, and really wanted to know something tangible about the society before going. I particularly appreciated the cultural insights into the high asthetic level which pervades life in Tokyo, the artful use of glass and light which makes a crowded city seem spacious, the high tech toilets. We followed some of the more off beat suggestions including visiting the fish market at 4 ayem (missed the tuna auction but caught the melon auction), the Sunday flea markets at shrines, the 100 yen stores, but we also visited museums and department stores and travelled on the metro and JR without problem. Only one of the addresses (traditional Craft Center) was out of date and the book did not have our hotel which is called Hotel Excellent. It should be included next time --$125/night for a perfectly fine double in the middle of the posh Ebisu district, just five blocks from a 24 hour kinko's, and across the street from the metro, JR, and great shopping and eating. We ate at a lot of the little 350 yen restaurants where Japanese have lunch and dinner, but also had some extraordinary expensive meals that were so beautifully served you didn't know whether to eat or photograph each course. Shopping suggestions and the recommended shops we tried were excellent.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible resource for long or short trips to Tokyo, October 21, 2004

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Used together with the standard Tokyo street and subway guide, this book was an indispensable tool for a very enjoyable 4-day jaunt to Tokyo. The logical explanation of the sights - together with shopping and eating experiences - gave me the information I needed as a basis for my trip. I strongly recommend reading it cover to cover before going, highlighting sights to see and mapping out adventures in half-day segments with enough time for a hole-in-the-wall tempura, yakitori, noodle or sushi restaurant as a luncheon layover. Sights, shopping, sake bars ... it's all covered here. Extend yourself - it is very easy to get around in Tokyo and the people could not have been nicer.

4.0 out of 5 stars Well written guide book, January 28, 2005

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There are so many books out there to choose from! I am very satisfied with this one, even though it happens to be a few years old. The entire book is carefully thought out and covers many topics that you will need to know-especially if you are travelling for the first time to Japan without a guide. I found this book very helpful,entertaining and easy to use. (I would definately reccommend it over Foder's.)