Tokyo Rail and Road Atlas: A Bilingual Guide [Paperback]

Kodansha International (Author), Atsushi Umeda (Author), Tetsuo Kuramochi (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1993

This is a bilingual guide to the complex Tokyo-area transportation system, with 15 railway maps, eight road maps, 23 guide maps, and major terminal stations.

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English, Japanese

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN); Eng/Japane edition (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4770017812
• ISBN-13: 978-4770017819
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Tokyo Map I've seen yet, January 5, 2000

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Henry (Newton, Morocco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tokyo Rail and Road Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (Paperback)

This book has super clear maps, english and Kanji, and super detail (most block numbers). This is the best Tokyo metro map I've seen (the big fold out maps from Kodansha are excellent also).

I use this all the time to get around Tokyo.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good resource - but not Awesome, December 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tokyo Rail and Road Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (Paperback)

I live in the Tokyo area, and this guide is useful for riding the trains, but I think they could organize it better. It takes a little getting used to. The train maps are divided up by companies and types of trains not by areas... so you get really confused at first. Buy this book for the train maps, not the street maps. I wouldn't rely on these street maps (which take up a majority of the book) for driving. This book was recommended to us. We also looked through several English atlases like this one, and this seemed to be the best one available in English....

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent map of tokyo, April 13, 2001

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Kenji (Washington DC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tokyo Rail and Road Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (Paperback)

Quite possibly the only english-language resource you will need to get around Tokyo. Features detailed maps of popular areas (Ginza, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku, Ikebukuro, etc). Good maps of subway and JR lines, and even pretty comprehensive bus route maps. Only covers Tokyo (and a bit of Yokohama) though, but if that's what you need, you'll get it all here in one book.