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Japan by Rail by: Ramsey Zarifeh City Travel Guides Price: £13.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 915 EAN: 9781873756973 ISBN: 1873756976 Label: Trailblazer Publications Manufacturer: Trailblazer Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: June 15, 2007 Publisher: Trailblazer Publications Studio: Trailblazer Publications Sales Rank: 53679 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Marvellous - you only need this book if you can use the JR PassIn fact you only this book period because it tells you how to get around as well as defining what there is to detain a rail traveller in any particular place. We found it absolutely brilliant. I left my other guide books at home and slowly discarded brochures from JNTO as largely redundant. The phrases in the back of the book were more helpful than a 3 month night school of Japanese 1 and the timetables are still fairly accurate. You can check these locally, on the internet before you leave, when you are there or have your nice Nagoya Hotel do that for you (Hotel Astria). All JR stations will help as well! Back to the book however, what it doesn't tell you is really not worth knowing. We visited 2 listed steam attractions; ... Read More: Rating: - Invaluable when travelling by trainI've just been around Japan and this book is an absolute must for anyone wanting to do the same via the ultra-efficient train network. I managed to get round virtually all of it with this and a basic phrasebook with very little knowledge of the language. The main section of this book is split by area, (eg Hokkaido, North, central and west Honshu etc.) then into two sub-sections; Route guide and City Guide. The Route section deals with how to get from one major city to another via the train network and the latter deals with what you can do when you get there. Most stations, large and small are covered on each line, with suggestions about when to stop off on your journey to take in the sights. The City guide covers most major cities and ... Read More: |
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