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.Japan by Rail by: Ramsey Zarifeh June 15, 2007 In 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: >>See More Reviews & Details on Japan by Rail |
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.Japan by Rail by: Ramsey Zarifeh December 01, 2001 After travelling extensively in Japan, I soon found that the only way of really efficiently getting from A to B (or from Osaka to Kyoto as the case may be) was to use Mr. Zarifeh's book on the rail system in that country. Really, from every perspective it certainly takes one's breath away that a rail system (certainly compared to ours at home!) can simply operate seemingly without any hitches whatsoever. To close, I simply have to recommend to all who travel to japan using Mr. Zarifeh's book, that they make a point of visiting a Mr. Akira Sirai at the Ooigawa Railway Company, a steam railway set in the hilly region of Kanaya nr. Shizuoka. Mr. Sirai will enlighten his guests for hours on the ways of rail travel as it used to be! A rare treat to see ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Japan by Rail |