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Japan (Country Guide) by: Chris Rowthorn List Price: $28.99 City Travel Guides Price: $19.13 You Save: $9.86 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 915 EAN: 9781741046670 ISBN: 174104667X Label: Lonely Planet Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 868 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: Lonely Planet Studio: Lonely Planet Sales Rank: 21595 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Discover Japan Dodge flying fish at the world's greatest sashimi market Find yourself spirited away to Miyazaki's museum of anime Master the perfect double-clap and bow for your first shrine visit Earn your keep in a Buddhist temple In This Guide: Japan resident authors, 343 days of research, 120 detailed maps, three geisha sightings You asked for it, we researched it - everything you need to know about onsen (hot springs) and skiing, and more language assistance than ever Cost-saving tips even the locals don't know. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Overall helpful - however lacking as a day-to-day travel companion.Lonely Planet excels as a detailed introduction to what you absolutely need to know before visiting Japan. From travel hints and special considerations you just may not thought about, this guide can be an essential piece of equipment in your travel arsenal. Many of the other reviews here spell out Lonely Planet's best qualities as an overall guide and are spot-on. However, as I read the same reviews prior to purchase and now have the benefit of spending a bit over a month in Japan to date, I can offer the following as additional considerations when considering your purchase of this book. First and foremost, a previous review mentions the rather ungainly size of the Lonely Planet Japan guide. I have found the text provides good ... Read More: Rating:  - Great overall guide to JapanHaving been to Europe the last two years, I was used to using Rick Steve's guidebooks, so I needed to find an alternative for Japan. I ordered this book and picked up a copy of Frommer's Japan guidebook, but ended up taking the Lonely Planet guide with me to Japan. As I was reading both guides the night before my trip, I realized that the Lonely Planet guide had maps of the metro for both Tokyo and Kyoto (it also had Osaka, but I didn't need that one for this trip)and the Frommer's didn't have metro maps. You can always get the maps at train stations, but there's no guarantee they will be in English. It also called out in more detail the "local" things to do more so than the Frommer's which focused more on the must do ... Read More: Rating:  - Best Tourist Guide Series Out ThereThis book marks the newest printing of the Lonely Planet series of travel guides on Japan. In my experience with travel, these writers give the most thorough, useful reviews of almost anywhere that anyone would find interest in, with detailed and maps, directions, and things to look out for. A few notes, however; if you are looking for a picture book, this is NOT for you, this travel guide will contain almost completely pragmatic information such as guides and maps, with very few pictures. Also, if you are looking to actually reside in Japan, you will want to find a guide for the specific city you are looking to live in from a book series not designed for tourists, as there are many cities which are not considered "tourist's destinations" ... Read More: Rating:  - Don't buy this bookWe've travelled all over the world using Lonely Planet guide books, and we've had a great experience with them. The Japan book on the other hand was the most useless guide book I have ever seen. We would arrive in a bustling part of Tokyo, open the book, and it would say, "just walk around, everything is good." I didn't spend $25 on a guidebook for that. The whole book seemed lazy, there were maps printed upside down, sights they write about and don't place on their maps and the most amazing things we did in Kyoto weren't in the book, we learned about them through our hostile. If you are going to Japan, don't buy this book, I would have preferred to have no book at all because I spent so much time frustrated at this book. Rating: - Lonely planet: good contents poor graphics and suggestionsAlthough Lonely Planet has good contents about all the places to visit, the suggested walks aren't as good as others. The complete descripitions of all the places doesn't orientate first vists wiht "don't live Tokyo withot.." suggestions. Terrible maps and no pictures make this guide a real bible.. not to talk about its size... |
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