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Tuttle Travel Pack: Tokyo. Your Guide to Tokyo's Best Sights for Every Budget
For travelers who want to experience everything Tokyo has to offer, look no further than Tuttle Travel Pack Tokyo. From strolling the winding alleys of the city's traditional neighborhoods to exploring its ultra-modern,neon-soaked streets, this comprehensive Tokyo guide delivers it all. Readers will learn where to enjoy the finest Japanese cuisine and cutting-edge contemporary art, centuries-old temples and gleaming modern architecture, and all of the other wonderful elements that make Tokyo the world's most mesmerizing city.
If visitors want to leave behind the urban sprawl, travel writer Rob Goss points them toward the ancient seaside capital of Kamakura and the gilded mausoleums at Nikko. Ambitious hikers can climb Mount Fuji—or just enjoy it from a distance while soaking in one of the natural hot spring baths in nearby Hakone. Easy to use and easy to carry, Tuttle Travel Pack Tokyo provides a useful pull-out map of Tokyo and is organized into four simple chapters:
Tokyo's Best Sights highlights thirteen not-to-be-missed experiences
Exploring Tokyo guides readers to the top attractions in each district
Author's Recommendations details the best hotels and restaurants, night spots, kid-friendly activities, shopping areas, and more
Travel Facts provides essential information from useful Japanese phrases to money, transports, visas, and much more.
If visitors want to leave behind the urban sprawl, travel writer Rob Goss points them toward the ancient seaside capital of Kamakura and the gilded mausoleums at Nikko. Ambitious hikers can climb Mount Fuji—or just enjoy it from a distance while soaking in one of the natural hot spring baths in nearby Hakone. Easy to use and easy to carry, Tuttle Travel Pack Tokyo provides a useful pull-out map of Tokyo and is organized into four simple chapters:
Tokyo's Best Sights highlights thirteen not-to-be-missed experiences
Exploring Tokyo guides readers to the top attractions in each district
Author's Recommendations details the best hotels and restaurants, night spots, kid-friendly activities, shopping areas, and more
Travel Facts provides essential information from useful Japanese phrases to money, transports, visas, and much more.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published September 9, 2014
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Rob Goss
22 books2 followersRob Goss is a British author and writer based in Tokyo.
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December 5, 2016
Shinto, kami, torii, Shogun, eras, Edo, Meiji restoration, Ryokan, Fuji-san
Tokyo's Best Sights
Meiji Jingu Shrine: Dedicated to the souls of Emperor Meiji, the man who lead Japan’s transition from feudal state to modern world power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his consort Empress Shoken. Shrine in the midst of a 70-acre forest.
Omotesando-dori (Omotesando Shopping Avenue)
Tsukiji Fish Market: home to more than 60,000 wholesalers, buyers and shippers supplying Tokyo’s restaurants and shops with what amounts to more than 700,000 tons of seafood a year.
Tokyo Skytree: At 634 meters, the Skytree is the tallest tower in the world, with two observation decks (350 meters and 450 meters).
Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa: Tokyo’s most venerable and colorful Buddhist temple. Nakamise-dori, the vibrant shop-lined street that forms the main approach to Senso-ji, is as touristy as it gets.
Sumida River Cruise
Yanaka District: Discover “Old Tokyo”
Akihabara (Akiba): electronics and otaku. Yodobashi Akiba.
Edo-Tokyo History Museum
Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown
Oedo Hot Springs in Odaiba: traditional bathhouse experience with a little Edo kitsch
Shinjuku Gyoen Park
Hike Mount Takao
Exploring Tokyo
Asakusa, Shitamachi
Ueno: Park, Zoo, Ameya Yokocho street market; Yanesen
Akihabara (Akiba): electronics and otaku. Yodobashi Akiba.
Shinjuku: free observation decks on the 45th floor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, MAP Camera, Bic Camera. Kabuki-cho area for nightlife.
Roppongi: international/Western; Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown, National Art Center
Odaiba: Yurikamome Line. Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Big Sight, Decks Beach mall, Legoland Discovery Center (playing with LEGO, 4D cinema, jungle gyms, several small rides, LEGO-made models of Tokyo, Madame Tussauds, Trick Art Museum), Aqua City mall, Statue of Liberty, Gundam statue, Oedo Hot Springs, Palette Town, Ferris Wheel, Venus Fort mall, Mega Web
Day trip to Kamakura: Japan’s 13th-century seat of power for the first shogun Yoritomo Minamoto. The Daibutsu (Great Statue of Buddha), mid-Sep Reitaisai festival at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine, Kencho-ji temple is Japan's oldest Zen training monastery, Engaku-ji temple.
Day trip to Yokohama: the port city steeped in history and overseas influences, and where there US Navy forced Japan to open for trade 1853. Chuka-gai (Chinatown), Gaijin Bochi (Foreigner’s Cemetery), waterfront.
Excursion to Nikko: World Heritage temples and shrines. Toshogu shrine complex (for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the warlord who unified Japan around 1600, and became the first of the Edo-era shoguns), Ieyasu tomb, Shinkyo Bashi Bridge, Rinno-ji temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism, Futarasan Shrine. Lake Chuzenji, Kegon Falls.
Excursion to Hakone and Mt Fuji: The Hakone-Tozan switchback railway to Gora, Gora to Mount Soun by funicular train, Mount Soun to the volcanic valley Owakudani by cable car. Owakudani’s trademark kuro-tamago, boiled eggs blackened from cooking which legend says add seven years to the lives of anyone who eats one. Hakone Open-Air Museum. Lake Ashi
Author's Recommendations details the best hotels and restaurants, night spots, kid-friendly activities, shopping areas, and more.
Travel Facts provides essential information from useful Japanese phrases to money, transports, visas, and much more.
Tokyo's Best Sights
Meiji Jingu Shrine: Dedicated to the souls of Emperor Meiji, the man who lead Japan’s transition from feudal state to modern world power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his consort Empress Shoken. Shrine in the midst of a 70-acre forest.
Omotesando-dori (Omotesando Shopping Avenue)
Tsukiji Fish Market: home to more than 60,000 wholesalers, buyers and shippers supplying Tokyo’s restaurants and shops with what amounts to more than 700,000 tons of seafood a year.
Tokyo Skytree: At 634 meters, the Skytree is the tallest tower in the world, with two observation decks (350 meters and 450 meters).
Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa: Tokyo’s most venerable and colorful Buddhist temple. Nakamise-dori, the vibrant shop-lined street that forms the main approach to Senso-ji, is as touristy as it gets.
Sumida River Cruise
Yanaka District: Discover “Old Tokyo”
Akihabara (Akiba): electronics and otaku. Yodobashi Akiba.
Edo-Tokyo History Museum
Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown
Oedo Hot Springs in Odaiba: traditional bathhouse experience with a little Edo kitsch
Shinjuku Gyoen Park
Hike Mount Takao
Exploring Tokyo
Asakusa, Shitamachi
Ueno: Park, Zoo, Ameya Yokocho street market; Yanesen
Akihabara (Akiba): electronics and otaku. Yodobashi Akiba.
Shinjuku: free observation decks on the 45th floor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, MAP Camera, Bic Camera. Kabuki-cho area for nightlife.
Roppongi: international/Western; Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown, National Art Center
Odaiba: Yurikamome Line. Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Big Sight, Decks Beach mall, Legoland Discovery Center (playing with LEGO, 4D cinema, jungle gyms, several small rides, LEGO-made models of Tokyo, Madame Tussauds, Trick Art Museum), Aqua City mall, Statue of Liberty, Gundam statue, Oedo Hot Springs, Palette Town, Ferris Wheel, Venus Fort mall, Mega Web
Day trip to Kamakura: Japan’s 13th-century seat of power for the first shogun Yoritomo Minamoto. The Daibutsu (Great Statue of Buddha), mid-Sep Reitaisai festival at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine, Kencho-ji temple is Japan's oldest Zen training monastery, Engaku-ji temple.
Day trip to Yokohama: the port city steeped in history and overseas influences, and where there US Navy forced Japan to open for trade 1853. Chuka-gai (Chinatown), Gaijin Bochi (Foreigner’s Cemetery), waterfront.
Excursion to Nikko: World Heritage temples and shrines. Toshogu shrine complex (for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the warlord who unified Japan around 1600, and became the first of the Edo-era shoguns), Ieyasu tomb, Shinkyo Bashi Bridge, Rinno-ji temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism, Futarasan Shrine. Lake Chuzenji, Kegon Falls.
Excursion to Hakone and Mt Fuji: The Hakone-Tozan switchback railway to Gora, Gora to Mount Soun by funicular train, Mount Soun to the volcanic valley Owakudani by cable car. Owakudani’s trademark kuro-tamago, boiled eggs blackened from cooking which legend says add seven years to the lives of anyone who eats one. Hakone Open-Air Museum. Lake Ashi
Author's Recommendations details the best hotels and restaurants, night spots, kid-friendly activities, shopping areas, and more.
Travel Facts provides essential information from useful Japanese phrases to money, transports, visas, and much more.
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