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Insight Guides Japan
Insight Guides Japan
Travel made easy. Ask local experts.
Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook.
Get Olympic ready with this inspirational full-colour guidebook to Japan. With a free destination app and eBook, it's all a traveller needs to explore Japan in-depth during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic adventure.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Japan is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with insider information on must-see, top attractions like Tokyo, Kyoto and Mount Fuji, and cultural gems like watching a thrilling sumo match, feeling at peace in spiritual temples and being amazed by Japan's high-tech society.
Features of this travel guide to
- Inspirational colour discover the best destinations, sights and excursions, and be inspired by stunning imagery
- Historical and cultural immerse yourself in Japan's rich history and culture, and learn all about its people, art and traditions
- Practical full-colour with every major sight and listing highlighted, the full-colour maps make on-the-ground navigation easy
- Editor's uncover the best of Japan with our pick of the region's top destinations
- Key tips and essential packed full of important travel information, from transport and tipping to etiquette and hours of operation
- The ultimate travel download the free app and eBook to access this and bonus content from your phone or tablet
- Kanto Plain and Chubu; Tokyo; the north; Kansai region; the south
Looking for a specific guide to Tokyo? Check out Insight Guides Explore Tokyo for a detailed and entertaining look at all the city has to offer.
About Insight Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Travel made easy. Ask local experts.
Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook.
Get Olympic ready with this inspirational full-colour guidebook to Japan. With a free destination app and eBook, it's all a traveller needs to explore Japan in-depth during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic adventure.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Japan is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with insider information on must-see, top attractions like Tokyo, Kyoto and Mount Fuji, and cultural gems like watching a thrilling sumo match, feeling at peace in spiritual temples and being amazed by Japan's high-tech society.
Features of this travel guide to
- Inspirational colour discover the best destinations, sights and excursions, and be inspired by stunning imagery
- Historical and cultural immerse yourself in Japan's rich history and culture, and learn all about its people, art and traditions
- Practical full-colour with every major sight and listing highlighted, the full-colour maps make on-the-ground navigation easy
- Editor's uncover the best of Japan with our pick of the region's top destinations
- Key tips and essential packed full of important travel information, from transport and tipping to etiquette and hours of operation
- The ultimate travel download the free app and eBook to access this and bonus content from your phone or tablet
- Kanto Plain and Chubu; Tokyo; the north; Kansai region; the south
Looking for a specific guide to Tokyo? Check out Insight Guides Explore Tokyo for a detailed and entertaining look at all the city has to offer.
About Insight Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
- GenresNonfiction
400 pages, Paperback
Published March 31, 2020
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January 6, 2025
I have been really struggling for some reason with planning the cities to go to and the overall itinerary for my starter trip to Japan, and this and other guide books I have been reading have changed that for the better. I had originally planned to go this spring, but when another big trip came up as an option, traveling with friends to a place that I would not plan myself, it seemed both too good to pass up and a life saver because I would have to delay--but now I feel ready to plan this for the fall, just one season behind schedule.
The "starter trip" now seems like a good place to begin (ok, that is maybe very obvious, and I am laughing at myself as I type this, but it did come as a revelation)--I had wondered about a food oriented trip instead, but it seems like there is a lot of good food to be had and you do not need to go to the home of ramen to have good ramen, as an example. Then I wondered about seeking out fabric specifically, but that also seems unnecessary, so only ceramics remain, and that just adds zero to one place to the standard approach.
If you are someone who likes to think about itineraries, this is a good book to start with--it does a lot of characterizing places, which I find helpful because some of the "good" things may not be appealing to you, and I crossed off some options and added one, and feel like I am ready to start planning in earnest.
The "starter trip" now seems like a good place to begin (ok, that is maybe very obvious, and I am laughing at myself as I type this, but it did come as a revelation)--I had wondered about a food oriented trip instead, but it seems like there is a lot of good food to be had and you do not need to go to the home of ramen to have good ramen, as an example. Then I wondered about seeking out fabric specifically, but that also seems unnecessary, so only ceramics remain, and that just adds zero to one place to the standard approach.
If you are someone who likes to think about itineraries, this is a good book to start with--it does a lot of characterizing places, which I find helpful because some of the "good" things may not be appealing to you, and I crossed off some options and added one, and feel like I am ready to start planning in earnest.
January 5, 2021
Perfect armchair travel.
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