Product Description

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Tokyo!

Fodor’s 25 Best Tokyo contains EVERYTHING YOU NEED to experience Tokyo, focusing on the top 25 must-see sights plus:

•FULL-COLOR PULL-OUT MAP housed in a convenient envelope affixed to the guide

•TOKYO BY AREA — we’ve broken the city into five areas and recommended the best sights, shops, entertainment venues, nightlife, and restaurants in each one

•BEST HOTELS, whether you’re looking for luxury, budget, or something in between

•INSIDER TIPS and EXPERT ADVICE

•Transportation map


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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #598345 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-12
• Released on: 2008-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781400018864
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"In terms of comprehensiveness of coverage, the very accessible format, and the enthusiastic tone, this series remains one of the best on the market." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's super-informative guidebooks are known for accuracy and attention to detail…" –The Sacramento Bee
 
"The Fodor's guides are notable for their ratings of sights, restaurants, shops, accommodations and attractions." –Chicago Tribune
 
"The great detail, infectious spirit, and attractive format are distinguishing traits of these guides, which are entries in one of the top series in the business." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's can help you plan the perfect adventure" –The Arizona Republic
 
"Always thoughtfully written and easily readable, Fodor's travel guides have become a must-have when traveling to unfamiliar destinations" –Mid South Magazine
 
"Widely recognized as the gold standard of mainstream travel" –Honolulu Advertiser

Customer Reviews

Handy guide to Tokyo
I purchased several travel guides for our trip to Tokyo. This one is the most compact yet complete. It describes each section of the city and the major sites. It hits all the highlights and the maps are very clear.

Best Tokyo guidebook I found. Great pull out map. Nice, compact, colorful
I looked at 3 or 4 guidebooks in the store and walked away with this one as well as a bigger one from Frommers. As it turned out, while I was in Tokyo I never used the Frommers one. This one was better, smaller and had everything I needed.

It's compact, includes a wonderful laminated completely separate city map, a good subway map, and has all the major tourism information I needed. I travel a lot, and prefer Fodors to Lonely Planet, Timeout or Frommers. They seem to have a very good editorial staff who make the books compact, colorful and easy to read.

Not the best option...
While in Italy, I traveled with the compact and informative "Venice's 25 Best" and "Florence's 25 Best". They had their flaws - some strange restaurant suggestions - but overall, they really helped for planning out each day.

I bought "Tokyo's 25 Best" for fun, thinking that it may get me hyped for a future trip to Tokyo. It was shipped with a number of other books, including "Frommer's Japan", "Eyewitness Travel Japan", and "Lonely Planet Tokyo City Guide". Out of the lot, Fodor's was by far the worst. It doesn't seem up to date at all, even though this edition was just published in August of 2008. As a reviewer for the previous edition mentioned, it talks about GPS and HDTV as a revolutionary piece of technology only available in Japan. Surely that was an excusable oversight to put in one edition, but it almost seems like information from the last edition could have just been copied and pasted directly into the 6th edition's new format.

Also, some suggestions that other books say are definitely not worth the time (i.e Tokyo Tower), Fodor's wholeheartedly recommends.

Despite all of these flaws, the included map is amazingly compact and durable (plastic).

All in all, I highly suggest "Frommer's Tokyo" or "Frommer's Japan" if you really want an informative, interesting,and updated travel guide.