Tokyo Tuttle Travel Pack: Your Guide to Tokyo's Best Sights for Every Budget (Travel Guide & Map)

Tokyo Tuttle Travel Pack: Your Guide to Tokyo's Best Sights for Every Budget (Travel Guide & Map)

Rob Goss

Language: English

Pages: 96

ISBN: 4805310669

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The only guide you'll need for getting around Tokyo! Everything you need is in this one convenient Japan travel guide—including a large pull-out map!

For travelers who want to experience everything Tokyo has to offer, look no further than Tokyo Tuttle Travel Pack. 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, this guidebook 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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more than 100 small fashion boutiques. Others will be bound for the nearby Center Gai shopping precinct, home to a multitude of fashion stores and, in a similar vein to Takeshita-dori (page 28) or Ura-Harajuku (page 27), a good place to get a first glimpse of the latest teen and street fashions before they explode across other parts of Japan. Not that the shopping in Shibuya is all teen and twenty something-centered. Koen-dori, which runs toward Yoyogi Park, is home to major department stores

itself as a family-friendly playground. For most visitors, a day on Odaiba starts at Shimbashi Station from where the automated Yurikamome Monorail begins a journey that takes it through the skyscrapers of Shiodome, skirting Tokyo Port and then over the nearly 800-meter (2,624-foot)-long Rainbow Bridge before reaching the first station on the island, Odaiba-kaihinkoen. Get off here and your day on Odaiba could begin with a stroll around the Decks Beach mall, which along with multiple floors of

port city steeped in history and overseas influences See map on page 49 The Yokohama that Commodore Matthew Perry of the US Navy would have seen in 1853, when he sailed his “Black Ships” into Tokyo Bay in a move that essentially forced Japan to open its doors to foreign trade and exchanges after more than 200 years of self- imposed (near) isolation, couldn’t be much more removed from the city that greets modern-day visitors. The thriving bayside city was a fishing village with fewer than 100

traditional Japanese restaurant—impeccable service and hospitality and a beautiful presentation of both food and interiors—with modern touches that include a café-bar lounge. All that, of course, would be worthless if the food was not up to scratch. And at Fukuzushi you get sushi at its very best, the restaurant sourcing the finest seasonal produce from Hokkaido and serving up delicacies such as melt-in-the mouth o-toro (tuna belly cut), ikura (salmon roe) that delicately pops on the tongue, and

Shinjuku-gyoen-mae Station on the Marunouchi Line or Shinjuku 3-chome Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line. Contact www.env.go.jp/ garden/shinjukugyoen Admission Fee �200. 13 A Hike Up Mount Takao A taste of Japan’s great outdoors on Tokyo’s doorstep With more than 70% of the country being mountainous, no matter where you go in Japan a good hike is never far away, even in Tokyo. Mount Takao (aka Takao-san) is a prime example. At 599 meters (1,965 feet), and with the option of taking a cable car

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