My husband and I are going to Tokyo in 2 months, so we checked out half a dozen guide books from the library to find the best ones for us. The two we decided to buy to take with us are this Fodor's 25 Best and the Tokyo Rough Guide by Jan Dodd. The other reviews of this are a tad unfair. It's not a comprehensive guide to all things Tokyo, but it does have concise listings of popular attractions, good directions to get to said attractions and offers a nice bullet-points model to visiting Tokyo. This book is useful if you only have a short time in Tokyo and want to see the major things. Another thing it really has going for it is size. Minimizing the amount of stuff you carry is a HUGE boon to traveling in Japan. This is small and handy enough to keep in the backpack, even on crowded trains.
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