Tokyo Rail and Road Atlas: A Bilingual Guide

by Atsushi Umeda, Kodansha International, Kodansha

Book Overview

This is a bilingual guide to the complex Tokyo-area transportation system, with 15 railway maps, eight road maps, 23 guide maps, and major terminal stations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4770017812
• ISBN13: 9784770017819
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Good resource - but not Awesome

I live in the Tokyo area, and this guide is useful for riding the trains, but I think they could organize it better. It takes a little getting used to. The train maps are divided up by companies and types of trains not by areas... so you get really confused at first. Buy this book for the train maps, not the street maps. I wouldn't rely on these street maps (which take up a majority of the book) for driving. This book was recommended to us. We also looked through several English atlases like this one, and this seemed to be the best one available in English....

Definitely worth owning

This resource is really quite good. Very thorough. The inclusion of both English and Japanese is invaluable, though there are certainly other publications that use both. For the price, portability, and ease of use, this is hard to beat, and a valuable addition to my own small stock of travel books.

excellent map of tokyo

Quite possibly the only english-language resource you will need to get around Tokyo. Features detailed maps of popular areas (Ginza, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku, Ikebukuro, etc). Good maps of subway and JR lines, and even pretty comprehensive bus route maps. Only covers Tokyo (and a bit of Yokohama) though, but if that's what you need, you'll get it all here in one book.

Best Tokyo Map I've seen yet

This book has super clear maps, english and Kanji, and super detail (most block numbers). This is the best Tokyo metro map I've seen (the big fold out maps from Kodansha are excellent also). I use this all the time to get around Tokyo.