Fodors Japan, 19th Edition

Product Review

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. Although 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 Japan!

•Updated frequently, Fodor’s Japan provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Japan features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Japan.

•Experience Japan like a local! Fodor’s Japan includes choices for every traveler, from visiting ancient temples and shrines to taking in Tokyo's futuristic department stores or Okinawa's war memorials, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

•Full-color pullout map

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Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(3 customer reviews)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

informative but a little disappointing, January 25, 2011

L. Fisk "laffinghippo" (brooklyn, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's Japan, 19th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

we're going on a trip in april to japan, and took the fodor's guide out of the library to read up on what to do on our trip, and to decide if it would be worth it to purchase. Overall, the book has all the nuts and bolts you need, and has definitely helped in planning our trip. However, this guide has some key shortfalls - not enough maps or pictures. There's a handful of pictures in the front, and then only one or two maps of all of japan. In their itinerary suggestions it's almost impossible to follow since they don't reference them back to a map that you could follow. The chapters dedicated to certain areas only show a close in area map and not where it is in reference to the rest of the country (unlike say the rough guide).

I love reading guidebooks to help me get inspired and to inform me about my trip, but i found myself frustrated reading fodors, not being able to get a full sense of the country reading it, and i can't fully pinpoint why...maybe it could be when...Read more

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Clear and easy to read, March 19, 2012

Beth "bethohio3" (Dayton, OH USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fodor's Japan, 19th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

I'm preparing for our trip to Japan and I like the way this book is laid out, especially compared to other guidebooks I've looked at.

Specifically: the text has enough whitespace to be legible. Cities start and stop on their own pages, so it's possible to tear out a section to take with you, if you don't want to carry the entire book while you travel (which I don't). It identifies the attractions that they most recommend (Fodor's choice) and the recommended ones. It includes an "also available" section for other attractions that are in the area but not as highly recommended/essential.

What I don't care for: lack of pictures. I had to get another guidebook for that. I also am not really interested in restaurant/accomodations recommendations since they are likely to be out of date well before the rest of the book is.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Fodor's Japan, September 27, 2011

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This review is from: Fodor's Japan, 19th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

This travel guide has been very helpful as all of their travel guides are. It will make my trip smoother and have fewer unexpected issues.