Tokyo

by Steve Wide, Michelle Mackintosh

Visiting Tokyo, whether for the first, second or hundredth time, is a life-changing experience. As a city, it's dynamic, exciting and resolutely individual - a mesmerising and unrivalled parade of fashion, design, architecture, and high culture experiences and, of course, the best pop culture in the world. It's also a city of fascinating contrasts; whether you're standing in the middle of the Shibuya scramble, a blur of pedestrians rushing by, or standing before a small shrine, quiet and contemplative, you will feel Tokyo's intensity.

This stunning travel and cultural guide is a celebration of the roots and the marvels of contemporary Tokyo. It's a tightly curated list of must-see places and experiences and must-do walks as well as the authors' tried-and-tested favourites. It's for people who want to get an up close and personal look at the real Tokyo - the food, the crafts, the hidden finds, the architectural marvels, where to go to get into the thick of it and where to go to escape the madness.

This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Genres: Travel, Japan, Nonfiction

391 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2018

Reviews

[Lola & Puki · Rating 5 out of 5]

We might not be able to travel far from home but that's not going to stop me from satisfying my wanderlust and #couchtravelling
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Tokyo by Steve Wide & Michelle Mackintosh is a beautiful & vibrant book filled with fantatstic ideas for activities, places to eat, places to shop & visit etc but it also provides a wonderful insight into Tokyo's history, culture, food & drinks, seasonal highlights and useful tips & phrases.⁣⁣
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I've already pencilled in numerous stops on my foodie odyssey (mmmm ramen 🍜), places to satisfy my yuzu craving 🍋, cultural places to visit and of course bookstores I'd love to check out 💁🏻‍♀️⁣⁣
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What I particularly love about this book is the section dedicated to traveling with kids and a visual overview of the various neighbourhoods as I haven't visited Tokyo and Japan before. Traveling anywhere with kids... even to our local supermarket can be stressful at the best of times 😳⁣⁣
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This book definitely has me excited to experience #Tokyo in the future - I can't wait!⁣⁣

Thanks to Pan MacMillan Australia for providing this review copy

[Nicki Markus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tokyo is a delight from cover to cover. This book combines tourist tips with cultural information, accompanies by tons of gorgeous images and a stunning layout. Although I have read a few Japan/Tokyo travel guides before, I still picked up some new ideas from this one, as it focused on areas and ideas the others hadn't really mentioned. This is not a book suitable for someone looking for hotel suggestions or information on how to get to the city from the airport, but if you want to get deep into Tokyo's culture while also learning of quirky things to see, eat and do, then this is the book for you. It's definitely a work I will want to dip back into again and again, especially when travel opens up again and I can finally make it on my delayed trip to Japan.

I received this book as a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

[Erin Lindwall]

What a fantastic source of information of all the hip and happening spots in Tokyo by people who love it as much as I do!

[Katie Steuerwald · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many interesting ideas for our next trip. Love the way it is organised with focus on different topics and not just different areas.
Easy to find what you are interested in while in tokyo

[Paul Baggaley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, poor Kindle edition

An interesting journey through Tokyo with many useful suggestions not found in other books.

However the Kindle edition for some reason is subpar, not allowing highlighting and in many places the text is out of place with lines superimposed on each other thus impossible to read. Please correct this and provide a proper Kindle experience.