Japan: A Budget Travel Guide

This acclaimed guide, formerly Lonely Planet's Japan: A Travel Survival Kit, has been completely updated to include dozens of regional and city maps, plus practical information on fun and adventure off the beaten path. Includes basic Japanese phrases.

Japan is well covered by excellent guidebooks, and this one is a good as any. Its Canadian author, McQueen, has become a bit more grumpy about the Japanese over the years, especially regarding their attitudes toward foreigners who take root in their country, but he still finds much to recommend. There are 200 pages of fine background and introductory information, and an abundance of simple but practical maps. Robert Strauss's Japan: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet, 1991. 4th ed.) is longer, has some color photographs, and is slightly more expensive. Both of these guides are superior choices for the independent traveler, and libraries cannot go wrong in buying them in rotation.
- Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
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