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Title: Insight Guide Japan (Insight Guide) by Scott Rutherford, Insight Guides ISBN: 9-8123482-8-X Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Beautiful pictures - but hardly useful when travelling
Comment: It is very good as a coffee-table book: publishers pull all the stops with beautiful, expensive, high quality photographs. There are loads of good cultural and background information, and these articles also read well (unlike writings of some supposedly insightful books like Rough Guide which are terminally, heart-stoppingly, mind-numbingly BORING).
However, the guide is thin on practicalities, and all this premium quality glossy super-paper is too heavy to carry around. It is a pleasure to leaf through at home, though.
Rating: 3
Summary: As always, the Insight Guides bring the experience
Comment: As a Insight Guide fan I feel this is a great visual guide to Japan. You can buy much better detailed traditional-style guide books with more information, but Insight Guides arent about that imho, they aim to bring the living experience of a country or an area to you via images. Content is lightweight as with most IGs. If you can afford it buy the Lonely Planet Japan for sheer information plus this book for the experience and you cant go wrong when visiting Japan.
Rating: 2
Summary: nice pictures, but really made for the typical american
Comment: I feel like this book was made for the average traveler with heaps of money to spend. Not many cheap options. Plus there was no coverage of off the beaten track places. Only the main cities and sights. The pictures were quite lovely, though...
My advice: If a trip to Japan is in your future, pick up Lonley Planet's Japan. And if your Japanese is non-existant, I hear that LP also publishes a good phrasebook.
If you have heaps of money to spend and are the type of person who likes organized tours and planned itenaries, buy this book. If not, skip it.
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Title: Insight Guide Tokyo (Insight City Guides) by Francis Doral, Insight Guides ISBN: 9812349677 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide) by June Kinoshita, Nicholas Palevsky ISBN: 477002018X Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook (Japanese Phrasebook, Ed 3) by Kam Y. Lau, Yoshi Abe ISBN: 086442616X Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Insight Guide China (China, 2002) by Scott Rutherford ISBN: 1585732893 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Insight Guide Australia (Australia, 5th Ed) by Jeffrey Pike, Jeffery Pike ISBN: 1585732877 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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