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Title: Tokyo (City Guide)
ISBN: 1741047889
Author:
Matthew Firestone
Publicate Date: 2008-08-01
Publish: 2008-08-01
List Price: $19.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Numerous Mistakes, Not Entirely Interesting Either
I waited about a week after getting a few other books on traveling Japan for this new edition of the Tokyo City Guide. Within the first few pages of the book, I noticed numerous spelling and grammatical errors, and even some pictures that were clearly mislabeled. It's not a huge flaw, but I don't really take its suggestions quite as seriously as seemingly no one looked over the book for mistakes. If a casual reader can notice a few surface mistakes in a few minutes of reading, I wonder what an editor could find as inaccurate within a few minutes. The other reviewer found some mistakes himself.
I highly suggest either the Tokyo guide from Frommers or even the complete Japan guide from Frommers. They have blown everything else I have read on Japan out of the water.
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2: Reformatted, Not Revised?
I found the previous edition of the Lonely Planet Tokyo city guide handy as an independent traveler. Unfortunately, the new edition appears to be a reformatted version of the 2006 edition, rather than an update.
For example:
pp. 62-63 - The guide bizarrely claims that the Ghibli Museum is located in Ginza, when it is in fact located in a western suburb of Tokyo (the correct information appears on p. 112).
p. 64 - The guide fails to note that the hours for tourists to visit the Tsukiji fish market have been officially restricted since April 2008. Incredibly, the lead author of the guide wrote in his blog about this very issue in April 2008 (http://www.gadling.com/2008/04/05/big-in-japan-tokyos-top-tourist-attraction-is-limiting-access/) - so he certainly knows about the new rules.
p. 125 - The hours for the Edo Tokyo Museum - apparently copied from the previous edition without the editors verifying them - are wrong and have been so for at least a year.
p. 242 - The guide describes Passnet cards as an option for train and subway travel. Passnet cards haven't been sold since January 2008 and haven't worked since March 2008.
Much as I would like to give the new edition of the guide a more positive review, I can't do so; a shiny new cover doesn't offset the unrevised content. Given that Lonely Planet's website says the next edition won't be out until 2011, there is no excuse for not having updated basic information in the guide.
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