Tokyo Stroll: A Guide to City Sidetracks and Easy Explorations - Paperback

by Gilles Poitras (Author), Jake Adelstein (Foreword by)

Tokyo Stroll is the best guidebook for travelers who want to wander the streets and discover the city as it unfolds before their eyes. There is no "start at point A and go to point B" prescribed route. Instead you are invited to wander as whimsy takes you. This guide includes:

• Over 600 locations to satisfy any interest including historical sites, art museums, upscale ryotei dining, traditional craft shops, shrines and temples, and remarkable architecture both traditional and stunningly modern


• 22 neighborhoods of Tokyo to experience, from the bright, bustling Shibuya to the serene shrines and temples of lesser-known Yanesen



• 150 maps to help you navigate, download the map markers for locations in Tokyo Stroll to your phone or tablet for easy access


• 75 full-page photos


• Practical advice on preparing your trip, with information on the best times of year to go, as well as how to use public transport and change money when you get there


• A primer on useful phrases and etiquette so you're never left wondering


• Day trips to get you out of the city with advice on transportation


• A focus on history and businesses that have stood the test of time, often over 100 years


• A glossary of Japanese terms and an index
  

Author Biography

Gilles Poitras has produced three books on anime: Anime Companion (vols 1 & 2) and Anime Essentials. He has written for magazines including NewType USA and Otaku USA and served as a member of the senior board of Mechademia. He has made presentations at various Japan-US friendship groups, public libraries, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, conventions, and workshops for librarians, has introduced films at the Smithsonian, and has taught a course on anime for Pixar staff. He resides in Oakland, California.

Jake Adelstein (Foreword) has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993. He is considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage, now a hit HBO series) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France.