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This is THE most useful item to pack, when going to Tokyo. Subway maps, JR maps, street maps that make sense: all of it arranged in a "just slightly larger than pocket size" format. That this book is written in both English characters and kana is a plus as well; should you get lost, find your nearest police box [or nice Japanese person], break out this handy book, and give the "Please help me, for I am lost and frantic and foreign" look, and lo-you will be unlost quickly.
Long-term residents should consider this book as well: no other book has as much information in such a handy format. I had numerous residents expressing an interest in acquiring my book; if I'd had the money, I would have bought everyone I was with a copy of this as a present.
Really-I can't say enough good things about this book and it's usefullness; this one book allowed me to wander confidently around Shibuya, Shinjuku, Harajuku, Akihabara, Ueno, Jingu-mae, Tokyo station and the Imperial Gardens, and more. If you are going to Tokyo, please make sure you bring this book with you: this book gives you the freedom to wander and not get too lost.

Tokyo will be complex city more than your exception. The popularity is more than 10million. And the downtown is divided to 23 special city(23KU). The railway run here and there, the line is too complex for Japanese even. Though I have lived more than 20 years in Tokyo, I have problems when ride to train.
Especially, in the center of down town(inner Ymanote line), metro more than 20 lines run, more complex.

For that, foreigners will need maps etc. Certainly the railway is too complex, on the other hands, if you use the railway very well, you will use your time efficiently. There are few people that use car when they commute. In Tokyo railway is developed so that there are not the space we can walk.

And if you go to jorney to Tokyo, I recommend Asakusa etc not Sinjuku, Ikebukuro.
Asakusa is the town that we feel the history of unique Japanese.
Off course if you want to feel the new fashion not Japanese history, will be good to Harajuku or Sibuya in addition to Ikebukuro or Sinjuku.

And, if you have the extra time, should go to the place except of Tokyo, that is, Kyoto etc. Kyoto etc will be the place that you feel truth Japanese history and beauty than Tokyo.

Thank you for reading poor writing.

The previous reviews are right on target; This is a wonderful atlas! This book actually got me "un-lost" once when I had been foolish enough to set off without looking at it first. I was able to check the chome (sub-ward) and block numbers on the nearest lamp post and instantly figure out where I had wandered off to! My family uses it all the time, we even went out and bought a second copy so my husband & I could each have one!