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Japan
Japan Solo
Japan can be a bewildering place for the tourist going solo with little or no language skills. But with the right guide, it can be paradise - and that guide is most definitely this one. Japan Solo provides a wealth of information far beyond the offerings of the typical travel guide...
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
This novel resonates with contemporary Japan, exploring responsibility for both the past and the present, and also the effects of alienation and isolation - as usual though, Murakami goes about this by making some of the most mundane everyday moments unconventional...
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| Publisher: | Freytag & Berndt |
| Catalogue number: | 116324 |
| Scale: | 1:1,500,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Attractive map with hill-shading showing the general relief and bathymetric tinting to show the surrounding ocean depth. Honshu occupies most of the sheet, with Hokkaido in an inset. The Nansei Islands...
| Publisher: | Reise Know-How Verlag |
| Catalogue number: | 122903 |
| Scale: | 1:1,200,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Indexed, waterproof and tear-resistant road map Japan with topographic and tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double...
| Publisher: | Cartographia |
| Catalogue number: | 132789 |
| Scale: | 1:1,500,000 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 6 - 8 weeks |
Clear and detailed road map of Japan with minor hill shading and selected spot heights, covering Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu at 1:1,500,000, and the Ryukyu Islands in the south at 1:4,500,000.
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| Publisher: | Kodansha International |
| Catalogue number: | 25559 |
| Scale: | 1:1,500,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Relief map of Japan showing the height of land in strong colours.
Names of places are printed in Japanese and Roman script - useful for reading signs. Railways are shown, and major roads appear faintly...
| Publisher: | Reise Know-How Verlag |
| Catalogue number: | 152642 |
| Scale: | 1:1,200,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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| Publisher: | Shobunsha |
| Catalogue number: | 81945 |
| Scale: | 1:250,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A road atlas of Japan at 1:250,000, with the exception of Hokkaido which is at 1:600,000. Road detail is clearly drawn and distinguishes national expressways, highways, main roads, toll roads and secondary...
| Publisher: | ITMB Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 98355 |
| Scale: | 1:850,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Physical map of Hokkaido with detailed information on roads, tourist and leisure activities. Altitude is shown in intervals of 100 to 500 metres in different tints and peaks and their elevation are...
| Publisher: | Shobunsha |
| Catalogue number: | 148484 |
| Scale: | 1:100,000/1:500,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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| Publisher: | Shobunsha |
| Catalogue number: | 81946 |
| Scale: | various |
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| Publisher: | Shobunsha |
| Catalogue number: | 81948 |
| Scale: | 1:20,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
One side of the map shows a detailed and extremely clear map of Kyoto (1:20k) with a short guide to the city, while the reverse combines street plans of Nara (1:12k), Osaka (1:27k) and Kobe (1:18k) with...
| Publisher: | ITMB Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 103319 |
| Scale: | 1:12,500 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Detailed street map of central Tokyo showing railways and subway lines in considerable detail, notable buildings and attractions, shrines, temples, tourist information points, post offices, internet...
| Series: | Frommer's Countries and Regions Guides |
| Publisher: | Frommer's |
| Catalogue number: | 123687 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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General sightseeing guides with selective recommendations of things to do and see and places to stay and eat. Suggested driving tours are given. Sights are cross-referenced to clear...
| Publisher: | Kodansha International |
| Catalogue number: | 79150 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 - 4 weeks |
Japan can be a bewildering place for the tourist going solo with little or no language skills. But with the right guide, it can be paradise - and that guide is most definitely this one.
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| Series: | Lonely Planet Countries and Regions Guides |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 158889 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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Market-leading comprehensive guides, predominantly practical in content and aimed at independent travellers. Frank and informal in style, with a layout that makes for exceptional...
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Rough Guides |
Highly popular and respected comprehensive guidebooks. Rough Guides provide extensive practical travel advice for all budgets and have gained an excellent reputation amongst independent travellers for...
| Author: | Josie Dew |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 127067 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“A Ride In The Sun” is a wonderfully fresh insight into Japan and Japanese society through the immediacy and humour of Josie Dew. It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities...
| Author: | Josie Dew |
| Publisher: | Time Warner |
| Catalogue number: | 105840 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Armed only with a bike and great sense of humour, “The Sun In My Eyes” sees Josie Dew return to Japan for a second dose of its eccentric and mysterious culture.
Japan is a land of contradictions; where...
| Author: | Laurent De Brunhoff |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136173 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe.
First stop is Italy where they learn...
| Author: | Haruki Murakami |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 157633 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is another collection of beautiful stories from the lyrically unconventional imagination of Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as...
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Marshall Cavendish Books |
With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a bestselling series of thoughtful and thorough culture and etiquette guides covering countless destinations around the world. For anyone at...
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Kobe is a city most people have heard of because of the devastating earthquake that hit it in 1995. It was rebuilt with astonishing speed and is back to being one of Japan's most pleasant cities. Hemmed in by mountains to the north, it spreads for miles along the shores of the inland sea, joining the...
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