The Monocle Travel Guide to Tokyo: The Monocle Travel Guide Series (Monocle Travel Guides, 3) Hardcover – July 27, 2015

This is a really cool guide to add as an addition to a more mainstream guide. Think of it as Monacle travelers/writers/editors curating Tokyo for you. There are a lot of very interesting shops and establishments discussed that gave me ideas about things I would like to shop for our experience in the city.

I recently returned from a trip to Tokyo and found this guide to be thoroughly indispensable throughout my entire stay. It gives you a true inside scoop on where to shop (Monocle provides everything from folk art to the most modern of fashions), get an excellent cup of coffee (Cafe De L'Ambre is a must) and a fine cocktail (this is especially key in Tokyo where the mixology scene is not as prevalent. Monocle managed to steer me towards the two best cocktails I have had in my life, the first at the Old Imperial Bar and the second at Bar Trench). Granted if you want to hit all of the sightseeing areas this might not be the one and only guide to bring, but if you want to make sure that you get some of the local flavor in your journeys and do so in style, then you can do no better than this book!

This is the best guidebook on Tokyo I have ever found. Others like Lonely Planet have hundreds of pages with every possible thing you could ever do, whether you want to or not. Some fancy ones try to be precious and have all kinds of high end nonsense where you can go and waste a year's income on junk you don't need. The Monocle guide is the first and only I've ever found that sifts through the massive range of options in Tokyo and focuses on a small carefully curated list of wonderful options. It's everything I could ever ask for in a city guide. A short concise list of things that are really worth doing.

Quirky guide to the best of Tokyo with an emphasis on design, architecture, restaurants and retail. Some good walking tours at the end. The book is organized by topic rather than location so finding things is not all that easy. But the book is worth it nonetheless.

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Been to Japan many times and very useful guide to interesting things not on usual radar. Promos are accurate: not really for the casual one-time, quick tourist., but en for such, it's a good guide. Nice, compact size and nicely illustrated.

It's tough to keep up with a city like Tokyo. It's a beautiful book but several of the businesses had been out of business. There were some interesting shops and restaurants that you wouldn't see in the standard guides. I wish there was a more quick reference organization to it.

Great Travel guide for someone whos already visited tokyo or at least familiar with Tokyo a bit, shows you alot of low key places, def reccomend to someoe who wants to see a cooler side of tokyo