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100 Tokyo Sights
Discover Tokyo's Hidden Gems
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Tokyo lives up to its reputation as a modern metropolis and, as this book shows, it is also one of the most exciting and diverse places on the planet.
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Tokyo lives up to its reputation as a modern metropolis and, as this book shows, it is also one of the most exciting and diverse places on the planet.
Focusing on Tokyo and its surrounding areas, photojournalist Stephen Mansfield brings this buzzing place to life within these pages. He presents all the well-established sights along with many new ones that are not yet discovered. This book will provide inspiration for every traveller—whether your interests are J-culture, fashion, food, traditional crafts, gardens, or nature trails (or all of the above!).
100 Tokyo Sights is the perfect visual guide for anyone planning a trip to Tokyo, reminiscing about time spent there, or those hoping to go in the future.
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100 Tokyo Sights by Stephen Mansfield is praised for its wealth of information, providing readers with a detailed exploration of Tokyo through its rich political and historical context.
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ISBN: 9784805315088
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 April 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Illustration: color photos
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 152.0mm
Weight: 482g
Pages: 240
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Stephen Mansfield has published twenty books and over two thousand articles, many of them dealing with Japanese travel and culture. He is the author of Tokyo: A Biography, 100 Japanese Gardens and Japan's Master Gardens. As a photo-journalist and writer, he has written extensively on cities as unique as Havana and Honolulu, but claims to have never encountered anywhere quite as inexhaustibly intriguing as Tokyo.
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