This guidebook came in very handy on my recent trip to Tokyo. It offers a nice blend of busy tourist spots and off the beaten path sights.

My wife an I will be heading to Tokyo next year and are looking forward to using this guide to plan our trip. A great read!

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I requested to reveiw this book because I want to see Tokyo and several other parts of Japan. I love the full color maps. All of the top 10 lists made me wish even more that I want to go to this amazing city. The more I learn about this city the closer I feel to pull of the history and the people. It has me adding new places to my bucket list.

Great travel reference for Tokyo. Especially if you are looking for the highlights because you have limited time in the city. This focuses on the city itself and gives you a good place to start your travel planning. I have many travel reference books and generally look for these top 10 books when I am visiting a foreign city.

Tokyo is a fave city of my globetrotting brother and dear friend Isabel. I’ve never visited, but feel I have the perfect guide now in TOP 10 TOKYO, with its beautiful color maps, including a laminated pull out one, plus top 10 lists with the best attractions, including the Imperial Palace, National Museum, Ueno Park awash in cherry blossoms, exotic restaurants, and so much more. There are also detailed neighborhood guides with chapters divided by area and essential travel tips that make deciding what to see and do a breeze. Highly recommended!

Pub Date 07 Mar 2019.

Thanks to DK and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.

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Never lost in translation.

What can one say. Of course we all have our fav travel guides. The big ones that gave us places to stay, what to buy, what to see, maps etc. No self respecting backpacker leaves home without one or two. And yes I know the Internet knows all, but during my more mature years I've always bought the DK swag. Why? Because I love the color productions, the organization, the mini maps that you can carry unobtrusively and the lushness of them.
I use them way long after any trip as reminders, travelogues of where I've been and occasionally as dreaming tools of where I might be next heading.
This updated 2019 version of top 10 places to visit in Tokyo is informative and a pleasure to look through.
Its organizational themes are helpful enabling you to approach your sightseeing by interests e.g. temples, galleries etc., or by areas.
Once again a great DK production.

A NetGalley ARC

I liked this book. It is very informative and fascinating. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone

I was incredibly impressed with this book. We were in Tokyo for the first time a few months ago and loved it so much that we are planning another trip this year. I chose this book hoping to find some new places to go while there and was surprised at how much I had missed and how many more things of interest I could be seeing. The book is very smartly set up, very graphical and friendly, and extremely informative. The title sounds like it would just be 10 things to do/see but that was so misleading. It's a top ten in all kinds of subjects/locations/attractions (from food to museums) that can help visitors find the things that interest them most in Tokyo.

The book is broken down in to four sections: 34 pages of Top 10 Tokyo highlights (e.g., Senso-ji temple, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Ueno Park), another 35 pages of Top 10 of Everything (e.g., top 10 moments in history, top 10: historic buildings, museums, galleries, entertainment venues, children's attractions, etc. etc.), Tokyo By Area (Central; Ginza; Ueno; Asakusa and Oshiage; Roppongi and Akasaka; Aoyama, Harajuku, and Shibuya; Shinuku; and father afield) and then finally Streetsmart (getting to and around Tokyo, practical information, places to stay, phrase book).

As can be seen from the above, there is a LOT covered in this book. I especially appreciated that if I wanted to see a museum, I could go to the top 10 list there and see what each offered. Or if I wanted to see a traditional building/shrine, I could also get a nicely presented list with images. The other sections, such as the historic buildings and top 10 moments in history, provided context and some reading material when on the bus or metro or waiting in line.

Because it is so beautifully presented, with copious pictures and nice graphical layouts that make sense yet provide the information in an easy-to-use but condensed format, I find this to be an ideal book to have a physical copy of and carry around in a purse or backpack. I will definitely be bringing it with next trip and to help plan my itineraries while there. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Wow, this book is really cool! It breaks down Tokyo into different categories of what you may want to see (modern buildings, entertainment venues, gardens, museums, etc etc). I had no idea that a lot of these buildings existed. They also provide little tips for insider knowledge on various items, which can be really helpful.

I think that breaking everything down into 10 items is incredibly helpful and you're able to figure out what you may want to see from that list. I have a pdf version, but I'm sure the actual physical version will be small enough to bring with you. I think that if you're going to Tokyo for the first time that you will find this incredibly helpful because it can be overwhelming with so many things to see. DK has always helped me when it came to navigating a foreign country for the first time and this is no exception.

My only complaint is that mine didn't come with the streetwise part of the book about how to get around, where to stay, and that really cool pull out map. That just means I definitely need to pick up a physical copy when it comes out in May!

Thank you very much.
I spoke with the team and will be getting this title and a few others in hard copy to review
Thanks.

As a lover of Tokyo, I feel like this short book missed many of the sights that make Tokyo so great. I know that many things will be missed when setting out to create "Top 10" lists, but if a traveler were to use this guide alone, they would be missing many things that make Tokyo so great. For example, Akihabara and other districts that are more modern made me feel like I had stepped into the future, yet very little of modern Tokyo was highlighted. I also believe the Tokyo Tower is an experience far better than the book would make it seem. This book is good for someone to use as a companion to other books, but by strictly using this book as a main travel guide, people visiting Tokyo would not get the full experience.