New Tokyo Bilingual Pocket Atlas

Rating:
Summary: This edition is a little difficult to use
Review: I found the Kodansha International set of books helpful when I lived in Japan but this edition of their Tokyo Atlas is a little difficult due to its small size and a rather heavy grid drawn over the map content. (Other books in the series made use of grids but the patterns used finer lines than this edition.) This book does not give a high degree of detail, so if you will be hunting for addresses you may want something more. (I see reviews for Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide which

states that the detail is higher than Tokyo Bilingual Pocket Atlas. Both are evidently published by Kodansha International.) Hints: Tokyo station IS VERY BIG, so don't expect any book to get you through it easily. Also, even an official train system map can mislead the viewer into mistaking pairs of neighboring stations for single facilities. As I lived in Japan for a while this book may be good enough for me but I would consider other books for friends traveling to Tokyo for the first time.