Chris Rowthorn

Complete coverage of post-tsunami Tohoku (northern Honshu); Illustrated colour features include Tokyo National Museum and Todai-ji temple in Nara; Pull-out map of Tokyo, and full-colour maps of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka...

Restaurant listings to impress any Japanese, with enough variety to impress any budget. Here in Japan's cultural capital there are imperial palaces, gardens, shrines and temples and includes 17 World Heritage sites. Colour sections reveal Japanese art, food, religion and teahouses with a hiker's paradise in the mountains beyond Kyoto. ...

Kyoto, the imperial capital of Japan before Tokyo got the job, is a quintessentially Japanese city. Heritage-listed sights vie with some of Japan's finest international restaurants, flea markets sell vintage kimono fabric and those signature baths send you off into another world....

Discover Kyoto Celebrate the seasons at an elaborate geisha dance. Rid yourself of bad karma at Jingo-ji - just try not to get addicted. Sift through reams of vintage kimono fabric at the local flea markets. Make a night of it in the baths at Funaoka Onsen. In This Guide: The only full city guide to Kyoto. Personally researched by a long-term...