The ultimate traveler's edition written by many experts fully covering the diversity of such exotic destination on spiritual/traditional/historical/WW2/hi-tech aspects, at all seasons, on/off the beaten track, walkpath to bullet-train, with 150+ local colour maps, impossible to otherwise find such heavily fragmented information together in one place. A subtle succession of images between Maiko beauty geisha, devastated Hiroshima and contemporary hi-tech Tokyo reminiscent of the Mishima shortcuts blow your mind just even browsing it, edition out of print.