Tokyo

Color your way around Tokyo with this coloring-book-meets-travel-journal featuring 30 expertly curated sites to learn about, color, and record so you can experience the city whether you're already there, planning a trip, or dreaming about your next adventure. Grab your pen and colored pencils—and get ready to travel the world! Whether your flights are booked or you'll only be traveling in your mind, Tokyo takes you on an interactive, colorful tour of Japan's capital city. This travel journal features 30 sites in Tokyo to discover—from the bucket-list worthy must-sees like the Senso-ji Temple and the Imperial Palace to places to shop in the Ginza District and explore in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Learn about each landmark with fascinating histories, fun facts, and travel tips. Accompanying the journal pages allow space to record, plan, or imagine your dream vacation. Plus, all 30 landmarks feature beautifully rendered coloring pages to shade in while taking in the sites. Tokyo is the perfect airplane take-along or gift for those dreaming about exploring Japan.

Color your way around Tokyo with this coloring-book-meets-travel-journal featuring 30 expertly curated sites to learn about, color, and record so you can experience the city whether you're already there, planning a trip, or dreaming about your next adventure. Grab your pen and colored pencils—and get ready to travel the world! Whether your flights are booked or you'll only be traveling in your mind, Tokyo takes you on an interactive, colorful tour of Japan's capital city. This travel journal features 30 sites in Tokyo to discover—from the bucket-list worthy must-sees like the Senso-ji Temple and the Imperial Palace to places to shop in the Ginza District and explore in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Learn about each landmark with fascinating histories, fun facts, and travel tips. Accompanying the journal pages allow space to record, plan, or imagine your dream vacation. Plus, all 30 landmarks feature beautifully rendered coloring pages to shade in while taking in the sites. Tokyo is the perfect airplane take-along or gift for those dreaming about exploring Japan.

They don''t come any cooler than Tokyo. By turns hitech, lo-fi, conventional and outrageous, Tokyo is a city that shouldn''t work but does. Promenade with the goths of Harajuku, feast your eyes on the blazing lights of Ginza, and unwind in an intimate izakaya. For a city as stylish as Tokyo, you need a smart and streetwise guide. This is it. INDULGE YOUR APPETITE in the finest local restaurants with our Japanese food chapter CATCH THE BULLET TRAIN with confidence, with 11 detailed colour maps, and routes and prices from Akihabara to Ueno Zoo DO THE SHINTO SHUFFLE with walking tours to temples and shrines, gardens and palaces PICK UP THE PULSE of the city with our entertainment listings and City Life chapter REFRESH YOUR SENSES with easy day-trips to onsen, temple towns and the famed Mt Fuji

They don''t come any cooler than Tokyo. By turns hitech, lo-fi, conventional and outrageous, Tokyo is a city that shouldn''t work but does. Promenade with the goths of Harajuku, feast your eyes on the blazing lights of Ginza, and unwind in an intimate izakaya. For a city as stylish as Tokyo, you need a smart and streetwise guide. This is it. INDULGE YOUR APPETITE in the finest local restaurants with our Japanese food chapter CATCH THE BULLET TRAIN with confidence, with 11 detailed colour maps, and routes and prices from Akihabara to Ueno Zoo DO THE SHINTO SHUFFLE with walking tours to temples and shrines, gardens and palaces PICK UP THE PULSE of the city with our entertainment listings and City Life chapter REFRESH YOUR SENSES with easy day-trips to onsen, temple towns and the famed Mt Fuji

From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric. This accessible guide introduces a world of shoguns and Kabuki theater, riots and earthquakes, wartime devastation and reconstruction, booms and busts, bright lights and skyscrapers, all viewed through the lived experiences of those who have inhabited and shaped a city of distinctive neighborhoods and different personalities. Emphasizing the city's human heart, Siniawer conveys a vivid sense of time, culture, and place through ten moments that have shaped Tokyo's many lives.

From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric. This accessible guide introduces a world of shoguns and Kabuki theater, riots and earthquakes, wartime devastation and reconstruction, booms and busts, bright lights and skyscrapers, all viewed through the lived experiences of those who have inhabited and shaped a city of distinctive neighborhoods and different personalities. Emphasizing the city's human heart, Siniawer conveys a vivid sense of time, culture, and place through ten moments that have shaped Tokyo's many lives.

Asger Røjle Christensen giver i ”Tokyo” sit personlige indblik i den fascinerende japanske storbys rige muligheder for at bo, arbejde og rejse. Japans ældgamle traditioner og nyeste teknologier støder på umærkelig vis sammen i Tokyo. Asger Røjle Christensen har selv boet og arbejdet i byen i 12 år, og har derfor et særligt kendskab til byens mange lag af oplevelser. I ”Tokyo” fortæller han om byens fascinerede historie og om de forskellige bydeles særegne karakteristika. Den kulturhistoriske vinkel blandes på indlevende vis med Asger Røjle Christensens egne oplevelser og betragtninger af livet i Tokyo. Bogen er underholdende og oplysende læsning for alle rejsende eller interesserede i Tokyos pulserende men samtidig trygge og ordnede virvar af indtryk, kultur og mennesker.

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art posters; the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika; manga; film; and contemporary art by Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto. Visually bold and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal and it tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their insatiable appetite for the new and innovative - from the samurai to avantgarde artists today. Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.