But today there are some excellent websites that allow you to select hotels and restaurants according to its budget. So the Blue Guide is no longer handicapped by its lack of a detailed list of accommodations and restaurants. For an individual month-long journey to Japan without predetermined program so I got myself this blue JAPAN guide was very helpful in selecting destinations progressively and, for each destination, select places to visit.
Like many I am one of those who have trouble reading a guidebook both before and during the trip. But it was not so in this case because I have enjoyed reading not only the passages relating to selected destinations but also the general parts at the start of work or scattered throughout the text.
This work dates from 2010. There is recent enough, but not enough to account for the Tsunami and Fukushima dating from March 2011 contrary to what might suggest too rapid reading of Amazon site that refers to "works of the samurai Fukushima "(but that statement refers to all the books on Japan sold by Amazon). Anecdotally I can also say that this guide does not mention, of course, the new tourist attraction in Tokyo, namely telecommunication tower "Skytree" high 634 meters, inaugurated in June 2012.
Finally, I said that in the past, for Japan, I used other guides, but the blue guide seems much higher.
