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FEATURING:
- Over 800 maps in total
- Directions to 300 youth hostels (even the hostel handbook doesn't have this!)
- Train and bus times
- Sightseeing information
- Cheap travel tips
- Suggested itineraries
- Details of 180 economical hotels, with maps, addresses, phone numbers
- Written by a traveller of fifteen years in Japan
- And actually... you don't really have to be destitute to need this book!
- THIS BOOK IS NOW QUITE OLD (1995).
MANY DETAILS WILL HAVE CHANGED.
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More specifically...
Jim has lived in Japan for more than fifteen years, until April 2000.
This book is the result of his experiences there. He has travelled
extensively, including, for example, covering every single kilometre of
the JR national rail network, from Wakkanai at the very northern tip of
Hokkaido to Makurazaki at the southern tip of Kyushu. The message of
the book is that Japan, although, of course, not as cheap as
neighbouring Asian countries, need not be as expensive as people think.
Japan for the Impoverished
explains how money can be saved in the choice of restaurants and
cuisine, the purchase of various types of discount rail ticket (not
just the Japan Rail Pass, which is the sole money-saving transport
feature mentioned in typical guidebooks) and the location of various
types of economical but often remarkably high quality accommodation.
One of the most immediately useful features of this book for those on a
limited budget is the complete and comprehensive listing of youth
hostels. There are over 300 of these in Japan, one of the most
extensive networks in the world, and most are very good. Despite
offering some of the cheapest accommodation in Japan, the best are
outstandingly clean, pleasant and friendly places to stay. For every
one of these hostels, Japan for the Impoverished
has an individual map and directions giving names of bus stops and
route destinations in Japanese as well as Roman script. This
information is particularly valuable, since it is not included even in
the official hostellers' handbook. Everywhere they exist, private
hostels are also described to the same high level of detail.
As well as offering advice to the ‘truly impoverished’, Japan for the Impoverished
has sections for what Jim describes as the ‘ordinarily impoverished’
and the ‘only marginally impoverished’. So, there are lists of
‘business hotels’ where one can stay comfortably at moderate rates, and
of those ryokan (Japanese-style inns) which welcome foreign
guests, ensuring that this book will be useful to any independent
traveller planning to visit Japan, whatever his or her means.
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JAPAN FOR THE IMPOVERISHED
A Travel Guide
ISBN: 4-938749-01-7
Publisher: BORGNAN, JAPAN
Author: Jim Rickman
Printed: 1995
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