We're pleased to announce that Gateway to Tokyo is now available on Kindle. This volume is adapted from Gateway to Japan, Digital Edition, with a focus on this great super-city. You can purchase it here.
Gateway to Tokyo is designed for the traveler who is visiting Tokyo, while the complete Gateway to Japan serves as a companion volume offering deeper insights into Japan’s history and culture, as well as in-depth information on travel throughout Japan.
From the intro: "Is there any city in the world today more intriguing than Tokyo? Other capitals may be more beautiful, more cultured, more sane—better, without question, at serving their function as preserves of art and history. But Tokyo is no museum. It is a laboratory. From a fecund brew of wealth, imagination and desire is emerging the city of the future. The air pulsates with a spirit of experimentation. The face of Tokyo is transforming before our eyes, as whole expanses of drab, postwar structures give way to svelte architecture echoing the high-tech packaging of a Sony product. The streets swarm with invention. Fashions straddle science fiction and Kabuki. Vending machines speak politely in synthetic female voices. In Yoyogi Park, Elvis clones gyrate alongside performance artists of the apocalypse. Tokyo has also emerged as one of the premier culinary capitals of the world, boasting more Michelin-starred restaurants than any other city, including 13 three-star restaurants. These (to our eyes) weird juxtapositions of cultures, eras and technologies seem to spring from an intense collective hunger to redefine life. Like a galaxy condensing from a swirling molecular cloud, creating order out of chaos, Tokyo is spinning out an alternative universe of urban possibility.