Michelin Guide 2008 Tokyo: Restaurants & Hotels

By Guides Touristiques Michelin

This is a guide to the hotels and restaurants in Tokyo. Each entry provides details of type of cuisine, map references, prices, opening and closing times, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2067130692
• ISBN13: 9782067130692
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Pubns
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Useful for the Ignorant Traveler

If you want to eat well in Japan and don't have much knowledge about where to go, this guide provides a very useful starting point. While my assessments of the food quality didn't agree with some of those in the Guide, the descriptions of the restaurants and the little location maps were spot-on. [...] I recommend this for the foodie tourist.

Great as always, but no Bib Gourmands!

Michelin guides are usually quite excellent. This one does not disappoint, with its helpful classifications by star, cuisine, neighborhood, as well as easy-to-read maps of an otherwise maze-like Tokyo, and last but not least, it's surprisingly good bind quality and affordable price. Normally, I appreciate being able to browse through the hundreds of choices from 1-3 stars, "Bib Gourmand" (value picks), and "Knife & Fork only" (no-star) picks. That gives me the option of mixing in a few star-based restaurants with a handful of more practical choices for my budget. However!! ...that's where this 2008 Tokyo guide throws me off a bit... In this first edition, all 150 restaurants have stars, which, admittedly, is something to be celebrated -- but instead of having 400+ non-star/value choices to complement the star-rated restaurants, you have, er... none! This isn't a deal-breaker, but is something one should be very aware of if you're like me and mostly looking for the value picks. Those of you with deeper wallets are unaffected. Some super-traditional, omakase-only (chef's selection) Japanese restaurants, including some listed, supposedly (according to magazine interviews and TV shows) do not take reservations in English, nor will they serve non-Japanese speaking tourists without a translator -- I found it interesting that the book made no mention of that. Just to clarify (not justify), the restaurant's reasoning is not based on racism, but that they feel they can't take that much money and claim to serve your needs if they cannot communicate with you and understand your wants. In any event, I'm sure Michelin will be looking to add more non-star/value restaurants in their second edition, at which point, this will be a solid 5-star pick for someone looking for an assortment of great places to dine/stay in Tokyo.