Tokyo: A View of the City

by Donald Richie

Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan's capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo - the Imperial Palace - Richie branches outwards,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861890346
• ISBN13: 9781861890344
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

interesting observations

This is a different type of travel book, less filled with first person stories or dialogues but full of anthropological, architectural, historical & social observations of Tokyo. The author lived in Japan for over 50 years and is obviously fond of Japanese culture. The book gives a sense of what the life is like in Tokyo (as much as one can gather from reading a book).