Lonely Planet Kyoto City Guide 0.98

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See the heartland of traditional Japan in Imperial style, with Lonely Planet’s Kyoto City Guide on your iPhone. Back when Tokyo was little more than a ramshackle fishing village, the ‘City of a Thousand Temples’ was the nexus of culture, religion and power in Japan, and remains the most beautiful and historically-rich city in the islands. Our resident author knows (and loves) it like the back of his hand, and has clocked up 100s of hours of painstaking research to bring you the best it has to offer.

So, why retool our Kyoto Guide for the iPhone? Well, let’s say you’ve spent a morning marvelling at Kinkakuji ("Golden Pavilion Temple"), and want to find the best izakaya (tavern) in walking distance. Or you’ve trawled the hundreds of stalls selling traditional Japanese foods at Nishiki Market and need a local sento (public bath) to soak away the ache in your legs. Just pinpoint your location on our intelligent maps, search by proximity, category or keyword, and let our app guide you to the door. And, of course, all Lonely Planet’s world-famous content is at your fingertips. Fantasutikku!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon

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