Lonely Planet Tokyo City Guide 0.98

‘The leading guide to Tokyo.’ – Borders.com

East, West, past, future: you’ll chart every extreme with Lonely Planet’s Tokyo Cityguide on your iPhone. From the tiny bars of Shibuya to the towering hotels of Shinjuku, our two resident authors have clocked up hundreds of hours of pavement time so that you don’t have to. Whatever your pleasure – stewing in an onsen, shopping for manga ephemera, chasing the perfect sashimi - the world’s leading guidebook publisher is your essential Tokyo companion.

Your iPhone has taken this benchmark guide to new heights: explore with confidence, knowing our dynamic maps can pinpoint your exact location, and the best attractions nearby; get to grips with the world’s most high-tech traditional society, with chapters on the history, culture, food and language of the ‘Big Mikan’; browse hundreds of independently-reviewed hotels and restaurants, then tap to ring through a booking; or lose yourself on one of our walking tours through the world’s largest conurbation. And you can forget roaming internet costs: this Cityguide never needs to connect. 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, Prague, Paris, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Madrid, Miami, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City with more coming soon

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