Time Out Tokyo 6th edition

I started randomly paging through this about a month before my first visit to Tokyo. It helped give me a sense for what I wanted to see while there and I did use some of the recommendations. Once I got on the ground however I found the maps fairly useless. I ended up leaving this book in the room and used other maps while traveling around that were less bulky than the book and more detailed. The street names in Tokyo are not always posted in English so having a guidebook in English only isn't much use if you're on the street looking at a map. Nevertheless Timeout guides are good for whetting the appetite before traveling and giving a sense of a place and this guide to Tokyo was no exception there.

Handy subway guide and the restaurant choices were spot on!

I live in nyc and time out always finds great, less known places. It did the same in Tokyo. Coffeeshops to bars, it only lists a few of each, for each town (so it's not terribly thick) but each place we visited was great. We used several different books on the trip, but by the second day, this was the only one we were carrying.