Description

Japan Railway & Road Atlas

The Japan Railway & Road Atlas is a lightweight and informative resource for planning travel around Japan’s islands. It is conveniently sized to fit into a purse or large coat pocket and has a main mapping scale of 1:600,000. It includes 38 pages of urban maps, along with transit maps for Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, and Sapporo.

The vast majority of visitors to Japan travel around the country by using the country’s excellent rail network.

Japan currently has a two-layer rail system long-distance fast trains, called Shinkensen, and slower local trains serving all stops along a rail line.  A third system, using Maglev technology, is under construction, but will not be available for several years.

Japan has invested heavily in its rail network, including providing rail passes for visitors that make it easy for visitors to travel by train around the country.

In the atlas, the fast trains are shown in red and the regular trains in blue. All major highways are shown as well. By expanding the scale, place names are easy to read, and points of interest easy to locate.