Getting Around: Planet Tokyo
Getting Around
- Navigating Tokyo
While a modern city in every sense of the word, Tokyo does have two crazy characteristics that can cause all sorts of the difficulties -- most of the streets don't have names and the buildings are not necessarily numbered sequentially.
- The Black Art of Finding A Japanese Address
As if the total strangeness of Tokyo was not enough to confuse and disorient the Western visitor, it turns out that the streets have no names and the buildings are numbered in a random fashion that was possibly invented by a 13th century Buddhist monk.
- Tokyo City Map
Very detailed map of Tokyo in a downloadable PDF format. Note: Map is on the second page of the PDF file.
- Tokyo Subway Map
An English language map of the Tokyo Subway system in a downloadable PDF format.