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nicyvesweet
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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| melirae wrote: |
| Once you are in Osaka, the tourist offices (the one in OCAT for example) have tons of info that is up to date, so they are a much better resource. |
Thank you, I'll be sure to stop by the visitors center when I arrive. |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 5309
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Longing for Nippon wrote: |
| The LP is very americanized and being a Brit I dont take to it. |
You think so? It is Australian.
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Gordon, what do you like about the Rough Guide?
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Like someone else has posted, RG seems to cover more out of the way places better than LP. Living in Shikoku, the coverage is a bit better in RG than LP. Now I have both, but use RG more often, still both are quite limited. For instance, LP has about 4 pages on Nara. That's ridiculous really, since it is a major tourist site. IMO I think the LP maps are a bit better and I like their coverage of accomodation prices more too rather than a price range like RG quotes. |
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markle
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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Location: Out of Japan
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Lonely planet were caught in the global downturn in tourism booksales at a point when they were diversifying their product range so there was a bit of cutting back.
I'd put the Americanization down to that although it is an Australian publication there are quite a few American contributors.
My wife is the travel nut while she uses LP as a guide for accomodation and the like, she gets Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel guides for more historical / cultural information (and pretty pictures)
The LP website and forums are worth checking out as well. |
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