Japan is officially open with no pandemic restrictions! Author Gilles Poitras offers first travel impressions of newly liberated Tokyo, based on his new book Tokyo Stroll: A Guide to City Sidetracks and Easy Explorations.

Topics include:

• What is it like in Tokyo post-pandemic? What's changed?
• Advice and tips for those planning on heading to Tokyo
• How to use the digital map feature for Tokyo Stroll and what can be discovered.
• Walking and shopping strategies, especially for those looking for manga- and anime-related merch
• And what it is about Tokyo that makes it so intriguing to visit and stroll its streets.

Gilles has created an online resource with additional features and updates, plus all the links and instructions you need to use the book's digital map feature for easy on-the-spot navigation. 

Online supplement:

• http://www.koyagi.com/TokyoStroll/TSmain.html

Map supplement

• http://www.koyagi.com/TokyoStroll/TSMaps.html

Gilles's recommended book links

• Tokyo Stroll: A Guide to City Sidetracks and Easy Explorations
• Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society
• Edo, The City That Became Tokyo
• Tokyo Before Tokyo : Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo

Gilles Poitras has produced three books on anime and has written for magazines including NewType USA and Otaku USA and served as a member of the senior board of Mechademia. He has made presentations at various Japan-US friendship groups, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Smithsonian, and Pixar. He has been organizing trips to Japan since 2007. Gilles resides in Oakland, California

Peter Goodman is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California, which for over thirty years has specialized in books on Asia, especially Japan and China. For a complete list of Stone Bridge Press books, visit www.stonebridge.com.

For a complete list of Stone Bridge Press books, visit www.stonebridge.com.