Japan Road Maps

Scale 1:1,100,000. Size 27"x39". International Travel Maps edition.

Japan is investing heavily in tourism improvement facilities: airports, cruise ship ports, hotels, and infrastructure. Fortunately, Japan is also very touristically interesting for visitors from other countries.

This map covers the entire country, with the northern portion on one side and the southern on the other. As most visitors to this country travel by train, we show both rapid speed 'Shinkensen' lines (in red) and the regular lines (in black). The map also shows the entire motorway network of Japan, the main highways, and as many urban areas as we could fit in without over-crowding, along with major touristic attractions.

Side on includes inset maps of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto and side two includes insets of the southern 'outer' islands, such as Okinawa and Satsunan. The map is printed on durable waterproof paper. Although the map has a fresh cover picture, there has been no change of ISBN or price, making this top-quality map one of the most affordable on the market.

Scale 1:1,200,000. Size 28"x36". Reis Know How edition. Very detailed Japan road map. English and multi-lingual legends. Printed on tear-resistant, waterproof, paper-like plastic. It can bend and fold without cracking and is writable as normal paper, non-toxic and recyclable. Perfect for tourist adventures and independent travel and for driving tours. Includes topographic contour lines and hypsometric color tints which show height levels, along with elevation numbers. Shows all major and secondary roads and tertiary roads, with distances between points in kilometers. Fully indexed. Beautiful cartography.

Scale 1:1,500,000. Size 26"x39". Cartographia edition. English and multilingual legends. Large-scale map. Beautiful cartography. Very detailed.

Scale 1:1,500,000. Size 26"x39". Hema edition. English text and legends.

Scale 1:1,500,000. Size 20"x40". Nelles Verlag edition. English and multilingual legends. Printed on both sides.

Scale 1:1,600,000. Indexed. Hildebrand edition. English and Multilingual legends. Beautiful shaded relief. Lots of useful travel information.

Scale 1:2,200,000. Size 24"x34". Shobunsha edition. English and Japanese legends.

Scale 1:2,000,000. Size 28"x39". New Holland Publishers edition. English text and legends.

Scale 1:2,000,000. Size 20"x38". Periplus edition. English text and legends.

Scale 1:4,00,000. Size 39"x56" (this is a big map!). Hammond edition. English text and legends.

Scale 1:700,000. Size 27"x39". Indexed. International Travel Maps edition.

Japan is a larger country than most people realize, and while our country map is still our most popular version for this country, Japan divides quite nicely into two halves west of Tokyo and north of Tokyo.

The north itself divides nicely into two parts; the main island with interesting cities to explore, and the island of Hokkaido, with its capital of Sapporo. This map concentrates on the northern portion of Edo, the main island forming Japan, with the Shinkensen train lines shown separately from the regular train lines.

Most visitors to Japan use the excellent JBC rail pass to explore the country, and cities such as Nagano or Nigata are only a few hours away from Tokyo. Further north, Aomori is the junction for trains serving the relatively remote west coast and the new Shinkensen line going under the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido, the longest undersea tunnel in the world. The second side of the map concentrates upon the large island of Hokkaido, which is rather remote in Japanese thinking, but is very interesting. It is less populous than the rest of Japan, and is more ‘American’, thanks to the efforts of early efforts at modernizing Japan.

Sapporo, as a city, could easily be mistaken for being a mis-placed North American city. Hakodate, at the southern end of the island, has an American fortress, circa US civil war era construction, and the eastern portion of the island is very close to the Kuril Islands, seized by Soviet Russia at the end of WW2 and never returned to Japan. The area around Kotan contains several hot springs, and there are numerous ski resorts in winter months; altogether, an interesting part of Japan.

Scale 1:1,300,000. Size 26"x38". National Geographic edition. National Geographic's Japan Adventure Map is designed to meet the unique needs of adventure travelers with its durability and accurate information. Each folded map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective, highlighting the area’s terrain and best locations for adventure activities like snorkeling, surfing, fishing, and more. Adventure Maps include hundreds of points of interest that highlight diverse and unique destinations within the country. The map includes the locations of thousands of cities and towns with a user-friendly index, plus a clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for major highways, main roads, and tracks and trails for those seeking to explore more remote regions. Key Features: Waterproof and tear-resistant Detailed interpretive information and local travel tips Detailed topography complete with activity symbols, ideal for exploring the country City overview maps Hundreds of points of interest, including the location of World Heritage sites, national parks and nature reserves, aboriginal settlements and protected lands, mines, archeological sites, wildlife parks and more Thousands of place names Important travel aids including airports, lighthouses, ferry routes and rail lines Developed in cooperation with local agencies Updated regularly to ensure accuracy Printed in the U.S.

Scale 1:670,000. Size 27"x39". Indexed. International Travel Maps edition.

Most people travel around Japan by train, so we have re-worked our previous edition of this title into a railway-user-friendly map for all of Japan west of Tokyo. The express Shinkansen lines are coloured differently from the local lines, which are still quite nice and generally are more scenic.

We show the road network in excellent detail as well. Naturally, well-known travel spots such as Kyoto and Hiroshima are shown, but western Japan has much more to offer. Nagano, north of Tokyo, or Nagato, to the west, are both now on Shinkansen routes.

So is Kagoshima in the far southwest, and from there local lines wend south and east to the little-visited parts of Japan. The map, printed on plastic for durability includes insets of Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo, as well as island insets of Okinawa and related islands. 

Scale 1:850,000. Size 6"x9". 96 pages. Indexed. International Travel Maps edition. Conveniently-sized Travel Atlas of Japan at 1:850,000 scale (13.4 miles per inch). Includes double-page sized insets of Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, and Kobe. Fully indexed, 96 pages.

Scale 1:670,000. Size 27"x39". Indexed. International Travel Maps edition.

Japan is too large and densely populated a country to show effectively on one map while showing all the attractions and smaller towns of the country. With this map, we are attempting to concentrate on the way the vast majority of visitors travel around Japan - by rail.

The road network is still shown in excellent detail, but the rail routes that connect Tokyo to Osaka, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, and to the northern coastal cities of Nigata and Kanazawa are the way most visitors to Japan explore the country.

The map also includes an excellent inset map of central Tokyo on one side and another of Osaka on the other side The map extends from Fukoka in the west to Tokyo in the east and to Sendai in the north, and includes many of the most popularly-visited cities of Japan, showing all the Shinkensen "bullet" train routes as well as the non-express regular lines. Japan has the most advanced rail network in the world, and this map captures its essence.

Scale 1:1,200,000. 128 pages. Reis Know How edition.

Scale 1:600,000. Size 27"x39". International Travel Maps edition.

This is a brand new title for ITMB, a double-sided map covering the core regions of Japan most visited by tourists exploring Japan. Side 1 covers from Tokyo north to Sendai/Nigata and west to Nagoya. Side two covers all of Japan as far as Hiroshima, with insets of the Osaka/Kobe and Kyoto/Nara regions. Naturally, all touristic attractions are noted.

Scale 1:65,000/600,000. Size 27"x39". International Travel Maps edition. 

The volcanic cone of Mount Fuji is Japan's most popular touristic attraction. Located a shoer train ride west of Tokyo, Fuji attracts millions of visitors each year. Side 1 focuses on the mountain itself, showing rail connections, surrounding towns, roads on the lower slopes, hiking trails, and accommodations close to the summit. Side 2 shows the kata & Chubu Regions from Tokyo to Nagoya and north to Nigata. This is a brand new ITMB title.

Scale 1:2,900,000. Size 24"x30". National Geographic edition.

Scale 1:1,560,000. Size 20"x31". National Geographic edition. Flat. This newly revised map of Japan and Korea, which conforms to National Geographic's demanding standards of accuracy and cartographic detail, shows a new scale, political boundaries, major roads, cities and towns, airports, and other geographic details. An inset provides a more detailed map of central Japan.