The Stone Bridge Podcast

Strolling Tokyo with Gilles Poitras

Episode Summary

Japan is officially open with no pandemic restrictions! Author Gilles Poitras offers first travel impressions of Tokyo, based on his new book "Tokyo Stroll."

Episode Notes

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.

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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:

Map supplement

Gilles's recommended book links

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.