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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony
Hector Garcia Puigcerver · 160 pages
Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
Matthew Amster-Burton · 264 pages
"Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans living in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the world's greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inex
Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
Aimee Major-Steinberger · 180 pages
A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan
Gertrude Adams Fisher · 486 pages
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Bruce Feiler · 321 pages
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about Ameri
Japan
Lonely Planet, Chris Rowthorn, Ray Bartlett, Justin Ellis · 812 pages
Lost Japan
Alex Kerr · 270 pages
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years.Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualised world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells how he stumbled on a hidden valley that became his home...and exposes the environmental and cult
Sushi and Beyond: One Family's Remarkable Journey Through the Greatest Food Nation on Earth
Michael Booth
Hokkaido Highway Blues. Hitchhiking Japan
Will Ferguson · 384 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
Robert Twigger · 320 pages
90-Day Geisha: My Time as a Tokyo Hostess
Chelsea Haywood · 308 pages
"Millionaires, surgeons, serial killers, CEOs: 'What are your hobbies?' Step into the surreal world of a Tokyo hostess club and gain an exclusive, underground pass through the eyes of author Chelsea Brennan as she attempts to understand a way of life unique to the Japanese, all the while experiencing six-hundred dollar dinners, kabuki theatre, Harajuku shopping sprees, and first-class trips to 'An
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · 323 pages
"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux · 496 pages
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change.
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
Susan J. Napier