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Excerpt from Up-to-Date Guide for the Land of the Rising Sun: With Maps and Numerous Pictures Tms little book is intended as a guide to new-comers who travel throughout the Empire by means of railroad and steamers. It gives brief sketches of principal ports and places of note or interest in Japan along the railway lines or which can be reached by short walk. The original notes were supplied by Railway and Steam ship Companies as well as by public authorities, and the pictures inserted were also contributed by them, especially taken for this purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.