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. The scale is 1:670.000.