If you are planning to move around Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe on your own, this fold-out map gives you the whole Kansai rail network in one sheet. Every JR, private railway and subway line in the Kinki region is covered, with station names printed in both Japanese and English so you can match what you see on the platform signs.
One side carries the full railway route diagram for the Kinki region. Flip it over and you get a 1:300,000 area map showing the main stations and major sightseeing destinations, again labeled in Japanese and English. In the densest central districts some minor stations are thinned out to keep the sheet readable. Unfolded, the map measures 109.1 x 78.8 cm, and it packs down small enough to slip into a daypack.
This comes from Shobunsha, a map publisher founded in 1960 that focuses on rendering Japan's complicated terrain accurately and updates its road, rail and place-name data continuously. That accumulated cartographic craft is what makes their maps so widely trusted in Japan.
Published by Shobunsha. Brand new, 2025 edition.
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