Japan for Accessible Travelers & Wheelchair Explorers

About this book

The only English guide that treats accessible travel in Japan as what it actually is — journeys, not places. A place can be perfectly accessible while the journey to it is impossible; a famous sight can be honestly stepped while the journey around it is complete. This book gives you 200 complete step-free journeys, each keyed to the traveller it serves, the route it runs, the base it sleeps in and the season it belongs to.

Every journey names its failure point — the gravel avenue, the arched bridge, the last ferry, the battery's honest range — and composes the day around it. Stepped icons are never disguised: castle keeps, pilgrim mountains and shrine climbs are labelled honestly, each with its complete ground-level visit beside it. And because access information changes, the book never prints a lift, a boarding arrangement or a price as a fixed fact: every entry closes with its own official source to confirm before you travel, while the durable part — the ground, the gradient, the order of the day, the honest alternative — is given in full.

Eight parts: gateway cities · castle towns, gardens & old streets · shrines & temples without steps · coast, lakes & islands · onsen towns by the way in · museums & aquariums · journeys by train, boat, bus & ropeway · and a handbook of needs — the battery day, the companion day, the rain day, the festival night, the disruption plan — ending with the 201st journey: your own, composed by the method this book teaches.