Freelance travel writer Beth Reiber knows Tokyo inside out — maybe much more than most Tokyoites.

Reiber, who lives in Lawrence, Kansas, wrote the Tokyo version of the Frommer's guidebooks — one of the best-selling series of guide books published in the United States — and has updated it for more than 20 years.

"I've been to about 50 cities and towns in Japan. I know Japan better than my own country," she said.