TOKYO CITY ATLAS: A Bilingual Guide, supervised by Atsushi Umeda. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2004, 124 pp., 2,205 yen (paper).

Here is the third revised, updated edition of the handiest of all Tokyo atlas guides. Since the 2001 edition came out, there has been, as always, an amount of change in this most protean of cities, much of it here accounted for.

The cover indicates this. That of the second edition featured the dowdy Imperial Palace, but the cover of this new publication features in all of its glitzy glory the Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills. This latest of Tokyo sights is also now located on the corrected maps, along with the reconstructions of such areas as Shinagawa and Shiodome.

Other additions include a number of new towns and train/subway stations due to the extension of existing lines and the inauguration of new ones such as the Haneda-bound Keikyu Kuko. These numbers help swell the index from 3,600 to 4,000 designations.