Tokyo: Wallpaper* City Guide app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Phaidon Press
First release : 21 Dec 2009
App size: 119.38 Mb
Wallpaper* City Guide apps present a succinct, tightly edited selection of the best a location has to offer, from iconic architecture to happening restaurants, bars and hotels, and the most enticing cultural spaces, art galleries and shops. Whether visiting Berlin, Milan, New York, Paris or London, or any of the dynamic destinations in the series, these unique guides represent an insider’s checklist for the design-savvy traveller.
Key features:
LOCATE: Find your bearings with a city panorama and essential landmarks
EXPLORE: Our pick of the best restaurants, galleries, architecture and shops
BROWSE: Get to know the key districts using our colour-coded system
NAVIGATE: Use the interactive map to quickly find your way around town
DISCOVER: Our insider reveals the city’s hidden venues and hippest haunts
Latest reviews of Tokyo: Wallpaper* City Guide app for iPhone and iPad
This is a useless app and more information can be had for free on any website.
Since this app cost $3.99 and has the air of quality associated with the Wallpaper brand, I assumed I was purchasing a well edited and useful guide to Tokyo. Unfortunately, glaringly missing from this app are maps of the city... as a first time visitor the app was essentially useless as I had no idea where any of their suggested points of interest were located. The app is well designed typographically and visually (would not expect anything less from Wallpaper), well written and I assume well edited. But seeing as its a travel guide AND its sponsored by an advertiser (Rolex) the absence of a map(s) is almost insulting: where is the added value to justify the $3.99 when the advertiser already covered your costs, Wallpaper?
The app fails to load on the iPhone 4. Do not purchase.
There is very little value to this app, especially for $4.99. I would not advise anyone to buy it. While the Wallpaper magazine itself covers Japan well, this app does not reflect that. A better app, which has the same goals, is the one from Super Future.
Im in Tokyo with a friend using the equally priced Lonely Planet guide. He has all the same info plus about 200 more recommendations (compared to about 30 with this app).