Dealing With the Tokyo Police

Though it wouldn't be hard for even an attentive reader to miss something in the spiraling intricacies of text-laden colored-pencil drawings in Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods, I don't think Florent Chavouet ever mentions that hand-drawn maps, stripped-down versions of the ones that introduce each chapter, are not just quaint niceties but necessary tools for navigating Japanese cities. Or at least they wereâ??I would guess GPS and other technological marvels have partially replaced written and drawn directions, but I doubt they will ever fully supplant them.