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Tokyo 2020 Olympics For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-66409-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-66412-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-66408-6 (ebk)

1. Chapter 3
2. Chapter 7
3. Chapter 12
4. Chapter 14

1. Chapter 9
2. Chapter 15
3. Chapter 17
4. Chapter 18

Are you excited to head to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics? Or maybe youre more than a little intimidated by planning a trip to a foreign country for one of the biggest sporting events in the world? Maybe a little bit of both? Regardless, youve found the right book!

Planning a trip to Japan can be stressful but manageable and even exciting if youve got a game plan. By the end of this book, you should have a solid idea of how to make sure you have everything in order to have a smooth trip.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics For Dummies is a Japan travel guidebook and Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics event guide combined into one. The reality is that some of the normal Japan travel tips and recommendations such as top ten hotels in Tokyo to stay in get thrown out the window due to the Olympics. In this book, I tell you everything you need to know specifically for planning a trip to Japan for the Olympics.

The best part is that this book doesnt have to be read in order. If youve already started planning your trip or there are only certain pieces of information youre interested in, feel free to use the Table of Contents and Index to skip around.

Also, all prices listed within the book are current as of this writing and are listed in either the U.S. dollar ($) or the Japanese yen (). Any prices listed in yen have the U.S. dollar equivalent in parentheses. I calculated the dollar amount based off the exchange rate at the time of this writing, which was $1 = 109.

Throughout this book, I also mention soccer as one of the Olympic sports. Outside of the United States, this sport is known as football.

Finally, within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and you want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

We all know what assumptions do, but in order to write this book, I had to make a few anyway:

• Youre planning to go to Japan for the Summer Olympics. This book contains useful information if youre going to Japan during another part of the year or youre watching the Olympics at home on your couch. But not all the information will be applicable.
• You may or may not have traveled to Japan before. If youre new to Japan, this book has everything you need to feel confident about your trip. If youve been to Japan before, you may want to skip ahead to for Olympics-specific information but youll still find useful tips throughout the book!
• You can purchase tickets and book accommodations. Tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic events have been very hard to come by. Accommodations have also been scarce and priced significantly higher than the norm. I guide you through how to buy tickets and book accommodations, but in doing so, I assume that tickets are available for purchase and rooms are available to book which they may not be.

To make sure you dont miss important details, we use the following icons throughout this book. Heres what the different icons mean:

Planning a trip involves a lot of moving parts. Anything marked with the Tip icon highlights specific tips that can make your life easier or call out things that would be easy to miss.

The Remember icon is primarily used to call out specific pieces of information that will be beneficial to remember (or at least jot down somewhere).

Mistakes can not only add additional stress to your trip, but also blow your budget. The Warning icon calls out some of those easy-to-make mistakes youll want to avoid.