Anthony Bourdain-Backed Roads & Kingdoms Launches Slick Travel Guides to Japan

The guides are a digital companion to R&K's new book, 'Rice, Noodle, Fish.'

Roads & Kingdoms, a travel journalism site which counts Anthony Bourdain as an editor-at-large, has released a number of slick new travel guides. According to the website, the publication partnered with OneNote, Microsoft's note-taking app, and Sway, a publishing platform, to create digital guides with information from the publication's upcoming book, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture.

The book, written by R&K editor Matt Goulding, has seven chapters, "one for each of the best cities for eating in Japan." The team behind Roads & Kingdoms decided to try to reinvent the travel guide as well. So they found a digital partner to help them put together a "comprehensive guide on how and where and when and why to eat at over 200 restaurants and bars" in the seven cities — Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido — the book covers.

The digital guides — which are available on web browsers as well as on mobile devices through OneNote — feature maps, reviews, multiple photos of each restaurant, hotel options, and information on prices. The guides also feature both the Japanese and English version of a restaurants address and picks from Bourdain on where to travel and eat. Plus, there are primers on Japanese etiquette to help users avoid committing cultural faux pas.

Rice, Noodle, Fish — which features 195 color photographs from Goulding's 5,000 mile journey through the "noodle shops, tempura temples, and tea houses of Japan"— hits bookshelves today and the travel guides, which are free, can be found in full here.

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