The Author
Growing up, Beth Reiber couldn't wait to get out of Dodge. She got the travel bug at 16, after being chosen as one of a dozen U.S. Girl Scouts to spend one month in Sweden, where, to her delight, she learned scouting was co-ed.
With degrees in German and journalism, she has worked for a Kansas newspaper, lived in Germany selling freelance travel articles to newspapers across the United States and edited a travel magazine based in Tokyo.
She has also visited some 50 countries, contributed to more than 55 publications and websites and written nine guidebooks, including Frommer’s guides to Japan for more than 30 years and Frommer’s guides covering Hong Kong, Macau and Branson. Her latest is Frommer's EasyGuide to Tokyo, Kyoto and Western Honshu.