I know I heard about these little Moleskine city notebooks ages ago but I only recently handled one in person. They're impressive. Small, but packed with great little details. The maps of the cities are beautiful, easy to read and elegantly designed. They smartly offer transparent overlays to place over the maps for tracing walking routes about the city. There are also public transportation details and maps. And lots of compartmented space for jotting notes about shops and restaurants.

Overall, it had a great feel and I'll be looking into picking one up on my next trip. It's this sort of well conceived functionality that inspires use. I brought a blank Moleskine on my recent trip through Tibet, China and Vietnam and, despite a good effort, was only able to fill up a third of it.

One downside in the series is the rather limited city list, with Tokyo (or *Asia* for that matter!) nowhere in sight.