Olga Kostolomova

The article presents the results of a study of the ethnolinguistic features of the language in English and Russian travel guidebooks in the aspect of intercultural communication on the example of travel guide to Japan. They are interesting because of a large number of different geographic and ethnographic realities, as well as due to the exceptional identity of Japanese culture. The features of the way of life in Russian and English guidebooks are in the use of ethnographic realities that define the concepts of life, religion, culture. The natural habitat is represented in English and Russian guidebooks by various toponymic realities.