
Tokyo Attractions: Which Ones Justify the Ticket
Tokyo's free city sets a high bar, and only a handful of ticketed attractions clear it comfortably.

Tokyo's free city sets a high bar, and only a handful of ticketed attractions clear it comfortably.

Paris rewards walking more than ticketing, and the best hours in the city cost nothing at all.

Los Angeles is too large to see, so the useful question is which two or three areas to spend the time in.

Miami's beach is the reason people come and its neighbourhoods are the reason some of them return.

Las Vegas sits inside an hour of red rock canyons and a national park, which almost nobody who visits ever sees.

Asheville's appeal is roughly half downtown and half the Blue Ridge behind it, and both need a different kind of day.

Nashville's famous strip is not where the good music is played, and the difference matters more than any other choice there.

Amsterdam's two headline museums book out weeks ahead, and the city works perfectly well without either.

Istanbul's famous sights fit in one square kilometre, and everything else worth doing requires crossing water.

Dubai sells its skyline and keeps a nineteenth-century trading port ten minutes away by metro.

Bangkok's temple morning takes four hours, and the rest of the city is where visitors run out of ideas.

Barcelona's Modernisme was a movement rather than one architect, and the other buildings have no queues at all.