athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
The Anti-Awards

24 rankings. Every one is the true extreme of a real measurement — there is no worst city, only cities magnificently bad at one specific thing.

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The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
Tools

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 170k · 577 venues mapped

Fukushima

Where Fukushima places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Koriyama 40 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 239 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Fukushima does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink577 places mapped
10:30–20:30
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3%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands397 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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2%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
64%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
54
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
187
umbrella days a year
60.1 m
of rain since 1981
861
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
5
volcanoes within 100 km
19.7 km
to Azumayama
111.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
8,160
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFukushima RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.6% 274 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newport 2.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 2.6%🇸🇰 Bratislava 2.6%Fukushima🇮🇩 Makassar 2.6%🇬🇧 Rugby 2.6%🇺🇸 Valdosta 2.6%🇮🇳 Attingal 2.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52.5 h 214 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 52.5 h🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 52.5 h🇧🇴 Cochabamba 52.5 h🇪🇸 Cádiz 52.5 hFukushima🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 52.5 h🇮🇹 Imola 52.5 h🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 52.5 h🇮🇹 Livorno 52.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.8% 344 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kochi 12.9%🇫🇷 Le Mans 12.9%🇵🇭 Manila 12.9%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 12.9%Fukushima🇬🇧 Loughborough 12.8%🇮🇳 Mumbai 12.8%🇮🇷 Yazd 12.8%🇫🇷 Chartres 12.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.1% 333 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Valdosta 5.3%🇳🇱 Maastricht 5.2%🇲🇦 Marrakesh 5.2%🇬🇧 Darlington 5.1%Fukushima🇺🇸 Norman 5.1%🇺🇸 Richmond 5.1%🇬🇧 Rugby 5.1%🇷🇺 Vyborg 5.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.1% 180 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tallahassee 5.2%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 5.2%🇬🇧 Barnsley 5.1%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 5.1%Fukushima🇺🇸 Great Falls 5.1%🇺🇸 Odessa 5.1%🇺🇸 Southgate 5.1%🇸🇰 Trenčín 5.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Flint 100%🇺🇸 Florence 100%🇺🇸 Franklin 100%🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 100%Fukushima🇯🇵 Fukuyama 100%🇱🇰 Galle 100%🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 100%🇺🇸 Greenwood 100%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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