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
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🇯🇵 Japan · metro 228k · 212 venues mapped

Matsumoto

Where Matsumoto 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 🇯🇵 Nagano 50 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 167 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Matsumoto 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 & drink212 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
12%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands106 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
65%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
6
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
137
umbrella days a year
57.6 m
of rain since 1981
78
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
9
volcanoes within 100 km
34.1 km
to Yakedake
25.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,924
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMatsumoto RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.5% 175 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Liberec 12.5%🇮🇹 Lido di Ostia 12.5%🇪🇸 Logroño 12.5%🇻🇪 Maracaibo 12.5%Matsumoto🇨🇦 Milton 12.5%🇨🇦 Ottawa 12.5%🇨🇴 Palmira 12.5%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 12.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 57 h🇪🇨 Latacunga 57 h🇸🇪 Lund 57 h🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 57 hMatsumoto🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 57 h🇩🇪 Neumünster 57 h🇬🇧 Newry 57 h🇩🇪 Offenburg 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.1% 441 of 1,878 🇧🇷 João Pessoa 3.2%🇩🇪 Minden 3.2%🇵🇱 Koszalin 3.1%🇺🇦 Lviv 3.1%Matsumoto🇨🇦 Milton 3.1%🇯🇵 Takayama 3.1%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 3%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 18.8% 214 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 18.9%🇹🇼 Taichung 18.9%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 18.8%🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 18.8%Matsumoto🇩🇪 Mannheim 18.7%🇦🇷 Posadas 18.7%🇯🇵 Akita 18.6%🇯🇵 Fujieda 18.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.1% 200 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Hamilton 3.1%🇸🇪 Karlstad 3.1%🇫🇮 Lahti 3.1%🇪🇸 Logroño 3.1%Matsumoto🇺🇸 New Haven 3.1%🇭🇺 Pécs 3.1%🇵🇱 Rybnik 3.1%🇵🇱 Rzeszów 3.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇭🇰 Ma On Shan 100%🇲🇴 Macau 100%🇧🇭 Manama 100%🇺🇸 Martinez 100%Matsumoto🇩🇿 Meftah 100%🇺🇸 Memphis 100%🇺🇸 Merced 100%🇯🇵 Misawa 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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