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 122k · 413 venues mapped

Tsuruoka

Where Tsuruoka 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 20 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Sakata 22 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 337 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Tsuruoka 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 & drink413 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands176 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
65%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
42
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
206
umbrella days a year
69.1 m
of rain since 1981
587
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
3
volcanoes within 100 km
32.5 km
to Hijiori
18.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
8,240
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTsuruoka RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.4% 136 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Galway 16.5%🇺🇸 Tampa 16.5%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 16.4%🇦🇴 Luanda 16.4%Tsuruoka🇷🇺 Vladimir 16.4%🇰🇿 Almaty 16.3%🇩🇪 Kehl 16.3%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 16.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Poissy 59.5 h🇦🇹 Salzburg 59.5 h🇩🇪 Schwerin 59.5 h🇩🇪 Straubing 59.5 hTsuruoka🇪🇨 Tulcán 59.5 h🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 59.5 h🇨🇭 Zurich 59.5 h🇦🇷 San Juan 59.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.2% 420 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Częstochowa 5.2%🇩🇪 Dessau 5.2%🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 5.2%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 5.2%Tsuruoka🇷🇺 Vladimir 5.2%🇳🇱 Zwolle 5.2%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 5.1%🇧🇷 Curitiba 5.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19% 212 of 1,878 🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 19.1%🇧🇪 Verviers 19.1%🇵🇹 Faro 19%🇵🇹 Porto 19%Tsuruoka🇯🇵 Fukuyama 18.9%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 18.9%🇹🇼 Taichung 18.9%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 18.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.2% 179 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Smyrna 5.2%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 5.2%🇬🇧 Stevenage 5.2%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 5.2%Tsuruoka🇬🇧 Barnsley 5.1%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 5.1%🇯🇵 Fukushima 5.1%🇺🇸 Great Falls 5.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.9% 20 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Maidenhead 97.9%🇺🇸 Newport News 97.9%🇯🇵 Numazu 97.9%🇬🇧 Telford 97.9%Tsuruoka🇺🇸 Worcester 97.9%🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 97.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 97.8%🇺🇸 Austin 97.8%

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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