Tokyo has emerged from the fallout from Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami, re-assuming its position as an Asian hotspot for business travel.
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Disney may have started in the US, but its international theme parks have been infused with locally familiar elements, from feng shui in Hong Kong to European inventors in Paris.
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The city’s jazz cafes, where locals sit for hours listening to record collections that can numbers in the thousands, are finding new life through a younger generation.
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In Seoul, Narita, Singapore and Bangkok, airport layovers offer affordable cultural experiences that act as escape routes from the overpriced tedium of standard airport venues.
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The Japanese city is full of baffling – yet logical -- attractions, from maid cafes to plastic food to giant robot statues.
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From opera in London to tea time in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, getting to the heart of a destination was never so richly rewarding yet so downright free.
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Visitors must feed the monkeys at a Shaxi temple
Six sites help you find deals and avoid queues
Ancient Tokyo is brought back to life
The way of the shepherd
Asia
Hiking and houseboats in Sausalito
San Francisco
Matinee jazz in a Manhattan parlour
New York City
Classic sights in the City of Light
Paris
Italy’s stolen treasures come home
Rome
My city: Mumbai
Mumbai
Living in... cities of the future
South Korea
Forms of ID: Geraldine DeRuiter
The Spanish ritual of baby jumping
Spain
Beijing’s labyrinth of history
Beijing
America’s best little beach towns
Washington
A new chapter for Johannesburg
South Africa
Duct tape designs take form in Ohio
USA
Reader Q&A: Mini breaks from London
London
See eye to eye with a butterfly
San Francisco
Spain’s super-charged sport
Spain
Walking in Inca footsteps
Peru
Jaffa, an Israeli city in flux
Israel
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