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Update: Tokyo 9/10. Not 10/10. It's a great city but there are too many minor annoyances that cumulatively add up to keep it from 10/10. In particular, night transport infrastructure is puzzlingly basic for a cyberpunk-coded megapolis of 35M. Subways close at 12 am. (Moscow's at 1 am). Moscow, Seoul, and London have night buses in the wee hours, and London Tube core routes run 24 hours on Fri and Sat. (NYC subway ofc runs 24/7). Main practical choice is to call a taxi, but Japan has a cabbie lobby, so taxis are the one major category where there's NO yuge discount relative to the US. This keeps night life surprisingly muted for a city of its scale. Couple other minor bugbears, but that's the big one. SF today and pre-2022 Moscow remain my top 2 cities.