5 hours agoTokyo first for the world's top “cool”, this top-list
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If you are dreaming of the most exciting local places at your next destination for a town-break, the Global Time Out guide comes to your aid with its latest collection of the world's <x0st cool”.
At the top of the 2025 ranking is a corner of Tokyo that Time Out calls “niana for bibliofils”. Jimb '%ch' is home to about 130 bookstores -- Time Out singles out Iseido Booksellers and Kitazawa Bookstor as excellent starting points for a day of book exploration and cafe culture.
Time Out's annual list is compiled by the nominations of the global network of its editors and writers. The elections are then listed according to criteria that include culture, community, life expectancy, food and drink, as well as what Time Out describes as the “that difficult feeling to determine of the existing one. ”
The biggest conclusion from Time Out's ranking this year is how many our neighborhoods are formed by, and for, their local communities”, said CNN Travel to brand travel editor Grace Beard.
Beard said this year's list highlights some more popular and more popular neighbourhoods, along with less talked-up destinations, " <x0" countries that the locals truly love and deserve as much attention as the main tourist centres of a town”.
Top 10 neighborhoods at Time Out's latest in 2025
1. Jimböch, Tokyo, Japan
2. Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium
3. Barra Funda, São Paulo, Brazil
4. Camberwell, London, UK
5. Avodals, Chicago, United States
6. Mullae-dong, Seoul, South Korea
7. Ménilmontant, Paris, France
8. Nakatsu, Osaka, Japan
9. Valila, Helsinki, Finland
10. Labonne, Akra, Ghana
