VacationSelector

Bucharest or Tokyo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BucharestTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
BucharestTokyo
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance198 km5 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 23 points.23
BucharestTokyo
Score6790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6676,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4125
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 17 points.17
BucharestTokyo
Score4966
Museums within 10 km73302
Museums within 2 km of centre4052
Share of museums within 2 km %5517
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 33 points.33
BucharestTokyo
Score6295
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0176,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5413,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5344
Nightclubs within 4 km8058
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 22 points.22
BucharestTokyo
Score3658
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km133 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 3 points.3
BucharestTokyo
Score6871
Tourist attractions within 2 km4540
Park area within 2 km133 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km29
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestTokyo
Score6160
Notable places within 2 km130121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestTokyo
Score8570
Price level global40.962.4
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 1 points.1
BucharestTokyo
Score6364
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months10
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestTokyo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBucharestTokyo
Official languageRomanianJapanese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestTokyo
City population1,716,96114,264,798
People per km²7,5976,501
Museums within 10 km41191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre68125
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.