VacationSelector

Ghent or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

GhentTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 5 points.5
GhentTokyo
Score2621
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance32 km5 km
Water distance32 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 20 points.20
GhentTokyo
Score7090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7646,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4925
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
GhentTokyo
Score5866
Museums within 10 km24302
Museums within 2 km of centre2052
Share of museums within 2 km %8317
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 46 points.46
GhentTokyo
Score4995
Drinking venues within 4 km5706,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4463,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7844
Nightclubs within 4 km2658
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 24 points.24
GhentTokyo
Score3458
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8785
Park area within 2 km84 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
GhentTokyo
Score5071
Tourist attractions within 2 km1940
Park area within 2 km84 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 14 points.14
GhentTokyo
Score4660
Notable places within 2 km55121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 10 points.10
GhentTokyo
Score6070
Price level global76.262.4
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
GhentTokyo
Score5664
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentTokyo
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
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

MeasureGhentTokyo
Official languageFrench, German, DutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation12 m6 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentTokyo
City population272,65714,264,798
People per km²1,7286,501
Museums within 10 km30191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre83125
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.