I'm a huge Japanophile: if there's one other place I'd like to live, it's Tokyo. I must have been there seven or eight times, most recently just after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Anyway, EN is a gem on Hudson Street, serving real Japanese cuisine. It turns out that EN is a chain in Japan; there are a lot of branches making lovely bosky food in cosy neighbourhood locations. But their New York incarnation is grand in scale and ambition, with solid, warm interiors (not unlike if the Whitney were a Japanese restaurant, oddly) - a remarkable hybrid of this city, and the other one that I'd love to live in.

Handmade pasta in a former garage.

I could include a separate location for every room at the Met. Each visit is a year's worth of Art-absorbing.

The beauty of the light on the water, with a full view of the changing skyline, always awe inspiring.

For all book aficionados who dream of finding First editions and Rare books.