What’s the most futuristic city you’ve ever been in?

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1. NYC feels like a futuristic dystopian nightmare. Anyway, I think Neom whenever thats finished will be the most insane futuristic city in the world.

2. Tokyo or Singapore

3. New York. Ive never left the Eastern US though

   Id imagine itd be Seattle, Vancouver, or Toronto as far as North America goes.

4. Kuwait City.

5. Probably Singapore. Too sterile for me though.

6. Singapore.

7. I’m curious, what made DC seem so futuristic?

8. [Singapore](https://www.e-architect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/supertrees-singapore-gardens-by-the-bay-h220917-ds1-520×347.jpg). I don’t even know if it’s close, I mean – so much of the architecture just felt straight from a sci-fi novel. The [skyline](https://www.cosentino.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Singapore-11-1536×979.jpg.webp) is insanely beautiful and modern. The subway is driveless, efficient, insanely clean and super easy to navigate.

   After that, I’d say it’s [Osaka](https://resources.matcha-jp.com/resize/720×2000/2019/08/06-83115.jpeg) – but it’s only futuristic in like a 1980’s Bladerunner sort of way.

   For America, I’d probably say Seattle cause of the way the Space Needle looks against the skyline.

9. Tokyo, Qatar, and Dubai definitely had a bit of the that Cyber Punk feel going on.

10. Singapore, talk about a well organized city. I first went back in 1999, and I was blown away by the ease of transportation and how so many hotels and malls were connected, you could spend a day shopping and eating without ever going outside. Also loved the blending of nature with city, and the lack of homelessness. Great city and great people.

11. Tokyo. Singapore is a close second. They both seem at least 20-30 years in the future compared to any Western city I’ve ever been in anywhere in the Americas and Europe.

    In the Americas, probably Vancouver.

    For the US, it’s hard to say. Maybe Seattle? It has a lot of the modern tech feel of San Francisco, but with newer buildings and a more purely urban feel. It has some cool futuristic structures. The Seattle Public Library, for example.

12. Singapore by far. And I live in Tokyo.

13. Singapore. Close second would be Shenzhen.

    Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Seoul have that 1980’s retro aesthetic going on. Shanghai still has a lot of it’s Minguo era buildigns to balance stuff out.

14. Singapore

15. Parts of Atlanta, the road system there is crazy.

16. Shanghai in 2019 was pretty cool.

17. Pittsburgh… But to be fair, I’ve never really travelled anywhere all that different from here.

18. Cities not sure…..but I have always been struck by how futuristic European trains and their transportation infrastructure is compared to the US. Sometimes it seems like a different world.

19. Dubai. Going to Singapore for New Years and can’t wait, based on the replies here looks like that’ll replace Dubai.

20. I would say either Dubai or Singapore. Parts of Tokyo, Osaka, and Shanghai also felt really futuristic.

21. Seoul

22. Seoul.

    Downtown Seoul, like Gangnam.

23. Seoul. In the US…..I don’t know.

24. Tokyo I’d say but my Hiroshima hotel had a robot helping out .

25. Detroit. They fast forwarded all the way to post apocalypse.

26. NYC probably, haven’t been to east Asia yet, and the European cities I’ve been to have mostly been more old-fashioned but in a charming way.

27. Coming from rural Iowa, probably Washington DC too. It was the subways for me, since I’d never been on any sort of public transportation besides a school bus before that.

28. Well, since I’ve been basically nowhere…

    Maybe Troy MI? I went to the mall there once and it looked so nice I felt out of place lol. And seconds after I made a joke about people being too rich to walk I came across the sky bridge or whatever they called it. Literally just a conveyor belt for people that connects the two sides of the mall.

29. Seoul and Seongnam in South Korea, why can’t our country be more efficient?!