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TawarayaElsewhere · Kyoto

At Tawaraya in Kyoto, a ryokan stay runs at the inn's pace

A central Kyoto ryokan with 18 rooms, where dinner and breakfast arrive in your room and the inn sets the rhythm.

Santiago MatatlánElsewhere · Oaxaca

Santiago Matatlán, the Oaxacan village that calls itself the world capital of mezcal

A village east of Mitla with a sign claiming the mezcal capital of the world, and the distilleries to prove it.

Sassi di MateraElsewhere · Matera

Matera emptied its caves in the 1950s and has been filling them again since

A town dug into a ravine in Basilicata, abandoned in the last century and now a place to stay.

See · London

Hamlet through Radiohead, a long-suppressed film restored and a Harlem director rediscovered

Three things to book across the next month, from a live band under the Barbican stage to a 35mm print.

See · London

Three evenings of music worth dressing for

A free-jazz orchestra in a Dalston room, English baroque in Marylebone and Handel under Wren's dome.

See · London

Three exhibitions that ask something of you

Nan Goldin at the Hayward, Amar Kanwar in Kensington Gardens and Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern.

See · London

New, quiet and hidden: three London addresses for the winter

A Victorian meat market turned museum, a reading room beside the Globe and a house lit only by candles.

See · London

A cellar, a spring and a livery lunch: three ways to leave the usual route

Rothschild wines in the Chilterns, hot-spring bathing in Bath and a roast beef lunch inside a City livery hall.

48 Hours, Slowly: Los Angeles, a church, a pizza bar and a canal walk48 Hours, Slowly · LA

48 Hours, Slowly: Los Angeles, a church, a pizza bar and a canal walk

Silver Lake, the Arts District and the beach, with as little driving as possible.

48 Hours, Slowly: London, with a carving trolley and a long Sunday lunch48 Hours, Slowly · London

48 Hours, Slowly: London, with a carving trolley and a long Sunday lunch

A first weekend, from Grosvenor Square to Portobello Road.

The Letter, every Sunday

London, edited down to what's worth your time.