Qingtian 76 (青田七六)

The experience

A 1931 Japanese-Western hybrid house at No. 6, Lane 7, Qingtian Street — hence the name — built for Adachi Hitoshi, a professor at Taihoku Imperial University, and later the home of the geologist Ma Ting-ying. It stands in the densest surviving pocket of Japanese-era faculty housing in Taipei, a quiet grid of wooden homes and walled gardens behind Yongkang Street. The house now runs as a restaurant and tea room with its tatami rooms, verandah and garden intact.

The one professor's house on Qingtian Street you can actually walk inside.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.