Lonely Planet Six Degrees : Season 3

Traveller Toby Amies discovers a new generation of Tokyoites who are rejecting a life of salary-man slavery and transforming their city into a fantasy theme park. What is Tokyo? Whatever they want it to be.

Waking up from a century in the doldrums, the city that invented the concept of East meets West is doing what it does best - taking the best of both worlds and creating something greater than the sum of its parts. Traveller Asha Gill hooks up with six of its citizens to find out why this 2000 year-old-city is suddenly back on the radar again.

An Asian supercapital, a labyrinth, and a traffic jam rolled into one, Bangkok is a mash of the contemporary and the traditional, the sacred and the profane. Traveller Toby Amies goes bush-whacking in the ultimate man-made jungle.

Charming provincial backwater or thriving, multicultural metropolis? Traveller Asha Gill hooks up with a six-pack of Dubliners to find out why everyone’s talking up the Irish capital as Europe’s hottest ticket.

Traveller Asha Gill explores the fast-paced capital of Taiwan, a city shaping a new identity from its deep-rooted Chinese traditions, unique modern history and the remnants of its aboriginal past.

Shamelessly driven by the pursuit and celebration of beauty, Rio has nothing to prove in the good looks department. Its best assets are blatantly obvious: the beach, the mountains, the sun and its citizens. Traveller Toby Amies takes the pulse of the Marvellous City in the lead-up to Carnival.

A frontier town with a boom-and-bust mentality, Perth likes to brag it has more millionaires per head than anywhere else on earth. Traveller Asha Gill hooks up with a handful of locals who’ve found a slice of the good life in one of the most isolated cities on earth.

It took just a decade for Miami to morph from a capital of sleaze and a haven for sun wrinkled retirees into the hippest city in the US. Traveller Asha Gill takes a deep breath and plunges into the de facto capital of Latin America.