In Canada: Vancouver, BC. Just don’t go beyond the city limits.

Kingston, ON: if you can get past big box suburbia near the highway, the downtown is small and charming.

Montreal, QC is also very cool. Downtowns of major cities in Canada are generally very nice places to be, but outside there it depends on the city how sprawling the suburbs are.

I’ve never shopped at a Walmart in Japan. It’s really fun to visit.