English tip. It is better English to say "It has been inexpensive", rather than "It has been cheap". Cheap implies poor quality while inexpensive relates to the cost and pricing. Another good video from our friend in Japan, Takashii;).
I just came back from Japan this week. It wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be and it's definitely cheaper than Norway. The airfare to Japan might push up your total price but if you're not a foodie, you can save a bundle on food by eating from 7-11. Yes, you can buy healthy food from a convenience store. The train fares are cheap in comparison to Europe, they go everywhere and run on time. I'd definitely recommend a visit.
7-11 in Japan is quite nice and different with nice bentos and a great selection of ice-cream! but convini food can be quite expensive, larger supermarkets in japan are fun to go to in the evening to grab some discounted bentos which taste great@@ShadyD365
The food in the 7-11, FamilyMart and Lawson is actually pretty good. We did eat out when we were in Japan recently but also did go plenty of times to a convenience store, since the food is actually suprisingly good quality.
20 years in Japan and I can tell you NOTHING in Japanese convenience stores is healthy besides the fruit and some of the nuts and chestnuts. The rice balls (onigiri) have unacceptable addictives except a few at Family Mart. No point in eating American-level crap when you come to a healthy food utopia like Japan.
I feel the Japanese government should work with the air lines to lower the flying part so visitors can actually spend money on things that are worth while in Japan. you are missing out if you eat at 7-11.... 😞
@@jazzbeats8168 believe or not, local Japanese sentiment toward visitor is not as positive as most people expected. While the business owners loves tourism but the local people don't want too many foreigners to overcrowd their street. Therefore the government has no incentives to boost tourism. It is already overly crowded.
00:29 🛫 For a 14-day Japan trip, estimated costs include $1,500-$2,000 for flights, $20/day for food, and $450 for accommodation. 01:40 🏨 A Canadian tourist spent $6,500 for 2 weeks, including a $2,100 round-trip flight and $2,000 for hotel in Shinjuku. 02:52 🍣 A couple spent $3,000 for 20 days, budgeting $20/day for food and utilizing train transportation for $10/day. 04:41 🚄 Another traveler spent around $4,000 for 20 days, including a $1,000 flight, hotels at $500 each, and budgeting $25/day for food. 06:26 💸 Honeymooners spent $5,000 for 11 days, getting first-class flights for $3,800 and varying hotel costs from $60 to $120/night. 07:38 🍜 Two travelers found Japan to be cheap, spending $80-$100/day for both on meals and enjoying a variety of experiences. 08:20 🇪🇺 A European visitor spent around €250 on a Japan Rail Pass, budgeted $40/day for food but usually spent less, totaling $3,000 for three weeks. 09:55 🌍 Nomad eSIM was introduced, offering convenience and affordability for international travelers, with a 100% off coupon code mentioned. 10:36 ✈ A traveler spent $1,500-$2,000 for a 14-day trip, including a $700 flight, Airbnb at $88-$95/night, and $30-$50/day for meals. 11:59 🚃 For a 30-day trip, estimated expenses were around $4,000, including a $1,000 flight, $50/night for accommodation, and $2,000 for food. 13:45 🍲 Daily expenses for meals ranged from $30 to $50, and overall spending for a 50-day trip was around $44,000, with a mix of flights and accommodation. 14:54 🍳 A traveler on a 9-day trip spent around $3,000, including a $1,100 flight, $250/night for accommodation, and $30-$50/day on meals. 15:50 🌏 For a 26-day trip, a couple spent $5,600, including $850 for flights, $40/night for accommodation, and an average of $20/day for food. 16:46 🍣 A 14-day trip cost around $5,000-$6,000, covering flights, accommodation, and various expenses, with an average daily food budget of $20. 17:00 🎥 The host invites viewers to suggest questions for future solo traveler interviews in Japan.
I was in Japan in september and didn't spend much on food and accommodation, I stayed in a Tokyo guesthouse with tatami mats for 150 dollars for 6 days. A bowl of ramen/udon/soba was usually 7 dollars which is super affordable. The only time when I went over budget was when I went shopping in Akihabara and bought some collectable electronics.
As someone who lives in Vancouver, Canada, which is one of the most expensive places in North America, I found my travel in Japan to be relatively inexpensive compared to what I'm used to at home. My round trip flight with Japan Airlines was only about $1200 cad and since I mostly stayed at hostels or B&B's my costs there was only about $10-20 per night. Food is super inexpensive compared to here so that was amazing because it's all so delicious. I brought about $3500 with me for my 18 day visit and even with everywhere I traveled and also buying gifts and souvenirs I still came home with about $700 of that left when I had expected to spend it all. I have loved both visits I have taken to Japan and fully plan to go there again soon, it's a beautiful country with so many wonderful places to visit and history to experience.
This channel is really so much fun to watch! Even for me who neither speaks Japanese nor has ever been to Japan - and I don't know if I ever will. Just love your videos! Thank you for making Japan so interesting!
I went went 1 month ago. 21 Days Plane Tickets: $1300 (two way trip) Hotels: $1500 total for 21 days ($71/day) Trains: $70 + $240 (2 Shinkanzen to Tokyo>Osaka and then Kyoto>Tokyo) Food: $25/day International Shipping: $450 for 15 boxes of merch and things
I was in Japan for two weeks last month - I spent $1500 cad or $1100 usd. That included $300 for a JR Pass (which saved me $700), $45 a night avereage for 3 star business hotels, food and drink. Pretty reasonable and much cheaper than North America. My flight cost me $250 as I was coming from Vietnam.
Flights from California are pretty cheap too. Im curious about the JR pass. I javent bought one in over ten years. How many days does a 300 dollar pass give you? I think ill for sure need one for my upcoming trip
@@ckreuzbichler i did hear a rumor regarding that about a month ago. I see the price hike has happened already. Thats a bummer. Since i need to buy two for my partner and i. Sigh. Ill have to see if its cost effective now.
It's $340 USD for 7 days, $544 USD for 14 and $680 USD for 21 days for the basic pass. I would say it's worth it if you're taking the bullet train more than once on your trip, otherwise just paying for local trains, subways and buses is going to be cheaper. I'm going for 13 days, plus 2 for flying there and back, and I'm getting a 7 day pass for the first week since I'm going to be traveling through parts of the main island, and then flying to Hokkaido and then back to Tokyo before flying home
This just shows that you can live the same first world lifestyle for much *cheaper* in countries like Japan than it is here in America; makes me wanna move there even *more* . Alas, I still haven't been able to go outside *America* yet; but I'm *Hellbent* on going to Japan sometime fairly soon!
First time i went spent like 3k USD including Plane tickets, i stayed on an Airbnb that was like 1000-1200 Yen a night, that was before all the regulations in Japan and you could get some really cheap places to stay. Now only the plane ticket is like 1500-200 USD depending the season and AIrbnb is not as cheap as it used to be and have less to choose from.
when I went to japan straight out of highschool for a holiday with friends we were on a shoestring budget of $1200 for 2 weeks Granted this was 10 years ago but boy did we scrimp for our experience. So many burgers flipped lol
Cheap or expensive is relative. To southeast countries,Japan is more "expensive" but Japan has definitely become more affordable now compared to in the past. I am from Indonesia and my budget in Japan was about 2k USD for 14 days and it's enough for everything including flight which cost maybe 800 USD.
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Flight is the most expensive part, other than that Japan is not as expensive as it used to be. Before the pandemic and all the inflation everywhere food and other things used to be more expensive in Japan than in my country, now is the other way around. Plane ticket did skyrocketed in price everywhere though. Also if you are getting paid in USD or EUR, Japan is really cheap right now.
What do you mean "as it used to be"? It's always been cheap. Rent and property are your biggest worries. After that food and transport not so bad. Lived 16 years total in Japan. Been out 16 too. last year was there and a slight price increase. the old 180yen coffee at Doutour is now 220 and 350 for a larger cup which they never really had before. Yes. Plane fare increased. For 30 years I could get back and forth for $1100 then in 2023 it were 1800 and now even a bit more.
@@michaelhunt364 I''m saying this from a point of view of a tourist, i visted Japan before the pandemic and i could get food and other things cheaper than in Japan, now after all the inflation over here, the prices in Japan, even after they have risen, are cheaper compared to before the pandemic. Also for everyone earning in US dollars, excluding air tickets, Japan is now way cheaper than it was before, remember that before the Pandemic the USD to Yen conversion was almost 1usd to 100 Yen, now is 1 to 150
Alright. Here we go. Flight: $2,700 - Delta Hotel: $184 a night average Transporation: $40 a day (combo public and taxi) Food: $60 a day Total for 2 weeks: ~ $6,700 per person.
Another note on transportation, most of these people are only staying in one area. If you want to go to other cities you'll probably have to take the bullet train which is close to 170 one-way. I wanted to get the JR Rail pass, but they increased the prices as of this year :( - just something to keep in mind!
Im arrived at japan 2 days after this video posted. Btw me and my wife quite lucky, our total soend for both of us as couple probably around $2500 . ticket plane only around $700 to go and back from Japan (this is for both of us total) , we arrived at Osaka and spent $20 a night there for five days , one night sleep in the bus, and the next 6 days around $50 airbnb in tokyo. The rest is for train, food and shopping
Ohhh so interesting topic!! We are based in Finland and we are also trying to do some reportages of the normal life of this days 🤯😮 Always more expensive 😢
March to April 2023: 20 Days from Germany to Japan, spent around 3500€ (With Economy Flight). Next trip to Japan ist from April to May 2024, total cost right now ist about 4500€ (Business Flight alone is 3000€), only thing missing is transit, food and activities, we're ready to spent around 7500€ in total for each person.
My expenses for 21 days : hotel in average 40-55 dollars per person a day. food 15-20 dollars plus 20 dollars in bars for espresso or shot of booze if necessary. airflight 1400- 2 ways. suvenirs including yukata with jacket and belt 220 usd plus norens, tea sets etc another 200 usd. museums 100-150 dollars. JR depends on needs and sizes of ur baggage. I did not spend my suica card 5000 yen but I walked a lot in Tokyo, Kyoto abd Osaka. Started to learn Japanese. Why u stil use kaji? it's sadistic but looks beautiful )). it was Sakura season 2023
back in 2019, went Fukuoka Hokkaido 11days trip with my 2 other friends, we spent about 2800 SGD each person. for me it's about my 1 month salary, but i got to say really worth it. and really looking forward to my next Japan trip. love Japan~
This is great content. Learning a lot about Japan. I now know that where I live it is very very expensive. To eat out would cost easily $60 a day for one person without drinking. To know you could get by there with $25 a day is amazing.
I went to Japan in March and found it to be fairly inexpensive.. .then again I was coming from California so anything really seems cheaper. Plus the USD is strong against the Yen right now. The hotel was about $70 a night, the flights were $815 round trip on United (granted we bought them before the country was fully open though).
food is surprisingly cheap. You can get like meals for $5 from convenience stores. Whereas $5 at a convenience store in Australia is maybe a small bag of chips and a chocolate bar. A sandwich alone is going to be going near $8 lol
@@GameFuMaster We went to sushi bars and got a whole board of sashimi for $9. At the fish market I got whole bowl of eel for $6. That's unheard of in the US.
I’d fly to tokyo just 2 have a dinner with the woman who canceled her returntrip to pay for an apartment/shared house tbh. The way she said «And I had no reason to return» hit me! Love the way she reasons & talk, and the way she looks 😊 (I mean:, come on, lets not pretend she’s not stunningly beautiful aswell 😅)
I was in Japan for a whole month in July 2023, costed me total $3,000 to spend really comfortably like buying whatever I wanted, eating what I want, and traveling all across Japan through JR pass and local fees of trains and buses that the pass didn't cover. It is definitely worth the money to spend a vacation there.
@@David-ue7vv 2000 a night.. ahahaha. a regular hotel in japan costs around 40-50 bucks per night. Above average it is 100, which is still less than in any European country (or American). And if you take hostels its 20.
I was living there three years ago, when the yen was much stronger than it is now, and I still felt like the things that tourists would care about like food, attractions, and hotels were cheap. They may be cheaper now, but they were already cheaper than in the US by a long shot. Many hotels were actually dirt cheap then because no one was traveling!
I did a 3 month trip to Japan from February 8th till May 1st. I spent a little over 10,000$. It was an amazing trip, as much as I would have preferred to spend that 10,000 on a way to make money online so I could live in Japan and travel while making USD$, it was such a memorable trip. As much as I want to go back to Japan as soon as possible, until I can find a way to make more money, I cannot go back to Japan.
thats great , my dream is to visit Japan in next 5 years , we have a newborn baby so i will wait him to grow up more so we would have less problems but yes at least 10k£ for 2-3 weeks is ideal for us ) good luck
My flight was the most expensive part which was $1800 USD, every city I stayed in my hotel was between $30-$50 a night in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. The JR railpass was expensive about $338 USD. The trains and food was very affordable and I tried to buy gifts from local places instead of tourist spots. Altogether it cost me around $3000
We are planning our Spring 2024 trip and we are NOT finding these hotel prices. At least not in a high demand area . We have had to go into less desirable areas to find a 3 star for $250 USD per night. That was using a VPN to look like we are already in Japan.
Last year I lived in Japan for 3 months and I paid for monthly furnish apartment for $1300. I spent $8500 total in the spam of 3 months including internet data, shopping, food and transportation. Not including flight because I paid with my points in credit cards. I don’t drink alcohol or juices (anything with sugar).
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Takashii San I watched your video four couple days and I enjoy it. It gives me some trivial informations about Japan that rarely people know especially foreigners. Anddd I’ve subscribed your channel yesterday😊
We spent two weeks in Japan and found it generally cheaper than the USA, though not as cheap as much of China. We stayed in mid-range hotels rather than our normal four star hotels we stayed at in the US. The rooms tended to be smaller but the facilities were just as good - for less money. Food in Japan is relatively cheap depending on what you eat, but in the US helpings are much, much bigger.😁
I went to Japan last month for 14 days. My airline from the Philippines is $267 via Zipairrrr!! My accomodation from 4 different hotels is about $62/night. Food around 1.5k-2k yen per day or $10-13 per day. Transpo is probably the same as food plus the train from Narita to Tokyo around 2.4k yen per way. Then train from Tokyo to Nikko probably around 2.5k yen per way. And a bus going to Fujikawaguchiko, around 2k yen per way. In total, about $1,700.
Great segment. I do a lot of traveling, so I'm always looking for great deals. I managed to keep our daily average in Japan to under $100US per day. That includes food, accommodations and transportation. The only thing that's non-negotiable is the Shinkansen - which goes anywhere from $50-$200 one way depending on where/when you're going. Also, outside of big cities things get a lot cheaper. Food and buses in the countryside were less than $20 a day combined!
Great video very informational while fun at the same time, hearing from real tourists rather than someone telling me feels more genuine and more trustable
I went to Tokyo for my birthday during cherry blossom season (end of March), which is the most expensive time to go, however, I’m blessed because I’m a U.S. Based Flight attendant so I only payed taxes for the international country I’m flying to (obviously being Japan), which would be about $500 round trip and I was able to get first class. I only could stay for 4 days but my hotel was about $500 for those 4 days and my hotel included free breakfast, I ate at 7Eleven and occasionally had ramen and other street food. I also went out to the club scene and had some drinks with friends and only did a lil but of shopping + transportation of Uber and trains. I also did a couple of tourist attractions. All in all, i think I spent about just under $1000. Best gift to myself I’ve ever experienced.
I used to stay in Japan a couple of times a year, Park Hyatt in Shinjuku and similar decent hotels elsewhere. Daily would be £350 or so for the hotel, £100+ a day for food and drinks and £50+ a day for travel. However, that same hotel is now about £1000+ a day and frankly not worth it.
No, I live in Malta and I was in Japan 2 months ago, and I can tell that Japan is cheaper than Malta Recently I was in Crete and even there I spend more than in Japan 🤣
Japan is cheap. food an accommodation are cheaper than european and american cities . yen is also weak now. the only thing thats expensive is the flight since these people are coming from north america.
We came in April for two weeks and initial cost was about £4000 each for flights, hotels, JR pass. We did travel a lot though, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yudanaka. This didn't include food which we didn't find expensive anyway. We saved for almost a year for it.
Glad to see some dutchies, Dankjewel!! I am a solo traveler myself and, my first country Ive visited alone was Switzerland. I spent the prices mentioned just on 4 days in CH, so be aware for anyone who wants to go I would defintently save. For solo travelers, could you ask how good is it to get around and safety in Japan? For me I have not been yet but I feel the biggest issue would be language, I know some basic phrases but only those, so I want to know how big of an issue is it for someone who is not a native Japanese speaker. Much love from the United States!
I travelled by myself in Japan and it's super safe. I 100% reccomend it. If you are worried about the language, there is a translation app called PAPAGO (a bird is their mascot) that I used both while living in Korea and visiting Japan that is much more suited to translation than google translate. I could take pictures of signs and get it translated immediately, and even type what I wanted to say and show it to someone (ex. train ticket person) and I never had any misunderstandings.
I was alone in japan this summer for 2 weeks. you'll manage with english. hotel reception speak enough english for the things you need. restaurants often almost always have english menus or just multiple languages in one menu. worst case most menus also have pictures of the dishes so thats also helpfull. signs at train stations are always in japanese and roman letters even chinese and korean sometimes. so you'll definately manage. just dont expect to have extensive talks with natives because for that their english is not enough/very bad except you might go to lets say bars which are known to have a lof foreigners where its more likely to meet good english speaking natives which wana mingle. I literaly speak no japanese except for arigato and I managed fairly well. Safety wise I think theres nothing to worry about, pretty common knowledge that Japan is one of the safest places on the world. Getting around is also super easy. I just used google maps which will show you all the subway and their schedule. it works really great and also includes shinkansen and all other trains. would recommend buying the JR pass if you're planning to travel a lot. check out "Japan official travel app". can also be used for train schedules and it shows you also the prices of the rides including shinkasen. so you can check out first if all your planed rides are cheaper to buy individually or if JR Pass is the better option, since the JR Pass got quite more expensive recently. and its only worth it when using the shinkansen cause those are the expensive rides. subway and train within the cities are cheap and neglectable. hope you enjoyed switzerland and have fun in Japan!
I bought a SB cup for my friend. It was 4,400 yen and American dollar wise, it was 29 bucks. So I took advantage lots because I ate and bought lot of cheap stuff. Something that was, like, 30 bucks is 19 USD.
Eating breakfast at Lawson's, Family Mart or 7-Eleven is the most economical and effective way of traveling in Japan. They are usually open very early in the morning and it's very inexpensive and yummy.
Prices all around were pretty spot on, I was in Japan from Oct26th to Nov 3rd. I spent around $2500-$3000 usd for my trip and most of it was Flight + Hotel. I Would have spent more on gifts and random things but my sister had a suitcase full of stuff for me to take home and I didn't feel like bringing more than 2 checked in luggages. (Price would have been $150 for the third suitcase)
Yeah, pretty much my view is whatever price it was for the Flight, a make it a fun challenge to match that price when I go to Tokyo. But of course, it's always good to bring an extra $500-$1000 in case you lose your money in some unfortunate way or want to buy lots of things.
Im from Germany. Was in Tokyo 1 month ago for a week. Everything (!) I bought or looked up, from breakfast to a subway ticket to a Hotelroom to a movie theatre to a pizza, was always 2-3€ cheaper. Good example: Starbucks Venti Cafe latte cost me around 3,50€ there, in Germany it’s around 5,80. And that difference I experienced basically with every product
Hi Takashi....my trip to Japan cost approx £3,500 for 14 days. We went to Tokyo, Kyoto. Hiroshima & Osaka. Food is cheap (and great!). We had JR Pass which helped with the rail costs as we were also attending the Rugby World Cup so various trains were covered by the JR Pass. I took one taxi from Haneda to Tokyo (Minato) because trains weren't running, which was very expensive and cost me £100. Exchange rate may help reduce the cost if you can go when the rates are favourable. All in all a fantastic country, culture and people. I loved it & will be back soon..! Idea for content - what western food have Japanese tried and liked or disliked...👍🍜
Thanks for sharing your costs, a shame there weren't any British travellers in the video as it would've been useful to gauge how many pennies I'll need to save/spend
I normally spend a couple of hundred quid in a week/ten days and thats eating well but I stay with wifes family. You shouldn't have any problem finding a business hotel for around 60 quid a night. That would be small but very clean
Just came back two weeks ago. My fiancé and I went to Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Sapporo, Otaru, and Jozankei. It’s true that the air fare is the most expensive part of the trip. Flew with ANA for $2,500 (2 round trip), including Japan domestic flights. I think we spent about $7,000 for two people. This is my second time in Japan. We love this place so much. Just make sure you do your research before going.
I have happened to travel to Japan in the periods when 100Y was 1USD. In 1997 I was a poor high school student on a sponsored cultural exchange and remember counting the 100Y sodas I could buy while still trying to save enough for gifts to bring home. Japan felt very expensive to me. Today, Even in the Midwest, a cheap motel starts between $100-150 a night, in California you can’t get a decent ramen for less than $20 out the door (tax and tip). When I see the nominal prices in Japan haven’t changed too much in 20 years but meanwhile the exchange rate is very USD favorable, it makes Japan feel like an absolute bargain for what you get.
Absolutely true. I had the same experience. Lived there in 1997 also. I would spend 1000 Yen on a meal and it would cost me $10. Now that meal is the same 1000 Yen as prices are largely stagnant, yet it only costs me $7 now. And yet my income has skyrocketed since 1997. From this perspective, Japan is on sale now. It breaks our old connotation of it being an expensive place. Most everything feels super affordable.
5:31 Zip does NOT have first class. They don't even have business class. Instead, they have business class-style seats with the service of an ultra low cost airline. You need to pay to rent a pillow and blanket, if you want it. You need to pay for food, drinks, and luggage. You don't even have a separate check-in counter, you stand in the economy line. It is a Spirit Airlines customer service experience, in a JAL business class lie-flat seat. It is a great value, but it is not "first class" in any sense of the word.
so i just got back from japan this was my breakdown cost 2,240 delta comfort, spent 1,200 on airbnb i stayed in two of them one in sumida city for the whole trip and 2 days in lake kawaguchiko. after that i spent about 2,400 with food, drinks, omiyage. i am i huge video game nerd so i bought the original xbox in the box, the original gameboy and a few games, and a very expensive G shock. after i bought the expensive stuff i wanted and all the omiyage it became cheap. so roughly 5-6k
I spent around $4,500 for 10 days in Japan just this past October. I'd break it down as such: * Plane tickets: $2,500 - this included a 1-day layover in Spain, so a little extra in hostel fees but got to explore Madrid. * Food: $150 - was originally $300 but we were too busy to eat lol. Konbini food is a god-send. * Lodgings: $350 - an average of $70 per day. One Airbnb we stayed at was literally next door to Nijo-jo in Kyoto, so what a score! * Regular transportation: $140 - we moved all over the place in Osaka, Nara, Kyoto and Tokyo. * Shinkansen tickets: $130 - one-way from Kyoto to Tokyo. We splurged and took the green car, so it could have been a little cheaper, but oh so worth it. * Wifi rental: $80. You need this or an eSIM. No negotiation room here. Roaming charges were way too high to even consider. * Fun budget: $800 - split between entry fees, souvenirs and gacha machines. Seriously, those things are addictive. * Extra stuff: $300 - non-budgeted buys, but stuff I just had to get. Truth be told I actually budgeted $5k, but ended up bringing some money back, even though we went full-out the last 3 days. Not cheap by any measure but not bank-breaking either. Already started saving up for round 2.
1000-1200$ per week + 1000$ flight + 700$ souvenirs Hotel 60$ transport+fee for museum and so on 45$ food 30$ =150$ per day Single trip across the country with train/bus/rental car.
I did a solo trip to Japan right after they opened in Nov 2022. For a 2 week trip it was about $2200 USD all-in including a direct flight from the east coast USA and a JR Pass. I stayed in an onsen hotel in middle of each city I visited (Ginza Tokyo, 3 blocks from Ebisubashi Osaka, and 1 block from Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima) About $1000 of it was just for food, which included six Michelin Starred restaurants. I'm quite the foodie, so my food budget was actually unlimited, but the restaurants are very affordable in Japan as a whole. I wasn't on any set budget for this trip, but if I was, I think I could've done this trip for under $700 for 2 weeks, using budget hotels without onsens, and no Michelin Starred restaurants.
I bought a ticket to Japan for $700 with Singapore airlines out of LAX and my accommodations for 12 days was about $90 a day ($1,100). So far just getting to Japan and having a place to stay has totaled $1,800. I’m visiting in February and I’m expecting to spend another $1,000 or so 🇯🇵 - a hopeful budget of $2,800 for 12 days!! (that might get pushed to $3,000 if I have too much fun 😅)
@@vinceee_r And considering the USD to Yen rates, I’m definitely overshooting spending anything close to 1k in activities and food! Japan is much cheaper than people think if you plan accordingly (especially from the US). I could not believe some of these responses 😳
We payed around 7000€ from germany with a family of 3 (kid 3year old). Not including souveniers. But everything else. 2 week jr pass, fuji climb and overnightstay for one. One week kyushu, one week osaka, one week tokyo. The flight makes japan expensive. All the rest is cheap
Japan being expensive is pretty much a myth. Another thing to add is that Tokyo is more expensive than pretty much everywhere else. My last trip was taking trains from Osaka all the way to Beppu and stopping at almost every stop along the way. You really notice the prices drop a lot.
@@GinJ1337 it wasn't myth 3 years ago, the Japanese yen is basicaly going down the crapper losing 50% of its value over the last 3 years, that's why Japan is now cheap
@@askeladd60 I'm traveling to Japan every year since 10 years, the exchange rate to euro fluctuated between 100 and 165 in that time. it was always cheap. being able to eat ramen at 900 yen and a rate of 100 = 9 Euro has always been cheaper than eating out in central and western Europe 😅. more like 20 Euro there. it's just that now it's exceptionally cheap.
How. Do. People. Have. So. Much. Money? I’m guessing finding a relationship does a lot for saving up money? But for someone like me who is not in a relationship or have family that can help, traveling to Japan just seems impossible at this point. Which is heartbreaking. I know I would work hard to be a kind visitor and want to know more about the place too. But I still cannot do with the hand I have been dealt…
If you haven’t noticed by now, Takashi doesn’t interview totally random people. A lot of the people he interviews are fellow content creators who know eachother through expat social circles
Don't live in a shi(thole country. I had around the same budget for 2 weeks in Japan (3500€), just have a good job and save money. That's not complicated
an avarage income in a developed economy can surely allow you to go, depending on many factors you might need to save for one year up to some depending on your dedication, there are a lot of financial mistakes not to do including financing everything and living beyond ones means, I'm not addressing you specifically ofc, I don't know your background and I wouldn't judge you regardless
saving is the biggest thing. you can make a lot of money but if you cant save it, its a waste. i myself have a good paying job but the economy being what it is im slowly saving with a goal to visit japan with a friend in Jan 2025. we both are planning a budget of $3500 US each not including flight with a goal of 5 weeks.
Western Australia here..just scored plane tickets for $900 aud. Looking at $70 a night accommodation. Looking forward to a fair priced holiday in beautiful Japan in may
In Japan I want fabric shopping the most. Not only influenced brand Uniqlo. The reason why I prefer Uniqlo when I need inner-things : its fabric is persistently strong like new and easy to be removed any stain. •°•📔📕 I meant sophiscated and sensitive good quality cloth(or clothe or clothing-__-;), knitt and sometimes outer for cold winter. (After being driver outers not so much needed for myself) I just wish I spent huge money in Japan once. 💛🧸
Been there 9 times now. Depends on what city you are in the US, but lowest Ive paid for flights is $400, most is $800. No reason to pay more than that economy. Hotel / AirBNB should be about $50-60 a night in the greater Tokyo area. You're gonna pay more in Shinjuku or Shibuya, but you're gonna take a train somewhere so may as well stay in an less expensive area. $7-10 a day for the trains. Eating out a few times but mostly grocery shopping / 711 can get you food at about $10-20 a day. Just be smart.
I came from Switzerland and been living here in Tokyo for almost a decade. One of the reason why I love Japan is because it's very affordable...everything is much cheaper than my own country ! I can even buy 2 houses in here ( one in Tokyo, the other is in rural area ). I absolutely would NEVER be able to do that in my country!
@@azabujuban-hito-dakeI mean, sure, but that's Monaco, which is famous for having a lot of millionaires. It is literally one of the most expensive cities in the world (according to the internet, it is the most expensive in real estate prices), so that by no means makes Switzerland cheap.
@@Chazzmatazz yeah i get you, i'm single and still prefer a private room even if i have to pay more for it. Still you can find some cheaper than 100USD/night Hotels and good location. You can get a room in an APA Hotel for like 40-45 USD on good locations.
@@Feljo Wow. That seems much more accessible than even domestic US travel in places like California, NYC or Orlando. Might need to put Japan into the "doable" destinations instead of "wish list"
My cost this August for 14 days as a Canadian soloing - Tokyo, Nikko, Hakone, Kawaguchiko, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Nagoya. Flight: $1200 Roundtrip Hotel $1450 Train/buses/boat trips around lakes: $580 (JR PASS) + $200 for non-covered JR Food: $1000 (Did 2 Steak experiences which was like $200 each, and $70 Michelin star Tonkatsu place.) otherwise my cost would've been 500ish. Buying water walking around added up a lot lol. Drinking: $640+ Misc - Temples, gardens, etc: $60? Total: 5,130 -> 557000 YEN.
It can be, probably just not the time you’d like to go. If you’d like to go in late February you can do two weeks for about $1250 round trip, $440 for plane tickets, $400 on cheap hotels $160 for food and $50 for transit $100 for entertainment, and $100 for souvenirs this is only if you’ll stay in Tokyo and are from the few locations that zipair flys to.
so good, i love japan and every year for sure i have go to japan for 2 person a week i alway spend $6000 SGD and the mosh expenses my trip to japan with my child and grand child about 7 person i spends around $17.000k SGD in 2 weeks
Was in Japan a few days ago. I was hoping it would be cheap but it was I would say 20-30% off more than usual. I honestly thought it would be 40-60% off just because the way everyone talks about how “cheap” it is. Food: $200-260 for 2 a day Hotel: $250 a night per hotel 3star-4.5star Shinkansen: $500 round trip Bus, train, taxi, souvenirs, treats/snacks, tip ($5 per restaurant or bar don’t be cheap) etc etc. so I was hoping it would be cheap but man lol I don’t think that’s cheap like everyone makes it seem
Food can be definitely remarkably cheaper than the US, went to a random restaurant and spent under $13 for a great meal, alcohol is so cheap! Nowadays at home getting fast food can rack up to $30 for two people
Tokyo is the most expensive city in Japan, but even though much cheaper than USA like NY/Boston/Miami/LA/SanDiego. Specially food! Good healthy food for less than USD15.
I just came back from a full month long trip in Japan (31 days). All expenses, including souvenirs cost me 6000$ CAD. I think if I stayed in Tokyo, I would have saved a good 1000$. The JR pass is expensive and is worth it if you go to other big cities but you don't need it at all if you plan on staying in Tokyo only. The Suica card is good enough. Food in Japan is ridiculously inexpensive.
further proof Air Canada is hilarious. I took a business flight from Vancouver to Ottawa and was offered a hot towel and a package of nuts. Thank God work paid for it.
A couple with a Toddler comes to about 10k CAD 4500 total for flights 1500 for Airbnb taxi/metro 500 food 100-150 per day rest 800-1000 on clothes & souvenirs total 21 days
Hey it's Tori Peebs! I love her racoon vids but i thought she lived in Japan and this vid was about tourists 🤔. Ticket prices can vary i got a round trip from SF to Tokyo for $650. I would say unless you want a tiny room or be stuck in the suburbs accommodation is going to be around $50 a day for something "decent or mid-range" in the city.
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English tip. It is better English to say "It has been inexpensive", rather than "It has been cheap". Cheap implies poor quality while inexpensive relates to the cost and pricing.
Another good video from our friend in Japan, Takashii;).
I just came back from Japan this week. It wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be and it's definitely cheaper than Norway. The airfare to Japan might push up your total price but if you're not a foodie, you can save a bundle on food by eating from 7-11. Yes, you can buy healthy food from a convenience store. The train fares are cheap in comparison to Europe, they go everywhere and run on time.
I'd definitely recommend a visit.
7-11 in Japan is quite nice and different with nice bentos and a great selection of ice-cream! but convini food can be quite expensive, larger supermarkets in japan are fun to go to in the evening to grab some discounted bentos which taste great@@ShadyD365
The food in the 7-11, FamilyMart and Lawson is actually pretty good. We did eat out when we were in Japan recently but also did go plenty of times to a convenience store, since the food is actually suprisingly good quality.
20 years in Japan and I can tell you NOTHING in Japanese convenience stores is healthy besides the fruit and some of the nuts and chestnuts. The rice balls (onigiri) have unacceptable addictives except a few at Family Mart. No point in eating American-level crap when you come to a healthy food utopia like Japan.
I feel the Japanese government should work with the air lines to lower the flying part so visitors can actually spend money on things that are worth while in Japan. you are missing out if you eat at 7-11.... 😞
@@jazzbeats8168 believe or not, local Japanese sentiment toward visitor is not as positive as most people expected. While the business owners loves tourism but the local people don't want too many foreigners to overcrowd their street. Therefore the government has no incentives to boost tourism. It is already overly crowded.
00:29 🛫 For a 14-day Japan trip, estimated costs include $1,500-$2,000 for flights, $20/day for food, and $450 for accommodation.
01:40 🏨 A Canadian tourist spent $6,500 for 2 weeks, including a $2,100 round-trip flight and $2,000 for hotel in Shinjuku.
02:52 🍣 A couple spent $3,000 for 20 days, budgeting $20/day for food and utilizing train transportation for $10/day.
04:41 🚄 Another traveler spent around $4,000 for 20 days, including a $1,000 flight, hotels at $500 each, and budgeting $25/day for food.
06:26 💸 Honeymooners spent $5,000 for 11 days, getting first-class flights for $3,800 and varying hotel costs from $60 to $120/night.
07:38 🍜 Two travelers found Japan to be cheap, spending $80-$100/day for both on meals and enjoying a variety of experiences.
08:20 🇪🇺 A European visitor spent around €250 on a Japan Rail Pass, budgeted $40/day for food but usually spent less, totaling $3,000 for three weeks.
09:55 🌍 Nomad eSIM was introduced, offering convenience and affordability for international travelers, with a 100% off coupon code mentioned.
10:36 ✈ A traveler spent $1,500-$2,000 for a 14-day trip, including a $700 flight, Airbnb at $88-$95/night, and $30-$50/day for meals.
11:59 🚃 For a 30-day trip, estimated expenses were around $4,000, including a $1,000 flight, $50/night for accommodation, and $2,000 for food.
13:45 🍲 Daily expenses for meals ranged from $30 to $50, and overall spending for a 50-day trip was around $44,000, with a mix of flights and accommodation.
14:54 🍳 A traveler on a 9-day trip spent around $3,000, including a $1,100 flight, $250/night for accommodation, and $30-$50/day on meals.
15:50 🌏 For a 26-day trip, a couple spent $5,600, including $850 for flights, $40/night for accommodation, and an average of $20/day for food.
16:46 🍣 A 14-day trip cost around $5,000-$6,000, covering flights, accommodation, and various expenses, with an average daily food budget of $20.
17:00 🎥 The host invites viewers to suggest questions for future solo traveler interviews in Japan.
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I was in Japan in september and didn't spend much on food and accommodation, I stayed in a Tokyo guesthouse with tatami mats for 150 dollars for 6 days. A bowl of ramen/udon/soba was usually 7 dollars which is super affordable. The only time when I went over budget was when I went shopping in Akihabara and bought some collectable electronics.
As someone who lives in Vancouver, Canada, which is one of the most expensive places in North America, I found my travel in Japan to be relatively inexpensive compared to what I'm used to at home. My round trip flight with Japan Airlines was only about $1200 cad and since I mostly stayed at hostels or B&B's my costs there was only about $10-20 per night. Food is super inexpensive compared to here so that was amazing because it's all so delicious. I brought about $3500 with me for my 18 day visit and even with everywhere I traveled and also buying gifts and souvenirs I still came home with about $700 of that left when I had expected to spend it all. I have loved both visits I have taken to Japan and fully plan to go there again soon, it's a beautiful country with so many wonderful places to visit and history to experience.
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This channel is really so much fun to watch! Even for me who neither speaks Japanese nor has ever been to Japan - and I don't know if I ever will. Just love your videos! Thank you for making Japan so interesting!
I went went 1 month ago.
21 Days
Plane Tickets: $1300 (two way trip)
Hotels: $1500 total for 21 days ($71/day)
Trains: $70 + $240 (2 Shinkanzen to Tokyo>Osaka and then Kyoto>Tokyo)
Food: $25/day
International Shipping: $450 for 15 boxes of merch and things
I was in Japan for two weeks last month - I spent $1500 cad or $1100 usd. That included $300 for a JR Pass (which saved me $700), $45 a night avereage for 3 star business hotels, food and drink. Pretty reasonable and much cheaper than North America. My flight cost me $250 as I was coming from Vietnam.
Flights from California are pretty cheap too. Im curious about the JR pass. I javent bought one in over ten years. How many days does a 300 dollar pass give you? I think ill for sure need one for my upcoming trip
@@MonkeyHero JR passes got more expensive by some up to 70% iirc so you need to check whether it would then be worth your money
@@ckreuzbichler i did hear a rumor regarding that about a month ago. I see the price hike has happened already. Thats a bummer. Since i need to buy two for my partner and i. Sigh. Ill have to see if its cost effective now.
No doubt, eh!? I just went back to Ontario after 5 years this Summer and was floored by how grotesquely high the cost of living was!!
It's $340 USD for 7 days, $544 USD for 14 and $680 USD for 21 days for the basic pass. I would say it's worth it if you're taking the bullet train more than once on your trip, otherwise just paying for local trains, subways and buses is going to be cheaper. I'm going for 13 days, plus 2 for flying there and back, and I'm getting a 7 day pass for the first week since I'm going to be traveling through parts of the main island, and then flying to Hokkaido and then back to Tokyo before flying home
How much did you spend in Japan?
If you came to Japan before,
Please lmk in the comments!
This just shows that you can live the same first world lifestyle for much *cheaper* in countries like Japan than it is here in America; makes me wanna move there even *more* . Alas, I still haven't been able to go outside *America* yet; but I'm *Hellbent* on going to Japan sometime fairly soon!
I will visit next September. Been saving up 😅
First time i went spent like 3k USD including Plane tickets, i stayed on an Airbnb that was like 1000-1200 Yen a night, that was before all the regulations in Japan and you could get some really cheap places to stay.
Now only the plane ticket is like 1500-200 USD depending the season and AIrbnb is not as cheap as it used to be and have less to choose from.
It really expensive compared to Singapore
when I went to japan straight out of highschool for a holiday with friends we were on a shoestring budget of $1200 for 2 weeks
Granted this was 10 years ago but boy did we scrimp for our experience. So many burgers flipped lol
Cheap or expensive is relative. To southeast countries,Japan is more "expensive" but Japan has definitely become more affordable now compared to in the past.
I am from Indonesia and my budget in Japan was about 2k USD for 14 days and it's enough for everything including flight which cost maybe 800 USD.
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@@ramasyaks6077 di Tokyo,Osaka,Kyoto om. Enggak ke disney world/sea dan universal studios karena mahal 🤣😅
@@jefri4176 buahaha iyaa aku juga ga seberapa suka Disneyland
aku lebih suka fashion, art & sering foto² mungkin😂. paling kalo kesana beli banyak souvenir buat dirumah
Flight is the most expensive part, other than that Japan is not as expensive as it used to be. Before the pandemic and all the inflation everywhere food and other things used to be more expensive in Japan than in my country, now is the other way around. Plane ticket did skyrocketed in price everywhere though.
Also if you are getting paid in USD or EUR, Japan is really cheap right now.
What do you mean "as it used to be"? It's always been cheap. Rent and property are your biggest worries. After that food and transport not so bad. Lived 16 years total in Japan. Been out 16 too. last year was there and a slight price increase. the old 180yen coffee at Doutour is now 220 and 350 for a larger cup which they never really had before. Yes. Plane fare increased. For 30 years I could get back and forth for $1100 then in 2023 it were 1800 and now even a bit more.
@@michaelhunt364 I''m saying this from a point of view of a tourist, i visted Japan before the pandemic and i could get food and other things cheaper than in Japan, now after all the inflation over here, the prices in Japan, even after they have risen, are cheaper compared to before the pandemic.
Also for everyone earning in US dollars, excluding air tickets, Japan is now way cheaper than it was before, remember that before the Pandemic the USD to Yen conversion was almost 1usd to 100 Yen, now is 1 to 150
I'm going to Japan in April, so your videos are extremely helpful/ educational. Thank you for making them!
have fun!
@@suzanne1557 lmao thank you. I'm about to board my first flight to Tokyo. You have real good timing
How was your trip?
@@CHIRONandADAM got back home two days ago. Japan was dope, had a great time, saw some cool things, did some dope stuff, all in all a great experience
@@necrohno any recommendations:)? im going this summer
I watched a video from a year ago and your English was good but compared to now, it’s really good. Thank you for the videos from Texas
Wow! Talk about worlds colliding! I watch a lot of Toripeebs content about Japan and how to travel there too!
Alright. Here we go.
Flight: $2,700 - Delta
Hotel: $184 a night average
Transporation: $40 a day (combo public and taxi)
Food: $60 a day
Total for 2 weeks: ~ $6,700 per person.
Another note on transportation, most of these people are only staying in one area. If you want to go to other cities you'll probably have to take the bullet train which is close to 170 one-way. I wanted to get the JR Rail pass, but they increased the prices as of this year :( - just something to keep in mind!
Im arrived at japan 2 days after this video posted. Btw me and my wife quite lucky, our total soend for both of us as couple probably around $2500 . ticket plane only around $700 to go and back from Japan (this is for both of us total) , we arrived at Osaka and spent $20 a night there for five days , one night sleep in the bus, and the next 6 days around $50 airbnb in tokyo. The rest is for train, food and shopping
Ohhh so interesting topic!! We are based in Finland and we are also trying to do some reportages of the normal life of this days 🤯😮
Always more expensive 😢
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Oohhh seems that always the things are more expensive
March to April 2023: 20 Days from Germany to Japan, spent around 3500€ (With Economy Flight). Next trip to Japan ist from April to May 2024, total cost right now ist about 4500€ (Business Flight alone is 3000€), only thing missing is transit, food and activities, we're ready to spent around 7500€ in total for each person.
My expenses for 21 days : hotel in average 40-55 dollars per person a day. food 15-20 dollars plus 20 dollars in bars for espresso or shot of booze if necessary. airflight 1400- 2 ways. suvenirs including yukata with jacket and belt 220 usd plus norens, tea sets etc another 200 usd. museums 100-150 dollars. JR depends on needs and sizes of ur baggage. I did not spend my suica card 5000 yen but I walked a lot in Tokyo, Kyoto abd Osaka. Started to learn Japanese. Why u stil use kaji? it's sadistic but looks beautiful )). it was Sakura season 2023
back in 2019, went Fukuoka Hokkaido 11days trip with my 2 other friends, we spent about 2800 SGD each person. for me it's about my 1 month salary, but i got to say really worth it. and really looking forward to my next Japan trip. love Japan~
This is great content. Learning a lot about Japan. I now know that where I live it is very very expensive. To eat out would cost easily $60 a day for one person without drinking. To know you could get by there with $25 a day is amazing.
I went to Japan in March and found it to be fairly inexpensive.. .then again I was coming from California so anything really seems cheaper. Plus the USD is strong against the Yen right now. The hotel was about $70 a night, the flights were $815 round trip on United (granted we bought them before the country was fully open though).
food is surprisingly cheap. You can get like meals for $5 from convenience stores. Whereas $5 at a convenience store in Australia is maybe a small bag of chips and a chocolate bar. A sandwich alone is going to be going near $8 lol
@@GameFuMaster We went to sushi bars and got a whole board of sashimi for $9. At the fish market I got whole bowl of eel for $6. That's unheard of in the US.
Your expenses are more real than most of this people...
@@GameFuMasteri agree. Compared to the west food is still a lot cheaper. Except maybe fruits, but thats treated as a upscale item in japan
@@ciello___8307 cheaper and nicer
I don't eat out much here because the food is expensive and just mediocre a lot of the time.
I’d fly to tokyo just 2 have a dinner with the woman who canceled her returntrip to pay for an apartment/shared house tbh.
The way she said «And I had no reason to return» hit me! Love the way she reasons & talk, and the way she looks 😊 (I mean:, come on, lets not pretend she’s not stunningly beautiful aswell 😅)
I was in Japan for a whole month in July 2023, costed me total $3,000 to spend really comfortably like buying whatever I wanted, eating what I want, and traveling all across Japan through JR pass and local fees of trains and buses that the pass didn't cover. It is definitely worth the money to spend a vacation there.
How??? 3,000? It was about 2,000 a night at my hotel for 3 weeks. How did you find such a cheap place?
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@@David-ue7vv 2000 a night.. ahahaha. a regular hotel in japan costs around 40-50 bucks per night. Above average it is 100, which is still less than in any European country (or American). And if you take hostels its 20.
is july good weather? or too warm?
I did 2 weeks for 3500 and this is with mt Fuji, shinkanzen for 2 weeks, travelled everywhere and hiked a lot of mountains.
I was living there three years ago, when the yen was much stronger than it is now, and I still felt like the things that tourists would care about like food, attractions, and hotels were cheap. They may be cheaper now, but they were already cheaper than in the US by a long shot. Many hotels were actually dirt cheap then because no one was traveling!
I did a 3 month trip to Japan from February 8th till May 1st. I spent a little over 10,000$.
It was an amazing trip, as much as I would have preferred to spend that 10,000 on a way to make money online so I could live in Japan and travel while making USD$, it was such a memorable trip.
As much as I want to go back to Japan as soon as possible, until I can find a way to make more money, I cannot go back to Japan.
thats great , my dream is to visit Japan in next 5 years , we have a newborn baby so i will wait him to grow up more so we would have less problems but yes at least 10k£ for 2-3 weeks is ideal for us ) good luck
have you started researching into that now?? what ways were you thinking of making money online?
I have a 14 day trip coming up, and my hotels and flight have already cost me over $5,000 USD. This is before anything else. 😮
My flight was the most expensive part which was $1800 USD, every city I stayed in my hotel was between $30-$50 a night in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. The JR railpass was expensive about $338 USD. The trains and food was very affordable and I tried to buy gifts from local places instead of tourist spots. Altogether it cost me around $3000
how long did u stay for
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flight is non-negotiable 😂
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We are planning our Spring 2024 trip and we are NOT finding these hotel prices. At least not in a high demand area . We have had to go into less desirable areas to find a 3 star for $250 USD per night. That was using a VPN to look like we are already in Japan.
I like that it shows how differently tourists spend money and what they consider to be cheap
Last year I lived in Japan for 3 months and I paid for monthly furnish apartment for $1300. I spent $8500 total in the spam of 3 months including internet data, shopping, food and transportation. Not including flight because I paid with my points in credit cards. I don’t drink alcohol or juices (anything with sugar).
Thank you for producing this amazing content. A year ago I was depressed and had anxiety. However, your content has helped me regrow my confidence. I want to thank you for helping me through my journey of becoming a better person. Thank you.
good for you bailey :)
Takashii San I watched your video four couple days and I enjoy it. It gives me some trivial informations about Japan that rarely people know especially foreigners. Anddd I’ve subscribed your channel yesterday😊
We spent two weeks in Japan and found it generally cheaper than the USA, though not as cheap as much of China. We stayed in mid-range hotels rather than our normal four star hotels we stayed at in the US. The rooms tended to be smaller but the facilities were just as good - for less money. Food in Japan is relatively cheap depending on what you eat, but in the US helpings are much, much bigger.😁
I went to Japan last month for 14 days. My airline from the Philippines is $267 via Zipairrrr!! My accomodation from 4 different hotels is about $62/night. Food around 1.5k-2k yen per day or $10-13 per day. Transpo is probably the same as food plus the train from Narita to Tokyo around 2.4k yen per way. Then train from Tokyo to Nikko probably around 2.5k yen per way. And a bus going to Fujikawaguchiko, around 2k yen per way. In total, about $1,700.
That's good to know. I plan on moving to the Philippines then visiting other nearby countries when I can.
Great segment. I do a lot of traveling, so I'm always looking for great deals. I managed to keep our daily average in Japan to under $100US per day. That includes food, accommodations and transportation. The only thing that's non-negotiable is the Shinkansen - which goes anywhere from $50-$200 one way depending on where/when you're going. Also, outside of big cities things get a lot cheaper. Food and buses in the countryside were less than $20 a day combined!
4 weeks, $10-12K. I only fly in Delta One sleeper cabin 14 hour flight from Atlanta and First Class JAL in country. JR pass to get to major cities.
I love the diversity of your subjects 👏🏾🙏🏾
Great video very informational while fun at the same time, hearing from real tourists rather than someone telling me feels more genuine and more trustable
I went to Tokyo for my birthday during cherry blossom season (end of March), which is the most expensive time to go, however, I’m blessed because I’m a U.S. Based Flight attendant so I only payed taxes for the international country I’m flying to (obviously being Japan), which would be about $500 round trip and I was able to get first class. I only could stay for 4 days but my hotel was about $500 for those 4 days and my hotel included free breakfast, I ate at 7Eleven and occasionally had ramen and other street food. I also went out to the club scene and had some drinks with friends and only did a lil but of shopping + transportation of Uber and trains. I also did a couple of tourist attractions. All in all, i think I spent about just under $1000. Best gift to myself I’ve ever experienced.
I used to stay in Japan a couple of times a year, Park Hyatt in Shinjuku and similar decent hotels elsewhere.
Daily would be £350 or so for the hotel, £100+ a day for food and drinks and £50+ a day for travel. However, that same hotel is now about £1000+ a day and frankly not worth it.
*1st Girl is actually from DreamLand, that's why she found everything cheap there* 😊😊😊
No, I live in Malta and I was in Japan 2 months ago, and I can tell that Japan is cheaper than Malta
Recently I was in Crete and even there I spend more than in Japan 🤣
Japan is cheap. food an accommodation are cheaper than european and american cities . yen is also weak now. the only thing thats expensive is the flight since these people are coming from north america.
@@samelmudir lmao
flight from north america are quite cheap compared to the ones I had to take, from Europe. It's twice the distance
I think it’s cheap because you pay 20$ for ramen here in Atlanta,
1st girl is actually @ToriPeebs
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We came in April for two weeks and initial cost was about £4000 each for flights, hotels, JR pass. We did travel a lot though, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yudanaka. This didn't include food which we didn't find expensive anyway. We saved for almost a year for it.
I'm going in April and the hotels seem very expensive at this time of year because of sakura season.
Was there in August for total of 20 days. (Tokyo 10D, Kyoto 3D, Osaka 7D). Flew from Hong Kong to Japan. 3 adults 1 kid, spent around $12,500 USD.
Glad to see some dutchies, Dankjewel!! I am a solo traveler myself and, my first country Ive visited alone was Switzerland. I spent the prices mentioned just on 4 days in CH, so be aware for anyone who wants to go I would defintently save. For solo travelers, could you ask how good is it to get around and safety in Japan? For me I have not been yet but I feel the biggest issue would be language, I know some basic phrases but only those, so I want to know how big of an issue is it for someone who is not a native Japanese speaker. Much love from the United States!
I travelled by myself in Japan and it's super safe. I 100% reccomend it. If you are worried about the language, there is a translation app called PAPAGO (a bird is their mascot) that I used both while living in Korea and visiting Japan that is much more suited to translation than google translate. I could take pictures of signs and get it translated immediately, and even type what I wanted to say and show it to someone (ex. train ticket person) and I never had any misunderstandings.
I was alone in japan this summer for 2 weeks. you'll manage with english. hotel reception speak enough english for the things you need. restaurants often almost always have english menus or just multiple languages in one menu. worst case most menus also have pictures of the dishes so thats also helpfull. signs at train stations are always in japanese and roman letters even chinese and korean sometimes. so you'll definately manage. just dont expect to have extensive talks with natives because for that their english is not enough/very bad except you might go to lets say bars which are known to have a lof foreigners where its more likely to meet good english speaking natives which wana mingle. I literaly speak no japanese except for arigato and I managed fairly well.
Safety wise I think theres nothing to worry about, pretty common knowledge that Japan is one of the safest places on the world. Getting around is also super easy. I just used google maps which will show you all the subway and their schedule. it works really great and also includes shinkansen and all other trains. would recommend buying the JR pass if you're planning to travel a lot. check out "Japan official travel app". can also be used for train schedules and it shows you also the prices of the rides including shinkasen. so you can check out first if all your planed rides are cheaper to buy individually or if JR Pass is the better option, since the JR Pass got quite more expensive recently. and its only worth it when using the shinkansen cause those are the expensive rides. subway and train within the cities are cheap and neglectable. hope you enjoyed switzerland and have fun in Japan!
Japan is one of the safest countries I’ve ever been to. I am hear now for 2 months and use a Fluentalk translator, it works pretty well.
I'm going to be solo traveling Japan in May/June and I love your videos, hope I run into you!!
I bought a SB cup for my friend. It was 4,400 yen and American dollar wise, it was 29 bucks. So I took advantage lots because I ate and bought lot of cheap stuff. Something that was, like, 30 bucks is 19 USD.
Eating breakfast at Lawson's, Family Mart or 7-Eleven is the most economical and effective way of traveling in Japan. They are usually open very early in the morning and it's very inexpensive and yummy.
Prices all around were pretty spot on, I was in Japan from Oct26th to Nov 3rd. I spent around $2500-$3000 usd for my trip and most of it was Flight + Hotel. I Would have spent more on gifts and random things but my sister had a suitcase full of stuff for me to take home and I didn't feel like bringing more than 2 checked in luggages. (Price would have been $150 for the third suitcase)
Yeah, pretty much my view is whatever price it was for the Flight, a make it a fun challenge to match that price when I go to Tokyo. But of course, it's always good to bring an extra $500-$1000 in case you lose your money in some unfortunate way or want to buy lots of things.
maybe check how much it would cost to just mail it to yourself?
@@GameFuMaster I actually would have done that, but I'm going back soon so I didn't sweat it too much.
How? I can find plane tickets much cheaper
Im from Germany. Was in Tokyo 1 month ago for a week. Everything (!) I bought or looked up, from breakfast to a subway ticket to a Hotelroom to a movie theatre to a pizza, was always 2-3€ cheaper. Good example: Starbucks Venti Cafe latte cost me around 3,50€ there, in Germany it’s around 5,80. And that difference I experienced basically with every product
Hi Takashi....my trip to Japan cost approx £3,500 for 14 days. We went to Tokyo, Kyoto. Hiroshima & Osaka. Food is cheap (and great!). We had JR Pass which helped with the rail costs as we were also attending the Rugby World Cup so various trains were covered by the JR Pass. I took one taxi from Haneda to Tokyo (Minato) because trains weren't running, which was very expensive and cost me £100. Exchange rate may help reduce the cost if you can go when the rates are favourable. All in all a fantastic country, culture and people. I loved it & will be back soon..! Idea for content - what western food have Japanese tried and liked or disliked...👍🍜
Thanks for sharing your costs, a shame there weren't any British travellers in the video as it would've been useful to gauge how many pennies I'll need to save/spend
I normally spend a couple of hundred quid in a week/ten days and thats eating well but I stay with wifes family. You shouldn't have any problem finding a business hotel for around 60 quid a night. That would be small but very clean
Just came back two weeks ago. My fiancé and I went to Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Sapporo, Otaru, and Jozankei. It’s true that the air fare is the most expensive part of the trip. Flew with ANA for $2,500 (2 round trip), including Japan domestic flights. I think we spent about $7,000 for two people. This is my second time in Japan. We love this place so much. Just make sure you do your research before going.
I have happened to travel to Japan in the periods when 100Y was 1USD. In 1997 I was a poor high school student on a sponsored cultural exchange and remember counting the 100Y sodas I could buy while still trying to save enough for gifts to bring home. Japan felt very expensive to me. Today, Even in the Midwest, a cheap motel starts between $100-150 a night, in California you can’t get a decent ramen for less than $20 out the door (tax and tip). When I see the nominal prices in Japan haven’t changed too much in 20 years but meanwhile the exchange rate is very USD favorable, it makes Japan feel like an absolute bargain for what you get.
Absolutely true. I had the same experience. Lived there in 1997 also. I would spend 1000 Yen on a meal and it would cost me $10. Now that meal is the same 1000 Yen as prices are largely stagnant, yet it only costs me $7 now. And yet my income has skyrocketed since 1997. From this perspective, Japan is on sale now. It breaks our old connotation of it being an expensive place. Most everything feels super affordable.
I love your channel. I've learned so much about visiting Japan. It's been a huge help with my trip planning.
5:31 Zip does NOT have first class. They don't even have business class. Instead, they have business class-style seats with the service of an ultra low cost airline. You need to pay to rent a pillow and blanket, if you want it. You need to pay for food, drinks, and luggage. You don't even have a separate check-in counter, you stand in the economy line. It is a Spirit Airlines customer service experience, in a JAL business class lie-flat seat. It is a great value, but it is not "first class" in any sense of the word.
Thanks for explaining!
so i just got back from japan this was my breakdown cost 2,240 delta comfort, spent 1,200 on airbnb i stayed in two of them one in sumida city for the whole trip and 2 days in lake kawaguchiko. after that i spent about 2,400 with food, drinks, omiyage. i am i huge video game nerd so i bought the original xbox in the box, the original gameboy and a few games, and a very expensive G shock. after i bought the expensive stuff i wanted and all the omiyage it became cheap. so roughly 5-6k
I spent around $4,500 for 10 days in Japan just this past October. I'd break it down as such:
* Plane tickets: $2,500 - this included a 1-day layover in Spain, so a little extra in hostel fees but got to explore Madrid.
* Food: $150 - was originally $300 but we were too busy to eat lol. Konbini food is a god-send.
* Lodgings: $350 - an average of $70 per day. One Airbnb we stayed at was literally next door to Nijo-jo in Kyoto, so what a score!
* Regular transportation: $140 - we moved all over the place in Osaka, Nara, Kyoto and Tokyo.
* Shinkansen tickets: $130 - one-way from Kyoto to Tokyo. We splurged and took the green car, so it could have been a little cheaper, but oh so worth it.
* Wifi rental: $80. You need this or an eSIM. No negotiation room here. Roaming charges were way too high to even consider.
* Fun budget: $800 - split between entry fees, souvenirs and gacha machines. Seriously, those things are addictive.
* Extra stuff: $300 - non-budgeted buys, but stuff I just had to get.
Truth be told I actually budgeted $5k, but ended up bringing some money back, even though we went full-out the last 3 days. Not cheap by any measure but not bank-breaking either. Already started saving up for round 2.
1000-1200$ per week + 1000$ flight + 700$ souvenirs
Hotel 60$
transport+fee for museum and so on 45$
food 30$
=150$ per day
Single trip across the country with train/bus/rental car.
I did a solo trip to Japan right after they opened in Nov 2022. For a 2 week trip it was about $2200 USD all-in including a direct flight from the east coast USA and a JR Pass. I stayed in an onsen hotel in middle of each city I visited (Ginza Tokyo, 3 blocks from Ebisubashi Osaka, and 1 block from Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima) About $1000 of it was just for food, which included six Michelin Starred restaurants. I'm quite the foodie, so my food budget was actually unlimited, but the restaurants are very affordable in Japan as a whole.
I wasn't on any set budget for this trip, but if I was, I think I could've done this trip for under $700 for 2 weeks, using budget hotels without onsens, and no Michelin Starred restaurants.
I like this format of different perspectives on how much it cost them their trips
I bought a ticket to Japan for $700 with Singapore airlines out of LAX and my accommodations for 12 days was about $90 a day ($1,100). So far just getting to Japan and having a place to stay has totaled $1,800. I’m visiting in February and I’m expecting to spend another $1,000 or so 🇯🇵 - a hopeful budget of $2,800 for 12 days!! (that might get pushed to $3,000 if I have too much fun 😅)
FINALLY A SANE COMMENT. How do these people overspend on plane tickets, like wtf?! Lol
@@vinceee_r And considering the USD to Yen rates, I’m definitely overshooting spending anything close to 1k in activities and food! Japan is much cheaper than people think if you plan accordingly (especially from the US). I could not believe some of these responses 😳
We payed around 7000€ from germany with a family of 3 (kid 3year old). Not including souveniers. But everything else. 2 week jr pass, fuji climb and overnightstay for one.
One week kyushu, one week osaka, one week tokyo.
The flight makes japan expensive. All the rest is cheap
Man this makes it sound a lot more affordable than I originally thought it was.
Japan being expensive is pretty much a myth. Another thing to add is that Tokyo is more expensive than pretty much everywhere else. My last trip was taking trains from Osaka all the way to Beppu and stopping at almost every stop along the way. You really notice the prices drop a lot.
@@GinJ1337 it wasn't myth 3 years ago, the Japanese yen is basicaly going down the crapper losing 50% of its value over the last 3 years, that's why Japan is now cheap
@@askeladd60 I'm traveling to Japan every year since 10 years, the exchange rate to euro fluctuated between 100 and 165 in that time. it was always cheap. being able to eat ramen at 900 yen and a rate of 100 = 9 Euro has always been cheaper than eating out in central and western Europe 😅. more like 20 Euro there. it's just that now it's exceptionally cheap.
American and I love your videos, learning so much thank you very much.
How. Do. People. Have. So. Much. Money? I’m guessing finding a relationship does a lot for saving up money?
But for someone like me who is not in a relationship or have family that can help, traveling to Japan just seems impossible at this point. Which is heartbreaking. I know I would work hard to be a kind visitor and want to know more about the place too. But I still cannot do with the hand I have been dealt…
If you haven’t noticed by now, Takashi doesn’t interview totally random people. A lot of the people he interviews are fellow content creators who know eachother through expat social circles
Don't live in a shi(thole country. I had around the same budget for 2 weeks in Japan (3500€), just have a good job and save money. That's not complicated
an avarage income in a developed economy can surely allow you to go, depending on many factors you might need to save for one year up to some depending on your dedication, there are a lot of financial mistakes not to do including financing everything and living beyond ones means, I'm not addressing you specifically ofc, I don't know your background and I wouldn't judge you regardless
Get a good credit card with airline point bonuses. We used points to pay for our flights to Japan and back.
saving is the biggest thing. you can make a lot of money but if you cant save it, its a waste. i myself have a good paying job but the economy being what it is im slowly saving with a goal to visit japan with a friend in Jan 2025. we both are planning a budget of $3500 US each not including flight with a goal of 5 weeks.
Western Australia here..just scored plane tickets for $900 aud. Looking at $70 a night accommodation. Looking forward to a fair priced holiday in beautiful Japan in may
I think if you stay in ur relatives or friends house there as a guest. It won't cost you much. But if you go as a tourist there, It will be a dilemma.
In Japan I want fabric shopping the most. Not only influenced brand Uniqlo. The reason why I prefer Uniqlo when I need inner-things
: its fabric is persistently strong like new and easy to be removed any stain. •°•📔📕 I meant sophiscated and sensitive good quality cloth(or clothe or clothing-__-;), knitt and sometimes outer for cold winter. (After being driver outers not so much needed for myself) I just wish I spent huge money in Japan once.
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Been there 9 times now. Depends on what city you are in the US, but lowest Ive paid for flights is $400, most is $800. No reason to pay more than that economy. Hotel / AirBNB should be about $50-60 a night in the greater Tokyo area. You're gonna pay more in Shinjuku or Shibuya, but you're gonna take a train somewhere so may as well stay in an less expensive area. $7-10 a day for the trains. Eating out a few times but mostly grocery shopping / 711 can get you food at about $10-20 a day. Just be smart.
I came from Switzerland and been living here in Tokyo for almost a decade. One of the reason why I love Japan is because it's very affordable...everything is much cheaper than my own country !
I can even buy 2 houses in here ( one in Tokyo, the other is in rural area ). I absolutely would NEVER be able to do that in my country!
Everywhere in the world is cheaper than in your country
@@namesurname7332 Excepted Luxembourg
@@namesurname7332Not really. Monaco is more expensive than Switzerland ( both of my Grandparents live there, so I know).
@@azabujuban-hito-dakeI mean, sure, but that's Monaco, which is famous for having a lot of millionaires. It is literally one of the most expensive cities in the world (according to the internet, it is the most expensive in real estate prices), so that by no means makes Switzerland cheap.
@@scitailsI absolutely NEVER said that Zurich ( my hometown) or Switzerland is cheap.🤷♀️
$2500 rounds trip.
$60-100 per night.hotel
$35-50 day 3/meals
$transport $10-15 a day depends on where.
So cheap! I recently bought 80 books from Japan with only 11000 yen!
You are the most efficient, no nonsense, straight information, reality, interesting channel about Japan.
a place to stay for more than $100 per day is quite a bit pricey...
I was going to say it seems cheap. An economy hotel in US is in the 120+range, with anything nice being over 200.
yeah that's not on the cheaper side, if you don't care about sharing room with other people though you can get somewhere to stay for 20 USD or less.
@@Feljo I'm a grown ass, married adult. A private room is a must
@@Chazzmatazz yeah i get you, i'm single and still prefer a private room even if i have to pay more for it. Still you can find some cheaper than 100USD/night Hotels and good location. You can get a room in an APA Hotel for like 40-45 USD on good locations.
@@Feljo Wow. That seems much more accessible than even domestic US travel in places like California, NYC or Orlando. Might need to put Japan into the "doable" destinations instead of "wish list"
My cost this August for 14 days as a Canadian soloing - Tokyo, Nikko, Hakone, Kawaguchiko, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Nagoya.
Flight: $1200 Roundtrip
Hotel $1450
Train/buses/boat trips around lakes: $580 (JR PASS) + $200 for non-covered JR
Food: $1000 (Did 2 Steak experiences which was like $200 each, and $70 Michelin star Tonkatsu place.) otherwise my cost would've been 500ish. Buying water walking around added up a lot lol.
Drinking: $640+
Misc - Temples, gardens, etc: $60?
Total: 5,130 -> 557000 YEN.
I wish Japan was cheap. Otherwise, I'd be there already. Lol
It can be, probably just not the time you’d like to go. If you’d like to go in late February you can do two weeks for about $1250 round trip, $440 for plane tickets, $400 on cheap hotels $160 for food and $50 for transit $100 for entertainment, and $100 for souvenirs this is only if you’ll stay in Tokyo and are from the few locations that zipair flys to.
so good, i love japan and every year for sure i have go to japan for 2 person a week i alway spend $6000 SGD and the mosh expenses my trip to japan with my child and grand child about 7 person i spends around $17.000k SGD in 2 weeks
Was in Japan a few days ago. I was hoping it would be cheap but it was I would say 20-30% off more than usual. I honestly thought it would be 40-60% off just because the way everyone talks about how “cheap” it is.
Food: $200-260 for 2 a day
Hotel: $250 a night per hotel 3star-4.5star
Shinkansen: $500 round trip
Bus, train, taxi, souvenirs, treats/snacks, tip ($5 per restaurant or bar don’t be cheap) etc etc. so I was hoping it would be cheap but man lol I don’t think that’s cheap like everyone makes it seem
Food can be definitely remarkably cheaper than the US, went to a random restaurant and spent under $13 for a great meal, alcohol is so cheap!
Nowadays at home getting fast food can rack up to $30 for two people
Tokyo is the most expensive city in Japan, but even though much cheaper than USA like NY/Boston/Miami/LA/SanDiego. Specially food! Good healthy food for less than USD15.
I just came back from a full month long trip in Japan (31 days). All expenses, including souvenirs cost me 6000$ CAD. I think if I stayed in Tokyo, I would have saved a good 1000$. The JR pass is expensive and is worth it if you go to other big cities but you don't need it at all if you plan on staying in Tokyo only. The Suica card is good enough. Food in Japan is ridiculously inexpensive.
Very informative video for someone like me whos planning to visit japan thank you for posting it
We were meant to come Japan before lockdown and it was cancelled. The price has now doubled 😢 from London
This amazing!! Thank you! It’ll def make it easier to plan my trip
for a week, food=5000yen/dayX14, hotel=$1200, flight=1100, train- 3000yen on suica + JR pass
Me and my wife spend almost 5k usd for 12days trip. But its worth it. Planning to go visit japan soon on spring.
further proof Air Canada is hilarious. I took a business flight from Vancouver to Ottawa and was offered a hot towel and a package of nuts. Thank God work paid for it.
A couple with a Toddler comes to about 10k CAD 4500 total for flights 1500 for Airbnb taxi/metro 500 food 100-150 per day rest 800-1000 on clothes & souvenirs total 21 days
Now that's slick! Putting the product being promoted as a "free giveaway" in the video!
Great video. Helpful seeing what people are spending. Can't wait to watch your solo traveler episode. 😊
don't forget the USD/YEN is almost at an all time high, so it's one of the best times in history to visit japan (as an American tourist, especially!)
1500 for a flight?! From the USA you can get to Japan for as little as 400. On avg I think 800-1k.
Hey it's Tori Peebs! I love her racoon vids but i thought she lived in Japan and this vid was about tourists 🤔. Ticket prices can vary i got a round trip from SF to Tokyo for $650. I would say unless you want a tiny room or be stuck in the suburbs accommodation is going to be around $50 a day for something "decent or mid-range" in the city.
0:30 Wow! Talk about worlds colliding! I watch a lot of Toripeebs content about Japan and how to travel there too!
I love your videos, it really helps my partner and I plan for our trip!
I usually budget ~$100 / day.
Basic buisness hotell $40-50, transport $8, food & drink $50 (eating really well and alcohol included)
Thanks for all the content❤