Curious: Would it be cheap to stay about 25 days in Japan?

[JDubG]

I am curious, would it be cheap to stay about 25 days in Japan?

[rakuten]

Depends on what you intend to do, where you stay at - and whether you visit Japanese friends ;-)

[Mike Cash]

Are you into fasting?

[PaulTB]

Are you into fasting?
I advise studying the concept of 居候

[Kirsty]

I am curious, would it be cheap to stay about 25 days in Japan?

Well, I guess that was a resounding no!! I've been planning a trip I want to take next october, and have had to keep scaling it down because of the cost. If you are planning to travel around, are you going to get a rail pass? I am planning my trip around a 21 day pass. I inherited some money about NZ$5000, and I am thinking that including airfares and everything even that is going to be a bit tight.
Well, good luck to you!!

While I'm here.....I'm looking at Tokyo...Kyoto....and then along the Western Honshu coast....Matsue....Takahashi...Shodo Shima then leave from Osaka.
Really want to see the dunes in Tottori, read Women in the Dunes and always wondered if such a place existed.
Any advice, especially about Western Honshu?

[Keiichi]

I am curious, would it be cheap to stay about 25 days in Japan?
Yes, we definetly need more information as to what you'll be doing and where you'll be staying. If you stay with a very nice friend that'll let you stay at their home and even cook for you without you having to pay for anything, and you won't buy anything there, it's probably as low as a round-trip flight (and probably a bit of a lame trip at that).
However, if you do plan to do things, stay in a decent business hotel, try restaurants, ride on the bullet train, play around Tokyo, etc., it can go at least $6000 pretty easily.

Keiichi

:-)

[RockLee]

6000$ ??? are you planning at a royal treatment or what ???? :p

[rakuten]

The last time I stayed in Japan, I spent between $4000 - $7000 a month. There wasn't much unusual about my stay, I used the shinkansen a lot, went out dining with friends and did some shopping. It really depends on what you are doing, stay with relatives or in a top hotel at Shibuya station, buy fancy devices you actually don't need, try the local top grill restaurant (6'ooo Yen for 5 slices of meat) etc. etc. You could as well have a complete menu for as little as 500 Yen and stay with the monks in a temple for a few bucks.
If you go there as a photographer, you won't need much. A cheap place where you can sleep, the railway pass and food is cheap anyway. Keep some money aside for unexpected incidents, i.e. some places might be full (on weekends, public holiday) and only expensive hotels have free rooms. If you intend to go there on holiday, better keep saving up more money and go when you can afford a normal trip. How much fun would it be to fly over to NY, but you have almost no money to spend...? It's ok if you visit friends.
Japan is not fun without money if you go as a tourist. I don't like to say this, but the more you can spend, the merrier ;-)
Japan is an expensive country, similar to Switzerland. And in the end you always wish you had a bit more left to spend. I always come back with absolutely no money left in my pockets.

[jet_dee]

I've been in Japan 24 days now. It costs me about 1000 yen a day for food, but only because I get to eat at my hospital's cafeteria. Surviving on cheap convenience store bento boxes will cost abou 400 yen a go, and over 25 days that will amount to 30,000 yen, or 150 british pounds. I think thats over 250 dollars american , and that's just food!

Trains are hellishly expensive, buses even more so, so you will have to make do with walking everywhere to save money. Beers cost around 600 yen each at clubs and bars, but only 200 yen at japanese pubs, so you will have to give up the partying life, unfortunately.

Youth hostels are fantastic, as you can stay for 2000 yen a night, great value compared to some business hotels that charge 8000 yen a night.

[sky888]

find a japanese friend and you will be able to save on the accommendation (of course you have to help them clean up the house a bit)....

That way you can go low budget

[Jimm]

5,000NZD = 369,978.97JPY. That will probably put it abit more in perspective.

[Maciamo]

You should read this : How to spend less money in Japan ? (http://www.jref.com/practical/cheap.shtml)

[corporate punkk]

staying with family in japan about 40 min from yokohama, I lasted about 25 days on 400 bucks.. that covered a few nightclubbing nights, beefbowls everyday, and train tickets. That's the bare minimum i suppose, this time around i'm aiming to bring 1k so i can spend mindlessly.