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How much will it cost me to spend a week in japan?
how much is food? Hotels? im planning mainly being in tokyo. Whats the average price to enjoy the country? Id like someone if not more people to help me if you dont mind.
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How you spend and how much you spend will mainly depend on how many people you are going with. If you are planning to go alone accommodation will clearly be more expensive as opposed to splitting the cost with a few friends.



I went with 3 others in Winter and stayed in a spacey apartment (roughly 80sqm, excluding balcony) located within 10mins walk of Shinjuku, a major business district about 5-7mins by subway from Shibuya.

We stayed there for a little over 3 weeks (23days) but had to pay for the full month. That amounted to each person paying about US$400, which I think is excellent for overseas accommodation by any standards. You can see what a huge difference it makes when you go with a group of people and opt for apartments (community hostels if you want to go cheaper, but what's the need?!) over hotels where you pay by the night, or by the week (I think it's something like $25-100/night at most hotels)



Food is reasonably priced. Most places will do meals for 550-700yen, 800-1000yen for more quantity or better punch to your tastebuds. If you're a fan of homecooking, 100yen mini-supermarket stores are sprinkled throughout Tokyo. I am not kidding when i say there's at least one convenience store/100yen groceries store within every 2 block radius.

When you're out on the streets and feel peckish but aren't hungry enough to down a full meal you can always grab some onigiri (tasty triangular rice balls with a range of fillings), a variety of buns and sandwiches (80yen-250yen), a sausage roll, or a pre-made bento box (come in a range of sizes) at the local convenience store for under 450yen.

Those vending machines that pop out hot drinks - they were so popular with me when i was there. You can get a piping hot corn potage soup (theyre delicious trust me) for 120yen. Alternatively you could grab a cold drink for about the same price or cheaper. Prices will vary according to demand and season, so the cold drinks would invariably be more expensive during the summer. I didnt have a chance to catch any food venders, they seemed to be quite rare.

Crepes are also popular, and arent the traditional ones you'll have on a plate with drizzled syrup - they are crepes wrapped in a cone shape you can take to go and have about a menu of about 40-60 different fillings you can choose from, from the standard sweet crepes with strawberries, bananas, chestnut, red bean and chocolate to savouries such as pizza-type fillings and the like. They are particularly famous in Akihabara and Harajuku and range from 350-600yen.

They also have a large number of Macca's burgers on the 100yen menu right now :). I spent on average 15000yen on food every week, but that was because i cooked in a few nights with my mates.



Travel is probably the most expensive thing you pay for while you're there. You'll live by the SUICA card (for Japan Rail( or PASMO card (for the TokyoMetro), where a 1000yen topup will get you about for roughly 5 subway trips, depending on where you're headed. Let me tell you now that most buses aren't used for any other purpose than transporting people about rural suburbs. Most of your getting around will be done on foot and by rail, which is fair because getting off at the city of a major city will see you walking and passing through at least 2 of the surrounding prefectures anyway, a bit like New York. I spent about 30000yen on subway (the only form of transport i used) in 9 days.



Oh and on a final note in case you're a smoker, the Japanese government is doing a sweep across the nation on all cigarette selling vending machines in an attempt to thwart underage smoking. From July 2008 all those machines will require a TASPO card to make purchases, which can be applied for by an adult over 21years of age.



Hope that helped.



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