| TeddostheFireKing said: wow, it certainly looks like your enjoying your trip, I'd love to go to Japan, but it costs so much money :/ |
Not as much as people seem to think. You can find return tickets from London from £450 (seeing you're British). Maybe with the yen so high it's gone to 500, but still.
As a foreigner, you can get a rail pass that makes travelling around so much cheaper. You can get it in Mitsukoshi near Piccaddilly in London, for example.
And once you're there you can rent small apartments for quite cheap. I got a tiny apartment for about 600 a month, half an hour away from central Tokyo by train. If you shop in supermarkets you can buy cheap food like instant soup, noodles, etc.
I stayed 7 weeks there and spent around £1200, flight included, though I was sharing everything with my girlfriend, which made renting and buying food so much cheaper. I went to Tokyo (many times), Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nara, Kamakura and Yokohama.
I'm sure you can spend a couple of weeks there for about £1200-£1500, or less if you go with friends. Yes, it's expensive, but not as prohibitive as they say if you know what to do.
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