Petrol Prices In Japan?
 

Was topping up the motor last night, and its about 83p per litre here in the north of England (thats the cheapest I can find) and I thought to myself "prices for petrol are cheaper now than they were when I started driving 4 years ago!" Yet, a month or so ago, I was paying £1.23 per litre of petrol!

I hear that not many people drive in Japan due to lack of parking spaces and other problems, but what are petrol prices like for you? Or if your not in Japan, what are petrol prices like in your part of the world?

On a separate note, do you think driving is cheaper than public transport?

Just to put this in perspective: £1 = ¥135 = $1.45(USD) at the current exchange rate.

Comments?

You were lucky, I remember paying £1.36 per litre for crappy standard unleaded.

Now that it is cheaper, I can buy High Octane for around 88p. I'm really glad it has gone down, it was starting to hurt my pocket.

Public transport is definitely cheaper, but driving is more convenient.

Sounds like you haven't gotten the bus in a while. last time i did, it cost nearly 3 quid both ways to my town center and back. didnt make a difference about peak times or any of that crap.

I live right next to the town center. It is probably 10/15 minute walk from where I live. I don't drive my car within town much, I drive when I want to travel to places like Leeds, Manchester, Bradford etc a lot.

Gotta love Bradford!

if i spent money on busses rather than the car, it would cost me well more than petrol per week!

I find driving cheaper in the long run. In other words, with everything considered.

If I were single, yes, I`d say public transport is significantly cheaper... But with a family, it would cost as much to take a round trip to a department store by train as 10 trips by car.
The cost advantages REALLY become clear once you start taking long trips. We visit the relatives every month or so, and a train trip up there would be about 25,000 for the 3 of us - plus whatever else we buy to eat along the way, etc. By car, it`s less than 5000 even if we take the expressway.

Cars do cost to much to own and park if you, say, live in Tokyo and hardly ever leave the city. Parking spaces can run as much as renting an apartment it seems... But most other places and they`re not that bad. :mtongue:

Just filled the car today; 96yen/l for regular, 101/l for premium. At the highest in summer, it was 188/l for regular... And I can`t even remember premium as we certainly couldn`t afford it.

I'd say it costs the same as us then, because I buy the cheap stuff no matter what because I'm a student and I have no choice!

I spend about £20 a week on petrol, i worked out about how much it would cost me to do the same amount of traveling on the bus it would be.. just shy of £50.

Thats shocking! and thats just me traveling! I cant even imagine doing it with a whole family like Nyororin!

You can buy a student railcard for around £60 for the whole month, which will let you travel an unlimited number of times in Yorkshire.

I have a friend that lives in Osset. But he commutes everyday to University by train. If he was to pay each day individually it would cost around £5 per day, so you can save a lot of money using student public transport passes.

but passes cost money.

wont be a student forever though, driving is the way to go! plus, i got some dragonball car window swingers for christmas!

I would have to admit that public transportation is cheaper, but I prefer to drive. Gas prices here has dropped substantially, but I'm buying a new hybrid car next month so hopefully driving becomes much cheaper.

Cool styling, I wonder why I didn't think of that? :P LOL

King Kai is in one window, rear driver side, Kid Trunks is in the opposite, theres 4 or 5 (i think) to collect and I'm after all of them incase your feeling generous :p

Still, petrol prices eh? (on topic ;))

The bus to town and back is like £4 :/ I used to get that much pocket money a week when I was younger!

its 4 now!? FFS!!

No longer shall i refer to the bus as the peasant wagon, it costs more than my car per journey!

It'll be very difficult to beat public transit in terms of overall cost/km. Especially in Japan where it's fairly expensive to maintain a vehicle.

With that being said, I don't have any public transit in my town so I have 2 cars. One for commuting and one for fun. :)

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Id say depends on your situation and where you live. I live in the suburbs outside of Washington D.C. having a car out here vs public transportation is a lot more convenient and in the long run is cheaper so it was kind of hard to pick one option. But if you weigh bus passes metro passes time on the bus round trips a car is cheaper in the long run.

College students maybe not so much because of tuition and cost of living and other school supplies. In the end for my situation having a car is cheaper in the long run but thats just for me.

Im pretty sure that public transport is cheaper

It depends on what you use to get to your job and back. My dad can walk to work because it's a little less than a mile away, but doesn't want to walk. My mom's work is like two miles away so she takes a car too. My brother's job is right across the street from my mom's.

None of us need to use public transportation because we don't go to the city or need to use a bus for anything. Driving is cheapest for us because we all don't live too far from work.

I walk to work because my job is walking! :mtongue:

over here in germany gas is about €1.10 a liter. I ride the bus which for a day ticket is €5.60 (bastards raised the prices again as they do every end of the year) and one way €2.40.
Right now the bus is cheaper because just getting a car and its upkeep is to expensive with insurance, car taxes, potential repair costs and gas all together.

Well around me, lowest gas price I found is $1.34 a gallon here in the Houston area. I would assume that even though its this cheap, public transport would be cheaper if there was an actual public transportation system here and not buses showing up at random times at random places everyday.

Where I live, gas costs $1.38 a gallon and bus rides cost $1.00 and I take the bus to and from school (can't afford a car)

yea I don't drive...taking public transport is always cheaper for me...& healthier for me. i walk to the train station, but once I get to my stop I just get on the bus...i have a horrible attention span when im behind the wheel so its best that i use public transport...