lol and the two meals can be reduced to about 75$, you don't have to spend ALL your money and show it all off. You can eat good, but pay less. You might even be able to get that down to 50$ for two meas and still eat really good.

The business hotels (closet sized room...tiny tv) I saw were about $100 dollars a night in Tokyo. The last place I stayed at in Ueno was I think about $170 a night (for two double beds...a normal looking hotel room). The capsule hotels were $40-$60 dollars a night.

Sure, the figure can be reduced. 300 dollars a day is a safe number if you want to do more than just ride on a train all day. If you want to see stuff and buy stuff, I wouldn't go with less than that.

Japan is pretty expensive that way. I'm still saving up in an attempt to make a trip there T_T. Hopefully I'll get there some day :rolleyes:

why isn't anyone considering staying in a hostel ?
It only cost 2500 yen per night (probably around 20$us )

I was about to suggest that myself. Seems quite a few people I've come across go on about how nice hostels were and how affordable they were.

it seems expensive fro mthe get-go. I was just wondering whether or not the flight to and from is the most expensive part of such a trip.[/quote]

I live in Japan. There are many cheap hotels. I sometimes use Manga Kitsa. They open 24 houses and there are comic and we can use Internet in private room. (I think it is need to be resisterd but it is no problem if you can use a little Japanese.) Manga kitsa is about 20 dollers.
However, it isn't comfortable. I stayed there but I wanted to stay at hotel.

I think cheap hotel costs about 50 doller per night.

When I was there, I regularly ate for $30 per day or less, though I wasn't in Tokyo. I got a bowl of good ramen, donburi, or yakisoba for $5-8, a full teishoku meal for $8-12. Drinks are always overpriced in a restaurant, so just drink tea or water with the meal (which are free) and get a soda, milk, iced coffee, beer, etc from either a vending machine or supermarket (where it'll be 1/2 to 1/3 the price it is in the restaurant).

Small business hotel rooms (not in Tokyo) were $40-60 in my experience.

Spend the night in a internet cafe? Again, I ask why fly all the way to Tokyo to vacation like a homeless person?

How about staying in a youth hostel? I know it's a European thing but there's got to be something like that in Japan. The ones in London are totally affordable (about 20 pounds per night = 40 USD/€) and Tokyo isn't more turistic than London, is it?

:eek: :eek: How do you guys spend so much??? My friend recently came back from tokyo and he spent $25 per night on hotel! Fair enough it was the basics, but what the heck are you gonna do with a luxury hotel when you'll hardly be in it??

As for food, he spent about $15-$25 per day (on average) for breakfast, lunch and dinner while still having nice food! But of course, sometimes he went to exquisite restaurants, but he said they wern't that special because a nice meal in a standard restaurant is just as good!

I think people generally let themselves go when they're on holiday, but if you're careful you can have a great time whilst not spending so much. This way you will leave more money for souvenirs or technology or anime or whatever you want!