Traveling to Tokyo Cheap: $2000 or Less Guide – Japan

Traveling to Tokyo Cheap: $2000 or Less Guide – Japan

I spent a total of $2,184 on Japan. In this video, I’m going to go over exactly how much money I would expect to spend on my second trip to Japan, which includes a roundtrip flight, hotel, transportation, food, and tickets to attractions. Japan is a lot cheaper than I thought it was. And if you use Expedia like I do, you could probably also find some really good packages for whichever time you want to go. So, I used Expedia packages. I found out these were always good prices and Expedia tells you the price of the hotel and the flight in the same page. September is consistently ranked as the cheapest time to travel to Japan. Say I want to travel to Japan on the 24th of September until the 30th of September. Seven nights in total as the 21st is your initial departure date. I input those dates here. Expedia takes a bit of time searching for packages and then it gives you all of these options. You’ll probably spend quite a bit of time on this page as you want to play around with the date to see what is the absolute cheapest time to depart and do your roundtrip return flight. It is possible to get roundtrip tickets for around $600 to $750. So, just try and be mindful of that as that’s what you should be paying if you want a really cheap uh ticket. So, all in all, you should be spending around $1,250 and below for accommodations and also your roundtrip flight ticket. Now, you could probably get a lot cheaper, but for me around this price, Target eliminates a lot of host and capsule hotels as I don’t really want to do a shared shower, a shared bathroom, a shared living space or anything like that. I want a western hotel experience. Now, next time I go to Japan, I would probably bring a hotel door lock simply for the peace of mind as nowadays I find it pretty hard to go to sleep when I know for a fact someone else has access to my room. And also nowadays I find myself doing uh room sweeps whenever I come back into the hotel. I stayed at the Toyok Co in. There’s some footage of the room here. They provide free breakfast, vending machines. They did have a coin laundry machine in the lobby that the guests can use. I felt like the rooms were quite well sound insulated and the bed was really squeaky, but it was comfy and I am quite used to a very squeaky bed. I give it a 10 out of 10 for the price honestly. And a free breakfast is actually pretty hard to find in Japan. So, make sure if that’s something you want, I would personally recommend that. Make sure to filter for that in Expedia. So, let’s say in general you can do seven nights for $1,450 including flights. You can get that even cheaper if you use a credit card bonus. I used the onekey credit card, which grants you $300 in one key cash if you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months of the card opening. So, what I did is I hit this button up here and booked a couple nights at the Toyoko Inn, totaling roughly $1,000. Waited to book the rest of my accommodations until I got the $300 in one key cash. Then, I was able to get a bit nicer of a hotel, taking it from $140 a night to around $72 a night. And I personally don’t recommend switching hotels. Like, I really wanted the nice hotel. So, if that’s something you want, I’d recommend that. But otherwise, it was really tedious and it ate up the whole day as by the time I was done moving to the new hotel, I was really tired. Next time I come into Japan, I will just stay in the same hotel throughout the whole trip, unless I am going to another city. Next, let’s talk about Eims and how much data I used per day. I used SY as I felt like they had the best prices. I highly recommend them as I was still getting data while I was on a train multiple stories underneath Tokyo Station. And there was not one point where I didn’t have data. So like I was always connected to the internet when I turned it on. Now I personally used the 3 GB plan for 30 days with also the 500 megabyte free trial. That way you can try it in Japan without committing to it. I did commit to it as I knew as soon as I would land I would want to look up things and get reminders on how to do things in the specific airport I was landing in. So I used about 500 megabytes day one. And one thing I figured out to save data is if you are on Android, you can do the extreme battery saver mode, which only allows specific apps to run. You have to launch each app manually. And this saves a ton of data because you don’t have all these apps pinging as soon as they get access to data. So after I used the 500 megabyte uh free trial eimup, I switched to the 3 GB thing, which I purchased, and that lasted me quite a while. I didn’t finish all of it. I had about 400 megabytes left, but I was uh using about 300 per day. Some days was more, some days was less. Um, if you’re a heavy Instagram user, I would recommend you get more than 300 megabytes per day. Uh, for me, I was just turning it on and off, and I was ensuring not to use too much of it in a singular day. Now, I was trying to keep it to around 300 megabytes a day. I’m not sure how much your data usage would be. Here’s a screenshot of where most of my data went when I was using the 3 GBTE eSIM. Now, if you want more gigabytes, you could probably find a different company which offers a better rate on more gigabytes. Uh, if you do decide you want to use SY, I recommend you use somebody’s referral code. If you want mine, it’s in the description below cuz you do get a little bit of a discount if you use a referral code. So, for food, the food was amazing. I did overspend quite a bit on some things and some things I felt like I should have given them more money simply because I felt like I was ripping them off with how much they were giving me. I spent around 20 to $40 on food a day, but honestly you could spend way less. The touristy areas was quite a bit more expensive than if you went to just a local restaurant. But even the touristy areas wasn’t that bad. Like for the Tokyo Tower, they had food trucks down there. And uh I noticed this one food truck had a beef skewers that was a really good beef skewer and it cost it was it was probably like five pieces of beef, like five bites, and it cost about $6. So, it was really good. So, you can still find good food prices in a touristy area. You just got to hunt around a bit. McDonald’s was actually a money-saving hack of mine because it tasted so much better in Japan than it did in America. I was able to get a good meal for around $6 to $10. Uh, cheaper than America and it was super easy as I didn’t want to spend a lot of time slowing down for a restaurant when I just wanted to keep exploring. But the local places, if you hunt around a bit, are cheap. I was able to get this beef plate for $5.25 and it was still cooking basically. And then I went back to the same place and bought this bigger one for $10. If I really wanted to save money, I could have eaten from a convenience store for less than $15 a day probably, but I was consistently eating out just cuz I mainly came to Japan for the food. But even let’s say you’re spending seven nights in Tokyo and you’re spending $40 a day, that’s $280 on some really good food. So let’s say you want to do attractions, and you probably will want to do attractions. The things I did was like the Tokyo Skytree, the Tokyo Tower, Team Labs, stuff like that. You can book all of this stuff on Cluke, which I would highly recommend. Didn’t have a single problem. You can expect to spend less than $50 per attraction. I only did three attractions, and all of mine combined totaled out to around $79. Now, if I were to take someone to Japan, I would probably take them to the Tokyo Tower if I had to just pick one. I felt like the shopping was a bit cooler and it was a bit cooler to see the architecture more so than the Tokyo Skytree which was just about the view. You can also get a $5 discount if you use a Cluke referral code. I also have mine in the description and comments if you’re interested in using Cluke. For transportation, you’ll spend quite a bit of money on the train system, but it is probably the cheapest way to get around other than walking. I was considering getting a scooter or something, but like I didn’t want to deal with it in Japan and it was super hot out, so I would rather just be in an air controlled train. The train system, I would say, is roughly $1 per time you use the train scan system. So, if you want to go to your hotel to your destination, it would cost roughly $2. I’m not quite sure exactly what the prices are. I’m assuming it’s based on distance traveled, but I never really saw anything more than like $1 per scan. There was this one time I got on the wrong train and I ended up having to travel like 40 minutes back to Tokyo and I spent like $8 there, which wasn’t fun, but it could have been worse. But let’s just say you’re spending $10 a day in transportation fees coming out to $70 over the course of seven nights. So including flights, hotels, data, food, and transportation, we are sitting around $2,56. Assuming you do the $10 a day in train fees, $30 a day in attractions, $40 a day in food, and the roundtrip flight, and the hotel package from Expedia. Now, you could probably do Expedia cheaper than this. If you book far enough in advance, you could probably find a package probably being priced around $1,200 or $1,100 in total for seven nights. And I’ve never booked that far ahead. So, you could probably find even cheaper than that. Now, you do kind of get to pick your own flight. I would personally recommend uh you fly United as I really had a good experience with United. You get a free carry-on. You get a free checked bag as far as I can tell. It made it sound like it’s a credit card perk, but I didn’t have their credit card. I got fed twice, including a midnight snack, and the food was really substantial. I would say all the meals were around 600 calories. And I got quite a bit of leg room, which is a lot more leg room than I was expecting. And I would recommend if you can fly into Hanita Airport instead of Narita Airport as it was quite a ways away from Tokyo. So I just would prefer to fly into Hanita Airport next time. But yeah, that’s basically how much I would expect to spend if I were to do another Japan trip pretty shortly. And I would really recommend booking it way in advance as you can save quite a bit of money that way. And I would recommend if you can uh book far enough in advance where you can stay longer than seven nights. Yeah, I think that’s all from me and I will see you all next time.

In Japan we go over an affordable travel guide and how much in general things cost in Tokyo Japan and ways to save money while traveling to Japan.
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0:00 Intro
0:25 Flights/Hotels Budget
3:25 ESIM Recommendation
5:21 Food Budget
6:58 Attractions Budget
7:47 Transportation Budget
8:38 Final Budget