How Much Did You Spend To Move to Japan?

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[liaminjapan]

I was born and raised in Japan, so I am very happy to see so many people from different countries visiting Japan! Welcome to Japan:)

[OrientalPearl]

It’s so awesome to see my Greek friend Mike right at the start of this video. 😄 Didn’t expect that. We have a lot of the same friends.

[MJ-zxct]

Takashi: you were a good interviewer before and now you are an amazing interviewer! Great conversation flow and love how you’re so respectful and sincere with your guests.

[NathanHigiers]

I'm always on the lookout for the "How was it ? That was interesting."

[soju]

I lived and worked in Japan for a semester. Round trip plane ticket was about $1, 600 because of the time of year. My rent in Tokyo was shockingly cheap. I paid about $550. My health insurance was $75/month. My phone bill/Internet/utilities were under $100 (total for all 3). My phone bill was unusually low because I rarely used it. Haircut was about $20 because the stylist was a friend of a friend.

Groceries and eating out really varied but my coworkers and I rarely cooked because we were too exhausted and it was cheaper to eat out than buy groceries for just myself.

I usually got breakfast from a convenience store. Just an onigiri, juice and snack was about $4 every day. Lunch at my university was about $6 and was so delicious. I usually spent about $10 on dinner unless I went out on the weekend.

Public transportation to/from work was paid for by the company so I only had to pay for public transportation on the weekends. This was about $30.

I always had a lot of leftover money but I wanna stress that it really depends on your lifestyle. My coworker and I made the same exact amount but he always went through his money quickly because there's a of temptations in Japan.

My advice to people who want to live in Tokyo is to avoid looking for apartments in areas like Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, etc. If you look for an apartment in a lesser known neighborhood you'll save a ton of money.

[kouleeofficial]

Can you ask people, “how much should you save up to take a trip to Japan?” I think a lot of us want to come to just visit but are not sure how much we need. The best option would be to interview people who are just visiting and asking them how much money they saved for this trip, how long they are staying for, and what they plan on doing with the money they saved to come here for their trip.

[OnlyOneNights]

I'm glad that YouTubers like yourself are demystifying the process of getting to Japan. It helps tremendously for people to know exactly what they're getting themselves into. Especially that initial amount that you need to prove that you have in your bank account.

[samuelgilbert]

11:28 As another Canadian (also from Québec), I totally agree! For 5$ (CAD) food is going to be disgusting! However, in Japan, for 500¥ you can get something delicious and healthy!

[tommyT]

I came from northern italy.
The airplane was about 700-800€
(student visa) 6 month japanese language school was about 3500€
I pay about 60000¥ (less than 500€) per month, first month was almost 100.000¥(small apartment with some tools already here)
i usually dont spend a lot for food and other things
recently i found a job with standard wage at about 1200¥/h
Dont forget the train cost! Taking the train every day is not cheap.
With the student discount i paid around 250€ to travel to from my home-station to the school-station for how many times i want (it would a *lot* higher without the student-discount)
and there are for sure some things i forgot...

[DavidKAnderson]

Although I plan to end up in Tokyo, my current plan is to start out in Sapporo (in part because language school acceptance for an old guy will be easier, and also to acclimate: I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and Tokyo's damn hot!), and I've been spotting decent apartments for as little as 300USD/month, and a lot in the 400-450 range. Tokyo's a bit more, but you can find bargains, even reasonably close to the Yamanote line.

This is for my own place, not sharehouses. Biggest single expense is going to be language school tuition, along with the initial; apartment start-up costs (and plane fare). I'm going to have about $60k (US) in reserve (old guy with a pretty good day job who's been saving a while).

[Bonkiss]

I love your channel and your videos so much, TAKASHii. Nothing has motivated me more to pack up my bags and move to Japan from the States. Plus I would love to learn the language. Much Love!

[toffeelatte]

Always really interesting to watch these, I lived in Kobe for work for 6 months but most of the process of moving there I didn't get the same experience as a lot of foreigners, I worked at the British consulate in Osaka (about 10mins on the train away) and they did everything for me the truck for all my possessions I wanted to bring my apartment etc was subsidised, so I only knew general living costs.

I wish there was more content covering foreigners elsewhere in Japan as it's almost always Tokyo and I'd love to hear other experiences esp in Osaka or Kobe. The Colombian lady especially impressed me, she was super well prepared! Also the Canadian girl is definitely from Quebec, I know that accent anywhere!

[danail.]

Another fellow Greek in Japan! I recently moved here too but not to Tokyo, it's nice to see a Greek person in your video since Japan doesn't really have a big Greek community. :)

[johnnys.f.]

As the last girl said, money goes down really fast in Japan. For a guy like me, that came here to study for only three months having brazilian money, I feel that Japan is a really expensive country because brazilian money (Real) is way down undervalued compared to yen. What saves me from spending too much is supermarket prepared meals that get around half price after like 9pm everyday. So if you have a rice cooker, it helps a lot too! For brazilian people, my advice is to come to Japan with a least 10k reais that can easily be well spent in two weeks for touristic purposes. Also, internet is kind of expensive even for prepaid SIM cards. That's crazy haha.

[starostadavid]

You could have asked what their age is, and what is the projection of their future in Japan. :)) How long they wanna stay, carrer vision etc. I hope you can get into it after the pause. Best luck to you Takashii!

[takashiifromjapan]

Thank you so much for watching!

By the way, I made 2nd channel so please subscribe! (Link in the description)

It’s gonna be more personal videos like showing how I hang out with my friends in Tokyo.
And actually me and my friends are planning to get tattoos and I’ll film it to upload on that channel!

Stay tuned!

[rolando]

If you haven’t already. Turn that post notification bell on. I love watching these videos, so whenever i miss one I get sad. Def watch this dude. Very informative. Didnt realizd how cheap living was

[Shawnraines]

Spent like $20k just moving to Japan, I think it definitely depends on person to person but realistically to be comfortable for me I could not sit in a room smaller than a 2-car garage roughly small apartments under 30 sqm or 322 sqf especially working from home, while I had a lot of stuff being delivered most of the cost was because of Key Money, Advance Rent (6 months), Deposit, Guarantor and Agency Fee (tax incl.) and these are super important for anyone wanting to come to Japan to learn about.

[TotallyNotUtopia]

I've been thinking about trying to live abroad for 6 months in Japan. This was helpful in getting a good idea how it would, overall, cost someone. Thanks!

[vincytvholic]

So cool for you being recognized....you're famous now!!!
I think maybe moving through the JET Programme makes it slightly easier maybe (haven't touched down yet so not sure but it's what I'm hearing and hoping).