provide 3 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Just looking for a general idea of what some basic things cost as a guide to cost of living? A can of coke for example? Link to post Share on other sites
Kansaiash 6 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 McDonald's cheeseburger ¥120 Can of Coke varies but i would say around ¥100-130. Bottles of coke 500mls are around ¥150. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 120¥ is the standard cost for a can of coke. 1 litre pack of milk 180-220¥ depending on where you buy it.....can also be cheaper. "Loaf" of bread can be anything between 100-250¥ depending on where you buy it. Glass of beer I would say the average is 500¥, 500ml can of beer 280-300¥ Link to post Share on other sites
provide 3 Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 thanks guys, sounds like it's pretty comparable to Aus Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 You might find things cheaper in the countryside as well than in Tokyo. Or perhaps not if slap bang in the middle of a resort. Name some things and we'll post prices! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Pack of eggs 200yen or so. 5kgs of rice 1500yen or so. 500ml bottle of coke 150yen. Taxi 710yen for first 2kms Trains Within tokyo, on the jr, max is about 250yen on the Yamanote line. crisps 100 to 150yen rice ball 100 to 130yen Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Cheese is expensive. You can often get really cheap eggs, but they are not coming from "happy birds" as ms muikabochi says. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 You can often get really cheap eggs, but they are not coming from "happy birds" as ms muikabochi says. Brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I often feel elecric goods are cheap here. And stuff you get in home/diy shops etc. Not that might be the kind of thing you come here to buy, but...! Link to post Share on other sites
provide 3 Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 Cheese is expensive. You can often get really cheap eggs, but they are not coming from "happy birds" as ms muikabochi says. Eggs from happy birds are expensive everywhere i think Going to be in Tokyo (Shinagawa), Niseko (GreenLeaf Hotel), Kyoto, and Osaka. We'll be eating out mostly but i generally like to have a few supplies handy in the room, especially when skiing. In my experience bottled water, snack bars, soft drinks etc. usually end up being a heap cheaper if you hit the supermarket on the first day instead of buying on mountain But expensive cheese might be a problem, although i did spend $100 on cheese for christmas heh Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Cheese is essential though. You need it for this: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/16348-cheesemans-cheese-at-resorts-gallery/ http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/gallery/album/84-cheese-at-japanese-ski-resorts-gallery/ Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Spirits are dirt cheap. I was buying wild turkey 101 and it was about AU$22 as opposed to AU$60. Dont buy duty free spirits in aus as they are cheaper in your local seicomart when you land. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I almost sure there are no seicomarts at the airports. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 but if you meant "when you land on your face" after getting off the coach poached, then you're right. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Im not sure if you are taking the piss or what? Weird. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 thanks guys, sounds like it's pretty comparable to Aus Are you kidding? Compared to Aus Japan is much, much cheaper for just about everything. Cost of living in Aus is at least double what my cost of living was in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Im not sure if you are taking the piss or what? Weird. Don't worry, its just Thursday in a new guise. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Mr gozaimas might not be up on the artist formerly known as Thursday. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 GN, even compared to "city" prices....like Tokyo/Yokohama Met area......is Oz still more expensive? Yeah Gozaimassu.....don't worry, T.A.F.K.A.Thursday is pretty sarcastic Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Tubby just about everything is more expensive here except maybe items that are common in the west but rare or unusual in Japan. I live in a town in Aus with a pop of only a little over 4,000 which is considerably smaller than Kutchan. Besides the everyday cost of consumables it's the cost of the bigger items in life that really hurt. In Kutchan I bought my house for about AUD$50,000. Here my house cost 10x that. It's not an especially extravagent house, that's just the average price for a house here. We're about a 10 min walk from the beach. Houses right on the coast are going for 1.5 million and upwards. Most we ever spent on a car in Japan was about $5,000. Here our 2nd hand car cost near 5x that. Again nothing overly special, just a Forester similar to the one we had in Japan. Of course due to the much greater values our costs for insurance, rates and land taxes are much higher here. Cost of day care for my daughter is up around $80 per day here. In Japan it cost us around half that and we had her in probably the most expensive day care option in Kutchan. I could go on and on. Sure on average people earn a lot more in Aus than in Japan but to be honest as far as I'm concerned life was just simpler and easier in Japan than it is here. And of course Japan has awesome snow whereas Australia has icy mush which they try and pass off as snow. Choice of which country to live in? No contest for me. The only thing I'm really enjoying here is the business we bought. For probably the first time in my life I actually really love going to work! Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Yeah Gozaimassu.....don't worry, T.A.F.K.A.Thursday is pretty sarcastic I can handle a bit of heckling, its actually fun but that guy just does not make sense. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 What type of business GN? Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 We bought a native plant nursery. As my name here suggests I've been into native plants for a long time as has my wife. We used to run a landscpaing company that specialised in native gardens. We still do design work with that business and now we get to grow the plants as well. I get to work outdoors all day which I much prefer to working in an office and the nursery is set within a 40 acre property that is mostly old growth native forest. There are heaps of native animals on the property like wallabies and wombats and the birds love all the plants we have around the nursery. We are major suppliers of plants for revegetation works in the region meaning we have a substantial role in improving the local environment which I love. All up couldn't really have found a better business for us, just lucky it was available for sale when returned to Aus. As much as I love it work, career and that sort of stuff has never really been overly important to me. Still much prefer to be living where it snows! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 This is probably a really dumb question, but what's with the 'native' bit of 'native plant'? Be kind. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Meaning it's 'native' to Australia. We mostly grow indigenous plants. Plants that used to grow naturally in the region before the white fellas came and cleared them all for agriculture and forestry products. Much of eastern Australia has only fairly recently come out of a drought that went on for more than a decade. Most cities and towns had pretty severe water restrictions which included watering gardens. So many of the European species of plants didn't make it not being suited to drought of the likes we get in Aus. So there's been a bit of a revival in using Aussies native plants in gardens as they are much better adapted to the climate and soils found in Aus (obviously). This means less maintenance and water and most people these days with their busy lives want low maintenance gardens. Plus there's a lot of work going on in rural regions like where I am to revegetate and rehabilitate the landscape where possible. Programs like Landcare provide monetary assistance to landholders to plant natives and get rid of introduced weed species. All up means the business is chugging along pretty well. The previous owner sold because he's been battling cancer for a number of years and had let the business run down quite a bit. So there's plenty of opportunities to grow it further. Link to post Share on other sites
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