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newintown
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:15 am Post subject: budget w/e in japan |
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anyone advise how much a w/e to japan might cost.
got a few cheeky days off i hadn't expected, so i'd like to get out of korea.
interested in a cheap & cheerful cultural injection.
can someone also advise if i can get multiple entry visa if i get the boat, or do i have to do that at the airport? |
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Poemer
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Mullae
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Make sure you budget for transportation and make sure you book a hotel in advance if you want to stay someplace affordable, unless the capsule hotels are your style.
I don't know what the exchange rate is like right now, but when I was in Japan it cost five or six USD just to get into a cab, and the subway was three bucks a ticket. |
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Poemer
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Location: Mullae
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| *double post* |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: budget w/e in japan |
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| newintown wrote: |
anyone advise how much a w/e to japan might cost.
got a few cheeky days off i hadn't expected, so i'd like to get out of korea.
interested in a cheap & cheerful cultural injection.
can someone also advise if i can get multiple entry visa if i get the boat, or do i have to do that at the airport? |
You can only get a MULTI re-entry permit AT the LOCAL immigration office.
You CANNOT get a multi re-entry permit anywhere else.
Bus to Busan, ferry to Japan and only 3 days? Not really do-able. You will spend 2 of your 3 days in transit.
If you want to do it figure about 200k per day + travel to/from Japan on a short stay and you could do it reasonably comfortably.
You can squeeze by on <100k per day but you'll spend all your time looking for a cheap room, cheap restaurants, and cheap beer and won't have time to do much of anything else. |
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newintown
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for your advice |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Poemer wrote: |
Make sure you budget for transportation and make sure you book a hotel in advance if you want to stay someplace affordable, unless the capsule hotels are your style.
I don't know what the exchange rate is like right now, but when I was in Japan it cost five or six USD just to get into a cab, and the subway was three bucks a ticket. |
What city was that in? When I was in Tokyo, subway tickets started at about $1.30US (160 yen) a ticket to start. Plus, you can get a 2 day open ticket for 980 yen, so about $9US. In fact, it is near impossible to go up to $3US. Up to 40km is just 300 yen, so under $3US. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: Re: budget w/e in japan |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
You can squeeze by on <100k per day but you'll spend all your time looking for a cheap room, cheap restaurants, and cheap beer and won't have time to do much of anything else. |
I was in japan for 10 days last april. Including railpass (about 250 bucks I believe) I spent right about $1,000. I stayed at cheap places but found them easily on the internet before i left, cheap restaurants are everywhere, and I drank all kinds of beer. A couple of my meals weren't at budget places.
I also saw plenty in the places I visited (Tokyo, kyoto/nara, hiroshima/miyajima, himeji).
That being said, I admit it is a bit harder to follow that budget when you're only there 2-3 days and you can't use a rail-pass. |
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