[jwagner120787]

I ask because guest houses themselves, I have found quite a few at around $600 [about 60,000yen]. Then I can pay $40-$70 a night to stay at a hotel or other location in other cities, if I stay there longer than a day. [I know it would take a whole day, roughly, to get to the other end of Japan. I thought about a hotel for a night or two, and moving on, still keeping my "home away from home" at a guest house.]

Only reason I look at guest houses, is because hotels seem to go for about $40-$100 a night, and spread out over a month, costs alot more than a guesthouse, and staying at a hotel only a couple nights in particular regions that are far away from my guest house.