[burkhartdesu]

I was going to post this in "Do teachers get paid well in Japan", but since this thread is pertaining to the conversation in the latter, I will post it here.



So I have a confession:


I went to Japan, for one month, with 400 dollars spending money (and 250 for food).


That sounds crazy, because it is. I ate well on 20 dollars a day, and came home with a few precious keepsakes... but all in all, I couldn't really tell how expensive Japan really was (because I was rounding everything because of the exchange rate, i.e. 100 yen = 1 dollar... which isn't accurate)

These statistics aren't really based off of experience... just numbers that may or may not be factual.