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For posterity, I guess?
It seems like someone on the internet might find this useful - I log my spending compulsively, which means I know exactly what I spent on the Japan trip. (Except for the Ramen Alley incident.)
This was three nights in Tokyo, six in Kyoto, and one in Narita, at an exchange rate of 100 yen = $1.24 USD.
Travel - $1,748.42
This breaks down to $1,276.25 for a plane ticket booked a month and a half on advance, $354 for a JR Pass, and $118.17 for train/metro/bus/cab fare not covered by the JR Pass.
I didn't log all of my train trips, so I'm not sure how much the JR Pass actually saved me, but the two shinkansen trips alone would have run around $320 if I'd paid for them outright. I did learn that it's probably pretty easy to counterfeit one of those things - no one looked very closely at it.
Shopping - $450.80
About half of this was on various kimono and obi I got at Toji market and at used clothing stories, most of which I will probably resell. The rest was gifts, three volumes of manga, two things of gomashio, two things of akadashi miso, a big bag of houjicha, a chasen, and $37.20 for a coat because I forgot mine. (This last is the one expenditure I absolutely cannot forgive myself.)
Lodging - $420.81
Cheating, because Mo's parents paid for my hotel room in Tokyo for the first few nights. I spent $75.52 on a single at a backpacker's hotel for the last night, $279 for six nights at the guest house in Kyoto, then $62.57 on a hotel in Narita the night before my flight back.
Food - $273.33
$168.36 for meals at restaurants, $104.97 for stuff from convenience stores, grocery stores, bakeries, vending machines, and the tea house at Rikugien. Most of the former number is soba and ramen, and most of the latter number is alarming pastries purchased on the way to the JR station in the morning. There was one that looked like a dorayaki? But the filling was this weird strawberry cream stuff. Got tea from vending machines three times, which I felt was very restrained of me.
Entry fees/tours - $88.04
Ten temples and formal gardens, the manga museum, Kanjiro Kawai's house, and the monkey park.
Other necessities - $66.96
Delivery of luggage to hotel/guest house, laundry, net cafe usage, shaving gel, a change purse, a little bottle of hand soap, a hand towel (I always forget that you need those three things in Japan), a little notebook (for making this log, and for taking notes on my train itineraries), annnd a tea strainer (the guest house didn't have a good one).
Other non-necessities - $1.24
Peanuts for the monkeys at the monkey park.
The total is $3,049.60.
This was three nights in Tokyo, six in Kyoto, and one in Narita, at an exchange rate of 100 yen = $1.24 USD.
Travel - $1,748.42
This breaks down to $1,276.25 for a plane ticket booked a month and a half on advance, $354 for a JR Pass, and $118.17 for train/metro/bus/cab fare not covered by the JR Pass.
I didn't log all of my train trips, so I'm not sure how much the JR Pass actually saved me, but the two shinkansen trips alone would have run around $320 if I'd paid for them outright. I did learn that it's probably pretty easy to counterfeit one of those things - no one looked very closely at it.
Shopping - $450.80
About half of this was on various kimono and obi I got at Toji market and at used clothing stories, most of which I will probably resell. The rest was gifts, three volumes of manga, two things of gomashio, two things of akadashi miso, a big bag of houjicha, a chasen, and $37.20 for a coat because I forgot mine. (This last is the one expenditure I absolutely cannot forgive myself.)
Lodging - $420.81
Cheating, because Mo's parents paid for my hotel room in Tokyo for the first few nights. I spent $75.52 on a single at a backpacker's hotel for the last night, $279 for six nights at the guest house in Kyoto, then $62.57 on a hotel in Narita the night before my flight back.
Food - $273.33
$168.36 for meals at restaurants, $104.97 for stuff from convenience stores, grocery stores, bakeries, vending machines, and the tea house at Rikugien. Most of the former number is soba and ramen, and most of the latter number is alarming pastries purchased on the way to the JR station in the morning. There was one that looked like a dorayaki? But the filling was this weird strawberry cream stuff. Got tea from vending machines three times, which I felt was very restrained of me.
Entry fees/tours - $88.04
Ten temples and formal gardens, the manga museum, Kanjiro Kawai's house, and the monkey park.
Other necessities - $66.96
Delivery of luggage to hotel/guest house, laundry, net cafe usage, shaving gel, a change purse, a little bottle of hand soap, a hand towel (I always forget that you need those three things in Japan), a little notebook (for making this log, and for taking notes on my train itineraries), annnd a tea strainer (the guest house didn't have a good one).
Other non-necessities - $1.24
Peanuts for the monkeys at the monkey park.
The total is $3,049.60.
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Would you recommend the hotel you stayed in before flying home? We're also thinking we should stay in Narita the night before, since we'll be heading there from Mito.
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