Tokyo for one-two weeks?
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- sofakingbanned0
ive been to tokyo twice and some how i managed to do it fairly cheap. key thing is to get a cheap flight and a cheap place to stay.
I cant help ya with the flight but heres a link to the hostel i stayed at.
http://kshouse.jp/tokyo-e/facili…it was very, very nice and cheap... but i should say it was fairly new when i got there. anyway I stayed in the 8 people dorm with a bunch of strangers, my friends got a 3 bed room dorm. either way it was very chill and for the budget single guy it was perfect.
as for being safe. ive never been to a friendlier, safer city. the only place i was slightly on guard was the red light district and even then once i showed i was a cool dude people were really chill.
have fun! theres beer in vending machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- fadein110
Tokyo without all of the lights wouldn't be the same.
- DrBombay0
You can do the flight and hotel for 2K. I would budget at least $100 per day above that. Shinjuku Washington is a good buy, also Sunroute Shinjuku is a bit more expensive but 1 block from South exit of Shinjuku station.
I have never stayed in Sakura house or any of those other hostels. It would be much more comfortable in a decent hotel.
I have always booked these trips through expedia or travelocity, you save a ton of money when you package these together.
- sublocked0
AH!!! I forgot and advised you wrong on the rooms. My advice is to NOT stay @ Shinjuku Washington. I forgot my room there was small/very smokey.
Much better value and had a way better time @ the Shibuya Creston.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel…
About the same price, less smell of smoke everywhere, and larger/cleaner rooms.
- It's kind of hard to find the first time - but after that it's a breeze.sublocked
- DrBombay0
Tokyo would be so much easier if you could easily rent a smart phone that had full internet and google maps for less than $500. Ever try finding an address in Japan without a map? The street numbering convention is beyond western comprehension.
- just rent PeterH for all your needse-pill
- Just need to ask people for directions. But yeah, super confusingacrossthesea
- Not always the easiest thing to do, asking people for directions in another language.DrBombay
- once you understand it, it's not that tricky. But you usually have to wander round the block onceanimatedgif
- Understand it? There are no rules or system present dude. Anything goes in this town.Peter
- Deks0
http://www.khaosan-tokyo.com/en/…
Really well located hostel, it was well priced and a reasonable place to stay when i went a few years ago.
- heathen0
Bump!
- flashbender0
I was just there three weeks ago
it is fine - no risk of godzilla.But they are still rationing energy so all of the icon advertising is not light up... The people I met there said it was very dark everywhere because of this.
- randomname0
Orbit says all the hotels are like 2.2 Miles West of Tokyo.
- Lots of reasonable hotels in akasake, right in the middle of the city.antagonista
- randomname0
I can spend up to 2k by the way.
- Or those capsule hotels are really cheap, they are often by big train stations.antagonista
- heathen0
I stayed in the Sakura Hostel in Asakusa a few nights back and it was the cleanest hostel I'd ever been. You can even get your own room if you wanted. 2K for 2 weeks in Tokyo? This is excluding airfare right?
- sublocked0
I was there 8 days in Nov. Cost me around $5k but I was mini ballin and drinking like a fish.
Fuck a hostel - stay @ the "Shinjuku Washington Hotel". Good price/room. Wifi. Nice location - easy walk from the train station.
- randomname0
Orbitz has 7 days for ~$2,000 including hotel and airfare?
Sounds incredibly cheap.
- Peter0
Heathen y u no follow up on the chat during earthquake time!
- perfectly fine to write here btwPeter
- Peter, gah! My bad. But I totally blame the dog ear function...heathen
- Tsuyu drinks sometime then? Or we can exchange the hanami for a hanabi?heathen
- Had me at drinks.
Do you go to those YCN events?Peter - YCN events? Not yet. Please illuminate.heathen
- http://www.facebook.…Peter
- Next event is this weekend? Even if it rains?heathen
- Guess so. I won't be attending tho...got friends visiting.Peter
- (this time)Peter
- There are a couple parties at Soft in Shibuya over the weekend if you want to bring your friends. I can promise one dancehall dj-ing swede...heathen
- I can promise one dancehall dj-ing swede...heathen
- We should get the QBN Tokyo Drinks going... any more of us out there?heathen
- i_monk0
Two weeks for $2000 including airfare? In Tokyo? What?
- Peter0
There are decent hotels in Shibuya and Shinjuku that goes for about 120-150$ a night.
Or you could crash at "love hotels" (AND ruin someones supposed fun evening in the process) for less than 100$.
If you want to go dirty cheap (dirty as in the occasional cockroach) there are hostels. Look up Oakhouse or Sakura house.
Now is a pretty good time to go, the weather is not that sticky humid nightmare yet. July/August is the nasty.
- love hotels charge by the hour usually.animatedgif
- not true. they do "rests" which is like 3 hours or you can cough up the dough to stay until morning.heathen
- You're both right, sorta. "Rest" is usually 2-3 hours while "stay" is the whole night. Anything over on both is billed by the hourPeter
- spookykat0
I went last July and the Sakura houses look pretty decent. However my friend tells me that hostels are the way to go though. I would say depending on your level of fun, 2 weeks with plane ticket cost would be at least $5k. If you wanna go all out with food and other crap, just double that to $10k. Just remember food is ridiculously expensive there.
- way too high.DrBombay
- Unless you are staying at the ritz carlton.DrBombay
- Food is about the same when you consider there is no tip. Though the portions are smaller, fatass.antagonista
- acrossthesea0
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel…
Stayed here a while back for $80 night. Very quiet area and right across from the subway. Super clean and modern. I found it nice to go from a busier part of the city and come back to a slower pace.
Tokyo is an awesome city, but I wouldn't want to experience it on a budget. I think $2500-3000 is a more realistic number for airfare/lodging/food/drink/fun for a week or so.
- randomname0
I was hoping 2,000 for travel and lodging + food and expense money
- The airfare is your biggest cost. That's half of your 1k alone.antagonista