Warning about glasses: the sizes are really different and I couldn't find any that fit my face correctly. :( The adult glasses were too wide for my face and I had to look in the kid's section. lol We get some of our groceries delivered! Fresh vegetables! And some of them are even cheaper that way, or at least the quality is better because they come from Kyushu :D
I just segued from ONLY IN JAPAN to your feed and I must say you are perhaps the cutest couple I have ever seen. Ever. Ryosuke is ADORABLE! I am so happy that you two found each other and are making these videos! Such interesting stuff!
+Christian Abarca I keep gaining weight here in Japan even though I move more and eat less than I did in Germany x'D I guess it also depends how your body reacts to different kinds of fat!
Koakuma Heh. That is true. Then again, I drank tea more than actually eat in Japan. For some reason, onigiri, noodles from convenience stores, and tamago with rice was enough to fill me up. Do you like tea? Hot tea (green tea specifically) helps out a bit.
+Christian Abarca German food is really delicious but not very nice to your figure :D Okay, that's a bit harsh on German cuisine, but we tend to use a lot of meat and ingredients with starch/carbonhydrates like potatoes, wheat/flour or rice. But as always it's all about the quantities you eat... You should definitely try traditional German food!
The first time my family went to Japan my mum freaked the heck out about how cheap and good the umbrellas are in Japan, she brought like 10 back with her :'D
yeah state side there is this bullshit "its about the experience" deal were you pretty much get charged more for the right to be present somewhere pretty much XD On the plus side you feel really nice when you run into a nice "mom and pop" kinda restaurant with really nice food/prices but sadly those are more and more uncommon.
Depend of what kind of restaurant you go. Normal Ramen Shop will be less than 1000yen, but Sushi served by experienced Sushi Chef like Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza can cost of to 30000yen for a dinner session of about 12 nigiri sushi
Totally depends on what you compare it to, I'm from Norway but I live in Texas right now (relatively cheap state I know) but here eating out is quite cheap like generally something from $7-$15, Compared to if I ever eat out in Norway the same type of food will be $20-$40 mainly just because peoples wages are so much higher and food in general is more expensive, even just going somewhere like McDonald's it will be difficult to find anything for less than $5
anne fosli Yeah, but if you came from a country like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy or Japan and went to California, I'd be massively more expensive.
I am german and since the "Deutsche Bahn" was privatised, it got a lot more expensive. If you do not buy group tickets or tickets that are valid for a certain amount of time, you pay a lot. But it also depends on the type of train you take. For example an ICE (faster than the usual trains) from Düsseldorf to Köln (You might know it as Cologne) is about 40 km for around 18 € (20,25 $ or 2057 yen). For one person and only one-way.
This seems like about as much of "what is surprisingly cheap in Japan" as "what is surprisingly expensive in the US", judging as someone from neither of those two places ;)
+Frank Steffahn Food is very expensive in many places in America, at least compared to Germany. Funny thing is--food is taxed 7% in Germany...many states in America have NO tax on food, yet it is still by and large more expensive. Personally, I think it comes down to greed and companies wanting a higher profit margin
+Anna Belle I hate all the places where taxes are not included in the prices you see on the products... (from what I heard in the video that seems to be at least partially the case in Japan, too)
+Frank Steffahn As a Canadian I would say it is more "What is surprisingly expensive in North America". At least all those things seemed really cheap to me.
As a Canadian, it's more like "cheap vs cheaper" since our dollar is at a sad 64 cents. Buying meat is absolutely ridiculous in Canada, our books are pricey and well..everything else! But at least ramen and blocks of tofu are below 1$ lol. I can live on just that.......right? XD
Toilette paper is cheap but how's the quality? Is it the good 3 ply stuff? I had this on my mind since I went to a friend's house recently and they just had the single ply and it was awful.
Oh my goodness, yes! Every so great often my family will have a between period of not having money or it's late at night when we run out of toilet paper so we get the cheap, $1 stuff from a gas station until the stores open up again or someone gets paid. That stuff is NOT satisfying! The roll runs out faster because you have to use more to feel clean. It's definitely worth shelling out the extra two dollars or so to get even a small four-pack of higher quality TP. Indeed, be a friend and give your buddy a roll of "the good stuff", lol!
All the talk about books actually makes me REALLY curious about libraries! Are they used often where you live in Japan? For communities or just younger children? For students? Do they offer classes and other events at libraries? Are they publicly funded or private?
+Seri! Pixel Biologist! There are many libraries in the cities, big and small. Most common are community libraries, but as of 2013 data, there were 3,246 Public and Private funded libraries, and 1,674 University and College libraries, storing roughly 756 million books. All schools have a small school library as well, but these are usually only accessible to the students and PTA. Typically, public libraries store a wide variety of books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers, journals and magazines, and have a desk section commonly commandeered by students and senior citizens. Private libraries are often more focused on specific genres or authors.
I'm pretty certain that you can get cheap glasses anywhere in the world. I live in Germany and with some waiting and looking around you can get prescription glasses for 17 Euro - like me. OR You can go to a random optrician and pay AT LEAST 300 Euro. If you want "a nice frame" and "special lenses" you are up to 1000-2000 Euro. If you take the most expensive frame and go to the most expensive shops, you have to pay high prices, duh.
berzerkerdav Most bigger chains in my country offer a free exam as long as you buy glasses from them. I got a good deal and exam + glasses was 17 Euro. Most ordinary places range from 50 to 100 Euro for exam + glasses, unless you order them online, then you get them for 20-35 Euro. For all the experiences I made I will never go to a doctor again to get a "prescription" for glasses. They constantly use outdated, crappy machinery. In bigger glasses shop I've been to they have far superior examinations. Some of them have 10 times more data on "eye passes" than the doctors do. So if you are paying for a doctors appointment to get a shitty prescription and then pay 3000$ for a shitty pair of glasses, because you didn't go to one of the bigger chains and didn't say no to their "best offers", then it's really your fault, not the countries. I live in a town of 16000. I can assure you 100% if I wanted to I could get a new pair of glasses for under 50 Euro - or in another shop for 3000 Euro. Reading, comparing prices, looking at offers, sales, coupons, etc is really all you have to do. Even the "most expensive" ordinary prescription glasses from the chains I saw were only about 80-100 Euro. I bet I can easily find the same kind of offers for the US.
Silver4567z yeah and if they are having issues making a claim for you, they just say "we'll charge you now because we can't make a claim on your behalf so you have to do it." Like seriously, they just want to make sure they get their money.
Totally agree on the umbrellas and eating out. I bought a small umbrella to carry around back in 2014 when I visited Tokyo. And I still use it and it hasn't broken down! It was under 1000 yen too. And all the cheap food... *-*
Roshill K Ha... true! They are obsessed with the "right" size, color, shape, etc... but hey, I like it. ^^ (I've never seen so big and perfect tomatoes like here, they almost look fake)
i love it when i come home from a long wary day of work and see you guys video, it cheers me right up ^^ ryosuke's bright personality is really so uplifting (so goofy!!) and also grace your eyes are always so mesmerizing!! i think you two are the best and i'm very glad i found your channel!! thank you~
Books are expensive in Canada... everything is expensive in Canada... you see the US price on stuff then the you see the CANAda price and you weep all the way to the cashier. Even Ebooks are more expensive
Yeah, there are a couple BookOffs in la near where I go to school. Its my favorite place. You can also find old video games there that aren't super expensive.
Many hospitality and recreational services I remember in Japan are pretty cheap which I'm talking about are museums, zoos, amusement parks, temples, and castles. Museum and zoo adult admissions I've checked are usually under 1,000 yen. Waterparks are probably around 2000 yen. I've checked Toshimaen, the entry admission is 1,000 yen, 4,200 for full pass. Temples and castles are probably a few hundred yen. I would put cigarettes up there too.
You guys are absolutely right about rents being fairly reasonable in Tokyo these days. In fact, Tokyo apartments today are actually slightly less than when I lived there in the early 90’s. In fact, when you factor in inflation they are actually MUCH cheaper now than they were back then. In other words, my old $800 a month studio apartment in Tokyo should be about $1200 to $1400 a month today but its actually still only about $800. Not only that, but today you can often get places without so much money up front. Back in the 90’s you would have to come up with about $5000 to move into that apartment (2 month key money, 2 months security deposit, and first and last months rent). Then you would have to buy your own appliances - sometimes even your own air conditioner, which could set you back at least another $1000. Then it would cost about $600 to buy a phone line (this was before cell phones). And if you have a car it would have been at least $300 a month for a parking space in my neighborhood. Oh, and lets not forget that you could not rent an apartment without a getting a Japanese person to be your guarantor (accept financial responsibility for you). And back then of course only a very small percentage of landlords would even rent to foreigners to begin with, which means the ones you could rent were not always the best deals. The bottom line is it is MUCH easier and cheaper for a foreigner to get his own apartment in Tokyo today than it was back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. And if you don’t mind living in the suburbs you can get a pretty good-sized place for your money. If you like to be right in the heart of city however, like I did (and close the to the subway), your place is going to be pretty darn small.
Manga in America is like 7-10 dollars depending. Or it can go higher for bigger manga books such as Mamoru Hosada's Wolf Children manga. It was released here in one big book rather than separate volumes.
Whiskey! Japanese whiskey is really good and sold at 7-11 for less than what you'd spend on good whiskey in America. As a beer drinker I didn't realize that it would be cheaper and tastier to drink Japanese whiskey until it was close to time to leave.
I constantly watch your videos I even rewatch them...alot.. you just really inspire me ,Grace. :) I do think y'all should make more videos!! :) I've re watched your Day in my life vids a million times. lol your like my favourite show.
I live in a state with more cows than people. It used to be the same way here, but now local suppliers have just matched the prices of what the grocery chains sell at - sometimes even at a higher price point, making "free range" cost more than stock yard beef. We usually buy half a cow at a time. The quality is better and we can save a little money, but not as much as we used to. The result is we eat beef once or twice a week and have switched to using more pork and chicken.
Rents blow my mind. I can't believe I can get a 2 bedroom in Tokyo cheaper for what I'm paying in Los Angeles! That's awesome news! But I understand that walls are paper thin, so what's the cost of heating (electricity) or AC?
+Silvie Monk I would imagine cheap because they do not have central heating in Japan typically. Also their houses tend to be smaller so the cost toheat and light it might be lower.
+Spiffleh Insulation seems not to have crossed the minds of any contractor in Japan, so it actually takes a lot of effort to keep your house warm in winter. It is a constant fight to keep the heat leaking through doors and windows, so you basically have to have whatever heater you use on at all times, which makes electricity bills be from 12 000 - 20 000 jpy.
+Chien Lao Thanks. Every one of my Japanese friends HATES the winter for that reason. Though a friend did recently buy a house that has central heat/air and thick, insulated walls near Yokohama, so it looks like houses are changing. OH, and Rachel and Jun (if you follow them on TH-cam) just did a house tour with all of that stuff. I find it so weird that it's taken so long to do things like insulation!
+Silvie Monk Yeah, insulation is non existent, so you want to invest in good heaters. We got a kotatsu table that supposedly only costs like 2 yen an hour to run or something like that. I basically live under it during the winter. But otherwise my apartment is like an ice cave.
I would love house without central heating since I turn it off leave window opened and still have to pay for it. (it's around -10C outside so not that cold, but still I have 20c inside with window opened.)
Glasses dont seem too bad in england either. i just got new ones today. and they had a 2 for 1 deal on glasses frames 69pounds(yes, thats the real price), which is about $100. and the perscription lenses were included in the price of the frames. so i got 2 new pairs for about $100. this was at Specsavers for those curious.
Can you please annotate what the yen are in pounds or dollars? It's confusing when you don't know actually how cheap they are because I don't understand yen x
+pinksealight It's really easy to check conversions with google. Just type in "100 yen to usd" or "10 usd to pounds" for example and it'll give you the current exchange rate.
A place where books are reasonably priced appeals to me very much, I always feel like it's a luxury to buy books in the US. They are so expensive! Happy to know that isn't the case in Japan 😄
We have a Book-Off in San Diego. It's cheap! Next year I want to go to the Kinki region and see the older parts; Kofun to Heian-kyo period. I'm planning to hit Book-Off and Mandarake on the first full day!
My exboyfriend is from norway and when he went to germany he thought the prices were a joke and thought the same when I went to norway. I completely agree with you! :D
what fantasy world do you live in???? wages in denmark is are getting just as bad as the rest of eu, yet our prices do NOT go down, no they go UP same as anything the government has control over, denmark is oficially the worlds most expensive country in the world these days, and thats just for the citizens that already live here
sorry you are wrong , our wages are great in Denmark, a normal job is 35-37 hours(like cleaners, drivers, eg.) that can fully support you, we have access to help I we lose our jobs(money wise), free health care,
+Scye This website has an abridged guide about levels of mercury in fish and how to eat in moderation to avoid potential mercury poisoning from fish - www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/guide.asp - There are other websites that go into more detail, if you want more detail. If there are edible sea creatures unique to Japan that are not covered on this list, I think your best bet is to just look up the nutritional information for that creature and I assume that is where you would find information on their mercury content as well.
Grace, as my husband and I watched this video, my husband said, "He's phlegging her." Which means he's doing the basic Phlegmatic (temperament) thing of trying to see how many buttons he can push. Phegs LOVE to watch people's emotions. They find it hugely entertaining. My husband is a Phleg, too, and I frequently have to tell him, "Stop trying to aggravate me." If you tell him that, and he gives you a sheepish grin, you know you've got him. :-)
I went to Japan for 2 weeks around thanksgiving from Dallas and it was rainy for about half the time. The umbrellas were so cheap and so good. They worked so well and I wanted to take them back with me. So good. Also Onsen is super cheap. It is basically a mini spa with the shower, hot bath, hot sauna, cold bath, electric bath, etc. In Kyoto it was less than 500 yen including towel.
+pearl sherman Yeaaah...seriously, after finding Zenni Optical, I'll be damned I ever pay $200 for my glasses again! My current pair cost me about $60 and that's with having to get special lenses due to needing to protect my "good eye" and getting them thinned out for my "bad eye" so I don't look like I'm wearing Coke bottles, lol. But even if Zenni isn't available to them, hopefully there's a similar option in their country.
I buy second hand clothes from Rakuten and Yahoo Japan all the time. If you're into Japanese designer brands and don't live in Japan i highly recommend these sites. Much cheaper than Ebay.
Hello I really love your channel! I do have a question though. I have heard in Japan it is considered taboo to live with a boy/girlfriend before you are married. Is that true? Are attitudes changing? How is it viewed if you are a foreign couple??
hey there, I'm going to Japan in October and I was interested when you both mentioned about second hand luxury bags. I was wondering where i can found these shops? hyper to hear from you soon!
Yeah, even in a smaller city like Seattle, in popular neighborhoods so called "apodments" are $750-800 a month, which gets you a tiny one room furnished apartment.
Extremely true. I absolutely refuse to switch countries until I know for certain I can get the same amount of internet usage there as I have with my current provider and either the same speeds or faster. I don't care for TV but the internet is my lifeblood, lol! Oh, and the same applies for my phone's internet too...I'm spoiled on having relatively fast speed on a smartphone and having access to it pretty much anywhere I go, even on backwood highways and interstates. Now, to get these, I wonder what the cost comparison would be in Japan versus what I'm paying in the U.S....
+SideNote Kings of internet atm are Easter Europe. They have the highest average speed, no limits, and smallest prices. On average for 30 euros what translates to roughly 4k yen, you can get the best. With 400 Mbits up and down optical net. Considering I am living in middle of a forest. XD
+SideNote Speeds can range anywhere from standard fiber internet (100-200Mbps) all the way to the new Gigabit plans. As for price, around 3000-5000yen depending on what's available in your apartment building since rates can go down if more tenants are on the same provider. In some apartments, like mine, a free shared connection is available but I only get up to 50DL/25UL which is slow by Japan standards, but hey I mostly use WiFi anyway. As far as I know all these plans are unlimited. Only mobile data is capped.
Japan's perceived as a really expensive place, so I was surprised at how cheap food can be too, especially sushi. I also found anime figures a lot cheaper than in the UK (although here we're paying for someone to fly them halfway around the world and pay customs charges etc). And of course there are plenty of expensive figures too!
I love INITIAL-D, I'm watching the anime and I'm halfway through stage-1. I'm currently reading Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, but I plan on reading the INITIAL-D manga after it .
Big change from the late 80's, there were no second hand items available except for Levis from America. Great garbage though, people would clean things before throwing them away. Got my toaster oven and TV from the trash...
lol, with the first one I thought he was saying the price of being a man verse the price of being a women and I was like lol, honey that's true EVERYWHERE
Its kinda that, but you have to assume that you live there and spend their money, so youre not making exchange. 54yen is 54yen when living in Japan, otherwise its 54*exchange value.
Yes and no. The exchange rate fluctuates and changes the conversion all the time so it isn't always a Yen to Penny equivalence but it tends to hang around that.
What about textbooks? This just blows my mind bc non textbooks in America are anywhere from around $7 to up to$50, or more, depending on the author's popularity, book advertising, what the book is about, and what expenses went into making & writing the book.
NO WAY!? Glasses are that inexpensive!?!? I just bought a new pair that costed $500, when I could have waited 2 more months when I go to Japan! DX NOOOOO
+JeusEx I just bought my first pair of glasses the other day for about $260, although they're ralph lauren they sound a little squeaky which bothers me. I'm going to Japan in May! I wonder if I could pick up a second pair of glasses if I'm a tourist?
Gggg You right, mine are RayBan so they cost a bunch. I'm not really picky and Im not partial to name brands either, as long as it looks cute on me. I'll definitely look up Zoff when I go to Japan tho, thx!
electricity-costs have risen very much since 2011, because fossile-fuels have to be imported and no more cheap nuclear-power (not that im a fan of it) :/
bigpunged4040 I found they are about the same price as in Australia. Electricity is tricky because the peak/off peak time ranges and prices varied, so it was impossible to say absolutely which was cheaper. But it was in the ballpark.
+AdoggTV Black people have similar nose variation to that of Japanese folk. Plus, our nose bridges are not as pronounced as Europeans. However, I do think the op is chatting bs. I had to check yours too.
hannah60000 hmmm if we re talking about nose bridges I hadnt actually considered the nose bridges by themselvs I was thinking more about the size of our noses themselves like I know I have quite the wide nose also the video which I couldnt think of at the time was on a channel called that man yuta something along those lines
If I do ever go to Japan, I really want to get a pair of glasses. Where should I go, and how do I ask for the anti blue light thing/ the glasses in general?
I don"t know. When you say that rent is cheaper in Japan, did you consider all the upfront money you have to pay to get in? 敷金、謝礼金 That's like 5, 6 months worth of rent right there if I remember correctly, that go down the drain, for no reason.
+Texan in Tokyo Yeah but they're still not the norm. But I'm just having a hard time trying to think of things that were cheaper in Japan than here, besides some of the things you mentioned. Well, the abundance of restrooms open to the public (and clean!) are nice, and free, and free is cheaper than cheap. lol
+Texan in Tokyo use your brain, if that room donest drain much money , no landlord doest like money in japan, there must be a problem with that room, for example some sad stories happened before in that tiny space
+Texan in Tokyo I'm sorry to ask such a question, but how do I find those? (I plan on moving to Japan for a couple of years and a tiny one room appartment for 50/55/60 000 yen without some of those extra payments would be perfect! But I can only find rooms in sharehouses that cost that much.) I don't speak or read Japanese, so I can only search in English. :(
When you say second hand goods, do you mean Vintage? Like second hand of Dior, Chanel, Valentino, and other designers item? I know that vintage market in US is a more expensive than Italy where I've been. If it is surprisingly cheap in Japan as well, I'd love to check it out! Do you have any store recommendations?
I tried to get anti-blue light glasses for my first pair earlier today and they said that they didn't stock them because apparently they can cause cataracts, which I don't believe. What type of frames are Ryosuki's? I can't seem to find a pair that suit but his look good.
when i was in japan for 5 months studying abroad in nagoya, and visited 2 more times after(kyoto, oosaka, nagoya, hiroshima, atami(though shirahama beach was a bit expensive train-wise), nagano, tokyo(the owari-seto line where most of the tourist sights are can be pretty cheap and convenient, might be a different story for full-time residents going outside those places)), the train was pretty cheap, i could go an hour for about 300 yen, whereas in west virginia, to go an hour and a half on a train would be $36, that is where my comparison is:) i also found kitchen and bathroom wares to be pretty cheap, or at least cheap enough to find in 100 yen shops, i LOVE 100 yen shopsXD much more convenient then $1 storesXD healthy groceries in general were cheaper to me(but i didn't buy a ton of fruit, maybe some apples, bananas, and oranges from time to time, but otherwise no), a week or 2 of food in japan for me was 8000 yen(around $80), whereas in the usa, roughly the same amount would be $150-$200:/ buses i found to be cheaper, to get to hiroshima from nagoya, it took 6000 yen, whereas in the usa, to travel that long on a bus that is nowhere near as comfy(seriously, no cushioning, i could feel the coils under the sweaty leather seats), would cost me $150 to $200! HOTELS!!! if you are careful and know what sites to look into(i once got a clean safe hotel(western style) in downtown tokyo for 4000 yen(roughly $40) a night in august(when it is japan's summer vacation, so prices should be up)), if i found something like that in dc, nyc, or la, i think i would dieXD i could barely find a decent hotel around here for that price, and i live in a suburban/rural area with no real tourist attractionsO.O domestic flights i hear are cheaper in japan, but that one i don't know for sure
+entershikarisim Canada here (but we usually have fairly similar prices). If you can get the frame and lenses for under $100 (8100 yen) it is a total steal. I would say most people pay like $200-$400 (16600-33100 yen) for a pair but that is because the frames always cost a ridiculous amount. I think consultations are like $50-$100 (4050-8100 yen) iirc. This is all CAD too so like at 15% to it for US dollars.
I've seen 500+ in the us especially if you add anti glare, night driving specs, or bifocal not that i need it. I wear glasses everyday so I always call around to all the optometrist to compare prices and some time lense are free if frames are more expensive and other times lense alone could cost 200-300. but between Dr's appointment, the frames, lenses, and special things added on like anti glare total will be 300 plus for non brand name glasses :(
That's absolutely insane! Most I've spent on glasses is 200 (Euro) and they were designer frames and a got another non-designer pair free, both for short sightedness. That was total bill including eye test. I think you can get glasses free or severely discounted with a medical card here as well but not sure on that. Having said that I never add on any of those extras they try get you to buy, I think they're generally a waste of money.
Neither does ours I'm fairly sure, but if you have a long lasting medical condition you get issued a card and everything on prescription is 2.50, even if its not related to your condition, or if you buy medication that goes over a certain amount every month it gets capped at about 400, and everything over that is free.
What about lacquerware especially red carved ones?, also what bout ukiyoe prints? do you get netsuke or carved bone artifacts in japan? also what about ruko-chan ,ceramics from japan?
I think umbrellas are more expensive in the U.S. for two reasons 1. People rarely need because of where they live (desert) or they feel like a jacket/coat with a hood is enough (e.g. people who live in the Pacific Northwest). 2. The umberllas last longer than the ones in Japan. Also people tend to keep track of their umbrellas and not take other people's umbrellas.
triky5384 No, just wasn't sure one way or the other from your original comment. And that sort of thing general is meant that way, hence asking for clarification. ;)
Living in Tokyo I thought when you rent you have to give a key deposit in which is give or take 20,000 yen, is that correct? I've been thinking of moving over there and also was wondering how do you pay your water, and electric bill or is that included with rent? Also trash and recycling as well.
G'day from Australia!! I've watched a few of your videos but soon as I seen the initial d book brought in... instant subscribe haha 👍👍 keep up the good work guys
Is there a brand name for the bluish coating on Ryosuke's lens? There is something called www.polette.com/en/e-polette.html that looks very close. Most of the computer blue light blocking glasses are amber colored. Kodak has something called BlueReflect that also looks similar.
i've been checking around for the cost of apartments in Tokyo and was super surprised how much cheaper they are, especially compared to Manhattan prices
do you need insurance to purchase prescription glasses? I'm thinking about going there to purchase some when I go there in spring 2018 if it is really cheaper? I am from the US. Which shop did you guys go to?
Warning about glasses: the sizes are really different and I couldn't find any that fit my face correctly. :( The adult glasses were too wide for my face and I had to look in the kid's section. lol
We get some of our groceries delivered! Fresh vegetables! And some of them are even cheaper that way, or at least the quality is better because they come from Kyushu :D
Oh I love tour channel I was thinking of becoming an exchange student and I get a lot of my facts about Japan from your channel! Thanks!
+Rachel & Jun We just signed up for a grocery delivery service because they had a free 3 week trial. So we will see. I have mixed feelings about it~
+Texan in Tokyo will you do a video about the grocery delivery?
I have to get mine in the kids section here in America because I have a narrow head. my head isn't small, its long and narrow.
+Rachel & Jun Subtle brag about how small your head is? I love it.
I just segued from ONLY IN JAPAN to your feed and I must say you are perhaps the cutest couple I have ever seen. Ever. Ryosuke is ADORABLE! I am so happy that you two found each other and are making these videos! Such interesting stuff!
Thanks!! I am more motivated now! (Ryosuke)
If only I had that effect!
Finally someone said it.
You are gay. btw Grace is beautiful.
Nikko Floralde don't judge, and yes she is.
Food really is cheap and, usually, far healthier. I lost weight while I was in Japan... then gained it back in Korea.
+Christian Abarca
I keep gaining weight here in Japan even though I move more and eat less than I did in Germany x'D I guess it also depends how your body reacts to different kinds of fat!
Koakuma Heh. That is true. Then again, I drank tea more than actually eat in Japan. For some reason, onigiri, noodles from convenience stores, and tamago with rice was enough to fill me up. Do you like tea? Hot tea (green tea specifically) helps out a bit.
Koakuma I did not get to eat foods from Germany when I passed by Frankfurt. Is it really good? I always hear it is
+Christian Abarca German food is really delicious but not very nice to your figure :D Okay, that's a bit harsh on German cuisine, but we tend to use a lot of meat and ingredients with starch/carbonhydrates like potatoes, wheat/flour or rice. But as always it's all about the quantities you eat... You should definitely try traditional German food!
+FreakyAlly88
mm, I would love too!! I don't gain weight like at all..so I think it'd perfect for me. lol
Price of books 3000 yen
Price of tissues 300 yen
Not being shot on the sidewalk..
Priceless !
The first time my family went to Japan my mum freaked the heck out about how cheap and good the umbrellas are in Japan, she brought like 10 back with her :'D
Lol
+Beffinee That is so funny~ I like your mom :D haha (Ryosuke)
Sit down restaurants in Japan aren't ridiculously cheap.
They're just ridiculously expensive in America.
yeah state side there is this bullshit "its about the experience" deal were you pretty much get charged more for the right to be present somewhere pretty much XD On the plus side you feel really nice when you run into a nice "mom and pop" kinda restaurant with really nice food/prices but sadly those are more and more uncommon.
Depend of what kind of restaurant you go.
Normal Ramen Shop will be less than 1000yen, but Sushi served by experienced Sushi Chef like Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza can cost of to 30000yen for a dinner session of about 12 nigiri sushi
I was thinking that too.... Eating out in Japan is pretty equitable in price to Australia
Totally depends on what you compare it to, I'm from Norway but I live in Texas right now (relatively cheap state I know) but here eating out is quite cheap like generally something from $7-$15, Compared to if I ever eat out in Norway the same type of food will be $20-$40 mainly just because peoples wages are so much higher and food in general is more expensive, even just going somewhere like McDonald's it will be difficult to find anything for less than $5
anne fosli Yeah, but if you came from a country like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy or Japan and went to California, I'd be massively more expensive.
For those not familiar with yen to USD conversions, 100 yen is just under a buck. Around 97 cents, currently.
I agree with Ryosuke 100% - you should NOT go grocery shopping when you're hungry. haha
Important life lesson~ :)
yet i do it all the time :/ when i'm not hungry i don't have the urge to shopping anyway
But how do you get the bad foods you crave if you're not starving at the time of shopping? :)
Trevor Kuso O_O I didn't think of that. Ohhhh lol
These are the things that keep me up at night.. I do it for everyone else. This is how I think I'm a saint.... LOL!
I know what's cheap in Japan: umaibo!! :)
Hahahaha, true...
hello yuta man
Fave 😂
+That Japanese Man Yuta UMAIBO is the best!
I am german and since the "Deutsche Bahn" was privatised, it got a lot more expensive. If you do not buy group tickets or tickets that are valid for a certain amount of time, you pay a lot. But it also depends on the type of train you take. For example an ICE (faster than the usual trains) from Düsseldorf to Köln (You might know it as Cologne) is about 40 km for around 18 € (20,25 $ or 2057 yen). For one person and only one-way.
Tissue is cheap yet they won't use it to blow their noses? 😆
You can blow your nose, just not in public.
TIMMAYY7 it's cheap BECAUSE they dont use it
I have permanent runny nose.
Looks like Japan isnt place for me.
This seems like about as much of "what is surprisingly cheap in Japan" as "what is surprisingly expensive in the US", judging as someone from neither of those two places ;)
+Frank Steffahn Food is very expensive in many places in America, at least compared to Germany. Funny thing is--food is taxed 7% in Germany...many states in America have NO tax on food, yet it is still by and large more expensive. Personally, I think it comes down to greed and companies wanting a higher profit margin
+Anna Belle I hate all the places where taxes are not included in the prices you see on the products... (from what I heard in the video that seems to be at least partially the case in Japan, too)
+Frank Steffahn As a Canadian I would say it is more "What is surprisingly expensive in North America". At least all those things seemed really cheap to me.
As a Canadian, it's more like "cheap vs cheaper" since our dollar is at a sad 64 cents. Buying meat is absolutely ridiculous in Canada, our books are pricey and well..everything else! But at least ramen and blocks of tofu are below 1$ lol. I can live on just that.......right? XD
worse here in Australia, I'd say.
Toilette paper is cheap but how's the quality? Is it the good 3 ply stuff? I had this on my mind since I went to a friend's house recently and they just had the single ply and it was awful.
+BlacVelvet ,lmao
Oh my goodness, yes! Every so great often my family will have a between period of not having money or it's late at night when we run out of toilet paper so we get the cheap, $1 stuff from a gas station until the stores open up again or someone gets paid. That stuff is NOT satisfying! The roll runs out faster because you have to use more to feel clean. It's definitely worth shelling out the extra two dollars or so to get even a small four-pack of higher quality TP. Indeed, be a friend and give your buddy a roll of "the good stuff", lol!
Ghjkl Bnm Even double would be better than single.
+Phil Nolan It's kind of "okay" quality. 2-ply is still pretty cheap, but it's nothing special. :P
The best I've found is 2ply, but most toilet paper you find in Japan is 1ply. D:
500¥ for manga?!?!?! Just another reason to move to japan
Buy at book off, manga for ¥108 lol
+Paula Kamioka Whaaaa? Amazing! I'm going to buy so much manga when I go
You'd need to learn to read in Japanese lol
I got several 80s/90s manga for .50 cents, their used book stores are amazing and all are in near new condition!
+Liam Trumbore Sometimes even cheaper, if its second hand it could be even 100-300 yen
And you won't even tell the difference, it looks brand new.
All the talk about books actually makes me REALLY curious about libraries! Are they used often where you live in Japan? For communities or just younger children? For students? Do they offer classes and other events at libraries? Are they publicly funded or private?
+Seri! Pixel Biologist! There are many libraries in the cities, big and small. Most common are community libraries, but as of 2013 data, there were 3,246 Public and Private funded libraries, and 1,674 University and College libraries, storing roughly 756 million books. All schools have a small school library as well, but these are usually only accessible to the students and PTA. Typically, public libraries store a wide variety of books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers, journals and magazines, and have a desk section commonly commandeered by students and senior citizens. Private libraries are often more focused on specific genres or authors.
wow 8000 yen is like 100 Canadian dollar, thats amazing. While I have to pay 300$ still with insurance to get the basic glasses here in Canada.
I'm pretty certain that you can get cheap glasses anywhere in the world. I live in Germany and with some waiting and looking around you can get prescription glasses for 17 Euro - like me.
OR
You can go to a random optrician and pay AT LEAST 300 Euro. If you want "a nice frame" and "special lenses" you are up to 1000-2000 Euro.
If you take the most expensive frame and go to the most expensive shops, you have to pay high prices, duh.
guess i was confused a bit on that, was it 8k yen for the glasses and exam? cuz if it is that is awesome.
berzerkerdav Most bigger chains in my country offer a free exam as long as you buy glasses from them. I got a good deal and exam + glasses was 17 Euro.
Most ordinary places range from 50 to 100 Euro for exam + glasses, unless you order them online, then you get them for 20-35 Euro.
For all the experiences I made I will never go to a doctor again to get a "prescription" for glasses. They constantly use outdated, crappy machinery. In bigger glasses shop I've been to they have far superior examinations. Some of them have 10 times more data on "eye passes" than the doctors do.
So if you are paying for a doctors appointment to get a shitty prescription and then pay 3000$ for a shitty pair of glasses, because you didn't go to one of the bigger chains and didn't say no to their "best offers", then it's really your fault, not the countries.
I live in a town of 16000. I can assure you 100% if I wanted to I could get a new pair of glasses for under 50 Euro - or in another shop for 3000 Euro.
Reading, comparing prices, looking at offers, sales, coupons, etc is really all you have to do.
Even the "most expensive" ordinary prescription glasses from the chains I saw were only about 80-100 Euro.
I bet I can easily find the same kind of offers for the US.
When professionals start to get their revenues mainly via insurance companies, price gouging follow inevitably.
Silver4567z yeah and if they are having issues making a claim for you, they just say "we'll charge you now because we can't make a claim on your behalf so you have to do it." Like seriously, they just want to make sure they get their money.
Totally agree on the umbrellas and eating out. I bought a small umbrella to carry around back in 2014 when I visited Tokyo. And I still use it and it hasn't broken down! It was under 1000 yen too. And all the cheap food... *-*
What about Potatoes, potatoes are cheap everywhere.
+Viet Lee I find potatoes to be rather expensive here in Japan. (it's somehow a "rare product", not much demand for it here.....)
Veit your everywhere. Potatoes are probably expensive as they try to make perfect sizes for everything D:
Roshill K Ha... true! They are obsessed with the "right" size, color, shape, etc... but hey, I like it. ^^ (I've never seen so big and perfect tomatoes like here, they almost look fake)
+Viet Lee try potatoes in Hong Kong - suuuuper overpriced! T___T
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Graze thank you so much for making videos! I look forward for every video you make! Thanks for making so happy and thank you for your hard work!
Hard cover books in Canada 35 dollars.
about the same as in Sweden (although we have lowered tax on books) if that is USD, in Canadian dollars a Swedish new hard cover is 45-50 CAD
hard back books in uk are £17 (22 usd) at most and thats for a cook book as thick as the bible no joke
Sweden is stupidly expensive...I never understood why...
taxes upon taxes basically. Not that bad tough, to be honest.
Sweden has extremely high taxes to pay for all the socialist programs.
i love it when i come home from a long wary day of work and see you guys video, it cheers me right up ^^ ryosuke's bright personality is really so uplifting (so goofy!!) and also grace your eyes are always so mesmerizing!! i think you two are the best and i'm very glad i found your channel!! thank you~
Books are expensive in Canada... everything is expensive in Canada... you see the US price on stuff then the you see the CANAda price and you weep all the way to the cashier. Even Ebooks are more expensive
+acexkeikai Try buying electronics in Europe, that stuff is priced same in Euros as in USD in US. D:
Yeah, there are a couple BookOffs in la near where I go to school. Its my favorite place. You can also find old video games there that aren't super expensive.
Recommending this video to our students!
Thanks! Appreciate it :D
Many hospitality and recreational services I remember in Japan are pretty cheap which I'm talking about are museums, zoos, amusement parks, temples, and castles. Museum and zoo adult admissions I've checked are usually under 1,000 yen. Waterparks are probably around 2000 yen. I've checked Toshimaen, the entry admission is 1,000 yen, 4,200 for full pass.
Temples and castles are probably a few hundred yen. I would put cigarettes up there too.
So I'm assuming that Luxottica doesn't own Japanese glasses companies.
You guys are absolutely right about rents being fairly reasonable in Tokyo these days. In fact, Tokyo apartments today are actually slightly less than when I lived there in the early 90’s. In fact, when you factor in inflation they are actually MUCH cheaper now than they were back then. In other words, my old $800 a month studio apartment in Tokyo should be about $1200 to $1400 a month today but its actually still only about $800.
Not only that, but today you can often get places without so much money up front. Back in the 90’s you would have to come up with about $5000 to move into that apartment (2 month key money, 2 months security deposit, and first and last months rent). Then you would have to buy your own appliances - sometimes even your own air conditioner, which could set you back at least another $1000. Then it would cost about $600 to buy a phone line (this was before cell phones). And if you have a car it would have been at least $300 a month for a parking space in my neighborhood. Oh, and lets not forget that you could not rent an apartment without a getting a Japanese person to be your guarantor (accept financial responsibility for you). And back then of course only a very small percentage of landlords would even rent to foreigners to begin with, which means the ones you could rent were not always the best deals.
The bottom line is it is MUCH easier and cheaper for a foreigner to get his own apartment in Tokyo today than it was back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. And if you don’t mind living in the suburbs you can get a pretty good-sized place for your money. If you like to be right in the heart of city however, like I did (and close the to the subway), your place is going to be pretty darn small.
I am now going to greet everyone with "mushroom" when i go to Japan xD
Manga in America is like 7-10 dollars depending. Or it can go higher for bigger manga books such as Mamoru Hosada's Wolf Children manga. It was released here in one big book rather than separate volumes.
Whiskey! Japanese whiskey is really good and sold at 7-11 for less than what you'd spend on good whiskey in America. As a beer drinker I didn't realize that it would be cheaper and tastier to drink Japanese whiskey until it was close to time to leave.
The look of pain on Ryu-chan's face at 10:04 when you mention buying all the seafood was priceless! LOL
Here in the south bay area you can't get a small studio apartment for under $1000.
I constantly watch your videos I even rewatch them...alot..
you just really inspire me ,Grace. :)
I do think y'all should make more videos!! :) I've re watched your Day in my life vids a million times. lol
your like my favourite show.
+Saturn Nicole Awww Thanks for re-watching us~! Your comments inspired Grace and I too, so Thank you :D (Ryosuke)
+Texan in Tokyo , your so very welcome. :) make lots and lots more videos plz!!!! lol
An average restaurant here in New Zealand is approx per adult $25.00 ($36 U.S) for us that is a cheap meal lol
Other way. 25NZD ~ $18.50 USD. That's about what it costs here, between $12 and $18 - unless you want steak and then they gouge you.
ahhh thanks for that, but then for us, we are a farming country and steak is an everyday meat...
I live in a state with more cows than people. It used to be the same way here, but now local suppliers have just matched the prices of what the grocery chains sell at - sometimes even at a higher price point, making "free range" cost more than stock yard beef. We usually buy half a cow at a time. The quality is better and we can save a little money, but not as much as we used to. The result is we eat beef once or twice a week and have switched to using more pork and chicken.
So you eat such 25$ meals 3 times every day?
I consider a home-cooked meal for 2 USD cheap.
SUSAN Stevens For US it's around 10-100$ for an adult, not counting tips or drink.
Rents blow my mind. I can't believe I can get a 2 bedroom in Tokyo cheaper for what I'm paying in Los Angeles! That's awesome news! But I understand that walls are paper thin, so what's the cost of heating (electricity) or AC?
+Silvie Monk I would imagine cheap because they do not have central heating in Japan typically. Also their houses tend to be smaller so the cost toheat and light it might be lower.
+Spiffleh Insulation seems not to have crossed the minds of any contractor in Japan, so it actually takes a lot of effort to keep your house warm in winter. It is a constant fight to keep the heat leaking through doors and windows, so you basically have to have whatever heater you use on at all times, which makes electricity bills be from 12 000 - 20 000 jpy.
+Chien Lao Thanks. Every one of my Japanese friends HATES the winter for that reason. Though a friend did recently buy a house that has central heat/air and thick, insulated walls near Yokohama, so it looks like houses are changing. OH, and Rachel and Jun (if you follow them on TH-cam) just did a house tour with all of that stuff. I find it so weird that it's taken so long to do things like insulation!
+Silvie Monk Yeah, insulation is non existent, so you want to invest in good heaters. We got a kotatsu table that supposedly only costs like 2 yen an hour to run or something like that. I basically live under it during the winter. But otherwise my apartment is like an ice cave.
I would love house without central heating since I turn it off leave window opened and still have to pay for it.
(it's around -10C outside so not that cold, but still I have 20c inside with window opened.)
This two are my favourite couple, they sooooo cute 😆😆
Glasses dont seem too bad in england either. i just got new ones today. and they had a 2 for 1 deal on glasses frames 69pounds(yes, thats the real price), which is about $100. and the perscription lenses were included in the price of the frames. so i got 2 new pairs for about $100. this was at Specsavers for those curious.
Can you please annotate what the yen are in pounds or dollars? It's confusing when you don't know actually how cheap they are because I don't understand yen x
+pinksealight 100 yen is about 1 american dollar, don't know about pounds though
+pinksealight A rough conversion is to drop 2 zero's 100 yen = $1.00
75p = 100yen
+pinksealight It's really easy to check conversions with google. Just type in "100 yen to usd" or "10 usd to pounds" for example and it'll give you the current exchange rate.
Captain here!
$1=113 yen
1£=157 yen
1€=125 yen
**Flies away**
The contents are good, the presentation is hilarious! 😄
A place where books are reasonably priced appeals to me very much, I always feel like it's a luxury to buy books in the US. They are so expensive! Happy to know that isn't the case in Japan 😄
I buy my book of the bookdepository.com it's a lot cheaper but shipping does take quite some time
Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out :)
suan. noir no problem it really has saved me quite some money, because where I live english books are quite expensive
You guys are really fun to watch!! Looking forward to more videos!! :D
Watch a man break his finger and not even flinch at 4:30...
he is double jointed. I can do that with all my fingers.
lol I can do that too, it's just different joints. From what I've seen it seems like it's not as common.
We have a Book-Off in San Diego. It's cheap!
Next year I want to go to the Kinki region and see the older parts; Kofun to Heian-kyo period. I'm planning to hit Book-Off and Mandarake on the first full day!
You gys need to live in Norway for some time, or Denmark! :D Nothing aftervards nowhere seems expensive! :D
My exboyfriend is from norway and when he went to germany he thought the prices were a joke and thought the same when I went to norway. I completely agree with you! :D
Yes it's like that to foreigners and tourists.
But honestly, it's not very expensive living here because the wages match the price level.
what fantasy world do you live in???? wages in denmark is are getting just as bad as the rest of eu, yet our prices do NOT go down, no they go UP same as anything the government has control over, denmark is oficially the worlds most expensive country in the world these days, and thats just for the citizens that already live here
sorry you are wrong , our wages are great in Denmark, a normal job is 35-37 hours(like cleaners, drivers, eg.) that can fully support you, we have access to help I we lose our jobs(money wise), free health care,
dafuq ? O.o
Really enjoy watching your videos. You two are really fun to watch and the videos are interesting.
8000 yen is NOT cheap, you can get the same glasses for 4000 yen in Mexico
and for 50,000 yen we can rent a 3 bedroom house with pool and a maid :p
Keep in mind, they are comparing the prices to the US, where 8000 yen is extremely cheap for glasses.
Yeah but Mexico is a short ride compared to japan :p
Yes, but how much does it cost to pay for the secuestro exprés? :p
Thanks for a great video!!! I'm looking forward to the next!!!
Is there a mercury concern with seafood in Japan?
+Scye This website has an abridged guide about levels of mercury in fish and how to eat in moderation to avoid potential mercury poisoning from fish - www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/guide.asp - There are other websites that go into more detail, if you want more detail. If there are edible sea creatures unique to Japan that are not covered on this list, I think your best bet is to just look up the nutritional information for that creature and I assume that is where you would find information on their mercury content as well.
in San Francisco.. they have thes portable bathroom stations that have sink.. an.. the whole thing rinses when you go 😊 25cents
Grace, as my husband and I watched this video, my husband said, "He's phlegging her." Which means he's doing the basic Phlegmatic (temperament) thing of trying to see how many buttons he can push. Phegs LOVE to watch people's emotions. They find it hugely entertaining. My husband is a Phleg, too, and I frequently have to tell him, "Stop trying to aggravate me." If you tell him that, and he gives you a sheepish grin, you know you've got him. :-)
I went to Japan for 2 weeks around thanksgiving from Dallas and it was rainy for about half the time. The umbrellas were so cheap and so good. They worked so well and I wanted to take them back with me. So good. Also Onsen is super cheap. It is basically a mini spa with the shower, hot bath, hot sauna, cold bath, electric bath, etc. In Kyoto it was less than 500 yen including towel.
My glasses (I live in France) cost me around 80,000 yen. T__T
Also, that look on Ryosuke's face at 9:59 "don't lie!" xD
The "it's a Texan in Tokyo show, ding!" Is the cutest thing ever!
I always cry when i think how cheap glasses are in japan,I pay about $350 in total (T_T)
+omipon checkout eyebuydirect.com or zennioptical
+pearl sherman Yeaaah...seriously, after finding Zenni Optical, I'll be damned I ever pay $200 for my glasses again! My current pair cost me about $60 and that's with having to get special lenses due to needing to protect my "good eye" and getting them thinned out for my "bad eye" so I don't look like I'm wearing Coke bottles, lol.
But even if Zenni isn't available to them, hopefully there's a similar option in their country.
pearl sherman Thank you soo much!!
+omipon BonLook, Warby Parker, and Fetcheyewear are great too. Their glasses w/ prescription cost about 100-125 total.
+omipon zennioptical.com
I buy my glasses from there, and 3 friends of mine too!
I buy second hand clothes from Rakuten and Yahoo Japan all the time. If you're into Japanese designer brands and don't live in Japan i highly recommend these sites. Much cheaper than Ebay.
Hello
I really love your channel! I do have a question though. I have heard in Japan it is considered taboo to live with a boy/girlfriend before you are married. Is that true? Are attitudes changing? How is it viewed if you are a foreign couple??
It is not considered to be taboo unless parents are
conservative upper-middle class and above.
hey there, I'm going to Japan in October and I was interested when you both mentioned about second hand luxury bags. I was wondering where i can found these shops? hyper to hear from you soon!
Ryosuke is the best!
Yeah, even in a smaller city like Seattle, in popular neighborhoods so called "apodments" are $750-800 a month, which gets you a tiny one room furnished apartment.
but what's really important is internet cost & how good it is
Extremely true. I absolutely refuse to switch countries until I know for certain I can get the same amount of internet usage there as I have with my current provider and either the same speeds or faster. I don't care for TV but the internet is my lifeblood, lol! Oh, and the same applies for my phone's internet too...I'm spoiled on having relatively fast speed on a smartphone and having access to it pretty much anywhere I go, even on backwood highways and interstates.
Now, to get these, I wonder what the cost comparison would be in Japan versus what I'm paying in the U.S....
Fyi, I pay 5000 yen per month for the internet in Tokyo.
Mmm Ryo that's half of what i pay here but, if you can answer: is it unlimited & what's the data speed?
+SideNote Kings of internet atm are Easter Europe. They have the highest average speed, no limits, and smallest prices. On average for 30 euros what translates to roughly 4k yen, you can get the best. With 400 Mbits up and down optical net. Considering I am living in middle of a forest. XD
+SideNote Speeds can range anywhere from standard fiber internet (100-200Mbps) all the way to the new Gigabit plans. As for price, around 3000-5000yen depending on what's available in your apartment building since rates can go down if more tenants are on the same provider. In some apartments, like mine, a free shared connection is available but I only get up to 50DL/25UL which is slow by Japan standards, but hey I mostly use WiFi anyway. As far as I know all these plans are unlimited. Only mobile data is capped.
Japan's perceived as a really expensive place, so I was surprised at how cheap food can be too, especially sushi. I also found anime figures a lot cheaper than in the UK (although here we're paying for someone to fly them halfway around the world and pay customs charges etc). And of course there are plenty of expensive figures too!
OMG INITIAL-Dを読む！！
Initial D面白いね！
i was hooked on the arcade game subaru wrx type r level 31 81percent win multicolor aura i name myself Bunta on my memory card
I love INITIAL-D, I'm watching the anime and I'm halfway through stage-1. I'm currently reading Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, but I plan on reading the INITIAL-D manga after it .
initial d is the reason I liked anime in general
Tom Holroyd lol only person to beat him is his dad (unofficial race) and one of the guys from the Mitsubishi gang. Lol spoiler
You guys are the most adorable thing I've seen in the last 30 days. And I saw a group of penguins! Keep it up!
Big change from the late 80's, there were no second hand items available except for Levis from America. Great garbage though, people would clean things before throwing them away. Got my toaster oven and TV from the trash...
It would be embarrassing for someone to have their trash dirty up the trash cans, since they are kept clean.
Zabeus they left clean items outside of the garbage cans as well...
just found your channel, love you guys! I can't stop watching.
lol, with the first one I thought he was saying the price of being a man verse the price of being a women and I was like lol, honey that's true EVERYWHERE
Awww, cute intro! Sad that I found your channel after ya'll stopped making video updates. Wish you guys luck!! Maybe one day there will be an update
You two are really cute together. Gives me hope.
I love the rapid interplay they enjoy between the two languages with each understanding what the other is saying.
So is my conversion correct in that if a book in Japan is 54 yen it's only 54 cents!?
Its kinda that, but you have to assume that you live there and spend their money, so youre not making exchange. 54yen is 54yen when living in Japan, otherwise its 54*exchange value.
Yes and no. The exchange rate fluctuates and changes the conversion all the time so it isn't always a Yen to Penny equivalence but it tends to hang around that.
But most "regular books", like novels and children's book are just cents? Priced at around a few U.S. dollars?
What about textbooks? This just blows my mind bc non textbooks in America are anywhere from around $7 to up to$50, or more, depending on the author's popularity, book advertising, what the book is about, and what expenses went into making & writing the book.
Usually the exchange rate hovers around 120 yen equals $1.
Can you remember the names of any second hand luxury clothing stores? I really want to check them out when I visit this september! :)
ZenniOptical for glasses. Enjoy the prices.
in your comment about train tickets... the Metra Rail for the Chicago area in the Midwest seemed very comparable.
NO WAY!? Glasses are that inexpensive!?!? I just bought a new pair that costed $500, when I could have waited 2 more months when I go to Japan! DX NOOOOO
+JeusEx scratch that it was $330, but still OMG
+JeusEx I just bought my first pair of glasses the other day for about $260, although they're ralph lauren they sound a little squeaky which bothers me. I'm going to Japan in May! I wonder if I could pick up a second pair of glasses if I'm a tourist?
Those are non brand frames obviously. They have cheap glasses shops like zoff but they aren't high end brand glasses
Gggg I spose, places like specsavers do 2 for $200. Which isn't bad but the choice isn't that good. It doesn't help that I'm really fussy!
Gggg You right, mine are RayBan so they cost a bunch. I'm not really picky and Im not partial to name brands either, as long as it looks cute on me. I'll definitely look up Zoff when I go to Japan tho, thx!
Thanks for the info. Curious: are the Y300 umbrellas made in japan?
what about electricity and water is it cheap
No.
electricity-costs have risen very much since 2011, because fossile-fuels have to be imported and no more cheap nuclear-power (not that im a fan of it) :/
still cheaper than in germany *cry
bigpunged4040 I found they are about the same price as in Australia. Electricity is tricky because the peak/off peak time ranges and prices varied, so it was impossible to say absolutely which was cheaper. But it was in the ballpark.
I really like his glasses, what type of frame are they?
If you have a western nose you cannot buy glasses in japan because the nose bridge is generally too small for medium size western noses.
Western nose...? whaaaat? Are you saying we have big noses?
It looks like you do from your picture.
then explain to me the black guy with glasses i saw in a youtube video about foreigners in japan who turned out to have lived in japan all his life
+AdoggTV
Black people have similar nose variation to that of Japanese folk.
Plus, our nose bridges are not as pronounced as Europeans.
However, I do think the op is chatting bs.
I had to check yours too.
hannah60000 hmmm if we re talking about nose bridges I hadnt actually considered the nose bridges by themselvs I was thinking more about the size of our noses themselves like I know I have quite the wide nose also the video which I couldnt think of at the time was on a channel called that man yuta something along those lines
If I do ever go to Japan, I really want to get a pair of glasses. Where should I go, and how do I ask for the anti blue light thing/ the glasses in general?
I don"t know. When you say that rent is cheaper in Japan, did you consider all the upfront money you have to pay to get in? 敷金、謝礼金 That's like 5, 6 months worth of rent right there if I remember correctly, that go down the drain, for no reason.
+Sunahama Nagai You can find places that don't charge shikikin or reikin (our current place didn't) - they're harder to find but totally exist.
+Texan in Tokyo Yeah but they're still not the norm. But I'm just having a hard time trying to think of things that were cheaper in Japan than here, besides some of the things you mentioned. Well, the abundance of restrooms open to the public (and clean!) are nice, and free, and free is cheaper than cheap. lol
+Texan in Tokyo use your brain, if that room donest drain much money , no landlord doest like money in japan, there must be a problem with that room, for example some sad stories happened before in that tiny space
+Texan in Tokyo I'm sorry to ask such a question, but how do I find those? (I plan on moving to Japan for a couple of years and a tiny one room appartment for 50/55/60 000 yen without some of those extra payments would be perfect! But I can only find rooms in sharehouses that cost that much.) I don't speak or read Japanese, so I can only search in English. :(
Edward Zheng I suppose that's true, but if one wants to move he's going to have to adapt.
When you say second hand goods, do you mean Vintage? Like second hand of Dior, Chanel, Valentino, and other designers item? I know that vintage market in US is a more expensive than Italy where I've been. If it is surprisingly cheap in Japan as well, I'd love to check it out! Do you have any store recommendations?
I hate how you dont instantly just convert the rates
I hate how you can't just run the conversion in your head. 100 yen = 1 dollar. Move the decimal two spaces to the left an your have it roughly in USD.
I tried to get anti-blue light glasses for my first pair earlier today and they said that they didn't stock them because apparently they can cause cataracts, which I don't believe. What type of frames are Ryosuki's? I can't seem to find a pair that suit but his look good.
You're both so cute
when i was in japan for 5 months studying abroad in nagoya, and visited 2 more times after(kyoto, oosaka, nagoya, hiroshima, atami(though shirahama beach was a bit expensive train-wise), nagano, tokyo(the owari-seto line where most of the tourist sights are can be pretty cheap and convenient, might be a different story for full-time residents going outside those places)), the train was pretty cheap, i could go an hour for about 300 yen, whereas in west virginia, to go an hour and a half on a train would be $36, that is where my comparison is:)
i also found kitchen and bathroom wares to be pretty cheap, or at least cheap enough to find in 100 yen shops, i LOVE 100 yen shopsXD much more convenient then $1 storesXD
healthy groceries in general were cheaper to me(but i didn't buy a ton of fruit, maybe some apples, bananas, and oranges from time to time, but otherwise no), a week or 2 of food in japan for me was 8000 yen(around $80), whereas in the usa, roughly the same amount would be $150-$200:/
buses i found to be cheaper, to get to hiroshima from nagoya, it took 6000 yen, whereas in the usa, to travel that long on a bus that is nowhere near as comfy(seriously, no cushioning, i could feel the coils under the sweaty leather seats), would cost me $150 to $200!
HOTELS!!! if you are careful and know what sites to look into(i once got a clean safe hotel(western style) in downtown tokyo for 4000 yen(roughly $40) a night in august(when it is japan's summer vacation, so prices should be up)), if i found something like that in dc, nyc, or la, i think i would dieXD i could barely find a decent hotel around here for that price, and i live in a suburban/rural area with no real tourist attractionsO.O
domestic flights i hear are cheaper in japan, but that one i don't know for sure
You guys are so adorable, it's disgusting.
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+Azima Premal
To be clear, that was meant in a positive way.
How much are glasses; frames, lenses and consult included, in the US? That seems about right for non-designer frames over here in Ireland.
+entershikarisim Canada here (but we usually have fairly similar prices). If you can get the frame and lenses for under $100 (8100 yen) it is a total steal. I would say most people pay like $200-$400 (16600-33100 yen) for a pair but that is because the frames always cost a ridiculous amount. I think consultations are like $50-$100 (4050-8100 yen) iirc.
This is all CAD too so like at 15% to it for US dollars.
I've seen 500+ in the us especially if you add anti glare, night driving specs, or bifocal not that i need it. I wear glasses everyday so I always call around to all the optometrist to compare prices and some time lense are free if frames are more expensive and other times lense alone could cost 200-300. but between Dr's appointment, the frames, lenses, and special things added on like anti glare total will be 300 plus for non brand name glasses :(
That's absolutely insane! Most I've spent on glasses is 200 (Euro) and they were designer frames and a got another non-designer pair free, both for short sightedness. That was total bill including eye test.
I think you can get glasses free or severely discounted with a medical card here as well but not sure on that.
Having said that I never add on any of those extras they try get you to buy, I think they're generally a waste of money.
entershikarisim In Canada our healthcare doesn't cover vision and paid health insurance often doesn't either unfortunately.
Neither does ours I'm fairly sure, but if you have a long lasting medical condition you get issued a card and everything on prescription is 2.50, even if its not related to your condition, or if you buy medication that goes over a certain amount every month it gets capped at about 400, and everything over that is free.
You're a super cute couple
What about lacquerware especially red carved ones?, also what bout ukiyoe prints? do you get netsuke or carved bone artifacts in japan? also what about ruko-chan ,ceramics from japan?
'Kinokooo'! 😂
I think umbrellas are more expensive in the U.S. for two reasons 1. People rarely need because of where they live (desert) or they feel like a jacket/coat with a hood is enough (e.g. people who live in the Pacific Northwest). 2. The umberllas last longer than the ones in Japan. Also people tend to keep track of their umbrellas and not take other people's umbrellas.
Is it me or the girl is not wearing any make up and the guy is 🤔
Is that a problem?
Did I say it was?
triky5384 No, just wasn't sure one way or the other from your original comment. And that sort of thing general is meant that way, hence asking for clarification. ;)
Ryuske just has really nice skin. Neither of them is wearing any makeup. :)
actually she is.
Can you do a video of where you go clothes shopping and how you find your sizes in Japan?
Living in Tokyo I thought when you rent you have to give a key deposit in which is give or take 20,000 yen, is that correct? I've been thinking of moving over there and also was wondering how do you pay your water, and electric bill or is that included with rent? Also trash and recycling as well.
How much for a pair of designer optical frames?
G'day from Australia!! I've watched a few of your videos but soon as I seen the initial d book brought in... instant subscribe haha 👍👍 keep up the good work guys
Is there a brand name for the bluish coating on Ryosuke's lens? There is something called www.polette.com/en/e-polette.html that looks very close. Most of the computer blue light blocking glasses are amber colored. Kodak has something called BlueReflect that also looks similar.
i've been checking around for the cost of apartments in Tokyo and was super surprised how much cheaper they are, especially compared to Manhattan prices
do you need insurance to purchase prescription glasses? I'm thinking about going there to purchase some when I go there in spring 2018 if it is really cheaper? I am from the US. Which shop did you guys go to?
I just bought new glasses (in Canada) and they were 45,000 yen. (or $550 in our bucks). Crazy expensive here!!