500 a day? The tickets are 160 each now. we spent about 60$ each MEAL…so a day for tix plus food is around 850 a DAY, not counting hotel, souvenirs, and anything travel like taxi or gas. So “1K a day” is the saying for US travel for 4 ‘now-a-days’.

Vanessa,

Airfare for Japan has skyrocketed in the last two months. $1,200 – $1,400 for economy is become normal. I do need to update that section, but all other estimates are still accurate.

You won’t find cheap airfare as you’ll be limited to the major airlines that fly to Japan. Since Cleveland isn’t a major hub, you’ll need to take a connector. For example, you could fly Air Canada to Toronto and then to Tokyo or United via Chicago.

Where did find those prices for the airfare? Every time I look its at least $1,200 per person.
Also, when I clicked the link to see about prices for the airfare they could not find the Cleveland airport that I would be traveling out of. Any recommendations at finding cheap but safe plane tickets?

In addition has the price for the additional items you mentioned change? I feel like everything has went up in price and this article may not be up to date. Am I correct?

Niranjan,

That’s correct, you can’t ride the Nozomi and Mizuho trains with your JR pass. That said, the other trains comes just as frequent, and only take 20-30mins longer so it’s not a big deal.

I have heard that not all the shinkansens allow jr pass like nozomi, is it true?

Hey Ben,

So first thing, Japan is still closed to tourists. I’m not even sure they’ll be open in 2022 for foreigners.

I have a one-week itinerary for Japan that you should check out – https://www.moneywehave.com/one-week-in-japan/

That said, you could easily stay in Tokyo for an entire week and not get bored.

Since you’re talking about proposing and Sakura trees, you may want to plan around cherry blossom season which is April. There are plenty of great places to see the cherry blossoms, so it becomes a matter of how romantic do you want it to be you know? Kyoto is more prettier than Tokyo.

Feel free to send me a direct email if you have more questions. We don’t want your gf to see this conversation by accident.

Thanks Barry. I haven’t already paid for my hotels, so I’ll factor that in.

Hey Steve,

Beautiful itinerary. If you’ve already paid for your airfare, JR Pass, and accommodations, I don’t think you need to bring that much cash. I’d say just bring 1,200 Euros, and then withdraw more cash as you need it. Also note that many stores take credit cards. Smaller restaurants are cash only, but credit cards are accepted in many places. Using your debit card to get more cash won’t be a problem as Japan upgraded much of their infrastructure to accept foreign cards when they were preparing for the Olympics.

Of course you could take more, I just never recommend people carry a ton of cash regardless of where they’re headed.