Cost of Living
Monthly budgets by city
Cost of Living in Fukuoka
What Fukuoka costs per month — the lowest big-city budgets on Japan's main islands, rent by district, and who benefits most from the math.
Cost of Living in Kobe
What Kobe costs per month — rent by hillside and seaside, the Osaka-commute equation, and how the port city prices against its Kansai neighbors.
Cost of Living in Nagoya
What Nagoya costs per month — rent, food, transport and the savings math that makes the manufacturing capital one of Japan's best places to bank money.
Cost of Living in Kyoto
What Kyoto costs per month — student budgets, tourist-zone rent distortions, and how the old capital prices between Osaka and Tokyo.
Cost of Living in Osaka
What Osaka actually costs per month — rent, food, transport and utilities for singles and couples, and how far it undercuts Tokyo.
Cost of Living in Sapporo
What Sapporo costs per month — Japan's lowest big-city rents, the winter heating line most comparisons miss, and who the math truly favors.
Cost of Living in Tokyo
What it actually costs to live in Tokyo as a single person, couple or family — rent, utilities, food, transport and one-time moving-in costs.
Cost of Living in Yokohama
What Yokohama costs per month — rent by area, commuting to Tokyo, and how the capital-region's second city prices against Tokyo itself.