Der Yen ist so günstig, dass westliche Touristen, die es gewohnt sind, für gutes Essen + Trinkgeld viel mehr zu bezahlen, selbst luxuriöse Buffets im Wert von 13.000 Yen als „gutes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis“ ansehen. „In Australien würde es dreimal so viel kosten“
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Filing my US taxes every year, I’m always excited to see how much less I earn than the prior year when I do the dollar conversion.
That’s because in Australia you get bent over the barrel for everything. Even the goddamn passports are $422AUD a pop, and are so notoriously prone to curling that some people try to treat it as a security feature on account of most fraudulent ones having better build quality.
Imagine locals staring through the restaurant windows seeing foreign tourists having the time of their lives and spending money without a care in the world, simply more resentment fuel.
Pretty much yeah…
Western visitors in Japan. = Rich in Japan eyes.
They come and buy everything , spend like crazy. I don’t blame them. Japan is ridiculously cheap if you have Euro or Dollars.
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Lol I would never pay that much for a buffet.
I just had a trip to London (on someone else’s dime) and it was shocking. I’m not broke. Far from it. But every time I did the conversion in my head it felt like I was going to cry.
It was like ¥3500 yen for a burger. Nearly ¥2000 for an Americano coffee. It was over ¥600 for every subway trip.
So, yeah, I’m sure Japan is like a discount wonderland for foreign tourists these days
Furthermore, the yen will depreciate further to 200 yen against the dollar, and prices in Japan will likely become even lower in the near future.
Nah, not true.
Not many buffets are aud$350-400 per person in australia at all.
Australia is the worst comparison to be fair. We are so used to getting put over a barrel that anything else looks cheap.
Japan’s food and drinks tends to feel absurdly cheap. It’s accomodation on the other hand doesn’t seem like as much of a bargain (for short stay).
It seems like this is a part of the reason for the backlash against foreigners (obviously the Japanese have been anti (non-Western) foreigners traditionally, but it has gotten a lot worse in recent years). In Kyoto, for example, they were pissed that the foreigners are buying up the real estate and gloating how cheap everything was. If Saudis were buying up property in US/UK, for example, and gleefully declaring how cheap everything was, I am sure the citizens wouldn’t be thrilled. Am I off base?
I’m in Japan right now and it’s ridiculous how cheap everything is. Today I fed sushi to my entire family for $25. Back home we couldn’t buy a sandwich for that kind of money
R dis also true for ingrish sensei?
I paid that much for Omakase in Tokyo. In my country (Austria) it would cost double/twice at half the quality. Paying that much almost every day was a no-brainer.
¥13,000 is pretty cheap for a luxury buffet though….I live in Japan and it’s anywhere between ¥2500 and ¥15,000.
It may not seem expensive to them but, for people on an average Japanese salary that’s a lot.
I’m Indian American and married to a Japanese woman . We live in the Bay Area and I’m in tech+medicine so we are comfortable .
We are in Tokyo now with our kids now . Bought a home here when the yen was 150 and while the yen has weakened since, the real estate market has also boomed in the years since so we are fine .
Yes the shopping here is insanely good now . My in laws have noted it with amusement . FIL has a friend who taught economics and he finds the concept of blaming the foreign tourists at best idiotic by making a simple point – the tourist foreign currency inflows strengthen the yen, not weaken it further. He bemoans the simplemindednees of his own compatriots whom he expects to be more economically literate.
Meanwhile my wife ensures we uplevel our attire in Japan since everyone dresses nicer here anyway, and it’s an interesting experience to walk into shops together in Koenji, Shimo-kitazawa or Kichijoji and have them assume we’re loaded . The kind of treatment where one shop lady is catering to the wife and the others engaging me hilariously in broken English. Happened more than once.
Maybe from a local perspective we are. Things are definitely different from how it was ~15 years back on our first visit as a couple.
How luxurious are we talking?
That’s 64 CHF and yea cheap for unlimited compared to Switzerland but I had unlimited Korean BBQ in Seoul for half that. And it was fucking good.
It is not. $130 is a lot of money for 95% of Australians.
Maybe I’m just poor but when I see meals for 10k+ it’s a no for me lol. In the grand scheme 10k can buy you a lot of things. I will keep my meal budget between 1-2k thank you. But let’s not talk about shopping budget. 💀
13,000 yen buffet is cheap? That’s $80 USD, which is still expensive, unless everything on the menu is gourmet.
Comparing Japanese prices to Australian prices has little to do with the strength of the yen. AUD is only a smidge stronger than the yen, it’s just that everything is expensive as shit there.
I got three a5 steaks at about 6oz each for $7 total yesterday…
Not just foreign tourists. All the people I know working on military bases getting paid in dollars are also saying how cheap these places are. 😏
Rich tourists maybe, most people do not think spending that much on a meal is affordable.
Why Daiso in Australia are also priced 3X as much
Maybe i should go to Turkey for luxury tourism. Hear their currency inflate so badly
Yeah, no doubt. To put how cheap Japan is and just how much the country is giving away the farm for nothing, we must have gorged on almost 1 kilo each of top quality A3-A5 waygu at a Japanese steak house when we were there. They were premium cuts too. We batted no eye forking over 35,000 yen for the dinner. It was an absolute steal being able to gorge on luxuries like that for so cheap. Back home, restaurants charge insanely stupid prices for Japanese beef, like $100 USD for only 200 grams. These days, a thoroughly medicore US restaurant easily costs 30,000 yen. I have no doubt in my mind that if we tried to eat the quantity and quality of steak we had in Japan back home in the US, it would have cost 150,000+ yen.
Korean BBQ buffets in Australia are like 6000 yen for unlimited. 13000 would be pretty expensive.
Was on the Shinjuku-Shonan line with an American tourist last night and we were talking about how inexpensive Japan is compared to the U.S. He said, “Yeah, I took my wife and two young kids out to eat dinner last night — nothing fancy but good food — and it only came to $140!” I was like, “Bro, where the hell are you eating here?”
Are they not raising prices to compensate for the weaker yen?