If you can, try bundling your hotel with your shinkansen tickets via sites like JTB to take advantage of further savings. This is a long-running bugbear of mine. Cellphones and their accompanying contracts here in Japan are grossly overpriced.
Thankfully, in , new legislation forced these carriers to open the market up to new competition. How to Get a Smartphone. I know some of you may want to keep your old number, and this can be done, but it is quite problematic to do so with an MVNO, so if possible I recommend just getting a brand new number when you switch providers.
For more details, have a read at this article on cellphone contracts here in Japan. What has evolved though, is a whole new economy in seeking out bargains via apps, internet discounts, and online pre-booking.
The savings are there, you just need to know where to find them. What are your tips for saving money in Japan? Got any special offers you think we should know about? Leave a comment and tell us your thoughts. There's a position that's perfect for you on Japan's No.
Teacher, journalist and now blogger. More articles by Liam Carrigan. However, before writing your first comment, please create a display name in the Profile section of your subscriber account page. Your subscription plan doesn't allow commenting. To learn more see our FAQ. It looks like you're using an ad blocker. Thank you for supporting our journalism. With no one willing to take over their farms when they die, Japanese farming will soon reach a tipping point.
In the summer, I go to the local pear farms and buy big boxes directly from them. When I drive anywhere, I always stop at the Michi no Eki. The auctions and middle men drive up the prices. When we go to farmer markets prices are better. In conversations with family and friends, I have often remarked how we here in the States are blessed with a bounty of food, but we seem to have a dearth of good cooking. While traveling outside the States, I am amazed at how much more quality is valued in other countries.
Its yen for 10 Australian ones in Costco. I don't see wives telling their husbands to put them back because they are "unsafe". In Japan some farmland is leased itaku to farming companies, so that is untrue.
While there are problems with distribution and cosmetic needs, I think the main reason is that farms use industrial methods with costly inputs like machinery and ag chemicals but on an inefficient non-industrial scale. One guy with two fields and a four million yen mini combined harvester used for about 12 hours a year is never going to produce cheap food.
Japanese consumers are getting screwed. Mind you, some of them have the mindset that if something's too cheap, then something's got to be wrong. I just look out for discounts. And there is sometimes a small corner where local produce is sold and they're usually much cheaper. Recently I've been buying a whole big bag of shiso for yen. A small pack consisting of 5 leaves at the same price is a total rip-off. I just don't understand how farmer are getting so much financial help and yet the food is still so expensive.
When Japanese go to the UK, they actually think Waitrose supermarket is dirt cheap. Even after 15 years here, each time I go to the supermarket and see the prices i'm fuming at the total rip off it obviously is! It's blatant price fixing. In Japan, there is a big difference in veggie consumption between the young and old. It's normally passed off as old people eating a more traditional diet, but I think a falling standard of living is also affecting it.
Old people won't be paying off houses or have kids' expenses any more, and are more likely to have been employed in the good old days as seishain. We live in a carrot growing area. Just before the rice planting piles of unsold carrots appear in the fields. Daikon too. Those filled PET bottles around town are actually there for a reason. Recommended [image]. You may also like [image] [title]. Time Out. Follow us facebook twitter pinterest instagram. Time Out products Time Out Worldwide.
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