ATTENTION PEOPLE: What's the overall cost like? Definitely wanting to go over and probably to the snow, ie Hakuba in Nagano Prefecture.
Willing to work hard to not have to stay in backpackers, done it before and was constantly pissed off by retard people in my room.
how long for?
i did it on a "holiday" for 18 days, and it cost me just over 3k, including flights with qantas, and that was living fairly well, eating out everynight, drinking pretty much everynight etc. that was staying in a "lodge" at the snow, which we were lucky to only have me and my mate in the room for the first 10 nights, then we had 4 others for the last 4 which kind of sucked as they were noisey.
and in tokyo i stayed in a backpackers thing, in those capsual style beds, place is called the ace-inn, and is in akenbonashi, which is near shinjuku.
on the other end of the scale, i had two mates do a whole season at the snow.
they did it on the cheap, ate rice everynight, drank once the whole time, and came home with about 1000bucks more then they left with.
they got jobs at the skischool run by evergreen (NZ company) in hakuba, which gave them accomodation equal to about 50 bucks a week, worked one day a week instructin for about 100 bucks, and since they were over there for less then 90 days, they were still receiveing centrelink payments.
but really, i think i had a better time in my 3 weeks there, then they had over their 10. i still got to do snow, i got to live it up, see a LOT more then they did (they were to dodgy to look around etc).
it really depends how you do it, id say i could do it for under 2k 2-3weeks if i didnt get on the turps everynight at bars in the snow fields!
i also did blow close to 350-400 bucks in one night at a night club in tokyo.. agehi or something, its amazing how fast money goes, when your pissed and you have no idea what anything is worth!
