Travel To Japan On The Cheap

Above, a view of the Sumida River and Asahi Beer Hall from the Tokyo Skytree. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Thanks to the favorable exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen in Tokyo, Japan is not the expensive place to visit as it once was.

American visitors can even save even more money visiting Japan. 

Boing Boing has posted a video on how to travel to Japan "on the cheap."

They begin with:

Japan was once an expensive country to visit. It isn't any longer. Thanks to a favorable exchange rate, it's much cheaper to travel around Japan for a lot less than in the United States or most of Europe. Plus Japan is generally safer, cleaner, and has better food than the U.S. or Europe.

In this 30-minute YouTube video from Abroad in Japan, you'll learn how to stretch $1000 for two weeks in Japan  (excluding flights).

To see the video and read more, go here.