This definitely isn't a cheap city to travel. If you want to go for budget, you really have to find some ways to go around it. The hostel I stayed in my first two night was totally out of my budget. Costed me $17, very steep. Despaired. Fortunately, I ran into a Japanese who I met in Iran. He told me he was staying in a cheaper one, only $10. So I packed and moved next day without any hesitation.
The hostel, Tree of Life, was a Japanese hub. I was one of the only two non-Japanese (the other one was a weird quiet Korean) staying in this hostel. Japanese was the official language both in written and spoken, including music in there. I was a foreigner in this little Kingdom located in a city where wasn't within their national boundary line. I felt quite comfortable as they treated me like one of their fellow citizen.
Sometimes some people volunteered to cook simple Japanese meal for dinner for those fellow citizen who liked to join. We shared the cost. With flood of Japanese comic books, novels and guide books, it was no doubt that they felt like home especially after months or even years far away from home. No wonder many of them had been staying there for weeks or sometimes months.
Sometimes some people volunteered to cook simple Japanese meal for dinner for those fellow citizen who liked to join. We shared the cost. With flood of Japanese comic books, novels and guide books, it was no doubt that they felt like home especially after months or even years far away from home. No wonder many of them had been staying there for weeks or sometimes months.
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