It is also very good value: business hotels and hostels plus the railpasses can make it cheaper than almost any other developed country to visit once you get here.
Japan is everything you want and definitely both remarkably easy and charmingly exotic. It is also very good value: business hotels and hostels plus the railpasses can make it cheaper than almost any other developed country to visit once you get here. I’ve paid as little as $30 for my own room in a well-maintained business hotel near a train station in smaller places, for example.