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.
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.