Those teachers that want to save have managed to save in excess of one million Japanese yen (1,000,000yen) in their first year. This is not an unrealistic target if your main intention is to come to Japan and save money. The people that have successfully done this typically do not smoke, drink alcohol, or return home at every opportunity that they get.
Traveling within Japan can be frightfully expensive without careful planning.
Wining and dinning and certainly night clubbing would need to be limited.
Trips to Tokyo would not happen that often either.
One of the biggest, if not the biggest overhead is perishable items. Learning where and when to buy is certainly one of the best ways to learn how to save money. By locating the best places to buy all of your perishable needs can reduce these expenses by up to 50%, a saving that can result in a difference of 10 E30 thousand yen each month.
Other monthly household expenses that can be wasted or saved on includes -
Electricity: 2,000 E3,000yen.
If you use the recycle air conditioner for heating/cooling, this can escalate up to 15,000yen per month.
Gas: 2,000 E3,500yen
Depending a lot on if you really enjoy long hot showers. If you do, then you can expect the gas bill to be as high as 7,500yen per month.
Water: 2,932yen
You are allowed 10 cubic meters per month for this figure. It is not that difficult to stay under this and for it to be around 4 cubic metre usage. This would be about 3 E5 minute daily showers
Sewerage: Is a direct correlation of the amount of water that you use and is calculated at the rate of 50% of the water bill per month.
Telephone:The evil necessity really can run away with 10’s of thousands if you call internationally on a regular basis. Nearly all of the teachers here use International discount cards instead of the national carrier in which their charges are in the range of 5 E7 times higher depending on location and the time of the day when someone calls.
