How much in USD would be good to take along as spending money for a week in tokyo?

i already have a place to stay (staying with a friend and it's free) so this USD amount is just for food/transportation and spending money.


i am a university student too so i will be on a budget but looking to get ideas from people.|||Tokyo is the most expensive city in Japan, so you should bring a LOT. For starters with food, since it's going to be a week with 3 meals a day, in total have enough money for 21 meals. You can stick with McDonalds, ramen shops at a mall, or sushi-belt resteraunt (where each plate containing one sushi is around 100 yen/1 USD), which all have cheapness equivalent to the U.S. prices... Or you can spend a lot by going to restaraunts serving squid or other strange, fancy foods. Think how much high class resteraunts in America cost, and it'll be about the same, if not more.





Transportation isn't expensive. To ride trains is very cheap, maybe about 2300 yen (2-3 USD) for a ticket, unless you decide to go on a fancy high speed monorail, which may cost up to the equivalent of 15 USD.





Now for spending money... just bring a couple hundred if you have specific stuff in mind. Clothes in Tokyo cost a fortune, since that's where many name brands are, and even CDs can cost the equivalent of 20 USD. At least books are cheap.|||Um. about 100 or 200 dollars|||Sightseeing into temple/museum needs the entrance fees, souvenirs will be happened as memoirs there and meals are not so inexpensive unless you are small eater so that you'd better prepare USD100/day at least for pleasant staying in Japan.|||well, i would bring at least $300, but more just to be safe, because you don't want to be stuck in a foreign country with no money. plus, japan is expensive.|||I visited Tokyo and Osaka for a week during a trip to Japan last year, and I spent about $50 a day, and I thought I was being stingy. I had a JR Rail Pass (a GREAT investment if you are traveling around the country - in Tokyo only, probably not so much) but in Osaka while I lived there it was about 200-300 yen ($2-3 dollars) for the average train ride.





Food... It depends on what you want to eat. Eating on a budget you can get by at $20 a day, but if you want good stuff, $40-$50 is a better bet. Personally, I like cheap stuff better, but each person has their own tastes. Curry rice, ramen, okonomiyaki, kaitenzushi, and gyudon are super good and super cheap.





Souvenirs are your own personal thing - Asakusa has cheap souvenirs (cheaply made and not very unique), but in other areas it will be more expensive. If you want a kimono or something like that, you're going to pay A LOT more. I got my kimono at a flea market in Kyoto for $5 US, but that is a one-time deal.





I spent $700 US over two weeks in cities and smaller towns minus most transportation. For a week in Tokyo, I would budget about $400.|||Despite Tokyo's reputation for high prices, you can readily travel, entertain yourself, and feed yourself very cheaply. We went for our honeymoon and traveled on a train pass we bought before we left the US. Food is so delicious and inexpensive in small restorans all over the place. Little restaurants that serve delicious bowls of hot noodles, steaks and pork dishes for very little. Hit up a kaiten sushi restaurant and watch as fresh sushi and sashimi make their way around the restaurant on a conveyor belt. You only pay by color-coded plate. Very cheap and very good. The shrines and temples are free and if you want a souvenir they are cheap.