Japanese asked what it is they think is too expensive in Japan compared to overseas yield a ranking unlikely to dismiss any stereotypes about urban life in Japan…
1. Land
2. Housing
3. Delivery pizza
4. University fees
5. Highway tolls
6. Gasoline
7. Movies
8. Mobile phones/packet charges
9. Foreign brands
10. Taxes
Aside from the fact that Japan’s taxes are some of the lowest in the developed world, a list Japanese and non-Japanese alike are unlikely to find fault with – although being a survey of commoners the extreme prices of Japanese games and anime do not feature.
Well land is everywhere expensive!!
Pizza delivery is 3rd oh my God… It shouldn’t even be on that list is it sooo expensive..
Pizza hut always seems to find it’s way into anime
i understand land and house…but pizza ey? i suppose they are in japan
I live in Chiba, about 40 minutes from Akihabara station.
I pay $700 a month for a 40 year old apartment that is two 7 tatami sized rooms and a bathroom… I don’t even live in the more expensive, smaller apartments that are closer to the city. On top of that, in order to move in to a house, you pay 2 months rent as a bond, then 2 more months rent as a cash gift to the owner for them allowing you to live in their building. Oh and when you move out, you NEVER get your bond back.
A large pizza, picked up from the store is $30.
Plenty of friends are in university. They pay exorbitant fees.
I drove to Gunma for a holiday. A 4 hour trip. Tolls were \6800 each way. Don’t ever drive in Japan.
Fuel is about the same as my home country (Australia).
Movies are \1800 for a regular session, \300 more for 3D. The last session of the evening is usually only about \1200, but they don’t play most new movies that late.
Don’t EVER use your phone to make calls. It costs too much. Everyone just emails unless they NEED to call. The rates are crazily high.
Foreign brands are a bit of a lucky dip. Some expensive things overseas just don’t have brand recognition here, so they are pretty cheap. However, if you like the brands Japanese people like, go get a second job. Ed Hardy tshirts can go for over \20,000.
What they haven’t mentioned is that to buy a crappy little table for your house is about \15,000. Furniture is so expensive, the companies selling it must have a massive cocaine habit. If you want a standard single bed, you can say goodbye to about \60,000 and then more for delivery. Tomatoes are \100 EACH. The cost of living in the greater Tokyo area is inflated at every turn by price gouging.
Oh damn. It sounds so discouraging. I want to live in Japan,please tell me something positive.
The yen sign is coming up as a slash… *sigh*
“Foreign brands”?
WTF?! I thought they call it “gaijin brands”!
Fucking hypocritical Japs!
>:-/
Sounds distressingly like Canada. (But I’m still going to go get pizza.)
I am in Osaka,Japan right now and a personal pan pizza at this restaurant i went to is like 10 dollars each, and I also went to the movies to see Biohazard/Resident Evil, and its 12 dollars a tickets!!
rating’s wrong, fruit are the most expensive
how d’you like two bucks an apple?
I’m right outside San Francisco now (about an hour outside…close enough in America since an hour drive is nothing) and they property out there is outrageous just to rent. =/ I don’t think Tokyo is near as bad as there and other places.
Also…pizza…dear Lord, I’d just never eat again. Then again Italian friend=free pizza if you bring the beer.
land = the same problem in every country
pizza more expensive then university fees haha
whoa
delivery pizza is more expensive than university fee!?! and then gasoline!?
I will think, the most expensive thing???? Well it may be a payed scort, but maybe there’s more cheap pay to have a funny night than eat a pizza in Japan?
Well, here a Familiar Pizza delivered in my house is around 250 Mexican Pesos so its like 1660 to 1680 Yens.
And a Call Girl its arround 2,500 to 3,000 Mexican Pesos, and that’s a cheap and clean one.
So i will say the costs are not related.
Here in Mexico, the Entry Fee to an University its around 2,500 in a Public One, and the sky the limit in a Private One.
One Semester its like 300 Mexican Pesos in a Public University, and by working in a Private University i can say in promedium of 70,000 Mexican Pesos the semester in a “Good” Private University.
So how much its the Entry Fee in Todai? And the Semester? In Yens?
Dunno, the buying of housing here varies, from 50,000 mexican pesos for a empty lot in the middle of nowhere near a city, to 1,000,000 Mexican Pesos for a departament in the luxury area. So comment.
The movies here cost of rental for 24 hrs 1 DVD like 25 Mexican Pesos, the movie theater extreme quality like 150 Mexican Pesos, and buy a DVD movie like 250 Mexican Pesos. 1 Blue Ray Movie Rental it’s like 50-75 Mexican Pesos, a cheap Movie theather like 35 Mexican Pesos, and buy a Blue Ray Movie like 450 Mexican Pesos. The most expensive thing here are the Taxes, like 80% of the tax money goes PUFF!!! Bribes, Private Partys, Land Owners, etc.
Plus the average salary of an employee its like 3500 Mexican Pesos to 5000 Mexican Pesos in a Month, so do the math.
“big dikku” in Japan is worth having, as it might make things bit cheeper.
Yeah, pizza in Kyoto might be slightly high, but you have to take out a frickin’ bank loan to buy fruit in Japan!
You guys are so funny.
128 yen/L is so fucking cheep…come to Germany, here you can pay 1,8555$/L
It’s still incredibly steep by American standards. ¥128/L is equivalent to $5.71/gal. In actuality, the stations in my area are currently around $2.55-2.60/gal. (which works out to €0.51-2/L). for regular (mid-grade is 10-15¢ more than regular, and premium is 8-10¢ more than mid-grade).
When it hit $4/gal. two years ago, you would have thought it was the end of the world here. A lot of stations even went to requiring prepayment for cash sales, because of the spike in drive-offs. Gas prices were a major factor in Obama’s election that fall. Of course, a decade ago, the going rate in my area was just over $1/gal. (and often fell below $1 in the winter months), so it’s still understandable.
Having lived and worked in Japan a few years ago, I would readily agree with about half of this list. The other half, the Japanese are smoking crack.
high land and housing prices in Japan are a myth perpetuated from the 1980s, and this has fallen steadily since their property bubble burst in the early 1990s. Even now it is still the cause of the last decade of Japanese productivity – they have experienced the rough equivalent of our 2008-2009 recession for over 15 YEARS now. Land prices NOW in Japan are actually comparable (or even LESS) than many western cities. I can buy an apartment in any Tokyo suburb for less than in my Canadian city now!
University fees are also a myth. This may be different from a foreigner perspective too – as almost every western university also charges higher rates to foreign students whether they are private or public, the overall cost of going to university has gone up dramatically over the last 20 years EVERYWHERE.
Highway tolls? Hell yes. But this is a product of the Japanese government – toll highways were designed specifically to subsidize and support the Japan Rail network, and if you make a simple direct comparison tolls are almost uniformly applied to make driving your car 10-20% more expensive than taking the same journey cross-country by train.
Mobile phones and data charges? HA. Don’t even talk to me – Canada has the highest average cellular rates in the developed world.
Foreign brands? I think that is in part the product of the government creating tariffs and barriers to foreign competition. You don’t see this much in electronics because domestic products are so overwhelmingly dominant, but I never really paid much attention to clothing or other product pricing.
Grocery shopping was comparable but the selection of international brands and products was definitely more limited than your typical western supermarket.
Overall anyone who has visited Japan in the last 3-5 years will certainly say that thanks to stagflation, Japan is nowhere near as expensive as it used to be 20 years ago. Its prices for goods and services have stayed relatively static while everything else in the world has inflated in comparison. However this is all a matter of perspective – I couldn’t really speak to the typical Japanese wage earner’s salary. It’s quite logical that their wages have not appreciated much in this same period too. I was lucky enough to be paid a western-scale salary by my employer so this issue wasn’t visible to me.
I am more surprised to see there are no sex service in the top 10 list.
Pizza ABOVE University Fees???
What? How about:
– A wife
– Another “wife”
– Children
Or maybe they can’t bring themselves to admit it.
“3. Delivery pizza”
what the?? really? i don’t think japan takes tip?(don’t quote on me)
I went by a pizza hut in Tokyo a few days ago and got an AMAZING pizza on take away, delivery with their cute scooters is same price. Best quality pizza i’ve had but yea it was Y2000 on a campaign, normally Y3500!
Other than that it’s a pleasure living here(eating out, entertainment, shopping), coming from Sweden with the 2nd highest tax in the world. Unfortunately the YEN is unecessarily strong right now.
I noticed it reads “delivery pizza”. Would it be cheaper if one went and picked it up? That’s what I always do, why pay them extra to deliver a luke warm pie, 45 minutes after I ordered it?
I think a lot of you are misunderstanding what the list is saying.
Its not saying pizza is more expensive than going to a university, its saying that more people feel that they aren’t getting there money’s worth from a 3000 yen pizza(i.e. they would rather pay closer to 2000 yen or something) than feel that the prices to go to Japanese Universities are to high.
yeah here in asia, pizza is relatively cheap with promos going on and everything…probably the speedy delivery charge that goes with the pie makes it expensive in japan
Why the f*ck pizza is that expensive?! its even lots expensive than university fees o_O
Hmmmm pizza
it might not seems like it cost a lot to me now, but when i lived in asia i used to think pizza is bloody expensive.. until i came to england, where every fucking thing that you can put in your mouth is expensive and taste bad. in asia for the price of a pizza (which is similar to western price) u can get a lot more and arguably better stuff, that is why we think its expensive..i think
Some of you have no idea how expensive some of the listed items really are.
Things such as movies and pizza (not delivered) in Japan, you can expect to be double to quadriple the prices you pay, well in Australia anyway.
University fees are a joke over there – there is a common saying that for parents, there is a decision to either send their kids to university or to give them braces. One or the other
Highway tolls are also overpriced. To go from a local suburb in Osaka to the Kansai Airport, you’d pay approximately 15-20 dollars including the trip back.
Foreign Brands – Commoners in Japan, when it comes to luxury and brand goods, are as bad as otaku…
University fees are a joke everywhere. But I get what you’re saying.
i thougt any delivery would be expensive, for hikikomori they don’t like going out right?, that’s the best weakness that we can use to make money
Perhaps some of these ranks are when compared to other countries… or maybe even countries that are not as ‘advanced’ as Japan.
1) Land, yepper. It’s frickin’ pricey.
2) Housing. It can be, but that is relative… if you live in downtown Vancouver, New York or Beijin, you bet your ass it’s going to be expensive. However you can find a pretty decent apartment for only 70,000 yen/month.
3) Delivery Pizza: Two all-meat large pizza’s from the local Pizza Hut are 3,500 yen, very close to the prices back in my hometown in Canada.
4) University Fees: Not sure, can’t really comment on this
5) Highway Tolls: Yepper. Just got back from a trip up north to Aomori Pref. and the tolls alone ranked in at over 14,000 yen. Fuck me…
6) Gasoline: Really? It’s 128 yen/liter for regular here… that’s about 3 yen more than it is back in Canada at the moment.
7) Movies: Meaning THEATER movies. Renting movies is cheap, 8 DVD’s for 1000 yen from Tsutaya HOWEVER going to the theater costs well over 2,000 yen for just admission.
8) Mobie Phones/Packets: This used to be cheap about 5 years ago when I first moved to Tokyo. I was buying a new handset for 25-30,000 yen outright every few months when the new ones came out, then fucking foreigners (and Japanese alike) would buy a dozen handsets (google Sharp V903SH for example) and re-sell them for 4-times the value over-seas. Since that became such a problem, the prices rose to well over 70,000 yen in most cases for a handset with no contract. – As for packet costs, it’s still a shit-load cheaper here than it is in Canada where it’s 5 cents/kb compared to my 4,000 yen unlimited data and tethering plan I’m on (month to month, no contract).
9) Foreign Brands: Yepper, a plain white Calvin Klein t-shirt here typically retails at import shops for well over 20,000 yen. Fuck me sideways. I’ve made it a small side-business by going back home on vacation to Canada and buying about $200 worth of clothing from the used shops and re-selling it here. One ‘Randy River’ black t-shirt back home cost me $3 and I re-sold it here for 7,000 yen.
10) Taxes: Umm.. huh? Taxes for what? For where? My health insurance (tax?) costs me 800 yen/month. I pay virtually no sales tax to speak of and the last time I had to pay a city-tax, one year had me pay out all of 9,000 yen. Perhaps the income tax? But still, it’s about 4% here compared to the 35-40% back in Canada. Which taxes are these referring to?
People are fickle everywhere I suppose.
Invite me to live there, i will pay the export fee of live animals in a wooden box. LOL.
Have to drop a note on the theatre prices – many theatres where I live (Kansai) have “special” days where the general fee is around 1000 yen, and the highest I’ve seen in regular fees is 1800 yen/person. Maybe it’s different in Tokyo?
No it is not… Most of the theater are @1800 yen EVEN in nice spot like Roppongi Hills.
Moreover, you can buy the same ticket for 1300 yen if you know where to buy it.
Theater is expensive, but not THAT much.
Most of these prices aren’t that much higher than US theatres.. they’re typically $15/seat now too. Although $60 for a recliner massage seat sounds ridiculous, if it was in a private booth that guaranteed there would be no screaming brats, stupid bitches with cellphones or hambeasts smutching 10-gallon bags of popcorn I’d be willing to pay that sometimes.
Just like a miniature version of the private skyboxes most sports arenas have for the owners and corporate sponsors.
Care to explain that to the theater here in Asakusa? Or the one in World Porters?
Dish it up, or shut up ANON.
Yep, it’s certainly different. The theater in Asakusa runs 1700 for daytime and 2200 for evenings. Shows in Sakuragicho at World Porters theater run 2,800 and for a ‘reclining massage chair seat’, it’s 6,000 yen.
I think that tax comparison is really impossible to compare. It also needs to compensate for what you get for it. If healthcare is covered,which tax is it coming from? Sort of makes a difference.
Delivery pizza on 3? Thats a surprise.
I am poor, somebody give me pizza quick or I will waste to a ton.. 🙁 I WARNED YOU.
You gave me the finger, so no.
Pizza really IS expensive in asian countries. I lived in taiwan for half a year, and getting dominos pizza delivery cost over 20 bucks for a “large” pizza that is smaller than a medium pizza in america. Came with the choice of a side tho (like chicken nuggets or soup). Still, really really expensive.
Well, phone service certainly isn’t too expensive here. When I came Tokyo a year ago, I got an iPhone 3GS with unlimited data and a good calling plan (which actually doesn’t get used much, since people text more than call in Japan) and I only pay about ¥6500/month. There weren’t even any up front charges – I basically got an iPhone for free. Oh yeah, almost forgot… I don’t get charged for texts at all, no matter how many I send. Not a bad deal if you ask me.
I’d say that balances out the mobile phone costs themselves then.
I used to have a UMTS phone back in Germany, with 100 minutes/month, free texting and downstream 200MB/month included. Price? 12 bucks a month.
In Holland I used my German phone with a Dutch SIM prepaid card – no internet, but cheap minutes (9 cent/minute international within Europe, 5 within Holland) and dirt cheap texting (5 to 19 cent per text, depending on size, pictures etc.) and usually didn’t use up more than 10-15 Euro/month.
In Japan, I pay between 2500 and 5000 a month with none of those features excluding free texting – but I only get free texting with people at the same company.
So yeah.
Comparing my plan to my JP friend, I got charged more for a lesser plan,not sure if the fact he lives in BFE changes that comparison or not but I live in BFE in the US so I thought the comparison was fair enough. I figured the 2 year total was 30% less.
Everything is expensive in Japan, so… yeah.
what about shiitake mushroom
matsutake?
Didn’t mention how much to have sex with a Cute and Young Virgin Girl in Japan?
10000 yen minimum… and forget about cutie…and virgin too, just a regular health delivery.
I can get at least 5 real hot “health delivery workers ” on my country with this money..
No Cutie? Then how Artefact get a photo of some cute girl naked? Didn’t he pay to model nude? I wonder how much and did he have sex with them with additional pay of course! Expensive really!
I have two words for you, Altair: 2chan camwhores.
Cute and Young Virgin Girl? In Japan?
wtf #1 thing that is most expensive in Japan, is suppose to be house wives.
They come with the house.
OK, so lots of things are expensive. But, according to some recent items on this site, at least sex with lolis is cheap.
whaa…
university fees after pizza delivery…
they’re sure love to eat pizza…
“…the extreme prices of Japanese games and anime do not feature.”
Probably because there weren’t otakus included in the survey. I mean… can jobless otakus pay tax???
Anime and manga is a necessity of life over there, like water. The list are item of luxury.
Just expected, prostitution fees is not in the list.
Pizza?! wow!
maybe cheese-kun was the one delivering the pizza..
that’s why so expensive..
Oh, don’t even get me started with mobile phones, I was paying something like 10000 yen per month on my phone bills while I was there.
As for movies it depends as DVDs are expensive, but going to the cinema itself is more or less the same as where I live.
Thinking in a neutral view, in Japan the unhealthy food costs more, not for the real monetary cost, but the real proportion of calories. I’ve seen the pizza deliveries websites and I’m amazed of how much calories they have. (Many times the fat that they have here in Chile, and I can ensure you, these ones are butter with mass.
No wonder most Japaneses are so slim.:)
Apparently you don’t know about lack of exercise, stress, and slow metabolisms.
C.C. must be lucky to be able to chow down on expensive pizza every episode.
“3. Delivery pizza”
Dang, Britannia probably added some price drop when they turned Japan into Area-11.. or Lelouch was just too filthy rich.
I’m not sure how expensive pizza is in Japan in particular, but if you want a comparison, Pizza Hut is actually a fancy restaurant in China.
A very basic medium-sized pizza at domino’s costs 1800 yen = 18 dollars. If you want something more interesting, with some side dish or something like that, expect to pay 3500 yen=35 dollars or more.
Thats because eating at a Pizza shop is considered a proper family resturaunt, as compared to America where its a fast food take away.
Where in America are you talking about? Because I’m in New York City, and we tend to ostracize Pizza Hut and Dominos. Well, here and any place else in America with a significant Italian-American population. Not only is it a matter of taste, but also a matter of expense. Chain pizza places always cost more than the normal neighborhood pizza parlor (albeit the quality and authenticity of the pizza is only greater by such a margin). But in New York City, along with the normal neighborhood utillity pizza, you can also get authentic Italian pizza, cooked in a brick oven with the REALLY thin crust, quite easily.
Sure, in quite a lot of America pizza is regarded as fast food, nothing more than something you get from Pizza Hut or Dominos. But not all of America is like that.
Oh, and I feel bad for the non-Italian Europeans here. In New York, most of the time a pie doesn’t top $22, and you would have a very hard time to convince a New Yorker to pay for a pie over $27.
@Severity
Things are generally more expensive in New York (expecially Manhattan) than in the rest of the country. Even Chain restaurants and Franchises are more expensive here than in the rest of the country. You have more veriaty in New York but you’re gonna pay more for it.
I was more comparing it to European prices. Sure, NYC is one of the most expensive cities in America, but compared to Major cities in Europe like Paris, London, Moscow, Rome and the like, even Manhattan prices are cheap by comparison. Though that has more to do with America’s taxes, which are pretty low for a developed nation.
It’s near impossible to find a pizza in the neighborhood of $20.00 here in (Northern) Kentucky. Have to get the large with specialty toppings to come close. Food around here’s pretty cheap all around. Unless you wanna eat fancy. Good luck there.
Any pie over $20.00 better have fucking goldleaf sprinkled in it.
We wouldn’t stand for paying for a pie over $27. A rousing ‘fuck you!’ would be heard.
Notice that we’re talking about delivery pizza, not eat-in pizza, which is even more expensive depending on the restaurant.
Also, what does fake pizza mean?
Fake Pizza is pizza that has no soul to it. Frozen dough, extremely processed cheese product(not anything resembling cheese) and colored bits of stuff you cannot distern what is vegetable and what is meat.
Dominos’/Opus Dei-PizzaHut-Papa John’s/Chucke Cheeses/ PS 45 2nd period Lunch Pizza. all fucking fake pizza.
That is known as Fake pizza. Most will never know what a real pizza tastes like because of circumstances or geography. That is a Sad thing indeed.
significa che mangiate merda
fake pizza for shitty price?
Here in naples you can get away with 3euros the basic one (that is margherita: tomato+cheese).
For 18 dollars I can eat pizza the whole week lol
Probably only Italians get cheap pizza in Europe.The rest of us are like Japan.
Pizza actually is quite expensive over in Japan. When I lived over there, I was paying patently ridiculous amounts for something that hardly costs anything over here (I’m from New Zealand).
The rest of the list, I can believe, although frankly, Japanese people should realise how lucky they have it with petrol prices, given what we pay. The rest, though? 100% agreed.
…What kind of cheap unis do they have over there. I’m paying out of my ass for this bullshit yet it seems over there ordering pizza is a bigger hit to the wallet.
Their cheapest uni is more expensive than all your local universities summed together. Their uni fees would take all of your savings, the savings of your parents and grandparents altogether to try pull that off.
You wouldn’t have anything left for ordering a pizza after that.
I attend a top-tier U.S. university. We in the U.S. pay, by far, the most in the world. Japanese university tuition would be a dream for me to pay.
Maybe I would not be crushed under debt then…
according to the site, you couldn’t be any more incorrect
http://english.moe.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=7517&ctNode=783&mp=1
The price is for the whole time/graduation
for how long are these fees a semester/year the whole study time
well nontheless it is fucking expensive
now im somehow happy being a student in germany
I somehow doubt that….
haha i work as pizza boy too hahaah making pizza is pretty honorable and requires great attention to detail
Where at? Here in Kentucky, they just slap all the ingredients on wherever it fits. Not complaining though, if it were pretty, I’d feel bad about tearing it up.
I know Land and Housing was expensive due to Japan being a small island country, but why pizza? The ingredients most be why its so expensive.
no joke i thought some sort of electronic would be up there
Electronics are relatively cheap in Japan. You can get cell phones that would cost €300 in Germany for less than €100 in Japan…
you can even get it for free , because after all the company ahem DOCOMO will suck you blood i mean money with their fees
Pizza is expensive?
Wow…
Oh, Pizza Hut is sure a suprise.
But the rest is kinda normal.
Except maybe the mobile phone thing.
I thought they have more flatrate and such cheap stuff for that.
These things are universally expensive.
Apart from the pizza, yeah.
This looks like a list of monthly needs I have to cover as a student. O.O
I wonder how much a pizza costs over there then???
For whatever reason pizza is damn overpriced outside of the US.
I can get a large pizza for like 5 bucks here.
Sucks for everyone else~
It depends on the country you live in. Here in Argentina, order a large cheese pizza (nothing special) costs about $8-$10 (30-40 pesos), it’s not that expensive. I think the reason is that we have cheap dairy products here and, also, the flour is a very cheap product too, because the entire economy is based on country products. But if you consider the wages, they’re way lower that the wages in other countries. Me, being an chemical engineer, I’m paid $2000 a month, which is considerably less than what they paid in the rest of the world.
Haven’t eaten at Pizza Hut yet in Japan, but the other fast food chains or supermarket prices aren’t that far off from prices here in Germany. Some stuff is a lot more expensive (veggies and fruit in particular), some stuff is way cheaper. Probably a matter of how much it costs them to import certain items.
I’d say that most of the people who say ‘food is too expensive’ don’t prepare it themselves but eat takeaway or delivery.
Obviously Pizza wouldn’t be to expensive in developing countries, then how would anyone besides upper class afford it? it’s mostly expensive in Western Europe, and East Asia.
Wow! am going to Argentina to eat pizza.
Yeah in Australia at pizza hut and domino’s at most pay $8. But dockets are given out like money plus u get them with u’re pizza so its usually for a large pizza easy $5. on tuesdays you don’t even need a docket.
I ordered a large pepperoni from Domino’s last night. I live in Tokyo. The total price was around 2200 Yen, so like 25.50 USD. Crazy expensive for a Domino’s, considering at home I get a large cheese for 5 bucks.
That’s expensive? Try living in Norway. If we want pizzas delivered to us it will usually be about 40 bucks. Games are about double of what they cost in the US, and anime… Well forget about anime, the only things released here are Miyazaki movies with shitty dubs. Thank god for the internet. Anyone who tries to make me feel bad for downloading fansubs, I have only one thing to say: “Fuck you. I’m norwegian.”
Watch or download anime from internet = FREE.
In the USA at least 😀
There’s a fair amount of anime available on DVD in the UK, but its only a tiny fraction of American releases and more expensive.
Germany reporting in, seconding that statement.
No you northern European states aren’t any different that the rest of us Europeans. Probably only countries like England,France etc are exceptions. The only thing we get is also shitty Pokemon, Digimon and the best maybe a DBZ.
And yes games, consoles, cars, food, gasoline, every fucking thing is more expensive than the USA.
Every time there is a piracy complain every European salary man has the right to tell them to go fuck themselves and kiss his ass.
Maybe when they say “expensive”, it is in comparison with the average income? Although things are usually more expensive in Europe than Japan, the average salary is quite a bit higher.
I was about to say this, though bear in mind the northern European states are among the most crucified. Pokemon, Digimon and all that kinds crap in TV and YES that’s it. No wonder why most uneducated anime haters come from that region.
As for the topic, I was about to wonder where the girls are on that list, though then I remembered what was said above, so I dismissed the thought.
Dude, same goes for almost all of the Europe.
Have a look.
Here in Germany you can get pizza delivered for about €4 up. Huge ones (60x40cm) go for about €12. No Pizza Hut, though. Smaller joints, those are everywhere.
not just delivery
getting fast food at some shabby looking stores is not that good of an idea either cause the normal sauces presented might be of question worthy origin/ingredient
(ok thats generally not a good idea but you get the point)
fast foood is relatively cheap in germany
considered that germany has the most overweighed people in the EU(~51%) might prove it
Pizza Hut does exist in Germany (many of the larger train stations, for example, have shops – Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne at least, if memory serves); one slice comes from around 1,50 Euro up, a whole pizza starts around 9 or 10 iirc. Haven’t been in Germany for a while, so I don’t have recent prices, but compared to Japan (where even a teeny tiny pizza with two toppings comes at around 1500+ yen delivery), it’s ridiculously cheap – especially considering their serving sizes.
Same for KFC, really, a lot of the non-McDonalds international fast food joints have ridiculous prices.
Then again, Germany has tons of ridiculously cheap delivery joints in the larger cities where you really shouldn’t think about the ingredients of the food… especially not when it says “special sauce”.
Here in a country that strives for international-class joints but still have 3rd-world mentality imply race tax on us all.
I’ve abstained from pizzahut for years now.
At least in this country…….
I have a small loacal place here where I can get a 16″, 12″, and 4 drinks for $35. Better pizza but no cat girls, hard to decide which is the better deal.
wow ask and you shall receive right? The prices arnt really that much different, but boy do they have some fun looking pizzas!
pizza hut around here is almost the same…around $30…
Yeah, you’re seriously underestimating how much the average American can actually put away Artefact. 1 Large per person is usually the standard for most of the people I live around and we’re not sumo wrestlers (although, some might be able to pass for them). People who exercise a lot in my area can eat a lot also.
> The large ones are probably American sized (2000+ calories each) – I can’t imagine anyone but a sumo wrestler being able to eat more than one a day.
Pepperoni seems to have 380 calories per slice. During normal day I can eat 12 slices and 16 if I’m hungry. My record is 21 slices 🙂 (some of my friends who are quite athletic have a record of 16 or so, so it’s not really that impossible)
Of course, I don’t eat like that everyday.
There’s a Pizza Hut near where I live. They are different to the international ones – none of the Japanese PH stores have restaurants, they are all delivery/takeaway only. The menu is similar, although apparently Japanese will not eat garlic bread.
The list prices for PH or Domino’s top out at 3,500-4,000 yen for a large and very fancy pizza with gourmet toppings, whilst a normal large deep pan pizza is about 2,500 yen. Both have very aggressive discounting with coupons and special deals (less than half price for takeaway, 5% online order discounts, lunch time discounts, etc).
The large ones are probably American sized (2000+ calories each) – I can’t imagine anyone but a sumo wrestler being able to eat more than one a day.
I suspect the Japanese perception that their pizzas are hugely expensive comes from the presence of ludicrous gourmet toppings (try the Camembert Genovese or the Korean purukogi) at the top of the menu, and a comparison with US pizza prices – it’s probably more accurate to compare to European pricing.
Pizza Hut are also noted for being routine sponsors of various anime – usually two titles at any one time.
but a salary of a mangaka, thats what it changes.
Ordering pizza in my country ranges from $20 to $30… not that much diff, I’m disappoint.
Small ~10e, medium ~20e and large ~30e. And in case you are wondering how big they really are, I generally eat ~1.5 larges during the lunch buffet (~10e)…
Then again, I very rarely eat at PH outside of lunch buffet. For normal pizza craving, “hairyhand” (=usually managed by some Turkish guys) pizza places are good (~8e for normal, ~15e for family size).
I was expecting ‘girlfriend’ or ‘wife’ to show up.
They are there, at top 0 (zero) spot!
If is hidden, then it was a ZERO’s works!
but girls in japan will not date guys who even have to think about the cost of living. think that why is not on there
The reason that delivery pizza is so expensive is because it comes with cat girls. Man I love Japan!
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Let’s see….
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There are NO cows on Catia (confirmed by anonymous sources)
There are, however, an abundance of well-endowed, frustrated Catian females of child-bearing ability
Do the math.
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Pepperoni
Green Peppers
Onions
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Pizza Hut is #3???? dang
lol
So that’s why ninja turtles was born in America …
Luckly I live in Italy, some decent pizza here.
What’s the prise though.
It’s 3.50 to 7 euro for the simplest one (standard dimensions, about 30 cm diameter, tomato and mozzarella)
Danilo, Milano
Delivery pizza is more expensive then uni fees?! =_=
Well, yea. Just took a look at their prices.
Japan has cheap loli, though.
We now see where their priorities lie then don’t we…
I’m surprised they didn’t mention anime. considering how expensive anime DVDs and BluRay are in Japan compared to the US.
did a little research. a large “pizza hut” brand pizza in japan is about 30-40 dollars! in america they are 10 bucks a pop. that includes specialty pizzas too, like meat lovers and triple topping pizzas too.
For me its kay that some stuffs are expensive there, japan is the best country to get all kinds of jobs so whatever…
They didn’t mention anime because it’s a niche product (unlike all the other items on the list).
they can watch on tv that’s why..
Anime merchandise and goods is never expensive if you are a dedicated fan…
You can’t put a price on the smile of a cute anime girl…
*switches his voice to a familiar evil voice*
Everything else is just so much chaff…
Azure, I wish I can agree. Except Japanese fans paying through their NOSE to pay $600-700 for ‘complete series packages’…
The most people had to pay in America is something like $150 for total packages…
$50 for about 2 to 3 (THREE!) episodes of anime is an utter travesty. So is buying $100 games in retail and the game rentals being illegal in Japan.
And yeah, LOL at mentioning taxes in Japan. For the social services they get, to proper upkeep of public infrastructure, they get a decent enough deal. Every European and American nation probably has a more legit reason to rage at tax rates.
Here is what the top 10 list should be:
1.Everything
2.Everything
3.Everything
4.Everything
5.Everything
6.Everything
7.Everything
8.Everything
9.Everything
10.EVERYFUCKING THING
@ starsplash
no repeats! lol.
NOOOO!! NOT THE PIZZA!!
true dat
but pizza cerel! haha
That’s why the Turtles live in Manhattan.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would murder someone if they knew it is the 3rd most expensive thing in Japan…
I would lump anime and games in with movies as $90 for two episodes of anime is expensive.
I want pizza, and I want her to bring it…
tortilla is also expensive in tokyo
thanks!
here is a cheap recipe for good pizza. buy tortillas, sauce, cheese, and toppings
large (burrito style)tortillas – 3.00usd
2 jars of sauce-6.00usd
3 lbs of mozzarella cheese-8.00usd
2 packs of pepperoni-5.00usd
makes about 10 pizzas for about 22 american dollars.
if you grease the pan with spray grease (pam) and cook it for about 20 minutes they crust is flaky like a toaster struedel. it’s my own recipe. pretty handy for students and low income families.
i guarantee you will like it, give it a try. let me know what you think.
a giant pizza here is only like 12 or 14 bucks…… if you get off your lazy ass and pick it up yourself >_>
An almost GIANT pizza here on Brasil is Y$ 492. 😉
Cartoon Girl pushing cartoon Pizza, go figure. Sad fact is that PizzHut pizza is to real pizza that Elis is to REAL girls.
They both look nice, til you try to ‘interact’ with them Meh.
1st C.C. now Eris, is it just me or does Pizza Hut chooses it’s CM models in Japan out of the latest animes every year?
Movies aren’t that expensive in Japan though. Anime is unique in how expensive it is in Japan compared to movies.
If pizza cost that much in Japan, it better come with Eris (I’m just sayin’).
Lear to COOKING you fucking BAKAS!
Sorry for you who DOESN’T live in an overseas, eh, Japan ?
Pizza is expensive shit actually. I can order a lot of delivery food that can satisfy my hunger about the same and most of them are cheaper than pizza.
Also pizzas get smaller and smaller. When i was a kid a medium size pizza had the size that a large family pizza has now.
pizza is more expensive than a whore…..LOL!!!
I disagree, not every country would list pizza 😛
Sounds like the same list every country would give.
I think I read that real estate in Moscow, Seoul, San Francisco, and Manhattan were actually higher than Tokyo.
And when they say “Movies” they might mean in a theater. They’re 2000 yen or more.
And Gas is totally more expensive in Europe than Japan, isn’t it?
Mobile phone service is high, but only the caller pays for the call. You don’t use minutes if you’re the one being called.
Food and living expenses are sky high in Japan.
It is much better being a westerner enjoying their pirated products for no expense than actually living on the spot and having all your future sacrificed just to be able to keep up with the monthly payments. No wonder so many of their youth choose to be NEET.
ok so now pizza cost more than the movies or gasoline? wtf is wrong with the world nowadays :/
I can understand housing and land being expensive since space is limited in Japan but delivery pizza more expensive than University fees? Is this Elitism at work here? Would the average people never see the inside of the high-end schools that are reserved for the rich and powerful? Or is it that delivery is more common than getting it yourself?
We do have the reason, why pizza is expensive. We don’t want to be like ugly fat Americans…
Yeah if I was eating the dogshit pies that passes for pizza over there, then I’d be a malnourished hikikomori too. We’re fat and happy cause we know what real pizza is, know how to acquire it, and eat plenty of it. Big gut and a bigger d*ck, whats your excuse, peewee?!!