Top 5 Tips to lower your budget in Japan travel

Budget is the important factor for your traveling, especially in the land which is birthplace of Sushi, Sake and Sumo like Japan. I think everyone may doubt that how to reduce their money and use it in effective way for this trip. Don't worry I've found the answer for you yet. 

This guide will make you know the top 5 ways to lower your budget in Japan travel.

Eating

1. There are many local restaurants that you can order traditional food at reasonable prices.

2. Kirin beer from a vending machine costs half as much as at a bar

3. Kaiten-zushi (conveyer-belt sushi) is the one idea for cheap breakfast, lunch or dinner in Japan.This kind of restaurant will serve you the pre-made reasonable prices of delicious Sushi to you (the range of costs is 100 – 500 yen or $1.20 – $6)   

Sleeping

1. capsule hotels are effective way to save money - Many hotels are allowed for men and women too.Average cost in Tokyo is about 3,000 to 5,000 yen per night. This is approximately 15 - 25 pounds or 28 - 47 US dollars.

2. Sleep in an internet café is the great way to save your money too. Even though, this way is sound crazy. But Nowadays, internet café becomes one part of Japan culture and the costs is very cheap, just only 400 yen per hour or package for long time period. Moreover you can choose many types of rooms such as normal chairs, non-smoking seat, sofa, massage chair, party room, internet seat, pair seat, zashiki (a tatami), small futon rooms.               

Transport 

1. You must use your energy to walk or bike as much as possible. This method will make you have lower costs for transport and you may see the beautiful view and the way of Japanese life in many places that you can't see when you catch a train.        

2. using the local trains     Rail costs on local trains are cheap in Japan. The rail fares is just only about 250 yen (2  US dollars). So you shouldn't miss to use it for saving your money.

but you should note that: the subway stops working between midnight and 1am. You should aware to loss your budget to taxi fare which is so expensive in that time.            

3. Buy a Japan Railway (JR) Rail Pass

Sights

You should find the museums and cinemas that offer allowance for students, children and seniors. But sometimes,some museum such as history or science are free!. 

Entertainment

         Full kabuki show can consume your money about US$150. But In fact , you can find a single-show matinee for less than US$20.             

 I hope that this guide can help you to reduce budget for your Japan travel.

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Creating Itasha

OK now you know about what Itasha is, let's move on to how to create one.

for who still don't have any idea what it is, it's an art of decorating vehicle with anime manga or even video game characters which is very popular in Japan.

well to put it simply it's like you put a very big sticker on your car that have well calculated for apply it smoothly and also you need a skill and equipment like heat gun to get a job done

you can see how on http://animematsuri.com/update/creating-an-itasha/

Itasha Art of Automobile Decoration!!

Itasha (痛車^?), literally "painmobile", is a Japanese term for an otaku fad of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo game or eroge). These characters are predominately "cute" female. The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers. Automobiles are called itasha, while similar motorcycles and bicycles are called itansha(痛単車^?) and itachari (痛チャリ^?), respectively.

The cars are seen prominently in places such as Akihibara (Tokyo), Nipponbashi (Osaka), or Ōsu (Nagoya).

History

The decoration was started in 1980s with character plushies and stickers,^[3] but only became a phenomenon in the 21st century, when otaku culture became relatively well known via the Internet. The earliest known report of the decoration vehicle in convention began in 2005-08, in Comic Market 68.^[4]

[edit]Conventions

In 2007, the first Autosalone (あうとさろーね Autosarōne^?), an itasha oriented convention, was held in Ariake, near the site of Comiket.

[edit]Involvement in motorsports

An itasha with a Hatsune Miku decal competed in the 2008 Super GT season.

In recent years, the involvement of itasha in real motorsport events has grown. Though most of them are amateur events, participation of itasha in races are increasing, and they usually receive much media coverage. Some of the entries also having impressive result in their participation, including individual race wins or even overall champion titles.^[5]

Participation of itasha in Japan's professional motorsport event can be seen as early as 2007, when a Lancer Evolution VII featuring themes of Lucky Star and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in Japan Dirt Trial. One year later, Studie GLAD Racing (a BMW tuning shop in Japan)'s Hatsune Miku–themed Z4 in the Super GT GT300 class marked itasha's debut in international event directly under FIA. Since then different itasha which belongs to various teams has entered various kind of motorsport event in Japan, like Super GT, Super Taikyu, Japan Rally Championship, and D1 Grand Prix. In some of the recent year's events, competitions between different itasha teams in a single race can also being seen as well.

Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha