Moving out of Japan: Your Comprehensive Pre-Departure Checklist
Leaving Japan? Here's what you need to take care of before you go. A guide to tax, closing accounts and the other admin that awaits.
Household
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Keeping Toasty: Tips and Tricks for Surviving Winter in Japan
Baby, it's cold outside. So here are some cheapo tips on keeping your home and yourself roasty toasty during winter.
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April 24, 2016
5 Ways to Recycle or Dispose of Stuff Cheaply in Tokyo
Visitors to Japan often wonder why you can find perfectly good appliances, furniture and other equipment placed by the side of the road for garbage collection. The reasons for this are mostly related to the way people live—there isn’t a […]
Household in Tokyo
If you’re staying in Tokyo for a short time or living here long term, we’ve got some ideas to save money on a lot of those mundane tasks from how to recycling computers for free to finding the best supermarkets.
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Which Tokyo Electric Company is Cheapest? (And How to Change Providers)
Hundreds of new energy providers have popped up. Which Tokyo energy company is cheapest? And how to change providers?
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The Cost of Keeping a Cat in Tokyo
A guide to keeping a cat in Tokyo. We breakdown the costs from getting one (or several), to medical, food, toys and even the sad eventuality of a burial.
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Mastering Laundry in Japan
Japanese clothes drying style is cheapo drying style.
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Reconditioned Bicycles: The Two-Wheeled Wonders and Where To Find Them
Cardinal rule #9 of living in Tokyo: buy a used bicycle.
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Help, Roaches Have Invaded My Home!
People commonly look forward to fireflies, barbecue parties, picnics, fireworks, festivals and yukata in summer. But what people don’t look forward to is an uninvited house guest: the cockroach. While Japan is generally a clean country, it also happens to […]
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January 1, 2015
Baking Up a (Gluten-Free Tokyo) Storm: Interview with Nao Maeda
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a pastry chef in Japan? We chatted to Nao Maeda, one of Tokyo’s pioneering gluten-free patissiers, about life, dough and sweets. She shared a few cheapo tips for a gluten-free Tokyo too. How long […]