"Omotenashi" Revisited: How to Get People to Part with Their Money in the Most Pleasant Way?
By anyone's standards, traveling in Japan is not a cheap affair. Shoe-stringing backpackers that frequent Southeast Asia should definitely not be here, considering that cheapest lodging tend to be around 30 USD per night and the cheapest lunch 6 USD. Combine that with extremely expensive local transportation, which can average 20 USD for even short-distance train travel, and the expenses pile up in ways that does not justify the incomes of even the average person that lives and works in this country. Most of the time, the money flies out of the wallet without even the user really noticing.