WHAT LIFE COSTS
Living costs in Japan
Spending on rent in Japan averages JP¥126,823 per person per year.
Divided across everyone who lives here, including people who spend nothing on this.
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Yearly spending per person
Total spending divided by everyone who lives here, including children and people who spend nothing on this category. Your own costs may be very different.
Rent
JP¥126,823
Divided across everyone who lives here, including people who spend nothing on this.
We calculated this by dividing total spending by the population. Both figures come from the same source and year; the source hasn't published this per-person amount itself.
Jan 2024–Dec 2024
How prices compare
See how much more or less the same goods and services cost here. These comparisons don't give you an amount to budget for.
The average across the 27 EU countries is the starting point. Each number shows how far prices are above or below it.
Everything, taken together
11% cheaper
Price level 89.0 · Reference year 2024 · Published index
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Sources and licences
- OECD · dataset Annual household final consumption expenditure by purpose (COICOP 2018), and annual population, national concept · OECD Terms and Conditions; attribution required
- Eurostat · dataset prc_ppp_ind · CC BY 4.0; credit and changes required
- World Bank · dataset NE.CON.PRVT.CD + SP.POP.TOTL + PA.NUS.FCRF · World Development Indicators: CC BY 4.0