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| ⭐️ Total score | 204 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Japan |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 29 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 19°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (79%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 11 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 44 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Soft Bank |
| 💸 1,000 JPY in USD | USD 8.78 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | JPY 10,000 = USD 88 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Regus |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Tully's Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $38,640 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 55% 👱♀️ 45% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | All Nippon Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Japan Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,689 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,542 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,375 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $964 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $691 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $176 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,859 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $87 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Expensive
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Real | 468° cold | 5111° cool | 5412° cool | 6217° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8831° hot | 8228° very warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5412° cool |
| Humidity | nice 51% | nice 54% | nice 56% | nice 58% | nice 63% | nice 83% | nice 91% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 75% | nice 75% | nice 61% | nice 64% |
| Rain | dry 16mm | dry 42mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 233mm | rainy 253mm | rainy 114mm | dry 44mm | rainy 189mm | dry 36mm | rainy 69mm |
| Cloud | pockets 29% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 86% | overcast 96% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 73% | pockets 34% | cloudy 56% |
| Air quality | clean 30 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
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