⭐️ Total score | 2.91/5 (Rank #966) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,016 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 28Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 30°C87°F (feels 36°C97°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 74% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 56 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | High: $3,220 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Japan |
⏱ Average trip length | 1 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 28 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 30°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (74%) = feels 36°C 97°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 56.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Soft Bank |
💸 1,000 JPY in USD | USD 7.39 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | JPY 10,000 = USD 74 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Tully's Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 720,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $38,640 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 55% 👱♀️ 45% |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 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 | $2,016 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,063 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,347 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $671 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $424 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $148 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,228 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $58 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ 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
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 457° cold | 489° cold | 5714° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 8429° warm | 7524° warm | 6317° cool | 5010° cold |
Real | 457° cold | 5010° cold | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 6116° cool | 5010° cold |
Humidity | damp 72% | nice 70% | damp 72% | nice 63% | nice 76% | nice 80% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 82% | nice 79% | nice 73% | damp 73% | damp 73% |
Rain | rainy 59mm | rainy 69mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 122mm | rainy 195mm | rainy 162mm | rainy 149mm | rainy 395mm | rainy 138mm | dry 34mm | rainy 91mm | dry 31mm |
Cloud | cloudy 62% | pockets 48% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 88% | overcast 90% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 50% | pockets 49% |
Air quality | okay 55 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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