⭐️ Total score | 2.1/5 (Rank #1048) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,119 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 33Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 9°C49°F (feels 8°C46°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 87% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 46 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Bad |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,220 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Japan |
🗓️ Average trip length | 2 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 33 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 9°C 49°F + 💦 Damp (87%) = feels 8°C 46°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 46 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Line Taxi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 1,000 JPY in USD | USD 6.61 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | JPY 10,000 = USD 66 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Shakehands |
☕️ Best coffee place | Obscura Coffee Roaster |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👎2% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $38,640 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 55% 👱♀️ 45% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 87% 👱♀️ 13% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ 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 | $3,119 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,475 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,645 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $756 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,232 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,597 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $445 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $151 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $85 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $319 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $9,757 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $18 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ 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
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp 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 | 415° cold | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 7926° warm | 7021° mild | 5513° cool | 457° cold |
Real | 415° very cold | 468° cold | 5614° cool | 6217° cool | 6820° mild | 7625° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7826° warm | 7021° mild | 5513° cool | 468° cold |
Humidity | nice 36% | nice 34% | nice 37% | nice 32% | nice 39% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 43% | nice 41% | nice 35% | nice 35% | nice 36% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | rainy 73mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 125mm | rainy 150mm | rainy 159mm | rainy 173mm | rainy 149mm | rainy 204mm | rainy 218mm | dry 15mm | rainy 84mm | dry 46mm |
Cloud | pockets 37% | pockets 32% | pockets 39% | pockets 40% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 54% | pockets 31% | pockets 35% | pockets 33% |
Air quality | okay 56 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 68 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 320 people | 400 people | 680 people | 750 people | 333 people | 300 people | 300 people | 280 people | 371 people | 500 people | 440 people | 333 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 38✈️23min$2,565 / mo66Mbps×Gimhae is a nice area to stay if you enjoy nature, art galleries, shops, and a smaller city feel near the airport. You will have access to Busan as well. The light rail is a handy automated above ground rail to use. The line goes into Gimhae, to the Gimhae International Airport, and slightly into Busan before having to shift to another metro or transportation line. Gimhae also has a Costco and major supermarkets. The street art is also quirky.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 34✈️25min$1,931 / mo45Mbps×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 30✈️55min$2,920 / mo56Mbps×Pros: Friendly people, safe, stable government, efficient and fast public transportation, established foreigner (gaijin) population due many English teachers, many great food options, many festivals (cherry blossom fest), onsens! Cons: Expensive, work til you die at your desk mentality, drunken businessman culture, groping on packed public transit, lack of mental health services so be cautious around the destitute, over sexualization of underage females, high risk if caught with illegal substan
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 38✈️23min$2,565 / mo66Mbps×I work in Fukuoka and all I can say is that it's a fantastic city. As a disclaimer I happen to be close to fluent in Japanese, and as the metrics here would indicate speaking next to no Japanese might be somewhat difficult, but it's certainly still livable (tons of signage is in English, and there is information on places to go and see in English as well). Also it feels a tad more unexposed in comparison to some of the more major cities, though Fukuoka has a pretty large population at about 1.6
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 42✈️16min$3,732 / mo33Mbps×Lived in Kobe for 4 years now as a foreigner. Fantastic city, clean, very safe, lots to do and see, you have the mountains, the city and the sea so it’s perfect setting. Close to osaka, and only an hour from Kyoto. Lived here with young kids and there are some open spaces and fun family things to do with children. It’s all round a really great place to live.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 82😷✈️48min$2,635 / mo101Mbps×Boston is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the capital of the state, the largest city in New England, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The city proper is home to about 617,900 people, making it the largest city in New England and the 26th largest in the United States.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 63😷✈️12h$3,727 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
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