How much would it cost to rent a modest single room in Osaka for a student?
I’m a student with a monthly income of 100,000 yens. I want to cover up all my expenses inside 80000 yens (rent, food, transportation, internet, everything).
I’m looking for a single room, that will have a good environment for studying, less noise.
I won’t mind living in the outskirts of the city.I would need bike parking, washing machine. There should be 16-20 square meters of space. **All the accessories and machines bathrooms, kitchens ( like stoves, washing machines, ac, toilets etc ) must be working properly. There must be no repeatative troubles.**
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And as I have said before, if there’s less noise, and rural type of environment around, that’s good.
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Come on man. Give at least some background here. What is your budget? Where in Osaka? Are you a student, ok with commuting, etc.
What do you mean by modest? A bare bones place, already furnished?
Idk, maybe it’ll be a 10,000 yen to 1,000,000 yen. Use suumo and figure it out.
All that for 80k lmao
Unless you live in a tiny ass room in a sharehouse and eat nothing but cup ramen (the value brand lol ) you wont survive on that for 80,000…
Rent: 35,000-40,000 if you are Lucy a room in a share house
Utilities might be included.. might not
Wifi: 4000-6000 yen (pocket wifi unlimited)
Phone: 3000 yen (10 gb data plan sigh voice)
Food: (most expensive of all unless you wanna eat ramen noodles every day) I would budget 30,000 a month unless you are cheap you can go down to 20,000… unless you never eat out..
80K would be squalid.
10 years ago I used to get 135k as an internee, paid 60-70K for a hole in a sharehouse near Mejiro. Was noisy, cuz 20+ rooms and paper walls.
My ex-collegue paid 85K for a 4 room one, Sakura house I think, near Otsuka. It seemed a lot more endurable.
Osaka is cheaper ofc. Haven’t lived there but I’d say minus 20-30K.
If a room seems very cheap be careful, might be near a train line, house dirty, neighbours weird, far from station and/or no supermarkets around.
Waltz into a housing agency and ask around with your budget, good luck!