Hi. I have been accepted as an international exchange student for one smester (from September to October) in Kyushu U Hitoshima campus .
The thing is that I don’t know anything there regarding the cost of everything. I do know that my home university (where I study at Chile, a university called Pontificia Universidad de Chile) told me that they cover the cost of tuition. Basically, the cost of the tuition of Kyushu U is covered by my home university.
My university said that the only costs we have to pay ourselves are: ground transportation (bycicle and uber) , and food and water.
Anything else we want to buy is on a different budget
This is why I want to make a budget for the things that my uni told me i have to pay: How much money do I need in one month to pay for what they asked me?
This also raises another question for me. In Fukuoka what is Cheaper, going out and eaiting at restaurants each nigh OR buying myself ingredients to cook every meal I make (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)?
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If you have even a basic kitchen to use, cooking for yourself is absolutely cheaper and will be healthier as well.
To put my previous post in a bit perspective.
Cheap Eating out:
* Breakfast 300 yen (onigiri or pastry from conbini)
* Lunch 600 yen (inexpensive bento from market, local restaurant or conbini)
* Dinner 800-1000 yen (Ramen, Udon, Tonkatsu, revolving sushi)
About 2000 yen a day
Cheap eating at home
* Breakfast: Eggs, rice or bread, fruit 100 yen (Eggs are 17 yen each in a 10 pack, rice is 1390 yen for 5 kilo or about 2 months supply)
* Lunch: Niku udon 150 yen (5 pack of udon is 179 yen, 100 grams of pork is about 75 yen plus soup base, green onion, etc…)
* Dinner: Sashimi bought at the market, rice and veggies. 600 yen. (400-500 yen for block of sashimi grade salmon or tuna, seasonal veggies are about 50yen for a serving size, plus rice)
About 1000 yen a day and that is eating sashimi for dinner. if you do pork or chicken it will be even cheaper. It really depends on what you eat but if you eat what Japanese eat, it can be quite inexpensive. If you require special ingredients and foods, it’s going to be much more.
Budget varies a lot depending on your lifestyle and cooking is almost always cheaper. If you have the budget and will stay for more than a year look into getting a cheap second hand car once you get here, it helps a lot especially since public transport in Itoshima is pretty rubbish but at the same time the drawcard of the area is beaches and mountains. Uber is run by normal taxis here and is very expensive, e.g. expect to pay 1000 yen to go 2km down the road.
Itoshima is semi rural with cool beachy vibes and only 30 min from Fukuoka city centre. If you like that sort of lifestyle you’ll love it.
Edit: saw you’re only here for 6 months, probably better to find a place along the train line and grab a shuttle bus to campus.
Daniel…One thing is that you can buy sandwiches, soups, coffee, and hot items at the convenience stores which are cheaper than the restaurants…and good, I might add. Fukuoka is a great place. I tried to move there but someone else bought the house I wanted.
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