Any ideas on cost of a holiday in Japan?

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It's my partner's 40th this year. I'd love to do a special holiday. We have always wanted to go to Japan so I'm thinking about this. But I'm really not sure if it's on budget.

There's 2 of us and we would be flying from a regional airport. I'd like to do 10 days to 2 weeks. Maybe Tokyo and another place.

Can anyone please help on how much they spent? Even just what's acceptable for flighta and accommodation. I've researched a bit but first hand advice would be amazing. Thanks

Depending on flight prices, I think you could probably do it in your budget. £100 a night for hotels is totally doable (though obviously would be more basic than fancy). A 7 day rail pass is about £200 each and you can time this to start as you are leaving Tokyo. Or if you are only doing two places it may be cheaper to buy single tickets and you may spend less. And I think £100 for food and spends is doable a day if a bit tight. So for 10 days say £2400 plus flights. The cheaper the flights, the more spending money you get :)

Totally doable for 5-6k!

£1288 JAL nonstop pp LHR to Tokyo 2-16 Sept (nice time of year) - £1k on Emirates or Singapore Airlines with a stopover. You might do better if you played with the dates
Plenty of perfectly nice hotels for £100 per room per night in Sept. Eg £215 for 2 people for 2 nights Hotel in Kyoto from a random search on Booking (Kyoto Granbell Hotel Higashiyama so near Gion for geisha-spotting, big temples and parks and a great place to explore).
£200 for a JR pass (7 days). I'd second the advice about maybe 7 days and starting it when you leave Tokyo. With some airlines you can also fly into one city and out of another eg into Tokyo, out of Osaka (Kansai) or Fukuoka so you're not doubling back on yourself and could just get single tickets. You don't want to spend all your time on trains.

£40 a day for food in my experience would be more than enough.

£20 a day for tickets to attractions - but tickets are pretty cheap e.g. Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto is only Y400 according the the website so 3 quid or so. You don't pay the daft prices of the UK for visitor attractions.

So just checked and we have spent 2200£ on accommodation while there

that’s 2 nights in Tokyo, followed by 2 nights at Disneyland hotel, 3 nights in a ryokan in Kyoto, 2 nights in Osaka, 3 more nights in osaka

the rail pass cost £452.82

flights were expensive - we had a BA companion voucher with my American Express card so got them for half price £1097 was the total (eeep) so I guess over 2k just to fly if you are paying full price.

So we are coming in at about 3,500£ before we’ve booked any activities / spending money(4,500£ if we had of paid full price for the flight)