How much everything costs.

A few people have asked how much everything costs over here. Well we've found everything so far to be alot cheaper than Australia and it is most likely due to the Australian Dollar getting stronger.

When i bought my R32 skyline back in 2002 or so the Yen was 69yen to the AUD but over the past week or so it has been as high as 107yen to the dollar and just yesterday it has dropped back to 97Yen.

So to convert to australian you can pretty much just divide the price by 100 and you have the price in AUD.

Some prices for things.

• 500ml coke from a vending machine, 120Y = $1.20
• 500ml can of Asahi SUUUUPER DRY from 711/deli etc. 250Y = $2.50
• Bottle of water from vending machine/711, 100Y = $1
  
• Red Bull from 711, 232Y = $2.32
• Ice creams from 711, 105Y = $1.05
  These are just like our Magnums etc which are 3$ odd at petrol stations?
• Mazda 3 MPS, 2,600,000 Yen = $26,000
  These are 40-45k AUD according to the mazda australia site.
• Porsche Cayman S, 8,200,000Y = $82,000
  These are 150k from the dealer in australia.
  The new GTR is in about the same price range of the Cayman too but a little cheaper.
  

The cars prices are most likely all the damn taxes the government puts on the things but all food is very cheap everywhere you go, except steak :) Plus there is also the cost of storage in japan which by looking at some of the prices in the heart of the bigger cities it can get up to 200Y per 20minutes! Other places usually charge 100Y per hour during the peak periods.

Electronics over here are dirt cheap, I found a laptop for $530 and it had the basic specs like youd find in the 700$ Australian laptops except that it was paper thin and lightweight. The 700$ laptops back in home country are chunky mofo's.

Another example is projectors, my dad just bought a Epson Tw700 (720p) projector for $2200 or so after a discount at The Good Guys, here it sells for 1380. The TW1000 (1080p) model was $3000 and the cheapest price I could find in Australia a month ago was $4300.

Megan has also snatched some housing/land brochures but we have yet to read them yet. Some of the prices ive seen have been more than what we'd expect to pay and in smaller areas but nothing extreme like everyone always makes out. I shall get into those brochures sometime soon

In the attached picture we have 2 bottles of Lemon water (damn its tasty water, 110Y each), an alcoholic Regae Punch (285Y), a box of chocolate almonds (these are soooo nice, 210Y) and a friggin big ice cream (105Y). the total? 820Y = $8.20 from a corner store.

Makes you feel jipped at the prices we are being charged in Australia. I guess its why im starting to import things I want from overseas as our dollar is strong and even by the time you add on postage which usually equaltes to 33% of the product price your still in front by about 33% of what the shops in Australia are charging.

Shaun