In this Japan travel guide video, I will tell you about the budget, flights, visa, hotels, food everything that you need to know if you …

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Welcome to the Punjabi Wanderers YouTube channel So we watched 13 videos and 13 vlogs of Japan and you guys gave a very good response to them But the question was how much money did you spend on the whole trip and make a whole guide video I mean if you want to go then how to apply for visa and whatever tips and tricks you need to plan your own Japan trip So today’s video will be about that, we will talk about flights, visa, hotels, how to eat and drink there, we will talk about all that in this video So stay tuned So let’s start with the first thing, which is Japan’s visa So visa applies at VFS, you can go and take an appointment at VFS website, it’s free After taking the appointment, when you go there, you have to apply for a few documents, only 4-5 documents, nothing more So you will have to book a dummy ticket, you don’t have to book a ticket from an agent Or just google how to book dummy air tickets, there are some websites They will give you $10, $15, $20 at max by making you a dummy So you have to apply for a dummy ticket, I have confirmed it from the embassy, they said you have to apply for a dummy, not confirm You have to book a hotel from booking.com, which should have a prepayment So you have to book it, you don’t have to pay, you can cancel the visa if you want After that you have to apply for ITR, they don’t ask you to apply for a bank statement But I have applied for 3 months, because there was an issue in Navankur So the process takes a long time, you have to apply and then they will send you a statement So you have to give the statement first Apart from this, you have to write a cover letter that why am I going to Japan and my history As we do in Schengen visa, so that’s the scene So these are the documents, you have to submit the documents at CFN The fees you have to pay, 500 is the fee of Japan embassy, 700 is the fee of VFS and 500 is the fee of courier Like when you went to Delhi, VFS was not available in Jalandhar or Chandigarh I took an appointment in Delhi, so the courier that will take me back, that’s the fees So my expense was 1700 INR and in 3-4 days my visa came home You get a visa for 15 days, I got a 15 days visa for Navankur, Shubham, Vishnu So let’s assume that you get a 15 days visa for Japan The visa came and we quickly booked our flights Like today the visa came and we booked the day before So the way is to go to Google flights and enter your dates, when you have to go and when you have to come You get a chart by clicking on the date grid You can check which flight is cheaper And after seeing the dates, you go to all these websites like Ease My Trip, Yatra, Make My Trip etc You get cards on these, like Navankur had a card He got a flight for 52,000 INR and I didn’t have so I got a flight for 55,000 INR We booked the same day at the same time but it had a card So keep checking the card offer Now we got our visa and the flight Now we reached Japan So generally if you go from Tokyo and return from Tokyo, the flight is cheaper So we landed in Tokyo, then Rom Rom was going to India So we said let’s go to Osaka first, so we took the rail pass Now when the visa is for 15 days, the rail pass is also for 14 days 7 days, 14 days and there is a class, basic class, green class, so it is expensive So we thought it won’t make much difference in the train, in the Japanese train So we took the normal 52,000 INR for 14 days 52,000 YEN which is 32,000 INR So we took our pass Now what is in the rail pass It is not like the usual pass where you go to the app and activate it today and not today It is not like that The day you bought it, it is activated for 14 days There is no app, you get hard copy So it will work for 14 days So it passed Rest I have told in the video in the vlog, so you can see how to use the pass So we took the pass and then we went to Osaka We spent 4-5 days in Osaka Ajay bhai was there, Pawan bhai was there So we had a good time We went to Kyoto, which is the cultural capital of Japan What we see is the Inari shrine Which is made of orange Then we see the bamboo forest There are many Japanese temples in Kyoto All the cultural things of Japan are in Kyoto So definitely you can spend 2 days there We spent 1 day there But it is worth 2 days So we went to Hiroshima from Kyoto Atomic bomb site After that we went to Izumoshi from Hiroshima We went to Izumoshi for no reason Because there is a sleeper train It is a very good experience It goes from Tokyo to Izumoshi It also goes to Fuji It has very good seats It feels like we have reached a Japanese home So it has a vlog too We went to Izumoshi for that train From Izumoshi we took that train to Osaka After that we went to Mt. Fuji Mt. Fuji is in the middle of Osaka and Tokyo When you take the bullet train The JR pass is also applicable on the bullet train So when you take the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka You will see Mt. Fuji on the way So this time we went to Mt. Fuji There are 2-3 villages there You can stay in any village We chose Fuji Yoshida So we spent a day in Fuji Yoshida Spent the night and then saw Mt. Fuji Then we went to Doraemon village That was for the video If you are a big fan of Doraemon Then go otherwise you can skip it There is nothing special After that we went to North Sapporo The fastest bullet train for Sapporo is Hayabusa It runs at a speed of 300 plus It was a 1000 km journey It took us 3 hours from Tokyo to Sapporo Sapporo is good in North If you want to see snow It is a little different from Tokyo Then we came back to Tokyo We had food and drink So this was our 15 day route Now let’s talk about food Food is not that expensive here If you go to a restaurant You can get a good meal for 600-700 yen If you can’t get it in a restaurant Then you can get it for 800 yen Otherwise here it is called a bento meal It is available in the supermarket It is made fresh every day There is a lot of variety of meals You can choose from it Microwave is there There is a place to sit and eat in many supermarkets So that’s sorted Those who don’t eat meat, meat and fish Obviously there is food for them too But it is very less It will be very limited food for them So it is preferable for those who eat It will be easy otherwise it is a little difficult You will get food It’s not like you won’t get it You will get food But then you will get boiled vegetables If you can eat that Otherwise there are Indian restaurants everywhere There are many Indian restaurants here If you want to go to Japan And you are thinking that you won’t get food Then this is wrong You will get a lot of Indian restaurants there So you can go there and eat So our food is done I told you about transport I took the JR Pass And to roam in the city Metro is a good system It is in English in the machines You can take the ticket easily It doesn’t cost that much You can take a ticket for 100-150 yen It won’t cost that much Food is done Transport is also done SIM card I told you that I use SIM card from Eralo It is eSIM So you can use that I have a discount code If you use that You will get a discount of 3 dollars And I will also get a discount of 3 dollars For my purchase So if you want to buy Then use my code What else is left? I think everything is done So it was a lot of fun in Japan I had a lot of fun in 15 days It was very different than the rest of the world For sure And I will definitely go to Japan again So now let’s talk about our expenses We have talked about our expenses My ticket cost was 55,000 It costed 55,000 Then I got a pass of 35,000 And I got a visa of 1500 So it costed 55,000 and 32,000 And I got 87,000 And it costed 90,000 After that it costed me around 45,000 In 15 days it costed me 45,000 It costed me 50,000 So in total it costed me 1.5 lakh If you take out transport and all Then it costs us around 3,000 Indian rupees And in this also it was like The hotels So the hotels we took They were fine hotels They were not too fancy And not too basic And we were two people So our expenses were different Otherwise you can stay in a hostel You can stay in a hostel for 1500-1600 rupees It will cost you around 1000 And you can stay in a room for 2500-3000 And it will cost you around 6000 Like we stayed in a robot hostel in Tokyo It costed us 6000 So this is the on and off When you have to eat and stay together It will cost you around 3500 I mean this time we didn’t eat Because we didn’t want to be stingy Sometimes we used to eat 4 meals a day So we didn’t do anything like that We didn’t want to be stingy We didn’t want to eat cheap food We didn’t do anything like that We ate good food We tried everything We went to restaurants and tried But still it costed us this much So we have kept a budget of 1.5 lakh Including everything Flight is a bit tricky Because otherwise you get a flight For 80-80 thousand rupees But we got it for 55 thousand So keep a track on the flight prices And the visa is also not like You get a fixed date They give you a period of 3 months You can go for 15 days from that So once you take the visa So it’s not like You have to apply at that rate You will have to take the flight The visa you took It’s a 3 month visa You can go for 15 days from that Once you enter You can stay for 15 days There are 16 days in it So yeah This was it Now after this we will start Cyprus’s videos Turkey Republic of North Cyprus North Cyprus is not Cyprus It’s an illegal country It’s a very interesting story So we went there last year That was also with me in Nawangpur So there will be 3 videos of it And after that I have booked the flights For my next trip But the visa has not come yet So once the visa comes Then I will share it with you And I mean Videos will keep coming After this video 3 videos of Cyprus And after that Videos of the new country So I will see you in the next one Goodbye

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