Is 150,000 yen (US$1,389) a month enough to live on in Tokyo? Depends what kind of life you want soranews24.com

But as the capital city of a notoriously pricey country, life in Tokyo must be crazy expensive, right?
mimii_room, who describes herself as a 23-year-old woman living alone in an apartment in one of Tokyo’s 23 central wards, says that if you’ve got 150,000 yen (US$1,389), that’s plenty to live in Tokyo.
That 2,000 yen a month for mobile phone service, however, is a lot trickier to pull off.
▼ “I don’t mean to make fun of this person,” tweets @SakusakuLisa, “but 2,000 yen for hobbies?
Follow Casey on Twitter, where he seriously recommends more than 150,000 yen a month to have an enjoyable life in Tokyo.