Tokyo is one of the world’s most expensive cities, and rents can be astronomical, but if you’re a little bit careful in deciding where you live, it can also be surprisingly cheap.

This chart is from the homepage of a Japanese real-estate agent called Homes Chintai that shows the average monthly rents for various apartment sizes throughout the Greater Tokyo Area. It goes from cheapest  to most expensive and there’s a huge variation in the 70,000 yen you’d pay for a two-bedroom apartment in Hachioji City to the 194,500 yen you’d pay in Minato Ward downtown (not to mention the fact that you’d probably get an extra 20+ square meters of living space in Hachioji).

The website has similar charts for all areas of Japan, but is in Japanese only.

The first number in each cell is the average rent in tens of thousands of yen (E.g. 3.73=37,300 yen) and the one in brackets is the number of apartments the company has within ten minutes’ walk of the nearest station.

Area One room 1K 1LDK・2K・2DK 2LDK・3K・3DK 3LDK・4K・4DK
Hamura City
3.73 (11)
5.01 (67)
6.23 (81)
7.31 (81)
8.18 (16)
Ome City
3.77 (84)
4.64 (198)
5.81 (129)
6.86 (121)
8.33 (37)
Hino City
4.46 (356)
5.54 (1023)
7.26 (385)
9.38 (255)
11.45 (133)
Akishima City
4.47 (69)
5.81 (483)
7.07 (146)
9.04 (91)
10.60 (34)
Tama City
4.50 (138)
5.55 (454)
8.40 (163)
10.04 (86)
12.88 (66)
Hachioji City
4.56 (632)
5.36 (1658)
7.00 (535)
8.50 (409)
10.77 (214)
Higashi-Yamato City
4.61 (16)
5.33 (101)
7.00 (128)
8.22 (83)
9.92 (12)
Fussa City
4.65 (51)
5.36 (173)
6.14 (102)
7.24 (82)
9.62 (20)
Kodaira City
4.66 (245)
5.74 (672)
7.46 (263)
9.88 (188)
12.54 (95)
Kiyose City
4.73 (52)
5.99 (196)
7.05 (71)
8.57 (35)
9.46 (17)
Higashi Murayama City
4.83 (184)
5.51 (367)
6.80 (270)
8.63 (202)
10.39 (77)
Higashi Kurume City
4.98 (27)
5.59 (208)
7.37 (66)
10.09 (53)
11.36 (36)
Kunitachi City
5.25 (112)
6.19 (548)
8.56 (179)
11.04 (137)
12.91 (143)
Machida City
5.38 (273)
5.97 (1326)
7.29 (242)
10.04 (163)
12.81 (119)
Kokubunji City
5.42 (391)
6.15 (814)
8.44 (326)
11.24 (162)
14.50 (64)
Inagi City
5.44 (39)
5.55 (241)
7.82 (144)
11.60 (358)
13.78 (167)
Fuchu City
5.46 (310)
6.34 (1429)
8.67 (667)
11.30 (438)
13.03 (183)
Tachikawa City
5.48 (367)
6.08 (1151)
7.90 (514)
9.71 (276)
11.25 (110)
Nishi Tokyo City
5.49 (219)
6.41 (790)
8.04 (305)
9.45 (191)
12.49 (159)
Katsushika Ward
5.51 (687)
6.43 (2186)
8.06 (1275)
10.87 (539)
12.84 (195)
Koganei City
5.68 (173)
6.51 (705)
8.84 (230)
12.06 (138)
15.15 (70)
Komae City
5.74 (61)
6.76 (352)
9.61 (138)
12.28 (47)
16.05 (37)
Chofu City
5.92 (344)
6.83 (1840)
9.66 (820)
12.50 (569)
14.63 (312)
Itabashi Ward
6.12 (1873)
7.01 (6627)
9.72 (2810)
11.66 (951)
14.87 (540)
Adachi Ward
6.17 (982)
6.52 (3588)
8.14 (2363)
11.06 (1150)
14.47 (457)
Edogawa Ward
6.18 (528)
6.85 (2916)
8.93 (1457)
11.43 (881)
13.52 (276)
Nerima Ward
6.25 (1484)
6.98 (6059)
9.71 (2309)
11.89 (1803)
14.29 (971)
Suginami Ward
6.42 (2472)
7.60 (7609)
11.26 (2531)
14.81 (1039)
18.89 (564)
Kita Ward
6.47 (1358)
7.41 (4784)
10.26 (1723)
13.75 (837)
15.74 (275)
Mitaka City
6.60 (315)
7.53 (871)
10.81 (326)
16.13 (109)
19.54 (60)
Toshima Ward
6.67 (2315)
7.94 (5835)
11.39 (1915)
16.18 (798)
20.22 (263)
Nakano Ward
6.69 (1817)
7.86 (4537)
11.80 (2170)
15.30 (763)
17.71 (346)
Arakawa Ward
6.77 (505)
7.74 (1721)
10.36 (867)
14.18 (486)
16.47 (144)
Ota Ward
6.90 (1560)
7.78 (6729)
11.06 (2852)
14.66 (1093)
19.04 (669)
Setagaya Ward
7.19 (3387)
8.01 (9818)
12.69 (4070)
17.08 (1973)
22.84 (1102)
Musashino City
7.24 (448)
7.60 (1679)
12.04 (540)
16.56 (232)
21.12 (85)
Sumida Ward
7.28 (961)
8.21 (4071)
11.03 (1451)
13.33 (443)
17.10 (187)
Bunkyo Ward
7.39 (1486)
8.37 (4462)
13.78 (1786)
19.29 (1032)
26.62 (447)
Koto Ward
7.68 (870)
8.60 (4394)
12.08 (1391)
16.91 (678)
18.20 (418)
Taito Ward
7.86 (848)
8.98 (3242)
12.06 (1664)
15.45 (559)
19.53 (138)
Shinjuku Ward
8.15 (2887)
8.87 (7763)
14.00 (2698)
19.73 (961)
26.72 (375)
Shinagawa Ward
8.32 (1783)
8.59 (4788)
14.04 (2166)
18.90 (831)
23.44 (393)
Meguro Ward
8.79 (1449)
9.49 (3517)
15.94 (1683)
21.71 (781)
30.78 (414)
Shibuya Ward
9.65 (1819)
10.21 (4184)
17.91 (2506)
25.40 (1001)
36.53 (399)
Chuo Ward
9.87 (731)
9.86 (2821)
15.42 (2510)
20.86 (943)
26.34 (239)
Chiyoda Ward
10.38 (434)
10.13 (1241)
17.99 (618)
26.58 (225)
53.60 (100)
Minato Ward
11.47 (1578)
11.21 (4273)
19.45 (3344)
29.33 (1572)
42.86 (535)

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