$2,500 will get you a 35sq. Meter studio in metropolitan Tokyo, if you want to rent a house, you will need to come up with a couple more grand of your own! The only option to make that budget work will be to get a house out of the city, you can get a 3 bedroom house in Narita for example for 130,000¥ but the downside will be that the commute will run you (a minimum) $20 each way and it will be 90 minutes away so that you can find affordable housing, driving to work? That will run you $50/day to park the car plus toll, nobody drives to work here! Away from the city you have a lot of options within that budget
Last edited by The Dominican; 15th Jul 2013 at 05:02.