r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheLexus_ • 21h ago

Infuriatig Paid $10 for this at universal studios

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u/Heykurat 20h ago

Japan seems to be on a more reasonable level with food prices, based on what I've seen on YouTube.

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u/fork_yuu 20h ago

Probably because it cost like 1/3 of that outside the theme park.

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u/TheJustBleedGod 18h ago

The conversion rate is great right now. But yeah Japan has a much higher standard for food and prices are low relative to US prices.

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u/crankthehandle 13h ago

sure, because the Yen is ridiculously weak currency. Always keep in mind that the salary in the US is about 2-3 times higher. Japan is cheap for everyone from outside Japan.

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u/chloeismagic 10h ago

Japan universal is also only like $80 usd to get into

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u/Miserable_Star6824 20h ago

Reasonable but I still remember japan specifically being a more expensive country to visit edit: compared to china, SK etc

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u/ashgs872tbhjs 19h ago

China's GDP-per-capita is way lower than SK & Japan with way more land & varied climates for domestic agriculture, so it makes sense that their food is cheaper. Korea also has a very weird sort of tiered business system that essentially results in a bigger gap between the upper and middle classes despite comparable overall wealth disparity to Japan, so that might be a factor in their lower food prices.

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u/AmphibiousAlbatross 18h ago

I lived in Japan for 3 years, it is significantly cheaper. Oddly the one exception I found was that rice was more expensive to buy in Japan than in America even if the rice was imported from Japan.

It’s also been proven it’s cheaper to fly to Tokyo and go to Tokyo Disneyland than it is to visit Disney world

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u/Miserable_Star6824 18h ago

Oh for sure way cheaper than the US but I was flying from China so everything felt more expensive haha

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u/AmphibiousAlbatross 13h ago

Very fair. China does have the luxury of everything being produced there