How do you compare the prices of anything you can think of between Japan and Korea?

Take the price of the item in its own currency ,using the current exchange rate,covert it to your own currency,compere the prices using your own currency...
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Taxis in Japan:

The Narita Airport is 40 miles (~64.38 km) away from central Tokyo.

At the Tokyo fare of ¥710 for the first 2 km and ¥312.5/km thereafter, the fare will cost about ¥20205. At ¥90/$1, that is $224.50.


Taxis in Korea:

If anyone wonders how far one would have to ride a taxi in Korea in order to pay the same amount, the fare for a regular taxi in Busan is W2200 for the first 2 km, and ~W700 for every kilometer thereafter. At W1400/$1, that is ~$1.58 and 50¢ respectively.

To pay the same fare that you would pay just to ride from Narita Airport to Tokyo, you would have to travel 447.84 kilometers (278.28 miles,) which is nearly the full length of the entire country!

http://tinyurl.com/drivebusantoseoul <-- As indicated by the site, you would not need to go that far to get to central Seoul. Excluding tip, you would finish toward the northern end of Seoul.

The total distance as stated is 266.9 miles, so that leaves a difference of 11.38 miles, which would have you leave $9.16 in tip, though I would recommend that you pay $250 even (for the total fare + tolls + tip) since the taxi driver would deserve a nicer tip after such a long drive.

(Note that although tipping isn't given in Japan, foreigner or not, Koreans may expect foreigners to tip more often than natives.)


Deluxe taxis in Korea:

"Mobeom" taxis are W4500 for the first 3 km and W1220/km thereafter. To pay the same $224.50 as the airport-downtown fare in Tokyo would have you travel about 257 km, or 159.7 miles.

http://tinyurl.com/driveseoultojeonju As you can see there, that would be enough to ride from Seoul to Jeonju and still pay a handsome tip of about $27.76. (Though tolls may reduce that amount.)


CREME-DE-LA-CREME TRAVELING:

"The Peninsula" Hotel in Tokyo offers a very premium ride in a Rolls-Royce limousine from Narita Airport to the Hotel for ¥65,000 (~$722.23.) See http://www.peninsula.com/Tokyo/en/Destination/Airport_Transfers/default.aspx

Now to ride in a Mobeom taxi from Busan for that fare, at W4500 for the first 3 km and W1220/km thereafter, the trip would total 828.1 km (514.56 miles) before tips and tolls. Let us assume that tolls will set us back to a modest 750 km (466 miles.) (Therefore the fare alone would be $654.18.)

http://tinyurl.com/drivebusantopyongyang <-- As you can see there, Pyongyang is 421.5 miles (678.34 km) from Busan, so at $591.73, the 44.5-mile shortfall would leave you to give an estimated $62.41 - $75.07 tip; something a taxi driver deserves after driving you in comfort across a border and regime!

(Perhaps when the North's regime collapses and opens themselves up to the world one day, we may actually have this happen.)


Tokyo's Rolls-Royce fare in a Korean Regular Taxi:

Let us assume Busan's fares of W2200 for the first 2 km and W700/km thereafter. Mokpo is on the western side of the peninsula and slightly south of Busan's latitude.

To spend $722.23 would take us 896.84 miles, but let's assume tolls pare it down to 800 miles. (1287.48 km.) The fare alone would be $644.32.

Anyone want to see a notorious political labor camp of the soon-to-be-bygone regime? http://tinyurl.com/mokpotohoeryong <-- As you can see there, that would be in Hoeryong, North Korea, 738.9 miles away. (~1189.15 km away.) Total fare: $595.15. That would leave you to give a tip of $49.17, though I would recommend higher as that is less than 10%.