Himeji vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Himeji	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1181	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3908	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$536	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1850	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$426	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$155	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2240	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	53 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	60	46
😀 Quality of life	72	60
🏙️ Population	528K	1.47M

The cost of living in Himeji is 54% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4535th and 6596th ($1181 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 50th and 14th in Japan and Russia, respectively. Check Japan vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.9 months in Himeji compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Himeji ranked 224th best city to live in Japan vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 1836th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Himeji vs Yekaterinburg

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	Himeji	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$8.31	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$33.5	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.55	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.23	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.23	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.04	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$609	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$396	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2664	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1478	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$72.4	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$110	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$24.4	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	1.77%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5545	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3543	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$4.05	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$75.5	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$26.9	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.87	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.62	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.83	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.68	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2.08	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.61	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$31.2	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.1	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.41	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.36	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.99	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.53	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.02	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.91	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.41	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.34	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.93	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.11	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$10.7	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.68	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.67	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.34	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$13.2	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$9.94	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$19.9	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$5.65	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$43.1	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$44.5	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$591	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$16359	$4946

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Himeji

Distance	City	Cost of living
9.8 km or 6.1 mi	Taishi	$1075
11 km or 7 mi	Takasago	$1076
13 km or 8.3 mi	Tatsuno	$1064
16 km or 9.9 mi	Kakogawa	$1110
19 km or 12 mi	Kasai	$1059
20 km or 12 mi	Aioi	$1057
20 km or 13 mi	Harima	$1073
22 km or 14 mi	Inami	$1072
23 km or 14 mi	Ono	$1057
24 km or 15 mi	Shiso	$1042
28 km or 17 mi	Ako	$1040
28 km or 17 mi	Miki	$1057
29 km or 18 mi	Kato	$1049
33 km or 20 mi	Nishiwaki	$1046
35 km or 21 mi	Akashi	$1158
46 km or 29 mi	Bizen	$985
48 km or 30 mi	Awaji	$1156
48 km or 30 mi	Kobe	$1107
50 km or 31 mi	Sanda	$1048
51 km or 32 mi	Tanba	$1038
53 km or 33 mi	Mimasaka	$991
56 km or 35 mi	Sumoto	$1157
57 km or 35 mi	Setouchi	$949
57 km or 35 mi	Tamba-Sasayama	$1041
57 km or 36 mi	Ashiya	$1049
59 km or 36 mi	Asago	$1027
59 km or 36 mi	Minamiawaji	$1212
60 km or 37 mi	Nishinomiya	$1127
61 km or 38 mi	Akaiwa	$937
62 km or 38 mi	Takarazuka	$1072
64 km or 40 mi	Inagawa	$1045
66 km or 41 mi	Yabu	$1011
66 km or 41 mi	Itami	$1062
66 km or 41 mi	Amagasaki	$1111
67 km or 42 mi	Fukuchiyama	$1045
67 km or 42 mi	Kawanishi	$1056
68 km or 43 mi	Ikeda	$1046
69 km or 43 mi	Tsuyama	$978
70 km or 44 mi	Higashikagawa	$1187
72 km or 45 mi	Toyonaka	$1063

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658