Kawaguchi vs Nizhny Novgorod - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Kawaguchi	Nizhny Novgorod
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1025	$882
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2558	$2140
🏠 One person rent	$479	$430
🏘️ Family rent	$810	$758
🍽️ Food expenses	$294	$308
🚐 Transport expenses	$151	$50.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2002	$721
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	23 km	13 km
🎓 Higher education	100	46
😀 Quality of life	81	60
🏙️ Population	594K	1.2M

The cost of living in Kawaguchi is 16% more expensive than in Nizhny Novgorod. Cities ranked 5371st and 6322nd ($1025 vs $882) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 306th and 14th in Japan and Russia, respectively. Check Japan vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 2 months in Kawaguchi compared to 0.8 months in Nizhny Novgorod. Kawaguchi ranked 21st best city to live in Japan vs Nizhny Novgorod ranked 14th in Russia, while ranked 694th and 5937th among best cities to live in the world.

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	Kawaguchi	Nizhny Novgorod
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$3.73	$11.6
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$33.6	$37
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$3.98	$5.79
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.43	$0.97
☕ Cappuccino	$3.03	$2.44
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.97	$1.29
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$504	$495
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$333	$320
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$901	$879
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$590	$588
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$83.2	$67.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$129	$105
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$28.6	$7.16
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	1.87%	18.87%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6408	$2854
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3676	$1848
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.16	$0.49
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$73.9	$15.5
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$25.4	$6.2
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.13	$0.73
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.18	$1.05
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.03	$0.6
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.03	$1.27
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.18	$1.49
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.02	$10.4
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.37	$5.15
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.5	$9.31
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.34	$1.68
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.61	$1.63
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.92	$1.9
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2	$2.7
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.97	$0.67
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.5	$0.65
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.57	$0.48
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.18	$1.5
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.2	$8.62
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.43	$1.07
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.87	$2.68
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$10.2	$8.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.41	$3.13
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.44	$1.36
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.62	$1.27
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$58.2	$28.9
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$12.1	$6.15
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$34	$16
💇 Haircut, simple	$18.8	$5.62
👖 Brand Jeans	$42.2	$77.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$56.9	$129
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$316	$327
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15648	$3800

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Cities near Kawaguchi

Distance	City	Cost of living
4.3 km or 2.7 mi	Toda	$961
4.5 km or 2.8 mi	Warabi	$945
7.6 km or 4.7 mi	Soka	$1047
9.3 km or 5.8 mi	Saitama	$1037
11 km or 6.5 mi	Yashio	$1002
11 km or 6.9 mi	Koshigaya	$1078
11 km or 6.9 mi	Wako	$1035
12 km or 7.4 mi	Asaka	$1020
13 km or 8.3 mi	Shiki	$972
13 km or 8.4 mi	Tokyo	$1698
14 km or 8.5 mi	Misato	$1005
14 km or 8.7 mi	Yoshikawa	$1031
14 km or 9 mi	Niiza	$1033
15 km or 9.6 mi	Hirai	$1055
15 km or 9.6 mi	Matsubushi	$1028
16 km or 10 mi	Matsudo	$1024
17 km or 10 mi	Fujimi	$975
17 km or 11 mi	Nagareyama	$1039
17 km or 11 mi	Musashino	$1110
18 km or 11 mi	Miyoshi	$997
18 km or 11 mi	Kiyose	$1025
18 km or 11 mi	Higashikurume	$1049
19 km or 12 mi	Kasukabe	$1038
19 km or 12 mi	Nishitokyo	$1094
20 km or 12 mi	Fujimino	$961
20 km or 13 mi	Mitaka	$1125
21 km or 13 mi	Ichikawa	$1041
21 km or 13 mi	Noda	$1055
21 km or 13 mi	Hasuda	$994
22 km or 14 mi	Ageo	$1004
23 km or 14 mi	Kashiwa	$1116
23 km or 14 mi	Tokorozawa	$1061
23 km or 14 mi	Ina	$990
23 km or 14 mi	Komae	$1115
23 km or 14 mi	Koganei	$1066
23 km or 15 mi	Urayasu	$1068
24 km or 15 mi	Higashimurayama	$1040
24 km or 15 mi	Shiraoka	$998
24 km or 15 mi	Miyashiro	$1007
24 km or 15 mi	Kodaira	$1066

Cities near Nizhny Novgorod

Distance	City	Cost of living
36 km or 22 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
198 km or 123 mi	Ivanovo	$615
202 km or 125 mi	Cheboksary	$772
223 km or 139 mi	Vladimir	$650
241 km or 150 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$693
245 km or 152 mi	Kostroma	$765
250 km or 155 mi	Saransk	$719
290 km or 180 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
323 km or 200 mi	Kazan	$868
331 km or 205 mi	Ryazan	$692
350 km or 217 mi	Elektrostal	$863
353 km or 220 mi	Penza	$537
355 km or 221 mi	Ulyanovsk	$641
366 km or 227 mi	Rybinsk	$678
380 km or 236 mi	Balashikha	$898
386 km or 240 mi	Korolyov	$831
387 km or 240 mi	Lyubertsy	$917
391 km or 243 mi	Mytishchi	$800
402 km or 250 mi	Moscow	$1438
403 km or 250 mi	Vologda	$544
410 km or 255 mi	Khimki	$914
415 km or 258 mi	Podolsk	$876
418 km or 260 mi	Krasnogorsk	$915
421 km or 262 mi	Kirov	$536
434 km or 270 mi	Tambov	$672
453 km or 281 mi	Syzran	$692
466 km or 289 mi	Tolyatti	$686
469 km or 291 mi	Tula	$837
477 km or 297 mi	Cherepovets	$543
482 km or 300 mi	Obninsk	$671
492 km or 305 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$681
498 km or 310 mi	Tver	$727
501 km or 311 mi	Lipetsk	$570
522 km or 324 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$755
525 km or 326 mi	Samara	$796
527 km or 328 mi	Kaluga	$582
536 km or 333 mi	Balakovo	$658
544 km or 338 mi	Almetyevsk	$709
549 km or 341 mi	Saratov	$783
558 km or 347 mi	Engels	$758