Kobe vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kobe	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1107	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2821	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$460	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$848	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$400	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$152	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1696	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	8 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	91	46
😀 Quality of life	78	60
🏙️ Population	1.52M	1.47M

The cost of living in Kobe is 45% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4793rd and 6596th ($1107 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 127th and 14th in Japan and Russia, respectively. Check Japan vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.5 months in Kobe compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Kobe ranked 31st best city to live in Japan vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 674th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Kobe vs Yekaterinburg infographic

Share this infographic!

Use the link below to embed the infographic from our site and automatically keep the data layer up to date.

If you prefer to download the image, please credit us as a source.

<img src="https://livingcost.org/assets/photo/cost/kobe/yekaterinburg.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Kobe vs Yekaterinburg infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/kobe/yekaterinburg" target="_blank">Kobe vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Kobe vs Yekaterinburg

Prices for goods and services in Kobe and Yekaterinburg are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.

	Kobe	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.64	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$24.7	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.64	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.86	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.12	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.88	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$437	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$318	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$846	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$646	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$86.4	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$131	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$31.5	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	1.78%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4362	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3074	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.4	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$71.3	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$13.8	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.12	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.48	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.55	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.42	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.1	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.17	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$31.1	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.96	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.37	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.24	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.56	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.24	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.4	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.89	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.48	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$9.16	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.01	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.32	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.23	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.47	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.06	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.72	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$60	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.8	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$20	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$20.9	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$50.2	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$46.1	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$342	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$16179	$4946

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

$349

$907

$6.64K

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Kobe

Distance	City	Cost of living
12 km or 7.3 mi	Ashiya	$1049
15 km or 9 mi	Nishinomiya	$1127
18 km or 11 mi	Akashi	$1158
20 km or 13 mi	Takarazuka	$1072
20 km or 13 mi	Amagasaki	$1111
21 km or 13 mi	Miki	$1057
22 km or 14 mi	Sanda	$1048
23 km or 14 mi	Itami	$1062
25 km or 16 mi	Inami	$1072
26 km or 16 mi	Kawanishi	$1056
27 km or 17 mi	Ikeda	$1046
28 km or 17 mi	Toyonaka	$1063
29 km or 18 mi	Inagawa	$1045
29 km or 18 mi	Harima	$1073
29 km or 18 mi	Osaka	$1242
29 km or 18 mi	Ono	$1057
29 km or 18 mi	Izumiotsu	$1051
30 km or 19 mi	Minoh	$1059
30 km or 19 mi	Takaishi	$1051
31 km or 19 mi	Sakai	$1146
31 km or 19 mi	Kishiwada	$1074
32 km or 20 mi	Kato	$1049
32 km or 20 mi	Suita	$1302
32 km or 20 mi	Izumi	$1065
32 km or 20 mi	Kakogawa	$1110
32 km or 20 mi	Kaizuka	$1059
34 km or 21 mi	Izumisano	$1062
35 km or 22 mi	Moriguchi	$1117
36 km or 22 mi	Kumatori	$1059
36 km or 22 mi	Settsu	$1142
36 km or 22 mi	Matsubara	$1049
37 km or 23 mi	Takasago	$1076
37 km or 23 mi	Kadoma	$1101
37 km or 23 mi	Sennan	$1076
37 km or 23 mi	Hannan	$1084
38 km or 23 mi	Awaji	$1156
38 km or 24 mi	Ibaraki	$1136
38 km or 24 mi	Higashiosaka	$1106
39 km or 24 mi	Nishiwaki	$1046
39 km or 24 mi	Yao	$1079

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