[magduf]

It sounds like you're staying at expensive hotels.

I just spent 2 weeks in Japan. The locally-owned hotels had laundry on-site usually. This isn't full-service laundry; this is a coin-op machine on the ground floor that you use yourself. The one I used at a very new hotel in Osaka (Sarasa in Dotenbori) was really nice; you just put your Y400 in and come back in an hour or so, as it does both washing and drying. At hostels, it varies, but one I stayed at just charged me Y100 to wash a load, but they didn't have a dryer so I had to walk down the street and pay Y200 to dry it.

Did you even look at laundromats? If you're expecting hotel staff to do your laundry for you, then you're not going to get that cheap in almost any country, certainly not any industrialized one.

[com2kid]

> Did you even look at laundromats?

AirBnB + Filter on Laundry is easier. :-D Don't have to take time out of the day and all that.

The Ryokan was mid-tier, nothing fancy. Went to three cities, 2nd one was AirBnB with washer+dryer available, so everything was washed there.

[magduf]

Ryokan are known to be expensive. Business hotels are much, much cheaper. And yes, AirBnB is a good option too. When I was searching for hotels on booking.com and travelocity.com, I was able to see which ones had laundry there too.