Life Abroad

Top 5 Downsides of Living in Tokyo as a Foreign White Guy

Things to consider before you pack your bags and move to Japan

Alex Steullet
10 min readJun 8, 2021

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Photo by Louie Martinez on Unsplash

So far, I’ve lived for at least a year in half a dozen cities and traveled to many more. There is no place I love quite as much as Tokyo. I couldn’t see myself living anywhere else.

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Alex Steullet

Writing to get better. Tokyo-based polyglot with a degree in human rights. Travel | Humor | Language | Society. Find me anywhere @alexstwrites.