Taxi Fare Comparison

Taxi cabs in Tokyo are expensive. Living in New York City I'm used to the whole taxi cab thing, but Tokyo makes the NYC cab rates look cheap by comparison. Here's the breakdown.

In NYC the taxi fare starts at $2.50 and is $0.40 for every 1/4 mile thereafter.

In Tokyo the taxi fare starts at $7.10 for the first 2km and then is $1.00 for every 1/2 km thereafter.

The below chart illustrates how the Tokyo taxi rates are almost double that of NYC taxi rates. I've taken the simplest case here and don't include special fares (for rush hour or late night) and also don't take into account the rates for time spent waiting in traffic.

Miles	New York	Tokyo
0	$ 2.50	$ 7.10
1	$ 4.10	$ 7.10
2	$ 5.70	$ 9.10
3	$ 7.30	$ 11.10
4	$ 8.90	$ 15.10
5	$ 10.50	$ 19.10
6	$ 12.10	$ 21.10

* I've used 100 yen = $1 for the above calculations.