a month in japan.
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For cheap eats - bakeries. If you're hunting for books and magazines, and you're out Peter's way in Nakameguro - take a 5min walk to the nearby Daikanyama and check out Tsutaya T-Site, massive collection and even an area where you can read back issues. Also Cow Books along the river for some vintage reads.
Oh, and if you're hanging around Tokyo a bit, don't get the rail pass for the whole trip. Just get it for the period when you're going to be doing inter-city travel, and load up a Suica card for the rest of the time. Best do the inter-city stuff at one end of the trip or the other, so then you can at least use the pass in one direction for the Narita Express.
Another option for cheaper accommodation is to just not stay in the thick of it. There's some more affordable places out west in areas like Mitaka and Asagaya, and it's easy (and quick) enough to catch the Chuo line into Shinjuku.