Maintenance costs include insurance premiums, fuel expenses, parking fees, repair costs, etc., and exclude taxes, loan repayments, and toll road fees.
The survey participants were Net Asia Research Internet Monitoring members who owned a private passenger car and drove once a month or more. The survey arbitrarily picked valid responses for its sample, comprising equal parts of male and female participants in four same-sized age groups.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.68 U.S. dollars or 0.58 euros as of September 2025.Â
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Average monthly private car maintenance costs in Japan 2016-2025
According to a survey conducted in July 2025, the average monthly maintenance costs of private passenger cars in Japan amounted to approximately **** thousand Japanese yen, up from around **** thousand yen in the previous year. The monthly maintenance price increased for the fifth consecutive time.
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