Question:
I'll be staying around there...it's most likely gonna be a budget trip, with me and my mum.
Answer:
It is entirely possible to have a budget trip in Tokyo.
There are many affordable food places in Ginza (yes Ginza is an expensive area) however just turn the corners and you will find a wide vareity of restaurants to include chain Japanese restaurants (and I don't mean KFC or McDonalds) and mom and pop restaurant shops. Many affordable stores like that abound in the area.
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These "most expensive city" polls are highly subjective. They are polls taken by western business people who live in Japan (and other cities) but instead of adapting to Japanese living, they continue living their western lifestyle (eg, own a car, big apartment/house, 100 dollar steak dinners), these polls are ridiculous and not representative on prices a tourist would find or anyone living like the Japanese.
Even the Wall Street Journal article explains why the polls are so slewed and biased:
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/…
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