Hacker-friendly in Tokyo
patio11: You are going to have a very, very difficult time living in Tokyo for $600 a month.  Is that $600 you have budgeted out for rent or $600 total?At $600 total it is, flatly, impossible for you unless you intend to sleep on a park bench.  At $600 for rent you can probably find somewhere in the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area (note: this is huge and can be upwards of 3 hours from Tokyo proper by train) which will take a foreigner for a few months without requiring $2,000 worth of key money, but it will certainly not have a workbench.