>>2819942
Thats because the hotels in your budget range are buisness hotels for 1 night stays.

>>2819926
They used to be really cheap now that tourist have flodded in I can't tell you it used to be really fucking easy to find sub 10k yen hotels, even sub 5k yen. These days it's all way above that because of over tourism.

Like in 2019 I went for a 4 day trip to Sapporo on a weekday from Tokyo and I payed like 4000 yen per night for a total of 16k yen. Now you'd probably pay 40k or 50k.