Originally Posted by
jamar
Portable WiFi pricing relies on where you get it from. Typically, you're looking at around 1300-1500yen/day unless you go with Global Advanced Communications, which some people here seem to have said good things about- they're cheaper for long-term rentals. (5300 yen for 4 days+400 yen each day after, according to their website)
Docomo-USA also offers a fairly new Xi-enabled hotspot rental $90/10 days + $20 shipping in USA
http://www.docomo-usa.com/jp/service...ard/index.html
http://www.docomo-usa.com/jp/file/po...er_terms_e.pdf
The catch is that it is USA based so it seems to counts flight transit days as rental days.
This is probably the best hotspot rental deal I've seen for high speed and large amounts of data. The picture shows it has the L-03E Fall 2012 hotspot
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/data/l03e/index.html which has one of the larger batteries.