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Where these codes and rates come from
The three letters in EUR, USD or JPY are not an abbreviation someone invented for a website: they are ISO 4217, a standard in which the first two letters are the country's own code and the third is usually the initial of the currency. The figures on this page come from the European Central Bank, which publishes one set of reference rates each working day, around 16:00 Central European time, agreed between the central banks of the Eurosystem. They are a daily snapshot meant for statistics and accounting, not a live trading feed — which is exactly why they are the same number for everyone, rather than whatever one bank happened to quote at one moment.
Where you meet an exchange rate
You meet an exchange rate four or five times a year without thinking about it: booking a trip, paying an invoice issued abroad, buying from a foreign shop, reading a salary offer in another currency, or checking what a card charge really cost. In all of these the reference rate is the honest middle, and the price you actually pay sits a little to one side of it. Knowing the middle is what lets you see how wide that margin is.
Questions people ask
Is this the rate my bank will give me?
No, and no page can promise one. This is the European Central Bank's reference rate: the midpoint published once a day for statistics. A bank, a card scheme or an exchange office adds its own margin on top — usually between half a percent and three percent, sometimes more at an airport counter. Use this figure to judge the offer you are given, not to predict it.
How often does the figure change, and what happens at weekends?
The European Central Bank publishes once each working day, in the afternoon, Central European time. There is no publication on Saturdays, Sundays or TARGET holidays, so on those days the page shows the last working day's rate and says which day it belongs to. The chart alongside is one year of the same daily series.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
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December in Stockholm for a Japanese guest: Nobel week, Lucia candles and what a yen is worth in kronor
On the tenth of December every year, the Stockholm Concert Hall fills with tailcoats, evening gowns and, now and then, a Japanese laureate bowing to the King of Sweden. The first Japanese person ever to receive a Nobel Prize, the physicist Hideki Yukawa, travelled to Stockholm in 1949. Nineteen years later the novelist Yasunari Kawabata arrived in formal Japanese dress to accept the prize in literature, and many more Japanese scientists have followed him, from medicine to chemistry. Their families, colleagues and a steady stream of curious travellers come too, because December in Stockholm is one of the loveliest and most expensive months of the year. Hotels fill up, the city is lit by candles in every window and the sun sets before three in the afternoon. Anyone planning such a trip has to turn yen into Swedish kronor, and this page does it for you. Use it to Convert JPY to SEK with the daily reference rates that the European Central Bank publishes: the yen and the krona are both quoted against the euro, and the page combines the two into a yen-to-krona figure and prints the date beneath it. The text below walks through a Nobel-week trip day by day, with typical prices in kronor. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
From yen to kronor
Before you book anything, Convert JPY to SEK for the whole trip once, then repeat the step a week before departure and compare the two figures.
Type an amount in yen and read the value in Swedish kronor. A yen is worth only a small fraction of a krona, so for small sums the result is short and for big ones it grows quickly. The date under the result tells you which day's rate you are looking at, and on weekends the page shows Friday's figure and says so. Below the box there is a table of round amounts and a thirty-day line, useful when you are unsure whether to exchange now or wait. For the opposite direction, from kronor to yen, open Convert SEK to JPY.
A benchmark, not a quote
The reference rate is a mid-market figure fixed once on every working day, without any bank margin. Your card, an airport counter or a transfer service will give you slightly less, and that gap is the price of the service. Treat the number you get when you Convert JPY to SEK as the yardstick against which every offer is measured: a gap below one per cent is excellent, two or three per cent is normal for banks, and anything above four is a reason to look elsewhere. For arithmetic only, the examples on this page use an invented round rate of one krona for ten yen. It is not a forecast and not today's price; replace it with the figure from the calculator.
Nobel week as a visitor sees it
The ceremony itself
Even a free evening lecture has costs around it, so Convert JPY to SEK for the train, the coffee and the cloakroom fee before you set out.
The prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics are handed over in the Concert Hall on the tenth of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, and the ceremony is by invitation only. The Peace Prize is awarded separately, in Oslo, so a Japanese visitor hoping to see it must plan a different journey. Ordinary travellers cannot buy a ticket to the ceremony, but the surrounding week is open to everyone: lectures by laureates at the universities, exhibitions, free public events and the illuminated streets. Following the ceremony, the laureates and about thirteen hundred guests dine in the Blue Hall of the City Hall, a brick building on the edge of the water, and the cooks have been known to prepare a menu kept secret until the evening. The hall's staircase, down which the laureates walk, is a favourite photograph.
Which Japanese laureates came before you
Yukawa in 1949, Kawabata in 1968 and the novelist Kenzaburo Oe in 1994 were the three literary and scientific pioneers whose names every Japanese schoolchild learns. In the decades since, laureates such as Osamu Shimomura, Shinya Yamanaka, Satoshi Omura, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Tasuku Honjo, Akira Yoshino and Syukuro Manabe have made the journey north. Each of them was given a week of lectures, receptions and interviews, and each came home with a medal and a diploma. Reading about them before departure turns a sightseeing trip into a small pilgrimage.
The prize money and what it buys
The prize sum itself is set by the Nobel Foundation each year and has been around ten to eleven million kronor per prize in recent years, shared if several people are honoured. The amount makes an instructive exercise: when you turn kronor into yen, the figure looks large, but the laureates usually spend a good share of it on research, students and charity. Nobody on a normal holiday needs such sums, so the rest of this page keeps to the budget of a visitor.
The museum in the old town
A museum ticket, a bun and a postcard are small sums, but when you Convert JPY to SEK for each of them in turn you learn the daily cost of culture in the capital.
The Nobel Prize Museum stands on the main square of Gamla Stan, the old town, in a former stock exchange building. It displays the stories of laureates through objects they donated, from a rowing boat to a pair of well-worn shoes. Entry costs roughly two hundred kronor for an adult, less for students and children, and the museum shop sells books, cards and chocolate medals. Plan about two hours. If you convert JPY to SEK for the ticket and a coffee in the museum café, the sum stays small, and the café's cardamom bun makes a fine reason to linger.
Getting there and getting around
Flights from Japan
Airlines quote in yen, hotels in kronor and euros, so Convert JPY to SEK for the hotel line of the budget and leave the flight in its own column.
There is no need for a stopover in Western Europe: airlines connect Tokyo and Osaka to Stockholm through Helsinki, Copenhagen and other hubs, and some years a direct service operates. Travel time is about thirteen to sixteen hours including a change. Japan is eight hours ahead of Sweden in winter and seven in summer, which matters because the first day after arrival is usually a haze. If you want to compare time zones with the rest of Europe, Convert CET to EET shows the gap between Central and Eastern European time. Fares in December are high; a return ticket can cost several hundred thousand yen in the week before Christmas, so booking in autumn pays off.
From the airport to the centre
The Arlanda Express train takes about eighteen minutes to the central station and costs a few hundred kronor one way, while the commuter train and the airport coaches are cheaper and not much slower. A taxi at a fixed price is another option, though it is not cheap. Once you are in the city, the transport company SL sells time-limited tickets valid on buses, the metro, trams and local ferries; a seventy-two-hour pass is usually the best deal for a visitor. Most tickets are loaded on an app or on a card, because paper tickets are rare.
Walking and cycling
Stockholm is built on fourteen islands, and walking between them is a pleasure even in the cold. Bridges, quays and parks connect the centre with Djurgarden, the island of museums. In December ice and snow can make pavements slippery, so pack boots with a good grip. The city also has bike lanes, but few visitors cycle in midwinter. Distances are posted in kilometres; Convert km to mi turns them into miles for readers who think in miles.
Where to sleep and what it costs
Hotels in Nobel week
A hotel that looks affordable per night can cost much more across five nights, so Convert JPY to SEK for the total, not for the nightly rate alone.
Rooms in central hotels cost from about 1,500 to 3,500 kronor per night in early December, and the best-known grand hotels, where laureates are lodged, cost far more. Rates vary with demand and fall away in January. A double room in a hostel or a budget chain may start closer to 700 or 900 kronor. If you Convert JPY to SEK for a five-night stay, add city tax where applicable, and ask whether breakfast is included. A Swedish hotel breakfast is generous: bread, cheese, herring, boiled eggs, porridge and coffee.
Apartments and the old town
Short-term apartments in Sodermalm and Vasastan offer more space and a kitchen. Their price per night is lower for groups, but cleaning fees are added. Staying in Gamla Stan has charm, with its narrow lanes and candlelit windows, yet the old buildings come with steep stairs and thin walls. Southern Sodermalm is cheaper, close to the metro and full of cafes.
Booking and cancellation
Read the cancellation rules before paying. A refundable rate costs a little more, but in a month when snow can delay flights it is cheap insurance. Pay in kronor where the website offers the choice, because a card payment in yen at the hotel's own rate often hides a margin.
Lucia, candles and the Swedish Christmas
Saint Lucia on the thirteenth
Three days after the Nobel ceremony, on the thirteenth of December, Swedes celebrate Saint Lucia. Before dawn, processions of children and adults in white robes walk through churches, schools and offices, singing and holding candles. The girl who leads the procession wears a crown of candles, and the attendants carry stars and gingerbread. The tradition has Italian roots but is distinctly Swedish now. A concert in a church or the cathedral, many of them free or inexpensive, is a moving experience, especially in the darkness of a northern morning. You will be offered a saffron bun, lussekatt, and a warm cup of glogg, the spiced mulled wine.
Christmas markets
Prices at a stall are often rounded to the nearest ten kronor; Convert JPY to SEK on your phone while you queue and you will see how little the rounding matters.
The oldest market is on the square of the old town, with wooden stalls selling crafts, candles, sausages and sweets. Another is on the open-air museum Skansen, where traditional houses from all over the country are gathered. A ticket to Skansen costs about 150 to 250 kronor in winter. A hot chocolate at a market stall is 40 to 60 kronor, a sausage in bread 60 to 90. The market prices are higher than in a shop, but the lights and singing make up for it. Convert JPY to SEK to see how much a stroll costs in yen, and you will find the answer pleasantly small.
Gifts that fit in a suitcase
Popular things to take home are Dala horses, painted red and carved from wood, glassware from Smaland, wool mittens, tins of ginger biscuits and candles. A small Dala horse costs about 100 to 300 kronor, depending on the size. Remember that Japan allows a limited quantity of duty-free alcohol and restricts certain meat and dairy products, so leave the smoked salmon in Sweden unless it is vacuum-packed and permitted.
What a week costs: three budgets
The careful traveller
A visitor on a tight budget lodges in a hostel for 800 kronor, eats at lunch restaurants with a dish of the day for 120 to 150, buys supermarket dinners and takes the seventy-two-hour pass. A realistic spend for the week outside the flight is about 10,000 to 14,000 kronor. Apply the invented rate of ten yen to a krona for arithmetic and you obtain a hundred and forty thousand yen at most, but replace it with the true figure from the page before you plan anything.
The comfortable traveller
This is the budget most visitors choose, and the simplest way to test it is to Convert JPY to SEK at three different dates and take the average as a planning figure.
A mid-range traveller stays in a three-star hotel for 1,800 kronor a night, eats one meal in a restaurant each day at 250 to 400 kronor and adds a concert. The week comes to about 20,000 to 28,000 kronor. A concert at the Berwaldhallen, the home of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, or the Konserthuset, costs 250 to 600 kronor. Both halls have fine acoustics, and Japanese visitors are often delighted to learn that several Japanese conductors and soloists have performed in them.
The generous traveller
Someone who sleeps at a grand hotel and dines in a starred restaurant should expect 45,000 kronor or more for the week. Sweden has a number of restaurants with stars, especially in Stockholm, and a tasting menu costs from 1,500 to 3,000 kronor per person. Reservations are essential in December. Convert JPY to SEK for such a trip, and mark the result on the calendar as a fixed budget, because it is easy to overspend on wine pairings.
Money in a country that hardly uses cash
Cards, phones and Swish
Sweden is one of the most cashless societies in the world. Many shops, cafes and even public toilets accept only cards or phone payments. A Japanese visitor with a credit card from Visa or Mastercard will have few problems, though contactless is the norm. Swish, the mobile payment system, is used by residents and needs a Swedish bank account, so tourists rarely use it. Carry a small amount of cash anyway, perhaps a few hundred kronor, for emergencies. Bank branches rarely handle cash, and exchange counters are few.
Avoiding the conversion trap
If the terminal shows a yen total, stop and Convert JPY to SEK yourself; if the two numbers differ by more than a couple of per cent, pay in kronor.
A card terminal abroad may offer to charge in yen instead of kronor. Decline. The conversion is done at the terminal operator's rate, which is worse than your card issuer's rate. Always choose the local currency. A quick comparison, using the figure from a Convert JPY to SEK on this page, reveals the hidden margin if you did not decline.
Tipping and service
Service is included in prices in Sweden, and tipping is modest: rounding up or adding five to ten per cent in a restaurant when the service was excellent. Taxi drivers are happy with rounding up. No one expects the sums seen in North America.
Weather, clothing and safety
Cold, dark and beautiful
December temperatures in Stockholm hover around zero, sometimes dropping to minus ten. Daylight lasts about six hours. Dress in layers, wear wool, carry a hat and gloves and choose boots with a rough sole. Indoor spaces are warm, so you will take layers off in cafes and museums. Convert °C to °F is handy for those who read the forecast in Fahrenheit. If you plan a trip further north, remember that Lapland is much colder.
Safety and manners
Stockholm is a safe city, though pickpockets operate in crowded markets and on the metro. Keep a bag zipped in front of you. Swedes queue politely, speak quietly in public transport and take their shoes off in private homes. If invited to a Swedish home, bring flowers or chocolate and remove your shoes at the door, a custom familiar to Japanese visitors.
Phone, language and help
Almost everybody speaks English, and signs usually carry English as well. A local SIM or eSIM is a cheap way to get data. The emergency number is 112. The Embassy of Japan in Stockholm helps citizens with lost passports and urgent problems.
Beyond Stockholm: small trips for an extra day or two
Uppsala, the university town
Forty minutes by train from Stockholm, Uppsala is home to the oldest university in the Nordic countries, founded in 1477, and a huge Gothic cathedral. The botanical garden honours Carl Linnaeus, who taught there and worked out the system by which we name plants and animals. A return train costs 150 to 250 kronor. In winter the town is calm, and the cafes are warm. Linnaeus is a hero in Japanese biology classrooms too, since the naming system he devised is used by scientists all over the world.
Drottningholm and the royal palaces
The palace of Drottningholm, on an island west of Stockholm, is the private residence of the royal family and a World Heritage Site. A guided visit costs roughly 150 to 200 kronor. In December the palace is open on limited days, so check the calendar. The Royal Palace in the old town, with its changing of the guard at midday, is easier to fit into a Nobel-week programme.
The archipelago in winter
A boat trip among the islands is a summer activity, yet in winter some ferries still run, and the frozen bays make strong photographs. Check the timetable, because services are reduced. Hotels on the islands often close, so plan a day trip rather than a night.
Other currency pages you may need
Neighbouring routes
Anyone chaining several cities should Convert JPY to SEK first, since Sweden is usually the most expensive stop on a Nordic loop, and then adjust the other legs.
If your itinerary continues to the euro area, use Convert JPY to EUR. For London, there is Convert JPY to GBP, and for Zurich or Geneva Convert JPY to CHF. Travellers heading across the Atlantic can open Convert JPY to USD. For eastern neighbours, Convert JPY to PLN covers Poland and Convert JPY to CZK the Czech Republic.
One last habit
Whatever the destination, write down the rate and the date when you exchange, and compare the card statement afterwards with a figure from the same day. A few seconds with the calculator saves a surprise at the end of the trip.
Common mistakes to avoid
Booking too late
Hotels in Nobel week sell out months ahead, and last-minute fares are far higher. Reserve in the autumn at the latest.
Assuming cash will do
Even a coffee kiosk may be cashless. Carry a working card and a spare one stored separately.
Using an old rate
Exchange rates move every day, and a month-old figure may be off by several per cent. Check the date beside the result each time you Convert JPY to SEK.
The short version
The page uses only the published daily reference rates, which are the one thing it downloads; the sum you enter stays in your browser, and no account is needed. From the Concert Hall to the Lucia procession, the habit is the same: Convert JPY to SEK, note the date, and compare every offer with the number on this page.