Wildly expensive Tokyo? Maybe it's not that bad

TOKYO (Reuters) - Surveys rate Tokyo as the world's costliest city, a reputation perpetuated by perfectly shaped hundred-dollar cantaloupes and tender wagyu beef steaks that cost as much as shoppers elsewhere might pay for a whole cow. 

But analysts and travellers say Tokyo is not really as expensive as its image, especially after seven years of falling prices and an influx of cheap imports from China.