Hi, I'm in the process of preparing to move from europe to tokyo. Coming from 230v 50hz country.
I know this has been asked before, but the responses to posts like these are "just sell it and buy a new one", or "a transformer will be too expensive". And yes, I know transporting them is expensive too, but assume shipping is free.
I have several appliances that were expensive to buy, and the fact that a transformer will be "too expensive" isn't informative enough. Could anyone tell me whether (if i am willing to have a big large heavy brick of a transformer in my apartment), how much it'll roughly cost and whether it'll work? I don't intend to use these appliances more than 15mins continuously. And most of the time, I only turn them on for about 5mins each time.
I found this on amazonJP, and 8k-10k yen doesn't seem too expensive to me. The main question is: will it work?
I'm intending to use this for my coffee machine, kitchenaid, food processors, blender etc. The max wattage amongst them is 1100W. I don't intend to use all the appliances at the same time, so i'll only plug them in when they are in-use.
And any high wattage appliances like my (pretty expensive) hairdryer 1600W will unfortunately not come with me (for the same reasons above)…. Though if I could bring it, I would love to.
by Timely_Celebration46