texan-introvert said: Would you say in dollars with an agency and personal expenses one should save $4,000 = €3,500 or more? 

First, sorry for the late reply. Well I’m not an expert of what agencies can offer and what
exactly their prices are based on, but I can say that the prices may change because of different reasons. For example, a honeymoon package cost a bit more than a normal one, at least in the agency we went. Another important thing is the number of days of your vacation, we chose 14 days instead of 11 because it’s way more convenient choosing a longer trip in a country you may visit only once in your life. Then we choose to do a big tour touching 6-7 different cities. A travel agency can have different options available on that. We choose the honeymoon package because we wanted to be safe under every aspects since it was an important trip to the other side of the world and also because a friend of mine has a Japanese distant relative and she said that it is better choosing good hotels an solutions, because the cheaper ones tend to be hovels. Plus we had
a health insurance.

So in the end I think it depends on what you want to do in that particular trip (i.e. if you want to stay 1 week in a city and another week in another city, you’ll spend a lot less). Then the prices tend to be higher if you go in

the peak tourist season

(spring, early summer). We were 3 people so we would have spent less if we were 4 because of the idiotic bed arrangement in the hotel rooms. In the end, it depends on what kind of trip you want to do, but I can say that yes we spend around 3500€

(a bit less than that) for a good
settlement, so around 4000$.