Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles In this video I'm gonna take you on a tour of my new Tokyo apartment Since I did a video on my last Shibuya apartment And I also did a video on moving to this new place A lot of people been asking for a full tour of this new apartment So here it is the old Shibuya apartment was about 35 square meters while this new apartment is 70 square meters Which works out to be about 750 square feet Which is kind of what Maiko and I were looking for when looking for new place. As many of you know We're about to have a baby soon So, finding a place that just had a little bit more room for Michael, myself and the new baby Just made a lot of sense to us but if you watch my second channel Tokyo zebra You know how much of a pain and all the issues We've had trying to find this new place But fortunately, we found it and we finally moved in and luckily for us We moved into this new apartment several weeks before Japan declared a state of emergency Which, has made the quarantine a little bit more bearable So, before I start if you want to see what I'm doing on The daily check out my Instagram account and if you want to help support the channel check out the Hold my Miso merch and if you have any questions about Japan Check out my discord community that all said let me take you on a tour of this place. Let's go So, first of all This is the entrance area and as you can see it's a lot wider and more spacious than my previous apartment So, one of the things that I appreciate the most is that in this place, it has a built-in storage for shoes Finally, I get my own dedicated closet here and then just next to it Maiko has her own dedicated closet for shoes as well and just below I keep some of my workout equipment So, if I need to go and I'm on the run I can just quickly grab it and go Also, another thing that I appreciate is that the apartment has a lot of built-in wall hooks. In fact, it's proven quite useful because I'm able to hang a hand sanitizer just right here at the entrance and there you go! My hands all sanitized now. And another thing that I really love about this new place Is that just in front of the entrance there's a little space where you can actually put a vase and hang something if you really want Let me show you what I put in front of the entrance because I'm kind of a little proud of it And here it is YouTube's 1 million subscriber play button. This is one of those Awards where it wouldn't have been possible without you guys So thank you so much! I appreciate all the support ♡ and one thing that I wanted to share with you guys is.. Look just a little bit closer to the play button it actually says presented to Paula from Tokyo and Maiko because they do this channel together Again, thank you guys so much for the support over the years ♡ I'm so excited for this year to come and all of the new content I'll be sharing with you that said let me now show you the living room Alright, so this is the main living, dining and kitchen area In fact, we live in a 2 ldk which, means in Japan two bedrooms living, dining and the kitchen So, I'll be showing you the other two bedrooms shortly but let me just go through and kind of show you what we did around this space. One of the things that was really important to Maiko and I When kind of setting up this place was to make sure we didn't have a lot of clutter. If you saw this Shibuya apartment tour just a few weeks ago You notice that we lived in a fairly cramped space and because it was so cramped. We just had so much clutter, which just I really really hated so, in this new space I kinda wanted to try to keep it as simple as possible One of the things you'll probably notice first Is that the living dining kitchen is all connected into this one space. We wanted to have this kind of Island kitchen behind me So, that in the future when we're doing more vlogs on our Tokyo Zebra channel We'll be able to kind of show you more what's going on in the kitchen, in the living room without having to go to all these like separate rooms. So, we have the main island kitchen there We have a little dining set over there. And then we just have this living room this space right here You can see that the zebra carpet which, kind of goes to the Tokyo Zebra Motif. This kind of separates the dining and the living room area, but one thing about this living room area We're actually still waiting for a sofa to be delivered This pink chair behind me should just be going actually like right here and then there we're supposed to have another sofa, but we just couldn't get it in time. It might just take another month or two to be delivered So what can you do. Now, let me show you this apartment from that side of the room So, a lot of you already know that Maiko and I work from home So, we've actually set up this little area for our work desk So, one of the things that was quite important to us, was to keep the work stations here in the main living area so that when that baby comes we can also watch over the baby while we're working But, if you already haven't noticed this room is kind of in a weird triangle shape So, we kind of had to make adjustments in order to make this room work. First of all, I think this area was originally intended to be kind of like where you put your TVs and everything and then maybe the couch would go here and you'd face that way but instead we actually decided to put the TV here in front of the window just to open up the space a little bit more, because we do have these work stations here and because we did that we had to kind of reposition the lights. What you'll find I don't know this might be similar to your country But, the light fixtures and apartments are fixed to one location in order to get around that I had to get this light fixture bar, where I can move the light one meter away and pretty much the same thing for the dining room as well. Oh, but let me show you One thing, I didn't like about this room, but was able to find a solution for so just underneath the island kitchen I actually wanted to put the air filter right here, but the problem is they didn't have any electrical outlets They only had it on the other side of the room So, what I actually did to just like clean things up because I really hate cables all over the place It was I ran some molding from that side of the wall all the way to this side of the wall and because the color of the baseboard changed I also changed the color of the molding and then determinated I made this little box where I can put all the cables in, so it's not so messy I know pretty simple, but these little things just make me super happy And another thing that I just really love about this space is just how the windows wrap around this entire room, so that when you pull back the curtains you really feel like there's a lot more space than It is right now, because I know a lot of you who live in Western countries probably think that, this is a pretty small place But it's Japan. So what can you do Overall, I think we did a decent job on making this room work I don't know.