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  • 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.