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I am your host today.

I'm here with parents guys.

So we're kind of may be the thing that we're most well known for is we're broke down videos on tiny Japanese apartments or dorm rooms or yeah, with both state and different kinds of Japanese accommodation and made videos on it.

So that's how you might know us.

So we've had a bit of experience with Japanese accommodation and housing, and over time, if you lived here for a while, you might also know that finding apartments here is quite difficult.

There are certain things that get in the way on some places started, accept foreigners.

Red can be high in some places, this different problems.

But the thing that we're gonna be doing today is we're going to be looking at different layouts of Japanese apartments or housing and trying to figure out what the problem is.

What is wrong with it.

And when we figure it out, we have to forest the buzz up.

It is a competition, sir.

We have to figure it out fast and we'll let you guys know and throughout the way you're gonna find out some tips and tricks on how to find food housing in Japan.

So I'm gonna be just lets it started.

Eso We're looking at a layup.

If you are looking for a house in Japan, this is the kind of late that you will see those different things that mean different things.

Like if you find an apartment, it will be like a one ldk one, which means $1 like one room one L D.

K.

Is like a living room, a dining kitchen.

And then the number means how many other rooms they're off in the house.

So the one of looking up all right, says L.

D K 12 which means literally better kitchen.

Wait, What is that?

This?

I don't know what that you know what the kanji is Underneath the closet, There's a random door in the middle of I think it's just there's no purpose to that door.

It's in the middle of the living dining kitchen on, and there's no weight to it.

This just in open space.

So it would have in a hallway.

Yeah, nice veranda.

So if you just ignore the door, this is quite a nice, nice.

Okay, My tip number one for Japanese housing is definitely look a lot before you choose a place.

There are so many websites out there that can help you and a lot of them cater, especially towards foreigners And our English friends.

A swell.

So definitely this guijin pot on.

Also know what kind of house you're looking for?

Whether you're looking for an apartment for yourself or a share house or if you're showing with friends.

Definitely.

Look at all the options that you can before you choose and pick a couple of options as well.

Just in case one of the visit next one right is Tommy room into the LDK area.

Is this Avenger?

This'd just That's a tummy room so you can use it as a victory.

I don't know how you district is there, like there's no closet in the bedroom like its opening in the living, you know, said their way to get to the stands.

I think you know, there's no indication that there are multiple floors.

It's just got a staircase that is leaving up from nothing.

Where Imagine if you didn't notice that and you moved in and suddenly you just find these mysterious stairs that would be so freaky.

Okay, so my second tip, when looking for houses in Japan is definitely looking all of the added costs to each apartment because that's gonna be the amount that you pay every month, which is usually gonna look pretty good because housing depend is actually quite cheap, especially compared to Australia.

But the thing that custalow is the move in price, so there's gonna be things like security costs, a month's deposit, and then key money, gift money, guaranteed money.

They'll just keep adding up.

More, more, more.

And so I know friends who moved in and rent was like $2000 a month and move in.

Costs was about $10,000.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, so expensive.

If you're playing like $700 a month, you might have to pay maybe $2000 to Teoh around.

It depends if it's like apartment or a share house it, but it should tell you how much the movement feels like the contracting fee.

So miners only around 500.

That's because it's a share house, but departments are a lot more expensive.

Yeah, Originally, when I came here that really simple apartment.

That was kind of ah foreign of friendly, about two month contract, old WiFi and everything all utilities included.

So I didn't have to pay.

I think I just had to pay a deposit for that.

And then I got the deposit back at the end.

So I didn't have to pay anything upfront, which was great, except for the fact that it was, you know, the eight square meter apartment, which was really it was all good except for the actual size.

Also, be careful if you have a pet, sometimes that can double or there is always at least gonna be an extra cost for the pet itself.

Eso just be careful with that, I said when I lived in my tiny apartment.

I such full on your public five months because I had a visa situation.

Anybody in Australia really quick have a video where I talk about things you have to do with the lucky hold.

A visa was really trying apartment in Japan.

I was working holiday visa from Australia, which is only a six month visa.

You could renew it twice so you could be here for you know, because it says six months, you can't get a housing contract because they only allowed you have housing contracts for one year or more.

So many places wouldn't give me a house.

That's how I ended up in the 80 meter parliament.

And how long was that?

11 months.

So I was there for 11 months and I went in saying Crazy Oh, it's this one.

There's 22 tummy rooms is the box in the bottom left hand corner and the toilet is up in the left, so I a toilet and boxes in the kitchen.

Sorry, there's a real apartments in Japan.

You have to go all the way to the kitchen just to take a shower.

Are sick about that.

So we're is not even a close that that you could put box anyone like open?

Yeah, there's no to offer.

What if someone is in the kitchen?

Yeah, You put like a curtain Don't so cold in the winter.

That enough that section of this cold size a such a terrible design plan eso one thing, Which is that to tell me?

Because this has a two rooms of tatami in Japan.

Also a lot of the time.

They measured the room size by to tell me Mets six tatami mat sized room.

But to Tommy, I personally don't think I could have a house with to tell me because, you know, the purpose of the room is to have maybe a fruit on or like, a floor table.

And you gotta be really careful with Tom.

You can't spill stuff on it.

Tell me, having him my housing tip, I think for me the most important thing, this space.

So it's knowing the conversions of the space.

So what?

I was looking at rooms I was looking at eight meter rooms, nine meter rooms and 10 meter rooms.

But in America we go my feet, so maybe like 13 feet by 10 feet is like a normal room size.

But when I saw eight meters squared, I was like, I don't know what that means, So I had to do the conversions and I got a room that's actually 12.25 meters, and that's about like 100 and 30 square feet.

That's how it usually yeah, it's a really nice sized room, so I think just finding out what's most important to you about the space you're gonna move into, like, Do you want a big room or do you want a lot of lights?

Do you want, like one does?

So I think you should think about what's most important and then kind of make a list and have the things you want the most up top.

And then whatever you don't care about as much have that a lot of, like present cons.

Yeah, and then decide on your It's good to understand that something that might be really normal in your country and might be like like satellites.

You know, it's kind of normal for houses in the I guess America and Australia to have a lot of sunlight, But I didn't realize that here, that you really need to check, like one way or your room is facing.

What if there's a building directly opposite you that's gonna be Oh, buildings were really close sometime.

Yeah, so it's like even if you're facing a certain direction, you might not get light.

So it's best if you can definitely visit the place where Alicia seen pictures of the place in the daytime, and that way you can have an idea what it's gonna be like, Theo.

Way.

Okay, so first thing I notice is that there's a toilet in the very middle of the apartment and then there's four doors don't like.

There's literally four doors and it's just the toilets.

It's like anyone could enter.

Isn't do pushing.

That's so awkward.

Yeah, right behind the toilet, both sides of the toilet and right in front.

So you have to lock four doors.

If you wanted to use the bathroom and I don't know if you forgot to lock one.

I was gonna happen, OK?

Oh, sorry.

It's okay.

How do you get to the way over the If you climb through the window for the kitchen because that's a kitchen, you hop over the kitchen to get outside.

So the last tip, we're just gonna tell you generally how to find an apartment as a far enough coming to Japan.

So there's also options to do share houses.

There's Ocala, Sakoda, house and Social Apartment, and all of them are really awesome because they have, like, different features, which is maybe a gym, a theater, and then also the people within the share house are all very talkative.

So it's a really good way to make friends if it's your first time moving to Japan.

And right now I live in a share house, too, and it's so nice.

Like our kitchen is huge.

My bedroom's really huge.

And then also the bathrooms and everything.

A really big and it came furnished as well.

If you're moving here for a long time, but you don't want to spend as much money like on furniture and stuff like that, I think it's really beneficial to live in a share house.

Okay, well, the end school is I just want I know people get away with making hell's like this.

So just Abidjan Kanis So tiny.

Uh, why's the bathroom in the very center?

That's awkward.

That's so weird.

So much stuff happening on one side.

This sentence, the games.

That's the gang.

So it's OK.

Thanks for coming.

I will see you soon.

Bye.

Alright, guys.

So I'm at the train station and literally everyone has been staring at me.

So thank you, Emma.