a tour of my apartment here in northern japan  if you're new to my channel or if you missed me  

mentioning it in earlier videos i live in  a city called morioka in iwate prefecture  

i pay about 750 a month for this apartment so  here's my entrance and you come in and there's  

a space to take off your shoes and i've got  this huge shoe closet which is great because  

i have lots of shoes what i really like is there's  a full-length mirror here right by the door so you  

can make sure you look decent before going out  here's the entrance to the main part of the house

so as you come in here you can see the living room  the sitting area i guess this is the dining room  

and the kitchen this table was not meant to be  this big i ordered it off amazon and it looked a  

lot smaller on the website so it takes up quite  a huge portion of this room i find myself like  

pushing it back into the corner a lot to make  up some more space here but it's a nice looking  

table and i ended up using it from my desk i do  have a proper desk but i guess it's more comfy to  

sit here the air conditioner up there keeps this  room warm so it's easier to work from this room  

i've got my post-it notes everywhere reminding  me of the million things i need to do today  

my cold tea from this morning yeah that's  basically where i sit down to eat my breakfast  

and dinner got a calendar on the wall here  planning out what to do for each day of vlogmas  

all the plants in my house are fake i travel too  much to be able to keep real plants unfortunately  

i've got another really pretty full-length  mirror here i like to put lots of mirrors  

throughout the house i just feel like it makes  the space look a lot bigger and this is my cozy  

living room i really like how it turned out i  found this sofa at a local furniture shop for  

about a hundred and fifty dollars which  i thought was a pretty good deal because  

i think it looks pretty fancy i think  it looks like it costs more than that  

and i decorated it with some really hairy pillows  from amazon and a little throw blanket just to  

keep it a little warmer in the winter because this  fake leather material is pretty chilly to sit on  

on a cold morning when i moved in i really  hated the color of these curtains i thought  

they were hideous but they're kind of growing on  me now i feel like now the place is decorated but  

they kind of work what do you guys think would  you change them i'm pretty happy with them now  

they're like a weird gold color i don't even know  how to explain it at the moment i've got my little  

christmas tree over in the corner here decorated  with my pusheen plushies normally i would have  

a different plant here and this decently sized  tv that i got off of japanese amazon for about  

i think it was 300 which i think is a really  good price because the quality is great  

i've had zero problems with it um yeah i think i  got a really good deal on that it was brand new  

these shelves that the tv is sitting on i also  got from amazon they're kind of cool because you  

can take this piece and flip it over and stack  it on top of this one if you want a rectangular  

tv stand but i kind of like it like this i've  got my playstation down here some books um  

some random stationery and stuff i really  need to clean up this area it's so messy  

and in these really cool trunks is  where i hide all my camera equipment

i got these off of american amazon  so i'll link them for you guys  

if you would like to order some hopefully  they've still got them but yeah they store  

tons of stuff so i hide away all my electronics  and that stuff that would make my house look  

super messy inside here and they also make  a really good foot rest when i'm sitting on  

the sofa oh also santa came early and got me the  godzilla humidifier so i'll show you guys this in  

a video when i get back to japan after my trip but  i'm pretty stoked about that thank you santa mark  

my fine art on the wall here you guys have seen  this some more art that a friend drew for me  

fake cactus and yeah that's about it that's  the living room i really love this accent  

wall here which is not real cement it's a just a  plasticky wallpaper but i think it looks pretty  

realistic if i hadn't have told you would you  thought it was real one thing i really like  

about the living room are these lights on the  ceiling you can dim them with the switch here  

and if you tap this button really fast they change  color i don't know if you can tell but they're  

very warm toned at the moment uh i  believe this is the mix of the two

and these are the cool lights you  want me so you can select uh what  

you're in the mood for i usually  use the warm ones in the evening  

but yeah that's pretty fancy this is probably the  fanciest lighting setup i've ever had living in  

japan so i really like that and i have this little  machine here it has a camera outside my front door  

so if somebody knocks on the door i can see who  it is and i can talk to them using this button  

this room beside the living room is identical to  my bedroom but at the moment all i've got in here  

is this really cool lamp that i haven't found  another spot for i really wanted to put it in  

the living room but there's no space in there  unfortunately i love it i got it on sale at  

the furniture store because it was the last one  i think it was about seventy dollars and then  

i've got my piano over in the corner i practice it  when i have time which is unfortunately not enough  

i would like to get some more practicing done i'm  not allowed to have instruments in this apartment  

but i can plug in my headphones here and play  with my headphones on so i can still play  

and above the piano i've got the retro godzilla  postcards that i got at nakano broadway  

this room also has a really strange closet set up  it looks like this is a door leading into another  

room but it's actually just part of the closet  so this whole wall here is a giant closet and  

basically i use it to store cardboard boxes that  i can't throw away yet and i keep all my suitcases  

in here and that's about it all right moving on to  the kitchen area i recently purchased this shelf  

here and i love it i feel like it's just a great  place to store all these knickknacks that would  

normally just be crowding my countertops and  tables this is some of my tea collection i've got  

three tins of tea here and this is my jar of  random teas which is almost finished how crazy  

is that my favorite little paris plushie down here  and this is a really cool book so this is a five  

year diary and you just write one line from each  day and each page is the same day but throughout  

five years so you can see like where you were at  a year or two years or three years ago and it's  

really interesting to compare i haven't completed  the first year yet i bought this last new year's  

so i'm almost finished the first year it'll be  fun to move on to the second one and compare them  

i think i've got some random currencies in here i  always have random currency and down at the bottom  

here i've just hung my shopping bags and a hat  this is a recent iherb haul that i haven't sorted  

into my cupboard yet my oatmeal that i eat almost  every morning and a fur remover to remove dirt and  

cat hair and stuff from my clothing if i have  any i have a really big kitchen sink which is  

awesome because it's always filled with  dishes i don't like doing the dishes so  

i have space to let them pile up in here which  is nice and it came with this little rack for  

drying which is also super convenient this is  great because this comes off and it's a hose  

my stovetop is an ih cooking stove infrared heat i  had the choice between gas and ih when i moved in  

here it was a brand new building so i could kind  of design how i wanted the room to be which was  

really cool i went with ih because gas scares me  i'm always scared that i'll leave the gas running  

or something i just really love cooking with  ih i feel like it heats the pan really evenly  

and it's super handy it heats up super  quickly as well i just push this button here  

and then this one to turn on this burner and  i can adjust the level of the burner here  

and then down here there's a little fish grill  that i used once to try and heat something up  

couldn't figure out how to use it and never used  it again so that's a shame it's kind of a waste  

all my spices and seasonings are just kind of  sitting in the back here because i haven't been  

able to find a spice rack that will fit in  this little gap i have behind the stove i  

would love to have a nice spice rack here but  no luck finding a thin one this little kitchen  

unit has so much storage in it which is great  i keep all of my cleaning supplies saran wrap  

stuff like that in there down here there's  another one where i keep all my stationary stuff

over on this side i've got

my dishes and my utensils and down below  is where i keep all the pots and pans

oh and there's another drawer here  for elastics and all that stuff  

moving on to the other side i bought this little  table off of amazon and i feel like it it works  

perfectly here because i can kind of tuck away all  the different garbage cans that i need we've got  

cans pet bottles which are like  plastic drinking bottles plastics  

which go separate from the plastic bottles  this is burnable garbage and in here i have  

glass bottles it's kind of annoying because i've  always got garbage sitting here waiting for the  

garbage day when i'm allowed to throw it away i  can throw each one away once a week i think on  

top i've got my only oven i use this tiny little  toaster oven for making toast or making a pizza  

heating up stuff it's really all i have because  i can't fit an oven in this apartment which is  

really the only thing i don't like about it this  is my favorite appliance so you fill this up with  

water and it comes to a boil and then it keeps it  at the perfect temperature for tea you can adjust  

the temperature setting here depending on what  kind of tea you drink i always keep it at 98.  

i find like that's perfect and then you just  push this button and boiling water comes out  

always ready for your tea it's awesome this is an  espresso machine and some capsules i only drink  

the sweet ones like vanilla or chocolate caramel  i've got a pretty small fridge but i feel like  

it's good enough for me it's got a decent size  freezer at the bottom and i've got my microwave  

on top there and there's even more storage up here  which i rarely use because i can't really reach  

it like i can open it and then i can't reach any  further than that so i can't use the top shelves  

you guys have seen my pantry when i did that  organizing video where i tackled my t-shelf

tea shelf a random foods shelf more random  foods and down on the floor i've got bills and  

water bottles and soy milk and stuff like that  i love that pantry and right behind the kitchen  

is my bedroom you guys have seen this in most  of my videos you've pretty much seen the whole  

room i've got a full-length mirror in the corner  here for when i'm choosing my outfit my closet  

is super messy so i'm not going to show you  inside there my ever-growing glasses collection  

here i've just got some important stuff  like my passport um id cards stuff like  

that if i ever need something important  it's probably inside this little chest  

some fake plants i got from daiso my chanel  perfume i really love this i hate most perfumes  

but i think this one smells really nice and  inside here i've got my jewelry collection

some notebooks then my bed i've still got my koala  mattress that i made a video about a long time ago  

it is super amazing i highly recommend koala not  sponsored please sponsor me again i love you guys  

a little table i got from ikea my aromatherapy kit  and this is a really cool light you can set it so  

that it slowly glows brighter in the morning  like the sunrise and it's supposed to help you  

wake up in a natural way it's really neat  this really cute cloud lamp i got from sunny  

thank you so much sunny as a housewarming gift  i love it so much a little lamp over here and uh  

some candles fake one and a real one and  my bed has this charging station so i can  

charge my cell phones pretty cool that's my little  bedroom all right moving on to the bathroom area  

over here i've got a washing machine this didn't  come with the apartment i bought this from  

a thrift store when i moved in my laundry  basket my vacuum back there which is charging  

over on this side i've got my makeup  all the makeup that i use daily uh  

my face wash my electric toothbrush makeup  brushes and in here is all my skin care  

oh by the way there are a few skin care boxes  left if you guys are interested in purchasing  

my korean skincare routine i will link that video  down below just got an update and they said they  

have a few boxes left so if you're thinking about  getting one you can still do that more skincare  

in the middle i keep lots of hair products  sunscreen that kind of boring stuff

and got some bath powders and stuff like that  in this one so again i have so much storage  

here which i really love and i love this cute  little fake marble countertop down here is where  

i store all my makeup that i don't use on a  daily basis and some skincare stuff as well

all right over here is my towel rack i've got my  towels my laundry basket and my laundry hangers  

toothpaste shampoos stuff like that here i use  this little basket to store all my hair tools  

and more stuff down here detergent stuff like that  

this is all my extra skincare that is yet to be  used got this little rack off of amazon and i love  

how it just fits perfectly in this little space  so thankful for that i've got one of those like  

absorbent stone bath mats i really like it i was  kind of like iffy about them at first but it works  

great and it dries quickly now this is my favorite  part of the house i am so stoked to show you guys  

the bathroom because it's amazing and it's the  reason why i decided to rent this apartment so  

first let me show you the shower it's got so many  different settings i do not use them all there is  

this waterfall style shower here this one here is  so interesting it's just a really thick jet stream  

of water that comes out and if you sit under it  kind of gives you a massage if you aim it like  

on your shoulders or your back it's really cool  but honestly i only ever use the regular shower  

head but i do have that choice if i'm ever in the  mood for a waterfall or a weird jet stream shower  

i've got all my shampoos and stuff in the corner  here now are you ready for the main attraction so  

i have a tv in my bathtub that's cool it came  with cable so i can watch movies or tv shows  

while i'm in the bath and it's a jacuzzi  bath it has jets which i can operate with  

this button here and this controls the lighting in  the room i can dim the lights pretty fancy let me  

actually dim the light so that i can show you guys  the best part this button right here watch this

it colors my bath different colors now it  doesn't look overly cool at the moment but  

when you have your bath filled with like  a nice bubble bath it will color the water  

the color of the lights and it looks so  cool and there's so many different choices  

i think there's a rainbow  setting as well the last one