Name: Things I LOVE About my Japanese Designer Apartment | $1,300 Two Floor Apartment Tour ?
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T19:30:21.000Z
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So today I'm going to show you the things that I really like about my japanese apartment.

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So it's kind of like an apartment to her, but I'm just going to kind of show you the highlights of the things that I really like about my apartment that I live in and how grateful I am for.

A lot of people don't get apartments like this, but we're also keep in mind, we're also on the outskirts of Tokyo, were not actually directly in the middle of the city, so any where that's on the outskirts of Tokyo is probably gonna be cheaper than on the inside of Tokyo, if that makes sense.

Some of you guys are probably going to ask how much this apartment actually is And our rent is 1300 and it's actually 1200, but we pay 100 this is in dollars $100 extra for maintenance because you usually have maintenance, maintenance fees wherever I went.

Um I had maintenance fees and that's not including utilities and all that stuff, but The rent is actually about 1200 dollars.

Um This is our apartment, it's like a designer apartment by designer.

It's, it's a very unique structure, like we have our stairs, this is the best thing ever because most apartments don't have um stairs, they don't go upstairs.

So it's very much like a house and that's why we chose this because we have an upstairs where all the bedrooms are and then we have our living room and our kitchen down here.

It's not like this one room place where we can hear everything.

And the thing is all the apartments that are in this complex are a little bit different.

The apartments below us don't have stairs.

I think, I think each apartment is different.

I look actually took a peek inside our neighbor's house and it looks very different like the flooring and everything looks different.

We have wood floor for our apartment and that's what I wanted in my apartment.

That was one thing that I really wanted was good flooring because I think the one next door is a very marble e gross orange.

So this is the, one of the number one things I really like about my apartment.

So in japan they have, they measure rooms by tatami mat.

So this room, this whole room, our kitchen, our living room, our kitchen on this side is 12 Joel which is 12 tatami mat, square tatami mats.

Oh my gosh, so it's a little different when you're measuring things but this is really big for an apartment and we have a kitchen and this is the living room.

I guess this is supposed to be our dining area, right?

But you can turn it into a living slash dining and that's what we did.

So nothing really matches right now because I screwed up on the table.

I love my co Tatsu even though it doesn't match anything, I love my contacts.

Uh, so this is where we eat dinner in Japan taxes are very popular.

Um Obviously we don't have the little cloth that goes over it, but in the winter you can put a cloth underneath this part, it's like a little blanket to put over your legs when we're eating.

Um but this is our dining table and this is what most Japanese apartments have and I always wanted one, but I got the wrong color even though this is a very beautiful color, like this is very beautiful, but we still love this one and it's a good size too, but you plug it in and then it heats up underneath in the winter and then in the summer you don't use it, you just use it as a regular table.

So we eat all of our dinners and our food's here.

It just makes me feel like I'm in Japan and yeah, I've always wanted one and I never had one in my past apartments.

So this is another thing that I'm so grateful for, especially in the winter, it's like the best thing ever.

Everyone needs a kotaku in their apartment.

So the other thing that I really like is obviously r air conditioner because most departments well now they're starting to do it.

But a lot of apartments have air conditioners and some don't lifesaver especially now it's like in degrees Fahrenheit it's like almost 100 degrees outside and Celsius, it's like 37 or something.

So I'm really grateful for the fact that we have two air conditioners, one here and one upstairs, one is in the other room but it's broken so we're not using that room.

Yeah this is a dream, this is a refrigerator but most apartments cannot fit this large of a refrigerator.

This refrigerator is like big for any kind of apartment.

A lot of japanese apartments you cannot fit A refrigerator this large.

So we have 3 um freeze, we have two freezer vegetables and drinks and my alcohol two freezers, two freezers.

If you want to know what we have in here, I have no idea what we have in here.

We have like sausage from new these mothers, some vegetables, brussels sprout, so it's you know all of these autos, autos Yugi has some porcini, I can't speak and then this is our second freezer, we have some frozen right blueberries and bag film music puts his film camera, film and fix here if anybody wants to know this is our refrigerator, it's probably really messy right now.

We have like vegetables and chicken and all this stuff.

It's very hard to get this if you're moving to Japan by yourself or if you're like in the military you get like houses and stuff like that.

Okay, this is my kitchen, this did not come with the apartment, this whole counter.

We actually bought this separate, this is an island, They actually had a wooden one but it wasn't available I think at the time but this one didn't come with the apartment but I needed a counter, I needed like an island in the middle of the kitchen and I'm so glad we did it because he was like and then I got it and he's like oh my God, this is the best thing ever.

So now I can cut things and I can cook things and we got this at night or which is a Japanese furniture store.

So if you come to Japan that's like the cheapest Furniture store that you can go to next week.

So this, we got at me Tony, I think it was like $300.

I think this was the most expensive furniture regard.

This is the kitchen and this is pretty large for a kitchen actually, apartment kitchen.

Um this is this space is usually non existent in Japanese apartments, usually just have the sink and then you have your stove but here we have a little counter space but we use it to put our dishes on obviously and then dry our dishes, we have two burners which is enough.

But you know that's my americanness coming out.

I need three burners but we also have what I love about our apartment is our fish grill.

So this is a fish grill, this is an old one, obviously this apartment is used but yeah I cook fish and you can grill things in it.

Most japanese apartments have this um some japanese apartments don't even have like the fish grill and the stove you have to buy it separate but we're lucky and it's already in our apartment so I needed that for sure but we have lots of storage in this place which is amazing because a lot of my apartments didn't have as much storage except for my first department in Nagoya but this one has like cupboards up here, cupboards down here, I won't show you inside because it's not the most the cleanest.

The weird thing that I didn't like about this apartment was the toilet next to the kitchen, like it just was really awkward and weird.

Mhm mm so if you come inside this is the toilet but it's really awkward because it's right next to the kitchen, so that's the only thing I didn't like about it but there's always gonna be one thing that you don't like it about about an apartment.

But yeah we have storage up here which is awesome.

All of our toilet paper and girly things and stuff so yeah this is our bathroom so that's the only awkward thing but I'm very grateful for the fact that I have a bathroom.

If you're wondering what this door is here this leads to the gang con area which is the foyer.

This is our gang con area are boxes just came for furniture so there's kind of full but usually put your shoes over here.

You don't wear shoes in the house which is normal in japan.

And then we have our shoebox which I love.

You can't see it now but inside this cupboard is all of our shoes thank freaking God we have a big shoe box so we can't even still fit our all of our shoes.

So that's why there's his computer over here and all of his books and his work stuff because in the office upstairs we don't have air conditioning.

This is the largest tv I ever actually had or owned in Japan so I guess I'm grateful for that.

We get to watch movies and netflix and everything on there.

We have three balconies which is very unheard of in an apartment.

We have one balcony here but we need to clean it up because obviously it's getting kind of gross but we don't, we never really go outside.