Name: What a $20,000/Month Japanese Apartment is Like | Tokyo Home Tour
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T19:50:13.000Z
Duration: 17 min 38 s
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of all the things we've seen in this gigantic apartment so far.

Past simple

This is the thing that impressed me the most, the concept of a garden on the rooftop of a building in the center of the city, Japan often gets a lot of attention for its tiny apartments and small spaces.

To-infinitive

I mean for my first three years living here in my apartment, I to use an ironing board was valuable kitchen space as a kitchen counter.

Uh it was pretty, pretty sad in hindsight, but what is life like on the other side of the fence?

A good friend of mine living here in Tokyo who runs a luxury real estate business recently got in touch to say that he could get us inside one of the biggest apartments in all of Tokyo, an apartment that costs a staggering $20,000 per month.

Now to put that in perspective a studio apartment in Tokyo on average costs about 100,000 yet about $1000 and you get about 35 square meters for that.

So what do you get when you pay 20 times that amount?

Honestly, I don't know, I've never been inside anywhere like this before.

Yes, what have you got for me today Alex mentioned $20 apartment.

Yes, I have an amazing place for you right in between two of Tokyo's most desirable neighborhoods with probably the best rooftop garden in all of Tokyo, maybe all Japan actually, I don't think I've been anywhere with a rooftop garden before.

So I could barely believe that scotty, can't even believe that Also the camera person should probably introduce who they are because there is somebody who's good.

Hi, She is joining us today, Charlotte is gonna look at a separate property.

I'm gonna make a video about that and I'll link that in the description box.

So two properties, the one I'm looking at is $20,000 and the one you're looking at is $13,000.

So both pretty exclusive, exciting properties.

Let's go if you were to pick two of the trendiest neighborhoods in Central Tokyo odds are that shopping districts of Harajuku and Amati Sander will be at the top of the list and our property today is just a two minute walk from Harajuku infamous Turkish Destry nestled on the fourth floor of what is essentially a postmodern castle to the elevator, intimidating looking door here.

But if you look around here, you can actually see the garden, it falls that by standards of the garden in Tokyo, that is pretty damn impressive.

That's not actually the garden by the way, that's not the yard, that's just the inner garden, I will show you the way the actual garden in a second.

But if you look right over there, you can see that little faucet over there, right that is where you wash your dog's feet after you've taken for a walk.

Alright, let's let's go down to go through this.

And then you go through here, you have a solid wood.

But this is actually all shoe storage or if you take a look right over here, there's a lot of few story chess.

But if you come over here, let's check out the living spaces first.

So if we come over here, you'll see the first part of the living forest.

Let's call it the smallest of all the bedrooms.

Of course you have plenty of storage space over here.

If you go around all this is closets on the wall again.

So this is a bit bigger than most bedrooms in most apartments in Japan.

I'm also the smallest, You'll see a lot more sun here because it's a corner room, windows on all sides.

And by the way, all these windows very rare for Japan.

If you take a look, this is dual pane glass.

Also nice in the summer and also better any noise.

We're right in the middle of the world's biggest city.

The only thing you hear in here is the running.

Yeah, for me, that's already my favorite thing about this apartment.

You can go through the master bathroom to get to the master bedroom.

If you take a look over here, you have the first of two Jacuzzi baths.

Also, if you look over there, that's a tv.

So you can watch, watch the abroad Japan channel, watch Ron Japan weeknights at seven on Youtube.

And if you look over here, this is amazing.

This is where you can hang your clothes because people in Japan don't really use driers and this kind of stores up if you don't want that is also we talked about ironing boards, you can use that as an ironing board holder over there.

Oh wow, this is the kitchen, that is the kitchen.

I mean this is well, is this again, this is like the hanging clothes room.

This is basically already bigger than my kitchen.

I think that says more about me than the house, but that's cool.

All right now let's go check out the master bedroom and oh my God, it is massive.

This is essentially the size of my apartment.

It's a very open place and when you mentioned it's bigger than your apartment, it might be because this place is actually over 40 square meters just for this room.

So most Japanese apartments in Tokyo released are a bit smaller than that.

Do you think you could live if I have a California king size bed right in the middle?

I go off punctuated in the middle, nothing touching the walls because they're on our goals.

And also you don't need to have any kind of wardrobes or anything because if you come over here, you'll see the entire wall here is your closet and you got to remember in Japan, they don't usually keep shoes in the closet door.

This is just for clothing and you know, suitcases and you put your socks in here.

All right, great for putting your socks in.

So I want to take you to the first part of the living room area which would be the kitchen.

I tried, this could go in the living room and dining room.