Name: $200 Japanese Apartment in Tokyo
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T20:35:09.000Z
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So it's often said that living in Tokyo is really expensive.

But if you look hard enough, you can find some really inexpensive places.

And that's what I'm going to show you in this video.

I'm going to be searching for a $200 apartment and luckily the people that nice from abuse who have agreed to help me out with the search.

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So, I really want to see a place under $200 under $200 in Tokyo.

Yeah, the first department is a nine minute walk away from Tobu Nakajima station, which is a 17 minute train ride from Ikebukuro.

So it's kind of on the outskirts of Central Tokyo but the neighborhoods sure is pleasant.

Many restaurants and shops and pretty much everything you need without having to go to another station.

But let's see inside the apartment before we start calling the movers.

So this 9.9 square meter studio about 100 and six square feet was built in 19 fifties, so more than 70 years ago.

All right, so this is the first apartment, so excited to show you what it's like.

Let's go inside now, although it has a shared toilet room, there is no bath.

So if you're staying here, a local bathhouse or gym membership is probably your best bet.

If you like taking baths every day, quick note, Japanese apartments generally have upfront costs such as deposits, would you probably get back when you move out?

We'll guarantee fees, agent fees and key money is out of your pocket and never to be seen again.

Also, some apartments may have monthly management fees so be sure to factor that in.

Okay, so this is what a $200 apartment would look like in Tokyo, let alone it's on the outskirts of Tokyo, it is still $200 it has a lot of personality.

So when you first get in here you can see that it's about 4.5 tatami mats, less than 10 square meters.

The first of all, let me just take you to the entrance area, just walking you into the left hand side, you have this kitchen sink area.

I believe that works just fine being that it is a Japanese apartment, you do have this area here, it's kind of the entrance area where you just leave all your shoes.

So whoa, you can see that the floor here, it's a little bit unsteady, the stone entrance here is a little bit cracked and so when you step on it it does sink in a little bit, which is a little bit scary, especially since Japan is earthquake prone.

So it does have a light here that works properly, so that's pretty nice.

And then I believe these like ***, it's here, these little models are for connecting a gas stove so you can probably put just like a little gas stove here, interestingly, the apartment comes with its own broom as well.

The door itself has two built in locks which is I guess it's nice, you have a door knob lock and then you have the chain lock above.

Moving on into this room, you have space for a desk, you have space for a bed.

It looks like the tummy mats are just a little bit warmer.

So you just gotta, you know, I guess you just live with that and the world itself has just a lot of history.

You just look around, you can see something must have happened here at one point in here as well and here you do have some closet space.

Unfortunately it doesn't have a clothes hanger.

But I'm assuming that if you reached up here, you can put your own bar if you really needed to, it looks like the door just right here.

If you needed to close your closet, then the door is right here just for you.

So if you do need to plug in some of the electronics, then this would be the place.

Unfortunately though, I don't think there are any other electrical outlets around this place.

So you're gonna have to use this and maybe use a power shift to get your electricity all around the room.

But the positive thing is that the room is not that big, so you don't need a long extension cord.

So it does look like this apartment has a fiber built in.

So if you do want internet, you can probably installed around it here and get a fiber connection.

So if you are a gamer and just won a game all day, you can probably do it here.

What's also nice is that it's a corner room.

Let's open this and see what the view looks like.

I guess this one that looks right into the wall.

Yeah, surprisingly the window is really big.

You can actually like it goes all the way down to my knee, which is pretty nice.

It looks like it even has a landline here.

So if you wanted to connect to a land phone, you can do it the ceiling to also has a lot of characteristics.

If you just kind of look up, you can see that has different shades maybe from over the years and maybe some kind of water, moisture damage and then there's even a hole over there.

What's also interesting about this place is that the walls, it looks like it's made from a sand and paper mix.

It's really amazing how that's lasted over the years.

So probably in the winter, it's going to be really cold and in the summer it's gonna be really, really hot.

So that's pretty much all I can show you in this room, but it also does come with a shared toilet.

So this place comes with a full on a Japanese toilet which you share with all the other people living in this apartment building, but the bright side is that it's pretty clean, but that's pretty much what you get here in Tokyo for $200.

Now, if you want to go a little bit closer to central Tokyo, then you're going to have to pay a little bit more.

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This next place I'm taking you is only a two minute walk from Nakai station, a 10 minute train ride from Shinjuku station.

So the location itself is a lot closer to Central Tokyo.

So this next place is just a little bit more expensive.

So when you first walk in, you can see that there's like an old school closet here for your shoes, wow, look at that.

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