Welcome everyone Guys, so welcome to my $250 apartment in Kyoto.

As you guys might know from my last video.

I have moved to Kyoto recently and yeah, in short this is the apartment that I got.

So I'm gonna give you guys a quick walkthrough and I'm also going to explain why it's so cheap.

Okay, so there's a lot of interesting things here, but let me start at the view.

So yeah, that that was my balcony, I have to admit, I do have a pretty neat view from my window, that thing right there of course go straight into my air conditioning right here.

Which is this bad boy has definitely got me through a lot of really hot days here in September when I arrived it was still like maybe 35-40°. I'm not sure if those numbers are exact, but it was super hot and also super humid as you guys might know.

The japanese summer is hot.

So it's not only super hot but it's also really, really humid because of the same.

So it's safe to say that every single japanese home does have at least one if not multiple air conditioning units.

Um But anyways, this is the rest of my room as you can see this is the first part of my room, you know my bed.

Uh then I have a, I have a little shelf over there, A lot of people were surprised by this, but coming to japan, I actually brought in my entire like computer.

Uh sorry for the cable management, it's really the best I can do.

You know, I brought my entire PC.

Then I bought a really cheap monitor at a local store here in kyoto and yeah, it works perfectly.

I didn't even need a um, what's it called?

A transfer mater.

The main reason why I brought my entire Pc is because I do a lot of editing, you know, if you guys know I make videos and yeah, I also play games.

So you know I mean and then you know what I've got above my desk is a map of Kyoto, a map of my college campus, my schedule.

And then this is like obviously dura poster, this is from monday to sunday and it's like sticky notes, right?

And I just basically stick in there.

Anything that I need to do or need to plan out.

So I don't forget it here.

For example, edit the video and actually finish it and buy a new pen because yeah, obviously I think when you have your own place it's really important to put stuff on your wall, even if you don't really use it.

Like for example, I don't really need that map of kyoto there.

But my landlord gave it to me and I was like, okay, let me put that on my wall just like, so just so I mean I still use google maps, Okay, don't get me wrong, but like blank walls are make it go crazy and up here above the bed, I've got a little shelf, you know with some, you know, pills, um some electronics, I don't know, books.

This fuckingo anger had some masks and just like stuff that I don't have anywhere else to put.

It's a pretty good like it's a pretty long shelf, you know?

Then here the first sliding door actually is not a different room, it's just my closet.

Yeah, I only have one uh sort of this thing, I'm not sure how it's called, but there's like nothing like I can't hang stuff.

Wait what?

Okay, this is actually the first time I'm seeing this.

Yeah, there's just not any other shelves where I could put stuff so nicely folded like this, it just fits here perfectly.

And then another sliding door that reveals my kitchen, My humble little kitchen.

Now, this is actually really cool.

Well I've got a microwave, I've got a fridge, a freezer, I've got cabinets, you know, So plenty plenty of space for stuff.

I've got a stove.

Yeah, this is I needed to remind myself because this is not an induction stove.

This is actually gas, you know?

So it's like, you know, it's like, you know, so I needed to put a sign here to like remind myself to turn off the gas every time I'm done using the stove because one time I forgot and it was open for like eight out 10 hours.

But anyways.

Yeah, I do have to remember to turn it up every time.

But yeah, really cool kitchen, the pan and everything, the plates, the utensils were all all here so I didn't have to bring anything of my own.

Oh this is something I need to show you.

This is something I have in my kitchen almost at all times.

It is called choco choco.

It is basically this like chocolate bread, like bread with chocolate chips in it.

It's really good for breakfast.

So I have this in my kitchen almost always.

Then some pre made rice, you know what it is because I didn't buy a rice korean and then the last and some would say the most important room in my apartment is this little bathroom, Japanese bathrooms work in a way that it's literally all connected.

Like I don't know how to explain it but it's like a little pod, you know, the whole room is basically the shower.

So you've got this here, you know, it's all like there's a drain right there.

I don't know if you can get the feel of it through a video but basically it's like a pod, The ceiling is lower than the rest of the apartment.

But yeah, nice little cozy shower, you know with the body soap, shampoo and conditioner all from 7 11.

Very cool.

Actually most of the stuff that I buy is from 7 11.

So here I've got the light and the fan as well and when I want to take a hot shower, I just turn it off right here, you know?

Yeah, I usually just keep it at 30 38.

Oh yeah, this is something that I think I didn't explain.

So in Japan there's a culture of a so called gang, can I think a lot of you guys probably already know this, but it's basically a like a step down where of course like you take off your shoes because walking in your shoes in your apartment is a big, big, big damage.

Okay, so that's something to definitely keep in mind.

There's also again, can at a law lot of like traditional japanese restaurants where you really have to take off your shoes before you enter.

So definitely keep that in mind if that's not something that's normal in your culture.

Another thing that I wanted to show you guys is that okay?

So this is my cabinet for expendables.

But what I wanted to show you is that in Japan, every city or every prefecture let's say has their own garbage system.

So here in Kyoto, this is one of them that you have to use this one.

You can use either for plastics, like plastic wrappers or plastic bags, whatever or you can use it for like all combined bottles, cans and glass bottles and you can't mix it.

You can't put plastic wrappers and plastic bottles together.

Okay, you have to separate it actually if you don't, they're probably not going to do anything because come on, but like, you should, everybody does it.

And this one, this is the second type, which is not for plastic bottles or any any plastic or any cans or whatever, it's like for miscellaneous trash.

So basically like small pieces of paper or I don't know, banana peels or whatever, you just put it there.

So basically if you want to throw out trash here in kyoto or in Japan, you have to put in either one of those bags, you can buy them at any ca convenience store.

So very convenient.

But yeah, the whole city uses it if you want to like put your trash in the like public, like huge container for it.

It has to be in one of those bags.

So yeah, that's something that we definitely don't have in europe.

I feel like in europe everybody throws out trash in whatever plastic bag they have, you know, and nobody really questions it.

So here here there's this really interesting system for it.

Okay, so yeah, that's my apartment, it's pretty big.

Honestly, like for me, the amount of space I get is definitely sufficient.

Now, the reason why I can get it for this price is because my landlord, he's like somehow, like acquainted with my university.

So every year he actually rents his apartment almost exclusively to exchange students and study abroad students that are here for a short period of time, you know, from like one semester to two semesters.

So it's like, he's a really cool guy and I think he just does this because he seems like he's genuinely interested in like people from other cultures and other countries.

He likes to help out study abroad students so that, that's really cool.

Anyways, this is going to be my base from now on while I'm here in Japan, if you guys have any ideas of how I can improve my apartment, let me know in the comments, let me know if you have any ideas, I'm definitely thinking of making this like a place where I can just freely make videos.

But also, if you have just like any questions about living in Japan and all that, just leave them in the comments and I'll be sure to answer as many of them as I can and you know, if I know the answer, I'll definitely try to and yeah, I think that's gonna be it for today for me.

I'll see you guys next time.

Bye bye.