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  • Good morning from Tokyo.

  • I'm in Tokyo at the moment.

  • I'm here for a couple of days.

  • I thought I would contact my friend Alex and see if he could get us into another cool property.

  • You guys seemed to enjoy the 13 grand a month apartment tour that we did last time.

  • So I think we're in luck.

  • It sounds like he's found something really cool for us.

  • So I'm just heading up to his office now and let's see what he's got.

  • That's why I hate charlotte.

  • Hey God, I didn't see you there.

  • Alright, so chris is my cameraman today.

  • Thank you chris.

  • First things first.

  • According to the comments of our last video, I really suck at petting dogs and I completely with could you teach me how to pet scotty properly?

  • So you try to pet like a cat.

  • And what you do with the catch is kind of go above like that, Right?

  • But dogs, they actually do better if you go from the side, so just try petting her on the side and then you can.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, so which property do you have for us today?

  • What are we going to see?

  • Okay, so with the last one that was an insane place as far as I remember, it was about a $13,000 a month rental for 55 bedroom.

  • So spacious and just ridiculous it was, can you top it this time I can definitely top What are we gonna see?

  • So first off this time it's not an apartment, it's a house, it's an entire house and it's not for rent?

  • It's for sale.

  • So you can actually buy this one.

  • All right.

  • What's the price tag on this one?

  • You want to hear?

  • It's 790 million yen.

  • So just about $8 million.

  • And where is it located?

  • It's right in between Harajuku animals like department was Exactly.

  • That's a really good area and it's big, it's over four floors and one of the floors has a very dark secret.

  • So you're going to see what that is pretty soon.

  • Alright, let's go see the dark secret.

  • Are you ready?

  • Yeah, let's do it.

  • Alright, we are here at the $8 million.

  • How did you go home?

  • It's a house.

  • It's four floors, right?

  • There's four floors to this place and every floor is crazier than the other one you're gonna see.

  • Let's go ahead and just one thing you need to know this door locks itself.

  • So I actually put a little stop here.

  • So yeah, just a little security feature door.

  • Yeah, it's a massive door, very heavy and if you come in over here you'll see what looks like most people's living rooms in Japan is actually just the entrance and you can tell that because you have all this shoe storage over here.

  • This entire wall issue storage of course.

  • So you can see right here just coming through it is an architectural masterpiece inside and there is a reason behind that is actually because the original owner of this place was an architect, You designed it from the ground up.

  • And so that's why you're going to see not just these crazy glass panels right here, but not just this, but everything else in here is just a marvel of architecture.

  • Yeah.

  • And what do you do when you have your friends over?

  • Right, It was a long drive for them.

  • They need to come in and relieve themselves.

  • Right.

  • So that's why you actually have the first, the first closet.

  • What I thought was the bathroom wasn't actually bathroom.

  • So what I was saying again, when your guests want to relieve themselves after the long drive on the way to your nice house and they can come into here into the amazing bathroom right again and charlotte this time you get a Jacuzzi as well.

  • Yes, a towel drying rock.

  • But my God, I've always wanted, you can have warm towels in your bathroom is a nice luxury.

  • I've never seen that in Japan.

  • Yeah, that's cool.

  • And if you go over there you can go into your nice Jacuzzi for two as you can see with two pillows as well, technically this is actually the master bedroom and also the master bath.

  • Believe.

  • Yeah.

  • So they're considering this, if you come over here to be one of the bedrooms but the previous owner obviously had this as more of like a living room.

  • You could do it either way.

  • Yeah, I definitely prefer this.

  • Yeah.

  • It's kind of a strange place to have a bedroom.

  • Yeah, absolutely.

  • It is a very nice room.

  • You have your gigantic L.

  • Shaped, you don't even have to imagine anything in this place has one piece of furniture for you.

  • Yes, we'll just this room.

  • But you come out here and you have a very, very nice wooden deck all to yourself.

  • Yeah, I love the wooden background that would look so nice with some lights that would, you would have your fairy lights on, wow, look at this, just take a look at those stairs.

  • It is unbelievable.

  • Again, you have an architect who built this from the ground up for himself.

  • So he did not spare anything in design or materials for that matter.

  • So come on up now, coming up to the second floor, you're going to see you step right into probably one of the nicest living rooms in all of Tokyo at least in the house.

  • Very very high ceilings with these.

  • Crazy, it's not the greatest view.

  • Is very nice in here all day long.

  • And then also you see this guy.

  • Yeah.

  • Yes, you have your tv right in front of this large mosaic thing, kind of like a Turkish bath vibe and you come over here and you have something I haven't really seen in too many japanese houses, many houses in general.

  • This, I'm calling this the panic room.

  • Right, so this is the panic room, you have these solid metal walls here.

  • There's no way to get in or out except me to climb up.

  • So you really have to panic in order to get out of here, leaving the security room slash slash parasites dungeon kind of thing.

  • Very interesting.

  • We make our way over these beautiful stairs on the, what is one of the nicest toilet sink is really high.

  • I feel like things are usually really low in Japan.

  • This feels like it's the right height, which is strange.

  • It is, yeah, it's right because the ceiling is so high, I had to make everything higher.

  • Would look really strange.

  • But this is beautiful.

  • It is, it is absolutely beautiful.

  • That's just the toilet, that's not even the shower room.

  • This is the kitchen dining room.

  • This is a pretty big, this is quite nice.

  • It's kind of cozy.

  • Last department we saw, it was just ridiculous.

  • It was honestly, this entire house is about 330 m2, just over 3600 square.

  • It's a big place, especially for japanese standards, but you don't feel like it's too big.

  • You have the high ceilings, but let's go check out the kitchen actually.

  • So I love this.

  • You have this kind of industrial, almost like a ramen shop kind of thing.

  • So you make your food, you put it up here and then you put the bowls and everything, the spitballs at the bottom and charlotte will go and clean them for you separated, but you can still see what's going on and it's still, it's open but it's not completely closed.

  • Kitchen.

  • Come on over here.

  • You have to see the oven.

  • This is a real oven again.

  • Yes.

  • And space for probably a very, very large.

  • Yeah, this could be certain you have the four burners of course and plenty of space for all of your, wow, that's a lot of space for coloring.

  • Two more or is it one more up?

  • And then is there like a secret?

  • Let's find out.

  • Let's go up.

  • Wait a second.

  • Is that what?

  • I think it is the first real bedroom?

  • Okay.

  • This feels like a bedroom.

  • This feels this is more of a bedroom kind of place apart from the tile wall over there.

  • Which I just love by the way.

  • Yeah, that's an interesting choice.

  • Isn't that amazing?

  • Yes, it's really pretty.

  • Not only the sunset's gonna look pretty, but if you actually make your way outside balcony such a tiny little door.

  • Got the hobbit door leading out to the giant balcony on your roof.

  • This is quite nice actually.

  • Imagine owning a balcony like this middle of Tokyo.

  • The views are not exactly the best but it's still pretty nice that they look really nice at nighttime.

  • They do like the big buildings lit up.

  • I can imagine.

  • I would have my barbecue over there.

  • I would have the little seating area out there.

  • What would you do with this?

  • I know it feels very with all those apartments, they're kind of like watching you?

  • I would definitely put up some kind of like fencing, maybe like a bamboo folding screen type work, maybe some trees and yeah, but wow, this is a lot of space to work with.

  • This is now, we just went through from one of the bedrooms.

  • Now let's go and see the other bedroom.

  • So come on over here, let's go check out the second bedroom and it is quite dark right now but at the same time you're sleeping in the bedroom, you don't really need that much light.

  • One thing though, let's take a look over here, see what is in here.

  • Oh yeah, your walk in closet.

  • Yeah, this is quite nice.

  • It's very simple.

  • It just looks like pipes like drainage pipes.

  • It is strange because I've seen a lot of walk in closets in Japan and generally speaking they have these T shapes, poles on them.

  • I still can't figure out exactly what they're for.

  • Just hanging clothes now.

  • If you come on over here, how many floors did I say?

  • Four floors right there.

  • Is there like a ceiling level above my, my, this is the second bath.

  • That's actually, oh my truth just right.

  • I love how bright it is and it's like mostly natural lighting coming in.

  • It is, yeah.

  • I mean honestly if you turn the lights off, it's not really going to make that much of it.

  • Yeah, just a shower this time.

  • But who needs more than a shower And if you need a bath, you go downstairs Jacuzzi, Where is this?

  • Fourth floor?

  • Is it above us?

  • On the very roof?

  • Is there a rooftop garden lounge area?

  • No, it's the secret torture basement.

  • You ready to see the secret torture basement?

  • Okay, let's go see the secret torture basement.

  • I wasn't expecting this.

  • It's got like a love hotel vibe to it.

  • Yeah, let's just, let's actually see what it looks like inside.

  • They consider this the, let's call it the playroom.

  • Right?

  • So at one point they were thinking of putting karaoke.

  • Yeah, this is going to be an entire karaoke room.

  • It would be great for photos and it's got a rose carpet carpet, sunken floors just over here, by the way.

  • Yeah.

  • So you can have your nice L shaped sofa in the corner.

  • Well, you have your gigantic screen right over there broadcasting your favorite karaoke tunes.

  • This feels like so out of place in the It is, it is absolutely out of place.

  • But I love it.

  • It is.

  • This is actually a bar specifically for the basement.

  • Yes.

  • Bar complete with storage for all the liquor that you're gonna need.

  • This is weird but cool.

  • This is very weird.

  • I could definitely find a use for a room like this.

  • It'd be fun to hang out with your friends out here.

  • I could have a DDR machine over there, maybe I can make that like a ball pit.

  • Yeah, very eccentric.

  • Well there you have an $8 million house right in the middle of Sando.

  • It is really nice, I love the staircase is beautiful and that bathroom is gorgeous, I really love the dark feel to it, it's very cool but it's a little too like, like cool, cold feeling.

  • I think I prefer someplace a little more cozy, maybe more wood, that's what it's lacking.

  • But if you guys would like to see some more awesome properties, you can check out Alex's website, real estate, I will link them down below and if you want anything that's not on my website or on my instagram, I have a lot of secret listings including this one, so hit me up and we also toured a very amazing apartment with chris today, the biggest one bedroom apartment and all of Tokyo.

  • It was really nice.

  • I'll just, I'll tell you that I don't want to give any more way.

  • It's amazing.

  • Go check it out, I'll link it up in the cards and also down below in the description box.

  • Thank you to chris for filming the video for me.

  • Thanks for watching guys and I'll see you again very soon.

  • Bye for now, yep, it's locked.

  • All right, best tour guide ever, in the whole wide world.

Good morning from Tokyo.

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