Name: Inside Tokyo's CRAZIEST TINY Apartment
Uploaded: 2025-07-24T17:54:47.000Z
Duration: 10 min 13 s
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The superlative

This is the craziest apartment I've been to in Japan so far, and it's expensive for what you get.

The comparative

And yes, it's crazier than the Triangle apartment in several different ways.

The imperative

But let me show you what nearly $1,000 gets you in one of the more expensive areas of Tokyo, Japan.

This goes all the way around, by the way.

And despite having a lot of features that make it oddly functional, the entire thing is basically like a giant indoor balcony.

But before we get into everything that makes this place as crazy as it is, I want to show you the stairway.

Claustrophobics beware, this is not going to be a pleasant experience for you.

This center column stairwell runs the entire building from top to bottom.

Smacked my head off this in the morning coming in.

But I take up basically the entire width of this hallway.

Luckily, it's still not nearly as bad as that last one.

And then opens up to a window here before going into the apartment.

It feels a little weird to even call it an apart...

That'll be one of the mysteries that we try to solve as I give you the full 360 tour of this place.

So starting right at the hallway and main entrance, this apartment changes completely when you put down all the blinds.

There's a shoe rack here with like three umbrellas for some reason.

And that leads us right to the toilet area with the bath.

This literally just is a pane of glass that swings open.

I cannot be the only person who feels like I would break that in my first month living here.

Above the bath, there's also this here space, which is a vent for all the steam with no cover.

And it looks like you can actually open up the window next to the bath.

So you could just have a bath with a wide open window.

And as you can see, this is not the only tiny building in the area.

We'll take a peek at the street later on.

And I'm definitely spoiled from living in Japan too long because this toilet is far too low tech for a Japanese home.

And this probably isn't supposed to be that loose.

This whole space, by the way, from window to edge is only 90 centimeters.

I can literally touch window and wall with my elbows.

There's an emergency escape ladder here, which seems like it would likely just lead you onto that person's rooftop.

And then around this corner is where we have our washer.

Video intercom for the front door, gas controls, a whole bunch of mystery switches.

Now, front-loading washing machines are not super common in Japan.

But Japanese washing machines will also sometimes have a dryer function in them.

But it can be incredibly, incredibly slow, like four to six hours for one load.

And I guess that brings us to what you might call the, well, the kitchen area.

There is a sink, which is just slightly larger than my hand.

And there's a vent for the two induction heater stove elements here.

This here is actually the air conditioning unit for the...

I have never seen this particular air conditioner.

I also just noticed that these just barely fit together.

They literally had to scrape off the bottom of the sink just to get that in.

Okay, I just found a really cool feature that I want to show you.

But for anybody screaming in hatred of narrow spaces, thank you for watching this, by the way.

There's not even enough space to open this.

So it's five centimeters wider than over there.

I can still touch both sides of my elbows though.

I've been baffled my entire time in here at the complete and utter lack of power outlets.

There's none by the toilet, which I know sounds crazy, but it is a heated toilet.

The outlets are hidden right here under the floor.

So there are three in here, but how many in the entire apartment?

Also, does this not just make you feel like you were genuinely just standing on a ledge?

There's got to be something hidden back there that you can't see.

Okay, found two more in the main room with internet and TV connection.

And then one hidden right here behind the toilet and right beside the bath.

Assuming that I found them all and that I've counted correctly, that is five power outlets for the entire unit.