Name: Tour of a Japanese apartment (/・ω・)/ 日本でのアパート・ツアー (英語・日本語字）
Uploaded: 2013-10-18T22:35:16.000Z
Duration: 7 min 54 s
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Hi!  So today I want to show a video of my new apartment.

This place is probably about 40 years old, maybe a bit more,

and most of the apartments in this building

are still the old, traditional, tatami mat flooring sort of apartments.

This one has been renovated recently and I think there's been only one person in here,

that was here for probably a month at most.

there's bits of little dust and dirt from the renovations still on things

It's semi-furnished, so I've got a bed (as you can see),

I've got the table that the camera is on, and a chair.

And a fridge, but...  most of the things are not included in the apartment,

like (dining) tables and extra chairs, TV, all that sort of thing.

bidet in that bathroom, uh, toilet, the water is controlled digitally,

so the bath you actually have to press a whole bunch of buttons

to get it to fill up and heat up and all that.

The water itself, the temperature is controlled digitally.

And it's got a whole bunch of studio, hotel-ey lights in here as well,

I originally wanted tatami mats, but this place was really nice, so...

compared to normal, old-style, kind of, traditional Japanese apartments,

but I thought I'd give you a look at what some of the newer ones

and there's a lot being built at the moment that kind of have a similar design, so for those

interested in moving to Japan, this is one of the options I suppose.

But yeah, check it out,  let me know what you think... and...

Hi everyone, and welcome to my new apartment.

I've just moved in, I've just finished signing the contracts about 20 minutes ago

It's a bit late at night, so I'll be a bit quiet so I don't disturb the neighbours.

It's freshly renovated, but it is in a building that's about 40 years old

So, you can see there's a lot of racks for the shoes.

You're not allowed to actually wear your shoes  in a Japanese household,

My agency has provided me with some but I'll be wearing my own just because I prefer those.

So, if you go through this small hallway...

...this section leads off to the bathroom/bath area.

This is for the kitchen and the bedroom. So, the main area of the apartment.

I'm not sure if it was last month (August) or this month (September).

And they've provided a few little things.

Push in to make the fire go, and then you press down to keep it going.

Afterwards, you press that and it stops it,

All these cupboards'll really come in handy,

but what I found interesting was the cup holder (I'm assuming).

Here at the sink we've got this, which you can put on either side if you flip it over.

Just depends where you want to dry your dishes.

I haven't actually got a dining table or chairs or anything like that,

That's all my stuff, kinda sprawled across the floor.

...have the normal light, which is just up here.

Or, you can turn that off and have those really cool looking lights,

which you can then adjust to how you like.

So next is the bedroom, which is the same thing -

you've got normal lights and then you've got adjustable lights.

(I've already started unpacking just a little bit.)

You can't see anything through this but there's curtains on the side which are also really nice.

So, there bedroom can actually be closed off by sliding doors.

They're a bit awkward at first but I think I can get used to them.

Got something where you can fill up your bucket.

You've got a normal shower, which is also adjustable.