Next I want to talk about rent because I know everyone's dying to hear the rent is
Hey guys, it's Mikan and today I'm going to be doing the highly requested apartment tour now
I haven't felt like I was ready to make the apartment tour just because it feels like this place is never ready
So bear that in mind when you watch this, I still don't really feel like it's quite ready
But I thought it's never gonna be ready. So I just need to go ahead and show it
So that's what I'm doing today. My apartment is 16 meters squared now to me
That's actually not that small because I've lived in rooms that were much smaller before and it is my own personal space
So I am here like all alone. So to me like just me it's plenty of space
I think it doesn't actually feel that small
I didn't know it was 16 meter squared or at least I didn't pay attention because it looked a lot bigger and then I only
Checked to see the size for the sake of this video and when I look back on the contracts
And I found that it was 16 meters squared. I was really surprised. Maybe I'm just bad at conceptualizing size
I don't know before anything
I want to show you what this room looked like when I actually first moved in just
Because I feel like I want to give you guys the image of what I was working with
Just because I feel like this apartment tour is a little bit underwhelming just so you know
It's not as rubbish as it could be it was literally just like this big empty room
But I had no idea how I was gonna fit all my stuff
I'm gonna get straight to the apartment or now and after the apartment tour, I'm going to go straight to answering your questions
But before I start the apartment tour if you would subscribe to my channel and press the little notification bell to make sure you don't
Miss any videos, that would be great. All that aside. Let's get to the apartment tour okay, so let's start with the bedroom
This is how it looks pretty much
In the corner, I've got my little bed. These are the stuffed toys that my boyfriend gave me. He really likes these characters
This is called Yacuma. And this is Posako. I really like the fluffy pillow
up here
I've got this thing, which I'm keeping up using white tack
Originally, it was blue tack and you could probably see in my videos and even the white tack. Honestly. It doesn't look great
So if you guys have any solutions for keeping this up in a cuter way, let me know
I feel like that's like wall tape, right? How's that and with goodness gracious? It's terrible. The reason why I chose this bed
it's just because of the storage spaces because as you can see
There's not really a lot of storage spaces here
to begin with and I have a lot of things so here in this corner is my
Charging cable thing because a lot of my electronics are from the UK. I've got this
I forgot the name, but I've got this thing. It's charging my portable charger my camera battery and my phone and then in here. Oh
Sorry, it's so messy. I've got like all my electronics and things like that. Oh my gosh
No, I've got lipstick on my straightener bag. That's terrible. My laptop, my portable Wi-Fi
my hoover, my you know, all that kind of stuff my gadgets and then
This is the dreaded box Oh
God Oh
No see this is actually a bed that's meant to pull out to be another bed so sometimes this happens
But I've actually never used that way. I actually don't have two mattresses. Look
So this here is my laundry bag. It was soft
originally
My huko bukhara last year, but I think it works really well to keep my dirty clothes in so that's what that does
In here, I've got a change of sheets. I've got towels and just that kind of stuff
This is to wash my clothes with let's put this bad boy back. So yeah, that's the bed and
Then we've got my closet. I think people imagine that I have a lot more clothes than I actually have
I mean this is kind of luck. But like it fits in this little closet, right? It's not that much
I've got my tops in here. I've got socks and undies. I've got skirts
I've got
oofed this is like dresses and pinafores and
Hats I guess and pajamas and things like that
And then down here is jumpers. I
Got this from Ikea. I think it's pretty good. It was really worried
It wouldn't fit all my stuff, but it does so and then on top I've got this cinnamoroll
Which I won myself. I feel like a victor then I've got this birthday thing, which my boyfriend got me
my birthday
It's gonna go on like that for a while
And here I've got this stuffed toy, which my boyfriend also got me. I've got this one, which is a bag actually
Which I got myself then I've got this one
Which I got from my friend Yiu and she came from Singapore and then I've got this one which is from my boyfriend on
Valentine's Day I got my hairbrush. I've got this one, which is from Emma
Thank You Emma I've got Kleenex
Just because your girl has a stuffy nose
Sometimes then here I've got basically the things that I use on like a day-to-day basis
There's some lavender spray for winter. I'm really liking lavender
Deodorant hair spray body cream and this is for my eyes
This is heat protectant, which I put on before I blow dry and there's some
Sunscreen which I use on my face to protect from aging. Oh and this is lip balm
I forget about this thing because it just looks like a decoration but it's not so that's what's on top of my drawer then here
in the corner
I've got the bin. Oh my gosh, which I just think is really ugly
so I don't even want to look at it and then I've got my
Hair dryer just because I always dry my hair here like while looking in the mirror
I just feel like it's a waste to put it away everyday if I'm gonna use it everyday here
I've got my bags and then this mess here
is
my jacket hanger and I've got
just
Cardigans and jackets and scarves and things like that. So
That's this whole corner. Then we've got this corner, which kind of works
It's like a second kitchen because I'm gonna show you in a second. My kitchen is so small
You can't fit anything in that so up here. I've got some snacks from my boyfriend's mom. This is mandarins and this is just like
snacks
So sweet of her she always feeds me so much in here
I've got this oven toaster looks a little bit monkey, but it's not it's just secondhand
I know this is literally used for like toasts and stuff
But I want to try to figure out other recipes I can actually do with this
I especially want to try apple crumble just because I'm really craving apple crumble these days and I want to see if it works in
this thing so
If you guys know any good recipes for this kind of oven, please let me know here
I've got my bad boy microwave and then here I've got my fridge and
On the fridge. I've got purikura at the top
I've got a letter from my boyfriend's mum and this which was from the Shinsengumi parade
Which I filmed if you actually want to see and then inside the fridge, it's not that interesting
Milk, ketchup, do you keep ketchup in the fridge or not. I never used to but for some reason
I started doing it in Japan. I don't know. Oh, yeah
Yesterday I impulsively bought this giant strawberry. Do you see that? This thing is one strawberry
I was very impressed and I ended up buying it. It's just like my dream to eat the strawberry the size of an apple
So I'm excited about it. I'm hoping it's gonna be good. I also keep a bottle of water in here
It's actually just tap water, but my tap doesn't really do like cold water and I like drinking very very cold water
So I get this in the fridge. Oh
Yeah, my fridge it's quite small, but it's only for me. So I've never had problems with space
So this is my kettle. I know it looks ridiculous
But like there's just no other place for me to put it I could up there but the cord doesn't even reach
so
It's stuck on the floor. Here is my mirror. I lived without a full body mirror for a really long time
Which is very annoying that sucked and then behind the mirror
I've got my hair accessories and stuff just because I do my hair here every day
Yeah, this is the theme you're gonna notice if something is used everyday in one place
I'm just gonna keep it there because I can't be bothered moving it. I don't know
What kind of person are you?
Would you rather?
Move things and keep it more tidy or would you rather keep things in the same place and then just have it quickly available when?
You need it. I think it just depends on what kind of person you are
I had my towel here after I showered and I just showered today just because it's a really convenient place to dry it and then
This is my little table. And this rug. I love this rug
It's so soft and smooth and it's dusty pink, which is my favorite kind of pink
But yeah this table this table was like 1000 yen at IKEA, which is so ridiculously cheap
so I use this table for literally everything like when I'm cooking I cut up here and
When I'm studying I study here is this lamp and I just plug it in there. The thing is it's really small
So I feel like maybe I should get like a desk here. I
Don't know. I'm still thinking about it
So this back here is like the only storage space that actually came with the place and it's so messy inside
okay be ready for how messy it is inside because this has like all of my
rubbish in it like things that I don't really use and just need somewhere to put
Yeah, it's really messy
So I got these things from Ikea to fill up the space and just to have places to put things
They're like drawers and one of them came broken. I've got my tripod
I've got important documents. Down here I've got food
My mom asked me if I wanted anything from England and I like panicked and said baked beans, refreshers and custard
That's what I've got in here. This was originally supposed to be the drawer for food, but it just filled up so quickly so now
I ended up just putting it into all these like boxes and like bags. I don't know. I just have too much food
I've also got like old school notes and things like that that I don't currently use. Yeah
It's just a bunch of rubbish in here, basically
And it looks tidy when it's closed so that's great, I think that's pretty much everything for this room
I think I got really lucky because I have like the room with this window because I think not all of the rooms have this
Window, it's just the the one furthest to the end of the corridor
So because this is like the top floor and also the last one I don't have any upstairs neighbor noise
And I have two windows. So I think I just got really lucky. I like it. Oh, let's look in the balcony
So in the balcony here
I have got this to wash my clothes and I basically only use my balcony because it's a bit manky for washing and hanging
Clothes next is the kitchen now
This is probably the number one thing that I would complain about this apartment. Look this is the kitchen
this
This is the kitchen
So that sucks. I've literally got I got one hob which is so frustrating
so that's why it's lucky that I actually don't eat here a lot because
I'm always invited to my boyfriend's family's house for dinner and then for breakfast and lunch
I'm usually at the house because I've got school and work. So luckily I end up not really needing to eat at home much
I
Keep these things up here and then take them down when I'm actually cooking just because I don't really have anywhere else to put them
But yeah
if I cook it usually has to be something really really simple that I can eat with rice because if I cook pasta than I
Need to like cook the pasta
Separately and then take it off and then cook the sauce separately and that just sucks
Like I would love to literally just have two hobs. That would be fantastic
so I could cook like a normal person alas I have but this
Stove you can turn on the light
And the fan and then here we've just got the sink it's not that interesting
It's just a sink and then here I've got things drying
Although I actually just keep this here because it's not really any space for it. Otherwise in here. I'm going to turn this off
It's noisy
we've got just a little towel and in here, I've got my clean dishes and then here I've got oh
This is a mess cleaning supplies. My bin bags. My you know that kind of stuff back here
I've got this
Hanging on the door. This used to be hanging with magnets in the bathroom, but it just kept falling down
So then I ended up putting it here and then I got my umbrella hanging
This is just like things that I need to use in the bathroom. This is to hold my hair back. This is extra toothbrushes and
comb, you know things like that. So it's not that interesting. Look what my boyfriend got me, it's so cute
these are for taking baths but yeah, this is really convenient
Here is the door and the entrance area and this is my little shoe locker. I've got way too many shoes
For one person. I actually have to get rid of some shoes because this is ridiculous
And then on top here
I keep tissue boxes and replacement handsoap and kitchen towels and toilet paper and things like that
Mostly just because I don't really have anywhere else to put it and this was convenient enough
So the shares space with my shoebox this is the door out if you want to leave
The outside world and then here we've got the bathroom. Let's go in
So it's a little bit wet still just because I showered today look at these crocs I've got
In my defense they protect me. Okay here is just my sink
I got this soap because it's got pompompurin and these came from these bath bombs that have these in the middle, sir
I just thought they belonged here. Then I got this facial wash. Here's my
Toothbrush and toothpaste in here. I've got my
Makeup and makeup removers. This is where I used to hang it the thing that's out there now. I just hang these two
This is just to wipe the floor and this is to wash the bathtub with here's my bathtub
I really do appreciate having a bathtub just because I live in a place where I didn't have a bathtub before it was
Kind of depressing and then a little shower head
Which you can put higher the thing about the shower head is its facing like straight out
Do you see so when you put on the top one literally just go straight and it comes out this end, which sucks
Here I've just got my shower things a lot of the Japanese bathrooms have like a separate toilet a separate sink and a separate bath
But this place is so small that they just shoved everything together
But I don't really mind that because that's like how I lived in the UK anyway, so like whatever. So, yeah, it's pretty much it
Okay, let's get to the questions
So I'm gonna get straight to answering the questions that I think people would want to know about first of all where I am
I'm very very central in Tokyo. Actually, my school is on the Yamanote line
so the most important thing for me was that it's really easily accessible by the Yamanote line and
From my door to the Yamanote line. It's only 15 minutes, which is amazing. It includes walking time train time everything
It's really convenient for me. So from my door to my school. It's like less than half an hour
Perfect plus if you've been to Tokyo or you've lived in Tokyo you'd know that the Yamanote line is really convenient
It's got like all the big stops like Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku, all the like touristy places and things like that
So it's really easy for me to get around. So I love the placement of this place
The only problem is I live really close to my local train station. Which for obvious reasons
I don't want to say which one it is, and it's really noisy around here. I'm wondering if you can even hear now
There's like cars outside. There's music playing from the streets and things like that. So it's a little bit noisy
That's my main complaint about this place. But otherwise, it's great. It's my own personal space and I couldn't ask for more
It's plenty of space for me
I don't know if I'm wondering what you guys think like would you be able to live in a place like this? To me
This is like not even small basically, but I've always grown up in small spaces
So to me, this is like it's fine. I guess it depends on your lifestyle next
I want to talk about rent because I know everyone's dying to hear the rent is fifty seven thousand yen a month
which is
amazing considering how close it is to the train station how close it is to the Yamanote line and all those things plus
I've lived in share houses before and this is like the price of a room in a share house or even less expensive
I actually did live in a share house in the same town as this place right before I moved here and it was more expensive
Even though it was further away from the station to live in the share house, which was not even private
So that's like mind-blowing to me, but I really like where I live. It's really convenient. There's supermarkets nearby
There's convenience stores nearby, there's like fruit markets and things like that and I only live four minutes from the train station
Which is so great to me because when I lived in the UK
I lived around 40 minutes from the train station if I walked like 4-0 40 minutes
That's how long I had to walk and that was like normal to me
so now like walking four minutes to the train station is like
Mind-blowing. I feel like that's everything you'd really want to know about this place. I don't really think there's much else please
Let me know in the comments if you would live in this apartment really curious about what other people think of this size
So that's pretty much it for today's video. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to hit like and
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