[Music]
hi guys welcome to another episode of tc
homes
um i realized i do have some of alex's
equipment
and i have to return it to her anyway so
i thought why not at the same time go
and invade our house for a little bit
hello hi hi
welcome i realized i have this oh thank
you and you sterilize it oh all right
come on in thank you welcome to my
humble apartment
my little space
so is this your gamecon yes this is my
game guy it's super tiny
i could only fit like four pairs of
shoes that's more shoes than you have
feet
yeah that's true that's true thanks for
letting me invade your space for a
little bit
no worries uh should i open the door or
do you wanna
can you show me what's in this door oh
um this is my toilet and bathroom it's a
unit bathroom so
that means my toilet and my bathroom is
in the same place
in japan you get to choose between a
unit bathroom or
a separate one um this house is pretty
cheap so
i have to go and live with a unique bath
but it's nice it's cozy
yeah i used to have one of these toilets
and then once i moved and i got like a
separate bathroom toilet i could never
go back i know
because it gets wet so well yeah when
you shower and then this place gets wet
and then yeah i understand but i think
most cheaper places they only have these
kinds of toilets yeah
and over here is my kitchen this is
where i usually spend my time i know you
cook a lot
i cook a lot i love cooking so if you
follow me on instagram but there's a
specific highlight which i put alex
cooks and it's everything that i cook
inside there
okay so i need to explain a little bit
about my kitchen space
in japan it's normal to have a really
tiny kitchen space so i bought this
really handy rack from nitori and as you
can see you can add on
things like that things like that to put
stuff
everywhere chopping boards behind here
yeah there's no space
even up here i'm utilizing all the space
around me yeah i feel like you've used
this space really well
thank you but you have quite a bit of
storage space i do
like below do you want to see it's a lot
of other spices
plates a lot of instant noodles but
they're all gone because of the pandemic
i've been eating a lot of instant
noodles from home
like me goreng uh yeah it's the best
it's the best
indomie indomie um ambassadors
yeah this dope right here is so
tiny and cute right it's just one though
it's just one that means
cooking will be slower i like to
multitask so i'm used to a bigger
kitchen where i can cook here more water
here
right but this is all i have to fit in
this tiny ass kitchen
but you still cook so much i think
that's really i try i'm tiny but i eat a
lot uh under here is all my dirty
laundry so
it's okay by the way what's this so me
and my fiance we have a better beyonce
so every time we don't work out we have
to put it in 1 000 yen
wow and the money that we have collected
will be used to treat ourselves for more
food and
he's really active he works out every
day i don't
so is there money in there right now if
i take it home am i gonna be rich
to be honest there is one thousand yen
welcome to my tiny apartment
where do you want to start let's start
with my trash
why i'm kidding let's start with my
favorite part of my house which is my
snack bar
right here i have a lot of snacks in
here cheez-its gonna have cheez-its taco
mix
everything you need and your life tea
green tea
more ingredients down here i have
ingredients everywhere in the house
i found her garlic and you do have a
good sized fridge
i do yeah it's as tall as me squirting
down look
is there anything in there right now uh
not much um not much in there to be
honest
it's fine you can close the door i don't
think we need to see that i got this
from a singaporean student
oh i was leaving japan oh my god thank
you i was some spices here i love these
i got them from oh they're real they're
real whenever i cook any uh
chinese cinnamon baileys
i knew that i knew that can i talk about
this is it a wok oh my god guys
and actually got this from malaysia came
back with this because
cooking tastes better with guam you know
i don't know even if we don't have a big
fire a lot of singaporean and malaysian
cuisine
made in a wok tastes so much better for
real yeah
listen to her guys this is the best this
is a game changer
uh this is my little toaster yeah it
looks so fancy
i got this for one thousand yen which
looks like ten dollars thrifted drifted
online and this is my microwave right
here microwave oven so i can bake as
well uh i got this for like
three thousand yen really cheap to be
honest all these are all secondhand even
this fridge oh you're a thrift queen
i am this is one tip for you guys who
want to move into
japan there's a lot of facebook groups
or even websites that offer second-hand
stuff furniture and some people are just
giving away free stuff because they are
moving out right yeah
yeah like in japan like if you want to
get rid of big items you have to pay for
them to get
taken away yeah so might as well just
get it collected from
other houses and then yeah you can even
arrange for shipment
okay so moving on to this corner of my
house is uh
my clothes thank you i can see that very
colorful
i mean i see a lot of hats i love hats
cat lady
i'm a hat lady okay you're gonna wear
that for the rest of the video do you
want me to
sure do you want this one yeah i think
that's more summer yeah
okay okay cool so i basically sort my
clothings according to seasons so where
does everything else go
i wear it or no way like in the off
season oh the off-season clothes goes in
these bags like you see the luggage over
there you wear it
in this luggage like a lot of layers
most of my clothes are here with the
winter clothes
and then sometimes i stuff it in here
this is a huge bag
i love this bag i got it from tokyo
comic con last year
i love the selection of colors here
thanks i know so my mom has always been
telling me
alex no she doesn't call me that girl
you need to have more colors at your
home i'm like
yep i'm trying that's it so for this
corner
nice this just came in the mail thank
you abe son
you just called him like he's your
friend
have you gotten yours no i haven't okay
it's gonna come to you so uh for those
of you
who are curious about what is this what
is happening in japan what is happening
in japan
mr abe our prime minister of japan is so
nice to
give i'm not thanks or cat
it's so nice to give out free masks to
every household
so imagine if i have five kids we have
to share two mouths
but that's gonna be cut out right no
it's not no
moving on to this little corner i
studied japanese really hard
oh yes yes see i'm trying this is really
important because i always
surpass my deadlines whenever the bills
come can you tell us what deadline is in
japanese
nice and natasha i got a question you
imagine this guy
imagine this so show me
this study area this is my working space
anytime i need to reach out for some
documents is over here
camera gear it's right here and some of
my camera gear
it's right here in this dry box over
here uh you're so professional you call
it a dry box i just call it a camera
fridge
camera fridge yeah oh um you're a plant
person right natasha
i am you have a lot of plants i know
that i want more
you want more yeah i only have two
plants it's
doing great it is the bare minimum of
sunlight you have here
i know this is so easy to take care of
do you know the name of this plan
uh no okay i forgot i have a little
hanging plan which i'm really proud of
is that the second and only plan
honestly i have three but i killed the
mint
tell them that rest in peace
i'm sorry but yeah i did want to mention
that i really love this table
oh thank you like it just looks really
pretty it's nice right we even have a
little storage bit
down there so this is a little rack for
my camera gear and
miscellaneous like um batteries
warranties and cables all here
jumbled up she's so organized
it might be a problem i'm i'm always
like keeping things like really tidy so
i know where they are
so now that we've cleared the first
floor yes i've realized
where do you sleep i don't even ask you
that good question
right there up there in heaven
so let's no she has a loft that's what
she meant
yes i have a laugh oh a nice butt shot
like you want to come up
yeah i mean i will join okay so um i'm
gonna have to film
yeah yeah this is where i sleep and uh
meditate sometimes
i love autumn that's an otter that's
really scary why is it here
it just looks it's just sitting there
it's nice
it's called marty that has the name the
plant stone but that has a name
it doesn't look too cramped up like
usual off you know that's true
but you can't stand up so that's i mean
obviously you can't stand off
sometimes i use this place to dry my
towels when it's raining outside
because it's a loft does it get very
like stuffy or cold in the
seasons surprisingly no um because we're
not like there's another level above me
so we're not at the roof so it's not too
hot it's also not too cold
really comfy ooh this is something me
and natasha uses a lot oh oh
yes in the office yeah
we use this all the time whenever like
in the office i'm like
do you have it just like i always have
the goods yes she's like
we're just like a bunch of old chinese
um old ladies
ladies he's like yeah headache ah haiti
a mosquito bite stomach aches anything
just
use it my dad actually bought like 10
for me
you want one this is this is actually
new oh no i use it a few times
oh my god oh my god
oh my god okay tour n thank you this is
pretty much
it this is my house and since it's
pretty hot today it's like almost summer
i'm gonna make natasha and i a cucumber
mint lemonade
so join me in the kitchen oh my god
lucky me
you guys can try this at home usually
you make lemonade but why not spice
things up with a little mint and
cucumber she even has a little menu ball
on the door
thank you you're welcome
all right we're done the mint cucumber
lemonade
for you oh my god
oh my god cheers
you like it yeah it just tastes like
summer oh yes
so refreshing with the mint nice oh
it makes me feel kind of sad though
because i feel like most of this year's
summer is going to be spent indoors
oh no okay so i need to ask you some
questions that the audience might be a
little bit curious to know
firstly could you tell me what is your
favorite part about this apartment i
think
my favorite part of the apartment is my
working space
i just love how the table is big enough
to fit um
my desktop and it's like i could reach
to all the documents around me
it's also it has a nice lighting around
there so it's like my comfy zone i feel
like that's the beauty of like a really
small and cozy space like everything is
easy to reach
yeah definitely also speaking of that if
you have a small apartment it's just
easy to clean you have less things to
clean
right how big is this place oh
it's uh it says 30 square meters
including the loft
that's not small yeah like on paper it
seems pretty big yeah but that's
including the loft so basically it's
probably like 18 square here
okay it's okay how much is this
apartment i
pay 65 000 yen per month that's not bad
it's not bad it's a pretty good price
for this amount of space i feel um
i'm living in north of tokyo so it's
pretty convenient for me to get anywhere
what is your favorite part about living
in this area this area um well there's a
nice thai restaurant down the street
so whenever i'm lazy to cook i'll just
walk down it's just like
right there also i love the fact that
there's a lot of supermarkets around my
area
so uh you probably saw one on your way
here yeah um there's one over there
that's a new one and that's where i
bought the cucumbers for
this drink it's like convenience to
supermarkets like convenience stores are
very important
very coconut yeah but thank you so much
for having me
my pleasure are you gonna let them know
about some of the links
oh that's right so if you guys are
curious about uh moving to japan
uh don't let it hamper you thinking
moving to japan is
expensive it's not true i'm gonna leave
some links down below and you can check
them out
get some second-hand stuff or even free
stuff
yeah that's what smart people will do
don't be like me about everything new so
yeah okay let us know in the comments
down below what is your favorite part
about alex's
little apartment yeah and and we'll see
you in the next video
see you bye bye okay let me move this
don't show this
okay that's a trash i don't have a name
for the planted it's fine
i'll call it natasha oh don't die
natasha
okay stay alive live long
yay