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So a lot of people in the comments have been saying why don't you just continue to stay in your apartment?
Until after Michael gives birth. The baby doesn't require a lot of space
so in this video I kind of wanted to show you where I'm actually living here in Shibuya and show you kind of how
Big the actual space is and in fact, if you can see right behind me right now
This is pretty much the entire
Space of where Michael and I live right now and pretty much where the baby would be living if we stayed here in Shibuya
This whole entire place is about 35 square meters just to my right
We have a little kitchen and then you have the bathroom over here
you have the bedroom behind me like our desk space right there and then we have our little table and
Sofa set up right here, so you can see there's not a lot of space
Let me walk across to the other side of the room
So this is the other side of the room it takes a few steps to get here
So we're not working with a lot of space. I'm actually standing on the bed right now. There's a TV right there
Again, the desks are right there and then you have the sofa just right behind me
I don't really know
What else to show you because there's not a lot to show you but one of the things that I do love about this place
Despite being such a small space is that it has a pretty good view
It was a lot better before but then there's more building started to come up
But let me kind of show you the view that I have right now
So it's a bit cloudy as you can see behind me right now
But that window pretty much kind of saves a space and kind of makes it a little bit more
How do you say less cramped in here and on a good day?
You can actually see Mount Fuji from here if you turn just over here like that
There's actually another window right there
So you pretty much have this corner style studio apartment
Which you have this window here and window here the space isn't that bad
But what you'll find
Is that I usually don't shoot this way on a lot of my videos because I tend to end up really really dark or then
The shot just gets blown out. So usually I'll the end up the shooting
this way
Right here. And then using the light that comes in that you probably see in a lot of the videos
But that's pretty much the living space
This is the closet area of the apartment
as you can see and these ones behind me right here came at the apartment while these two here were
purchased on top of it because just was not enough closet space and then we also added these two in
the entrance area of the apartment
The two like cabinets next to the TV we have some clothes in there as well just to make everything fit
But it's still pretty tight the fact that we have a baby that's on the way
I don't know where else we could store the baby stuff the crib
I don't know would probably go maybe like in the center of this apartment
Yeah
I don't really want to put the baby on the other side of the bed because it's right by the window could get like really
Cold or hot, especially at night
So in preparation of having this baby
We want to just have a kind of a more comfortable place to have our son. So let me show you the kitchen
So this is the kitchen area right here as you can see I can't even stretch my arms out
Just right behind me. There's a sink
There's a stove, there's two burners and that's pretty much it. There's a cabinet here some cabinets at the bottom
We have a trash right here, and there's not a lot of space for anything else
so
One of the things we wanted to do in the new place was film some like cooking or us just it's like actually showing you
Some food that we prepare, but it's really really difficult to do it in such a small place here
So hopefully in the new apartment we can do that and let me just show you what's on the other side of this camera
So right here, you can see that it's still not that wide behind me.
I have the refrigerator and then just tucked away in the corner, right?
There is the washing machine and then here we have our microwave and rice cooker and then just like some supplies here
That's just really starting to stack up
I really don't like having all of this stuff kind of just out in the open want to clean it up
And again, that's why you want some more space
There's just not a lot of room to have a baby and have all the baby supplies
Baby clothes and everything like that unless we like throw a lot of stuff out
But like some of this stuff is just like the stuff we need on the daily
So it's really difficult to throw out to continue on the final thing about our apartment is the bathroom, which is right here
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your first domain or website. That said let me show you the rest of the apartment
and this is the toilet bathroom area, you have the sink right behind me
You have the toilet here and just on this side you have the bath.
Some of the nice features about this particular bath that I personally like is that the sink has an extendable nozzle
the toilet is one of those shower toilet bidet so you can actually kind of wash yourself on it and the bath itself is pretty
nice this one of those automatic baths
So it'll fill the water to a specified level and it'll heat the water to a specified temperature
It is pretty nice. And one of the things that I really like too is that this bath unit right behind me
It does have a dryer feature and I use it quite a lot when I snowboard
and I was bring home all of my wet snowboard gear and I would just like throw it all in here and
just hit the dryer function to dry out like all the boots and
Just some of the clothes and the boards and everything so that when I put it back in the apartment
I wouldn't have to actually, you know have it all like be soaking wet and then get all moldy
That's one of the things I actually have some snowboards and I keep all of that underneath the bed
So every little like nook and cranny in this apartment is being a fully used
There's no space to put anything anymore. Oh, yeah, and there is a balcony as well. So let me just show you that real quick.
So this is the balcony right here as you can see it's not too large
I guess if you want to maybe
smoke or you wanted to get some fresh air from the apartment then I guess it's useful but to be honest with you
I don't use it too much because we're gonna find in Tokyo is that most of the time it's really hot or really cold
So you don't end up using your balcony that often plus you have the air conditioning unit out here
So it blows a lot of hot air or cold air depending on the season
In fact, if you look closely that's the new parco
So it's just really really close and just beyond the sirocco tower
But aside from that that's pretty much it. Let's go back inside
That's pretty much the entire apartment
One thing that I should probably note is that I'm using an ultra-wide lens
So things actually might seem a lot bigger than they actually are so we are excited to move to a new place
Yeah, it's been tight just with us too. Again, Michael and I pretty much work here
The entire time the bed is just right here
You have the PCs the workstations here and then you have our sofa right there in the closets and the kitchen just right there
So just not a lot of space. I can't say that enough
But the location is pretty awesome. I've loved living here
It's just super close to where like the action is on
This side, Parco is right there, [inaudible] is just like right there. So everything is like really really close
It's right by Yogi Park, which I love as well
It's good to have like friends out there and hang out once in a while
like anything we need is all here, which is nice and also like this place is
160,000 yen, which may seem quite expensive for especially 35 square meters
But in fact since I've lived here so long
I talked to the real estate agent recently and this place will probably go up to like a probably
180,000 once we leave just because the rent has gone up over the years. This is pretty much what you get for
35 square meters in Shibuya. anything else you don't like? I didn't
choose this place. I moved in to Paola's place. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't really had a choice
But I enjoy living here, it's close to [Japanese words]
That's sure. Yeah, so it is like a seven to eight minute walk to the station but one of the positives about that for me even though
It's a little bit further. There's a lot of things and shops restaurants on the way
So it doesn't really feel like that
Especially when you're walking and you see a lot of people so if we do live in like a bigger
station then I think we can extend the
five minute kind of requirement
All right, so I think we actually have to go
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