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good morning a few weeks ago we had a
chance to take a look at tokyo's
cheapest apartment at just under a
hundred dollars a month and again we're
playing fast and loose with the word
apartment as it came with some pretty
major caveats that made it questionable
as to whether or not it was even really
a livable space it was old it was
raggedy and
you know what if you want to know more
go check that one out but today i want
to show you a place that's being called
tokyo's smallest new apartment and in
contrast to the last place it is
very new and it's very neat let's go
all right so this is the one we're going
to be checking out
right here are you ready can you feel
the excitement
okay so right now i'm kind of in gang
con or entrance way space which is small
but it's not bad i've been in tighter
spaces in japan and then oh
i like this place
okay we'll take a peek at this place
completely empty and then see if we can
talk to one of the residents and see how
they use their space
so this is the entrance or genkan space
right here and they've actually got a
shoe closet right here wow you could be
you could be a straight up shoe
collector with that
as well as a little closet space
right here
and you would probably fit your washing
machine right in the space here it's got
the whole hookup for it and everything
and then right beside that you have
an induction heater
and a sink
the landlord let me know that the water
isn't hooked up right now so i'm not
gonna run the water but the thing that's
already caught my attention the most is
a lot of these smaller japanese
apartments tend to have something called
a unit bath which is like the bath and
the sink and the toilet all in the same
room they're terrible this place seems
to have the shower and the washroom
separate this here is the shower
wow
that's actually
not terrible
like this is actually better than most
showers you'll find in business hotels
here in japan okay and the washroom
itself
is right here as you can see they have
put a lot of effort into making sure
that both the washroom
and the shower area have a really new
and clean feel to them they're genuinely
nicer than washrooms you'll find
in a lot of apartments in japan
but now for the moment of moments the
main room
this
is well this is the main room
it is
tiny in fact this entire place is
something like only nine meters square
which means you're likely to find
smaller places in tokyo in fact my first
apartment was pretty much just the size
of this room here i didn't have my own
bathroom it was a shared bathroom but
this place comes with some features and
benefits that make it very livable and
very interesting so let me show you
around and i guess share what's special
about this place is just built to be
really livable aside from the loft which
we'll take a look at in a second
there are little hangers up here that
you can put your clothing on and whatnot
if you want to hang your laundry there's
actually this neat little cord here
that you can stretch across all the way
to the other side
boom and you can hang your laundry
there like that
it it takes a second to retract
the windows give the place a ton of
light it's got a brand new air
conditioner in there
plug here is wired for three outlets as
well as lan and tv
and then and then what is this
what if we
got here oh okay
a little ventilation to the outdoors
neat
let's take a peek
at the loft
oh wow okay that's really nice and the
windows again just add so much light and
it's got its own lights this is very
livable
this
is what it looks like
here
you could probably fit a bed or a thumb
there
top to bottom might be a little tight
for me
diagonally
i
figured out i'd actually probably put my
bed down below anyway i'd likely set up
my bed down there and then use this for
more
storage or i don't know i saw pictures
of one person using a projector to to
watch like movies up in their loft area
which i thought was super neat and even
up here on the left you've got all the
necessary light switches and whatnot
nice and the view out the window in this
place
is actually quite nice too
there we go
you got really nice weather today as
well you can hear the birds the building
is also just as new and beautiful from
outside as it is from in this particular
one is located in the meguro ward area
in a space known as utenji there's
actually part of a project for cheap
housing that they're trying to how can i
put it they want to provide affordable
housing to help like students and young
people and really anybody get a leg up
and all of these are located within 10
minutes of the station in major areas
like shinjuku and the meguro area
ikebukuro and stuff like that all
throughout tokyo
and i love that i think the project name
is called kukuri which
which is apparently the greek word for
cocoon so they want people to be able to
come out of like these small spaces and
have used their time here to to grow and
develop and i i just i i know it's kind
of nerdy but i love it i absolutely love
the idea of that
but i also
have managed to set up an interview with
one of the residents so
let's go see
if we can't
meet and talk to him and see how he has
his place set up i'm super curious
also there are no conditions either you
don't have to be a student you don't
have to be of a certain age range they
have tons of non-japanese residents as
well if you want to live here they want
you to live here i kind of love that but
i think i think our guy's upstairs
i think this is our guy here
foreign
we
foreign
see you guys
bye-bye
he was a ton of fun lots of gratitude to
him for sharing his time and his space
also i think that is my first time to
ever see someone having an axolotl
as a pet
very interesting but i realized we
haven't talked about cost
or anything yet
because that's actually one of the
really appealing features of this place
is that despite being brand new with all
brand new showers and toilets and air
conditioners the price
is really good each of these rooms is
only around 70 000 yen about 650
give or take depending on the area and
whether it's in a corner and stuff like
that they can cap out as much as 80 000
yen but considering that in this area in
the meguroku area where i am a used
place for rent starts at around a
thousand dollars a month and goes much
much higher than that for places that
aren't this clean and beautiful that's
really not bad at all
in fact it's almost unheard of like i
just i love
how much light you can get into this
place and if you can live the minimalist
lifestyle it makes moving really easy as
well because moving in japan can be
super expensive so living in a place
like this you could save all kinds of
money but
i'm really curious about
the loft because even koki was saying
that when he first moved in he used it a
lot but not as much anymore
i don't know i think i would use this
stuff mind you i also have like a lifted
loft space that i thought i would use a
lot more than i do and now it just gets
used for chummys and recordings and
stuff like that but look at this you
can't
even stand up in here i guess you would
have to live here to know if you really
use it and i would live here this place
is so much nicer bigger and cleaner than
my first ever apartment in japan like if
i was making youtube videos back then
that would have been the place to show
but how about you
would you live here how would you use
this loft would you use the loft i don't
know let me know in the comments down
below thank you guys so much for joining
this one and i will see you again
real soon bye
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okay a little bit of a post video
challenge let's see if you can guess how
i got this shot
right here i'll post the answer to like
instagram or twitter or something so you
can guess it in the comments down below
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all right see you guys soon