sponsored by squarespace this is a 200
apartment in tokyo
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so it's often said that living in tokyo
is a really expensive or that apartments
are really expensive
which is probably a fair statement but
if you look hard enough
you can find some really inexpensive
places and that's what i'm going to show
you in this video
i'm going to be searching for a 200
apartment
and luckily the people at nice room
ibiza have agreed to help me out with
this search
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200
apartment
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how are you good so i really want to see
a place under two hundred dollars
and the two hundred thousand in tokyo
yes okay it's quite big
but like i can find all right let's go
the first apartment is a nine minute
walk away from tobu narima station which
is a 17 minute train ride from ikebukuro
so it's kind of on the outskirts of
central tokyo but the neighborhood sure
is pleasant
many restaurants and shops and pretty
much everything you need without having
to go to another station but
let's see inside the apartment before we
start calling the movers
so this 9.9 square meter studio about
106 square feet
was built in 1950 so more than 70 years
ago
alright so this is the first apartment
so excited to show you what it's like
let's go inside now although it has a
shared toilet room there is no bath so
if you're staying here
a local bath house or gym membership is
probably your best bet if you like
taking baths every day
quick note japanese apartments generally
have upfront costs such as deposits
which you probably get back when you
move out while guarantee fees agent fees
and key money is out of your pocket and
never to be seen again
also some apartments may have monthly
management fees so be sure to factor
that in
okay so this is what a 200 apartment
would look like in tokyo
let alone it's on the outskirts of tokyo
it is still 200
it has a lot of personality so when you
first get in here you can see that it's
about four and a half tatami mats less
than
10 square meters so first of all let me
just take you to the entrance area
just walking into the left hand side you
have this kitchen sink area
i believe that works just fine
being that it is a japanese apartment
you do have this area here
it's kind of the entrance area where you
just leave all your shoes so
whoa you can see that the floor here
it's a little bit unsteady the stone
entrance here is a little bit cracked
and so when you step on it it does sink
in a little bit which is a little bit
scary
especially since japan is earthquake
prone
so it does have a light here that works
properly but that's pretty nice and then
i believe
these like spigots here these little
nozzles are for connecting a gas stove
so you can probably put just like a
little
gas stove here interestingly the
apartment comes with its own broom as
well
the door itself has two built-in locks
which i guess is nice you have a
doorknob lock and then you have the
chain lock above
moving on into this room you have space
for a desk you have space for a bed
just enough space for yourself it looks
like the tummy mats are just a little
bit warm
so you just gotta you know i guess you
just live with that
and the walls itself has just a lot of
history if you just look around you can
see
something must have happened here at one
point in here as well
and here you do have some closet space
unfortunately it doesn't have a clothes
hanger but i'm assuming that if you
reached up here you can put your own bar
if you really needed to
it looks like the door is just right
here
so if you needed to close your closet
then the door is right here just for you
the room does have two outlets so if you
do need to plug in some of your
electronics then this would be the place
unfortunately though i don't think there
are any other electrical outlets around
this place
so you're gonna have to use this and
maybe use a power strip to get your
electricity
all around the room but the positive
thing is is the room is not that big so
you don't need a long extension cord so
it does look like this apartment has
fiber built in so if you do want
internet you can probably install a
router here and get a fiber connection
so if you are a gamer and just want a
game all day you can probably do it here
what's also nice is that it's a corner
room so you get
two windows on each side let's open this
and see what the view looks like
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okay that's nice so i guess it this one
that looks right into the wall
let's see what that one looks like
surprisingly the window is really big
you can actually like it goes all the
way down to my knee which is pretty nice
oh it looks like it even has a landline
here so if you wanted to connect to a
lan phone you can do it the ceiling 2
also has a lot of characteristics if you
just kind of look up you can see that it
has
different shades maybe from over the
years or maybe some kind of water
moisture damage and then oh there's even
a hole over there
what's also interesting about this place
is that the walls it looks like it's
made from a sand and paper mix
it's really amazing how that's lasted
over the years also this apartment
doesn't have an
ac so probably in the winter it's going
to be really cold and in the summer it's
going to be
really really hot
nice even the lights work so that's
pretty much all i can show you in this
room
but it also does come with a shared
toilet so let me show you that right now
wow so this place comes with a full-on
japanese toilet which you share with all
the other people
living in this apartment building but
the bright side is that it's pretty
clean but that's pretty much
what you get here in tokyo for 200
now if you want to go a little bit
closer to central tokyo
then you're gonna have to pay a little
bit more let me show you
that spot next let's go before i
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that said let me show you the next
apartment
this next place i'm taking you is only a
two minute walk from nakai station a 10
minute train ride from shinjuku station
so the location itself is a lot closer
to central tokyo
so this next place is just a little bit
more expensive
let me show you inside
all right so when you first walk in you
can see that there's like an old
school closet here for your shoes wow
look at that it opens
from the top
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all right so here's the room let's go
inside
nice the room number is handwritten i do
love these personal touches
oh wow look at this room this nine and a
half square meter studio is 24 000 yen
about 225 dollars a month and was built
in 1972 so it's almost 50 years old
so this is what you get for 24 000 yen
let me show you
around this place a little bit to kind
of show you all of the different
features
basically you have about four and a half
tatami mats and like this is
real tatami mats right here
first you have the closet area and you
have
two different levels and what's kind of
nice
it looks like it has some closing
curtains here so that you can hide it
but it is a little bit difficult
to open and close the magnets don't
stick very well looks like it even comes
with some hangers here then
just above you have some more storage
space so i guess you can put you know
like your suitcase or anything
that you don't really access so much
over here
this is kind of like your kitchen area
this one has
a sink it's actually running but it
doesn't look like it has
warm water the lights don't work right
now but i'm
assuming that if you do move in here you
can turn on the electricity for you
so there you go and this here
is where you can put your stove you can
actually buy a separate stove
put it right here there's some storage
just below
like that it's a decent amount of space
i guess you can put all of your plates
and cups and everything
it looks like that's the power right
there from right here you have a cable
running down and i believe it's for a
television set so if you do want to get
some japanese
tv then the cable runs all the way from
here
you can plug it in one thing though i
love you know plugging all of my it
stuff inside of my rooms but this place
two outlets right here for you to use
hopefully
that's enough but yeah you can see that
this place is
this wide so you could potentially fit a
desk here and then like a small foot on
it maybe a small single bed and that's
probably like about it
here interestingly it comes with its own
curtain
i'm assuming you can switch out to your
own favorite curtain and look
they even have a telephone cable just
right here but who uses
land lines these days anyway and the
room has its own window we are in the
second floor so
should be an all-right view let's open
up and see
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and just through the window here you can
see the ube emoji shop that we saw
earlier at least some sun does get into
this room the room
does have kind of this window where
people can kind of maybe see
you inside of the light is on one thing
though this room doesn't have an
ac so you'll probably be really cold in
the winter and
super super hot in the summer so another
thing about this apartment building is
that it doesn't have its own shower or
bath unit so you're gonna have to go
outside if you're gonna want to do that
but it does have
a shared toilet so let me show you that
now
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okay so we have two different doors here
let's see what's
behind door number one wow so
this toilet doesn't look like the
cleanest thing in the world
let's see door number two
so it looks like this one is a lot
cleaner than the first one
but the positive thing is is that it has
two toilets so
that's pretty much the tour of this
entire
place that's everything that you would
expect for this type of price
but i know that some of you are probably
looking for something
say with his own private toilet so let
me kind of show you
one of those places right now let's go
oh so we're close while she parks the
car let me show you around the station
so this last one is a two minute walk
from takenotska station which is about a
30-minute train ride from oeno so it's a
pretty far from central tokyo and rather
close to saitama although more expensive
than the previous two apartments
an exact several months of initial fees
a place like this in central tokyo would
fetch a far
higher monthly rent so i just arrived at
the apartment it's just over here let's
go
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this 15.3 square meter apartment was
built in 2017
so it's new and even better clean all
right so it's
just right ahead this door is a lot
nicer than the ones we saw earlier
wow this room is a lot nicer feet
it's a double the price it is just super
clean in here
so let me give you a tour of this place
i feel like
i don't know i just feel a lot safer in
this place especially since we just had
an earthquake recently it's actually
five square meters larger than the
previous two places
it just feels like a lot more space here
when you enter
this place it does have some security so
there is an auto lock at the entrance
so no one can just like come into this
place you actually actually type in
a code or use a key to get in and if you
look right here there's a display
if you have any guests come over your
face will come up on the screen
and you can let them in and also it has
a remote here because it has an air
conditioning unit which we didn't see in
the previous two places in the summer
or the winter you should be covered just
looking at the room i can already see
three to four outlets which is nice
if you do have electrical items you
should be covered on all sides of the
wall this
is the whole kind of center area you can
see
my entire body the ceiling is a little
bit lower but that's because it does
have a lock above which i'll get to
in a second you have this kind of cool
blue wall i don't know
i guess it's pretty cool you can pull
down these two bars right here
put a pole and you can hang your clothes
here if you really want to dry it
because it does have an air conditioning
unit with a dryer function
so you don't have to hang your clothes
outside also if you come over here
there's actually a place where you can
put a washing machine
so if you want to wash your clothes you
don't have to go to like a coin lunge or
anything outside
you can do it all in here and then you
also have your own
kind of kitchen right here it's like a
one piece set
you have the sink you have the infrared
heater as a stove
although it's just one ih heater here it
should be enough if you're a single
person and you don't do like a lot of
cooking but you do want to heat things
up
and if you look underneath there is
space for you know your pots and your
pans your plates and your cups it even
has this little
nifty holder for your knives oh look
this sink also has
hot and cold water which is really
convenient and unlike the other two
places
this one has its own private toilet let
me show you
what's pretty impressive about this
toilet is that it's one of those
japanese toilets so it has all of the
bidet functions which is
you know very very convenient for those
that don't like to use a lot of paper
and it also has its own built-in water
faucet by using the same water that you
use to wash your hands
it fills the toilet to save water and
plus
this place also has a shower room so let
me show you that
so what you'll find in a lot of japanese
apartments is that you'll have a shower
unit plus it'll have a bath unit
as well this place kind of saves face
and just has a shower unit
personally it's something that i prefer
to save space i'd rather use the spaces
taken up by the bath that has a living
space so
personally i love just having a shower
by itself
now let's have a quick look at the view
what we see
looks like a wall outside let's check
the other window
okay so this view is a little bit better
you can actually see some sun from this
angle
and just looking above this place has a
smoke and gas detector
i don't even remember seeing one in the
other two places that all said
let me take you to the loft area
wow all right so this place isn't just
enough to have a bed
you can use it either as storage or you
can probably put a bed up here
but as you can see that it's not a lot
of height
in fact if i were to sit straight up i'd
hit my head but it's quite
spacious width-wise in fact it's the
same width as the downstairs
so you can probably fit a queen bed up
here and what's nice is that it has an
electrical outlet
so if you wanted to you can charge your
phone or whatever electrical device you
had
if i were to lie down completely like
this
see there's not a lot of space here and
if you had a mattress you'd be like
this high so you would really really be
facing the ceiling
so this is what you get for 500
granted that it's on the outskirts of
tokyo i wanted to show you an apartment
that had its own
private shower as well as its own
private toilet i think if you wanted to
have something
a little closer to tokyo or central
tokyo then you're gonna have to pay a
little bit more but you know this is the
kind of the things you need to sacrifice
if you want to get that price down
so what do you think could you live in
any of these tokyo apartments let me
know in the comments
again thank you to the people at nice
roommate bisou for showing me around
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