what's up internet dyce quirk here and today i'm going to be showing you edythe and i's apartment
here in kami miyagi japan and one of the cool things about this apartment is we only pay 200
per month for our apartment here which honestly it's just because we're inside of the jet program
and if you want to see more about the jet program at the end of the video i'll throw a
link up for you but in the jet program i teach inside a couple schools here in this area and
the board of education gives us a stipend for our housing now if you enter the jet program there's
a high likelihood that your situation will be different from ours we know a
couple people that actually get to live inside their apartments for free and we also know some
people that have to pay much more for their apartments so every situation is different
but i want to show you guys our apartment here so that you guys can see what we get for 200
a month and also i don't want to waste your time so let's not waste time and let's get to it
so to get started this is our four year here and this is where we put our shoes
every time we come in the door we just put our shoes down here i have a little spot
over here for shoes umbrellas and keys got a couple hooks on the wall for some of those coats
and as you come down this hallway here first thing you'll notice is this door
right here this is our bathroom got a nice place to put some stuff up there
we have a regular toilet we put slippers in here because it's freezing
this side of the house doesn't have our heating or anything so the bathroom tends to get
just really cold and our toilet has a little flush and a large flush and when you flush it when it
fills up the back it actually has a sink here so you can wash your hands after using the restroom
here we go we're gonna go in here next this is our kind of like laundry room as well as our main
uh what is this just our main area for getting ready our main sink and
there's a nice little light here which i love that uh also you can see that i have a nice
new mic so let me know in the comments if you think the audio is okay okay but
it's really nice it's got some storage down here and a nice little place to put some stuff in there
uh this room is also freezing so basically this hallway down into
this room and into there is freezing every morning every day this is our shower and bathroom
there's gonna be some echo in here but our bathtub is actually pretty high
compared to our tunnel when we're in america and one of the interesting things about this bathroom
is first off this contraption here for our like a faucet basically you turn on
what temperature you want and you can flip this left or right to go either there or
through that and also this entire room is our shower so there's not like a closed off area
you notice we don't have a curtain or anything and that's because there's actually right here
a drain in the ground and you can obviously see that it's been used it's wet but you can just
get water and water on the ceiling so that's that room it has a nice little
door to close so that while you're showering
you know you can just use the whole room that's something i'm definitely going to miss in america
like whenever we go back it's our nice little washer we don't have a dryer so there's that
and next this is
our kitchen edith over here is making some pizza
check that out that actually looks good it's very hot it's very hot so i'm gonna give it
a second that's cool we're testing out some new food over here that we bought from yoki
uh benimaru so it looks like this oh this is what it looks like normally and it was only 280 yen
which is less than three dollars which is pretty darn good so over here we have our oven slash
microwave slash what else is this thing it's a house ah it's scary um so this is a it's a
microwave it's also an oven oven and it's just a very small oven and it can toast things and it
can defrost things yes and all many more things but i'm not sure everything it can do because
i can't read all the kanji yet yes everything is in japanese and so for a little while we
were a little freaked out we didn't want to use the microwave and put something metal in it and
cause an issue that would have been pretty bad uh in our kitchenette we have this
amazing sink which is super big like super big um nice movable faucet all that good stuff
putting drying stuff here just let go straight back into the sink i love that with the water
uh we also have our nice little oven here this is our stove our range and it's got a little
fish broiler which we've never used but we will sometime supposed to put like water in the tray
and then this is so like this is the two uh igniters and then this is for the
fish broiler and it just cooks it maybe one day we'll make a video specifically on all the
functions of this just so you guys can know how to use that yeah yes once we learn it all and the
interesting thing about this is you have to turn on the gas so you have to like turn that on every
time you want to use it uh right now it's off so i'm just gonna leave that off for now we have
a couple cabinets up here you know just regular cabinets there's not much storage in our kitchen
other than those cabinets and those cabinets and it definitely is a kitchenette very small
one more thing about this room was oh so our apartment doesn't have working cold water
like it does have working cold water but we have rust in our pipes and so we can't use it
for cooking or anything the hot water is okay but not our cold water so that's why we have all this
water over here we had to use it for cooking in addition this as well as our fridge and our stove
microwave microwave we did not have any of them when we first arrived here so all of that has been
newly added and i'll put the price for all of our appliances on the side of the video we also had
the washer in our air con which is like an air conditioner heater duo thing yes right over here
and it's cool it has a remote
so you can see what temperature is at it's in celsius of course and you could have it set to air
conditioning heat or just a fan and then adjust the temperature however you like and it oscillates
why is it not doing it right now there we go now it's oscillating yeah
going up and down up and down so that as well as the refrigerator the microwave
and the stovetop over there and also the dryer or the washer i showed you in the other room
all of those weren't here initially and we had to buy them ourselves
so here is our living area now obviously right now we don't have curtains we are missing a couple
other things and that's just because we haven't found exactly what we want for our apartment yet
so we haven't really put too much money into that this nice mirror for eight bucks and
yeah secondhand shop this table we actually got for free from our supervisor um so she's letting
us use that it took so long but we have our awesome wi-fi this and this have been a lifesaver
so we have our entertainment system going over here
we got our dodoma's completed dharma smaller dharma little tiny dharma which
i don't know his eyes seem to yeah we got that from a hike it was like 100 yen
or 300 yen and then we got our little toe throw right here yeah make it all come together and
rosalia since that is our uh prefectures pokemon or our towns pokemon and then we got our big
donum over here in the corner with some books and stuff like that on the other side of this window
or this thing here is actually a balcony which i will show you some video from the daytime
just because right now it's super dark i'm filming this pretty late
and we have our drying stuff because right now it's cold outside so
we just hang the stuff in here then we have our little heater down here
uh this is our basically bedroom which is one of my favorite rooms just because of how it looks
like edith doesn't really like tatami as much as i do but i love the look of the tatami and the
windows and also the light so we don't have the tatami down right now but if you want to see what
our room looks like in here with or not the tatami our futons are not down right now but if you want
to see what the room looks like with futons then you can check out our futon video where i show
you how to care for and use a japanese futon so there's that this whole wall is a bunch of closets
so this is one of our closets it's got like a place for you to hang stuff
and i keep my camera equipment up here and next let's open it from this side
uh again because we haven't found exactly what we wanted yet we have been using our suitcases to
help organize some stuff and honestly uh if you're a new jet and you're just looking for a couple
ways to keep things organized and also to save a little bit of money you know this is pretty nice
but eventually we want to add more organization in here yeah so we just keep everything in here
that is our most basic storage in the house that's where most of our stuff goes so that's
this room it's kind of interesting it has three sets of outlets there's one over there too um
most of our rooms don't have many outlets and also something to keep in mind
if you have a three-prong item like my computer you need an adapter okay so i'll put what's i
call a link to some adapters in the description of this video so that you can pick those up
in case you're moving here or interested uh yeah oh also we have this closet here sorry
this is also just a closet where we keep a lot of larger items and maybe paperwork and stuff
like that so it's not crazy and the apartment's pretty big for us we're we're happy with it um
stays pretty warm it's very affordable eden how would you think or what do you think
apartment this is like one of my favorite places we've lived oh that's awesome as far as like
the space and everything it's weird not having a dryer but you just get used to it you just have to
plan in advance and actually make sure that you do your laundry like right away so it has time to dry
and so you have time to iron it if you need to oh yeah definitely that has been probably one of the
more interesting things that we've been learning about just being here oh i didn't mention
that you can see right here we have a trash bag it's got yellow on it that is for burnable
trash over here we have all the stuff we have to recycle different ways sorted so we have steel
cans aluminum cans and aluminum and then our pet bottles and then this is the puddle bag which has
basically
yes so if you see that on something that needs to go in this recyclable bag yeah so like right
now if i were to come over here and look at this mitsuya cider um it probably has put up somewhere
on here well it has pet so that's for pet bottles oh and right there you can see maybe that says
pura so this plastic can actually be peeled off really easily and then i would put the plastic
and the cap inside the puddle container and then i would take the pet bottle rinse it out and put it
with all of our pet bottles right over there so yeah that is basically what our apartment looks
like uh if you have any questions about our apartment here or if you have any questions
about the jet program let me know i also will put a link for more information about the jet
program in the description i also have a link for more information about futons in the description
and don't forget if you plan on moving over here and you need some adapters from three prong to two
prong i also will have that in the description just one that i think will work really well uh
yeah so i'd love to hear from you guys what do you think of our apartment do you think
it's worth 200 a month and also you have any recommendations for things that we can do here
soon we're going to be putting up some origami and some other stuff so it should be fun with all
that said thank you so much for checking out our video and we'll see you next time dyce quirk out