In this video I wanted to share with you some of my favorite technologies in a Japanese home.
So as many of you know, I've recently moved in my new Tokyo apartment
In fact, I've already done a full tour of this entire apartment
So if you want to see that check out the links in the description.
But one of the things I didn't fully cover was the technology used in Japanese homes,
so in this video I wanted to highlight some of the technologies that I think are pretty cool in a Japanese home and some of
You may be familiar with some of these Japanese technology is or you may have it in your home country.
But they still made a list because I think they're pretty awesome. Either way in the comments. Let me know what country you're from
What's new to you?
What you've seen before?
As well as things that you really really like and finally before I start if you want to see what I'm doing on the daily
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Discord community. So without further ado. Let me show you some my favorite Japanese home tech
so first of all
Let's talk about the built-in intercom system
like I mentioned before in the house for
Video this intercom system lets you see who is at the main entrance on the first floor
But it also has some pretty cool unique features that I didn't mention in the other video
The first thing that I thought was pretty cool is that when someone comes to the first floor?
Rings the bell and you're not actually in the house
it will record on SD card and the video footage that
Actually appeared on the screen and not only does it act as an intercom system
But it acts as an alarm system as well
first of all if you have any water leaks in the house
It'll notify you on the system in addition
If you do have a fire in the house
You can press this button right here and I'll notify your neighbors that there's actually a fire and at the same right if your neighbors
Have a fire inside of their home and they press that button. It'll notify you here on the display
This is pretty cool an intercom system also has an emergency button
But you should never really press but just in case something happens and you need to call security
You can press this button right here, and they'll come up and finally the intercom system has its own
Built-in home security meaning that you can disarm and arm it when you want when you armed the security system
And say if someone tries to come through the front door, it'll automatically call security for you
And in fact been testing all this stuff out
I made a mistake and I actually tripped the alarm and the security company came here and made sure that everything was okay
So yeah, super surprised about this intercom system
It was actually more than I originally thought it was so another thing that I love about the Japanese apartments
Is that some of them have delivery boxes on the first floor?
So if you're anything like me
It's probably one of the most useful things you can have in your apartment and something that I just really
Really love personally
I order a lot of stuff online especially places like Amazon now when you're not home the delivery person can actually just put your package
Into the delivery box and then whenever you return that box is waiting for you to pick up
it's actually pretty nice about this particular system here at this apartment 1 it'll actually
Notify you at the intercom system that I showed you earlier that there was a package
Actually delivered also another feature of this delivery box system is that you not only can receive packages
but you can actually
send packages out meaning that if you want to give a package to someone or like a friend and you're not actually here at your
Home you can put it in the delivery box and then set a pin code for them to pick up the package and finally this
System has this one more feature. I've actually personally never used it myself
But it says cleaning service on it
So basically if you have dry cleaning you can use a system to send and receive your dry cleaning for you
Which is definitely not absolutely necessary, but it's one of those cool things to have
So yeah, I personally like the system but what do you guys think?
So this next one is quite unique to Japanese homes that built in fish grill, basically in the center console right here
you have a tray that you can pull out and this tray right here is where you put the fish and just
Below it. You actually have a tray when you're supposed to fill in with water
So the fish doesn't burn so once you've closed it
All you need to do is press the button like so and just at the bottom you can set the time
1 3 6 9 or 12 minutes and just right above you have these burners that will cook the
It's rather simple but a lot of Japanese people who often cook fish find this very useful
So this next one is probably given but still one of my favorite technologies in that Japanese house
the Japanese wash let
So a lot of you already know that many Japanese houses come with a Japanese toilet meaning it has that a day and wash let
Feature so features like being able to adjust the temperature of the stream or the strength of the stream is all pretty standard
But this particular toilet has an actual button to remove odor in addition to that
It actually has a dryer feature which you can set from low medium and high
Which I guess solves the problem if you run out of toilet paper or you don't want to use toilet paper at all
And finally for those of you who often forget to flush it
Automatically flushes for you when you're done
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So this next one is not as technologically advanced as some of the other things in this video
But I think it's pretty smart in its own, right?
so if you have ever been in a Japanese apartment or an apartment in your home country and you've had the door slam all of
A sudden or if you try to open up the door and it's really hard to open then you may have this issue
Basically, what's happening is that there's a lot of air pressure that's building up in the room
This is because maybe you're running kitchen fans while you're cooking or maybe you're running ventilators in the bath
So doing this while having all the doors and windows closed in your apartment builds up a massive amount of air pressure
So in order to alleviate this a lot of newer Japanese apartments started installing these air vents
So the technology itself is very simple, basically
It's a hole in the wall with a filter in the middle and just on the inside of this wall
You have this little opening. So for example, it starts off closed you press it
Once it opens up a little bit and then press it a second time
It opens up a little bit more and then you press it a third time and then it opens up all the way
Pressing it one more time after that then completely closes it again in general
These air vents are installed in every room of the apartment. In fact in 2003
It became part of Japanese building standard law to have these air vents installed. Apparently, it was a countermeasure against sick building syndrome
SBS and since Japan is known for its very moist winters
One of the biggest problems here in Japan is mold when you don't properly ventilate your apartment, especially in the winter
It creates a perfect situation for mold to grow. So while it may make sense to close the opening during winter months
It's actually recommended to leave the vents open all year long
So yeah vents may be not that interesting to you, but I thought it was quite clever to find in Japanese homes
So next up is that Japanese bath unit now?
I know I covered this one already in the home tour, but it's definitely worth mentioning in this video
So basically this bath unit which includes a shower and who's a bath tub
This whole enclosed space is one little tiny room and when you close this door right here
It creates a water sealed room and in so doing you it's specialized
Air-conditioning unit and as mentioned in my previous video you can turn this whole room into one if dryer
Unit just behind me. You have two poles or you can hang wet clothes
so basically
All you need to do is take your wet clothes
hang them on the two poles right behind me and then close the door which creates a full seal and then turn on the
Dryer and then in a few hours your clothes are dry
So basically you'll find it is a fairly common for Japanese people to take their clothes and hang them outside on their balcony
Unfortunately when it's raining they can't do that
So this is the alternative to hanging the clothes outside on a rainy day aside from that the bath unit AC
Also has a ventilation system as well as like a light wind
But what's also interesting is that it has a programmable?
Heating function where you can turn on low high or even just to heat up the room really really quickly
The reason for this is that winters in Japan get extremely cold. And therefore these bath units get really really cold as well
And so you don't have to take a bath or a shower in a cold room
All you need to do is hit that heater button in a few minutes before you go in and you're good to go
So while we're here?
Let me also take a minute to talk about the automatic bath in Japanese houses
Just behind me is the bath and to the left of me is a control panel
So basically this control panel here
Allows you to set the temperature and the level of the water by pressing one button and once all set it does it all
automatically every single time so all you have to do is press the button like this and then as you can see
The water fills up and you wait a few minutes and then you have a filled tub be honest, though
I am a shower person
but those of you who love to take a bath this makes it super easy and in fact
You don't even need to come to the bathtub to turn it on
Let me show you so here in the kitchen of the apartment
You actually have the controls right here
So you don't actually need to go to the bath unit in order to turn it on again
All you have to do is press the button. We like here to turn on the bat
Auda, matically see how easy that is. Let me show you one more thing. That's actually pretty cool
so this next feature kind of reminds me of
I was a kid soin growing up as a little kid in the States
I used to see this commercial all the time in the commercial
I'd see this little old grandma fall over and she'd say I
Fallen, and I can't get up and then she'd press a button and someone would come and help her
Well, his bat actually has the same feature, but instead of calling security or someone to come help. It just calls outside
Let me show you
Open it
Look at that. Someone is calling me so that concludes a video
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