Hey guys, it’s Micaela, and this week I’m in Tokyo.
Sharla invited me up to Tokyo to collaborate with her on her project, so I decided to take
that opportunity to kind of take a little bit of an extended stay up here in Tokyo.
And I rented this Airbnb and I kinda wanted to show you because it was really cheap.
I always use Airbnb, I never stay in hotels anymore because, um, hotels are overpriced,
and they're small, and crowded, and just overall super lame.
So, I wanted to show you the airbnb that I got for this trip, this small visit to uh,
Tokyo.
First of all, this apart is old as balls, but I feel like, in Tokyo, you're really hard
pressed to find something that is close to the station, and affordable, and like, spacious,
and new.
I think if it was a new apartment, this would cost a fortune.
And, right away, we've got this nice spacious kitchen, which I quite like.
It's very simple.
Very spacious, you could stay here with a family I guess, have four people at the table.
You could even cook if you wanted to...There's a gas stove right here.
Oh, all the dishes are down here.
I kinda wish that our house was like, as clean as basic as this but yeah.
Um, so then we go the kitchen and we turn right, we've got a beautiful little living
room.
And I guess like, size-wise it's not a very big living room, but I guess the way they've
designed it, with the long couch, the small table, the small tv, tv stand, it feels big.
It feels big, and I love the red and the green combination.
It just makes the room look alive.
I actually, I think the, I think that these couches can make an extra bed.
Yeah, this definitely folds down.
So these fold down into like, two extra beds.
And, in the bedroom itself we have, two beds here.
These are very basic.
They're not, you know, the most comfortable beds in the world, but, they do the job.
And because I'm cheeky I slept in one the first night, and then I slept in this one
last night because I dunno, because I can.
Hotels in Tokyo, they'll run you anywhere between $80-150 a night, depending on the
location, and this was $41 a night, and it's like the size of 5 hotel rooms.
It's crazy.
Um, the one down side, as it is an old apartment, like, the bathroom is quite dirty.
This is the shower room.
I'll show you.
This is the shower room, and this is like the laundry, this is my towel, I used the
towels so they're kind of messy, but um, yeah, then, the bath is like this thing, with like
a little hose.
HOSE.
The toilet, actually the toilet room is quite cute, I like this, it's adorable.
And they decorated the door.
"Where do you plan to go on your next trip?"
I'M GOING HOME
And I can't get over how just like, spacious and comfortable and just like, wonderful this
apartment was, because, I dunno, I just like, I found it very relaxing.
I DID see a cockroach in the stairwell, and that, but I mean like cockroaches are just
such a thing in summer in Japan, like, if you live on one of the lower levels of an
apartment complex, you cannot avoid cockroaches.
They just get in everywhere.
And you know, like, they're..
They're cute?
I dunno.
I try not to think about them too much, like I don't love them, but I don't...
They're not going to ruin my day.
So yeah.
There was a cockroach in the stairwell, and it was huge, and it did startle me, but like
it didn't make me feel like this room was any less safe or clean or whatever.
Uh, yeah.
Um, I'm gunna put a link in the description to my referral link, because if you come to
Japan and you wanna try Airbnb, and you use my referral link, you will get like, I think
$30-40 dollars off your stay, and then I also get a referral bonus, and then I can stay
at more airbnbs.
If we could both get a discount, that'd be really nice, because then when I come up and
visit Tokyo I don't spend as much money on accomodation, and I can spend it on other
things!
Yay.
Alright, I gotta go, my friend's waiting for me, but yeah.
Talk to you again soon, bye!