moved out to the japanese countryside
two maybe two and a half months ago i
have a little bit of a special apartment
and despite promising to do so i have
yet to show it off along with its many
features and question marks like this
disproportionately sized
way or
gang khan as it's known in japanese
don't get me wrong grateful for the
giant gang con it's comparable to the
size of some rooms in some japanese
apartment by the way this apartment has
four rooms we'll go over that later the
gamecon really has nothing it's got a
shoe closet where i own two pairs of
shoes one for daily use and one for
running and then the very very aptly
named toilet
is right beside it and it is about the
most standard
japanese toilet or washroom you will
find
it has a seat warmer and washlet there
and then up on top
is a little sink to wash your hands
and that
well that's that's the washroom toilet
now there's this one low spot here in
the entranceway and the doorways are
somewhat low but for the most part this
place actually has pretty high ceilings
like i'd actually have to like jump in
order to touch the ceilings which by
japan centers aren't bad not all places
have low seedlings there are plenty of
places in japan that do have higher
ceilings and
this
yeah that's a story for for next week
maybe the week after it involved me
nearly falling down a mountain before
finally coming across a bear here
in japan that
that was now we will tour all the rooms
in the bedrooms and whatnot later on but
this actually reminded me this place is
fairly
high security and this panel is kind of
like the the main station for that i can
set an emergency i can stop and start
the alarm and everything there's at
least two layers of security people need
to be able to get through in order to
get here there's the front door auto
lock which i need to buzz people in and
then my unit my apartment itself is
actually gated so they also need to be
able to get through a gate in order to
get in here and there's a security
camera that i can see here and monitor
people and considering that i'm in the
countryside of japan and not right in
the middle of tokyo it kind of feels
slightly like overkill the kitchen here
is fun it has a bunch of interesting
features but you know what let's check
out the bath area first and get that out
of the way very standard japan and that
door always closes itself i didn't do
that
ghost door scared the living heck out of
me on my first day here all you need to
do is kind of bump into it and it'll
close and i had gotten all the way to my
room and heard the door slam and this
place was empty
he'll notice that i have nothing but the
bare minimum
toothbrush a bit of toothpaste
some wax hairspray
a comb
a towel
there's a hair dryer
and then this is the actual bath space
itself
huge fan of this light here square the
cube
maybe because it kind of looks like a
question mark block from mario and the
bath here is a fairly standard size
japanese band just about big enough for
me to sit down and have a have a knees
up kind of bath overall i would say it's
a moderately standard japanese bathroom
and just as i went to
record this video today this light here
went out i turned down all the lights
just to record this video that special
thing because i'm super cheap and
usually have all the lights off that one
went so i gotta replace it if you don't
believe how cheap i am after two and a
half months of living here this
refrigerator is still not plugged in
and
is completely
and entirely
empty
there's nothing
i need to get some baking soda in that
fridge i love cooking i cooked yesterday
but i don't cook often here and i know
one of the default comments in youtube
is going to be
doesn't that end up actually costing you
more and not in japan it doesn't my
local restaurant that i go to for lunch
i fast i do intermittent fasting so
typically i'm only eating two meals a
day a late lunch and then a late dinner
my late lunch costs me about 300 yen at
my local restaurant that that that's
less than three dollars especially with
the exchange rate right now and
amazingly for dinner i'll go even
cheaper i'll swing by the local
supermarket that has pre-made bentos
with rice and meat and everything like
that that are already because it's in
the countryside super cheap maybe like
four to five hundred yen and at night
they are discounted 40 to 70 off so i'll
walk out of there with a bento for maybe
150 200 yen pop it in the microwave or
do what i did yesterday and grab some
additional meat on discount because
everything goes on discount after like 7
p.m gets really cheap and there we go
i'm spending
maybe
400 to 600 yen on an entire day's food
all that aside super quick tour of the
kitchen itself sink is really nicely
sized only have gas burners over here by
default i keep the gas off for safety
because in an earthquake that is the
first thing that you're going to be
turning off
plenty of storage got a rice cooker
microwave got a toaster oven that
haven't used and a water heater water
heater kettle the word is kettle and
then i've got a whole bunch of dishes
and plates and cups and then over here
there's balcony excess for a balcony
that goes all the way around there and i
have my washing machine no dryer that is
what the drying rack is for this can
handle up to five
kilograms of my laundry and then there's
a sink here for hand washing in case i
need to hand wash any of my laundry and
then the living room itself got a tv
over here which of course is not plugged
in i haven't even used it since moving
in this is i didn't buy this tv by the
way and we'll talk about that in a
second as well as checking out all the
bedrooms talking about costs and
everything and covering one of the most
interesting and unique things about this
particular apartment right after i open
up this i have been waiting forever to
open this up i've been away for a while
this is a gift from asus it is the
stephen harrington edition of the asus
vivobook 13 slate o-l-e-d
and it comes with a pen like i'm not
usually all that excited about the
packaging of a product but this is
actually packaged
quite nicely
there's so many pockets and hidden
things in here
so it seems like this is the main device
right here
it has been sitting here for a really
long time i was back in tokyo for a
while to take a radio test which i aced
by the way i now have a radio license
and so
any residual charge that this might have
had is probably gone asus and i did a
project together a few months back i
believe this is the keyboard and when
they heard that i was out starting a new
journey in a new life they offered to
send me this gift box so asus thank you
very much for that the keyboard should
just snap right on
there we go
and oh that's really nice and i believe
this part here serves as a bit of a back
stance flip that over
hey the battery on this thing is pretty
phenomenal and even the pen is really
neat it's got this hidden little usbc
inside of here that allows you to quick
charge it in 30 minutes and it gives you
140 hours of use i already think could
be using this for a lot of image editing
boom all of a sudden it goes from pc to
tablet it's got a beautiful oled nano
edge display with slim bezels true to
life colors you know on top of image
editing i think i would really enjoy
watching movies on this as well i'm
having way too much fun with this it
will be linked down below thank you so
much to aces for supporting this channel
and for sending this out to me let's get
into checking out some of the rooms in
this place and i'm gonna get this set up
in my bedroom
so before i show my room and reveal the
intricacies of my
student lifestyle here i want to show
the room that i was originally going to
take as my room which is
the tatami room
this is it right here it's connected
right to the living room space it's got
the traditional washi paper doors
and this opens out to a set of pigeons
that were born like a month ago
apparently pigeons grow into full-sized
pigeons within a month you'll notice
that there is a bed you'll notice
there's a study table and then there's
an oshie
style
closet i love these closets they are
giant you could totally go in here and
make your own fork
look
how much space
there is inside of here you could have
your own little i i can all i can't
quite sit up but i'm pretty close to
being able to sit up probably wouldn't
do that on the second level wouldn't
want to break through but you know these
are traditionally used for storing
bedding and stones and everything like
that and there's even more storage space
it goes also thank you camera i did not
realize that was in there but honestly i
wonder i'm guessing the average japanese
person would need to get some kind of
stool
in order to access that because
otherwise
we're not getting in there but i ended
up not choosing this room for two
reasons number one is the room that i'm
in now has the best access to radio
signal and i check the radio every
single morning for weather forecasts and
whatnot and number two is that i may
eventually end up with roommates this is
the second room next to mine and again
you'll notice a bed currently no
mattress
a bookshelf and the closets here
are fairly big
as well like there's plenty
of closet space in here and that was the
sound of me tripping up against the bed
and then there is
another room
over here again
similar stuff and again very very big
closets
like huge closets actually
this was actually going to be my second
choice but my bedroom actually has
two windows
and has better radio signal and when i
say radio
here let me
i mean like this type of radio in order
to get any signal i still need to go out
onto this balcony over here i've
actually i got two balconies but i use
this to check things like edis and the
airport information and i'm just
realizing now that
if you've missed any of the recent
content or if you just stumbled upon
this video i'm in flight school and this
place here is where i'm staying for that
so
let's take a peek at my room and then
we'll talk about what is special about
this place which you may have already
figured out and costs involved etc and
this is my room here it's been kind of
noisy today so i've kept the curtains
closed i have a nice little
semi-devil bed i have my desk and study
space here and this is for my chair
flying i will sit down and run through
procedures this shelf was in here when i
got in here and whoever built this shelf
was in a very creative mood they decided
to face one of them this way and one of
them this way
i managed to pick up this headset here
on yahoo auction for something like
ninety dollars but that is most
certainly not a 90 headset so i feel
like it was a very
very lucky find i keep a bit of exercise
equipment down here and then all of my
other stuff like my flight bag and study
here and whatnot is kept down there and
then all my
clothes are kept here and yes
i literally do
just wear the same stuff
every single day a total of seven
t-shirts if you include the one that i'm
wearing one for every day of the week as
well as some matching sweaters a couple
pairs of these pants just one less thing
to worry about one less thing to think
about one less decision to make and look
how big this closet is there's just so
much space it's i
i don't have enough stuff to i do have
an air conditioner that i never touch
and use that's another reason why i
wanted the corner unit with
two windows open so that i can give a
breeze going through in the summer i
honestly
i'm pinching every single penny that i
can and that's actually one of the
reasons that i'm staying here because
when it comes down to the cost for this
place
this is actually somewhat included in
my flight school this entire building is
just a normal apartment building but
several of the units within have been
rented out for students of the flight
school to use which is why
each one of these rooms has beds and
desks and everything in it why it's set
up and why i'm not super duper careful
about hiding my location because i may
not even be here very long i might be
here for the next couple weeks maybe a
month but i've also been looking at
other places around kagoshima and
kirishima maybe get like a tiny little
place because honestly i don't need
this much
space but i did promise you guys that i
was gonna give a full tour of this place
so i wanted to bring this to you anybody
interested i will link some apartment
tour some of the most unique and
interesting i have seen in japan as well
as the day in the life of a student
pilot here in japan thank you so much to
asus for supporting this video to
patreon for supporting this channel and
to you guys for watching and i guess i
will i'll see you again next week