if you had the money money if money was
of no object
yes this apartment ticks every box you
could possibly wanted to take
if you ever find yourself living in
japan odds are you're going to be
renting an apartment with the average
cost of an apartment in tokyo costing
about a hundred thousand yen or a
thousand dollars per month but
what if you had a blank check to live in
the apartment of your dreams
last month my good friend alex who runs
a luxury real estate company in tokyo
took us around a 20
000 per month apartment in central tokyo
which came
with four bedrooms and even a secret
rooftop garden
today though we're going on a tour of an
apartment that not only costs more at 25
000 but it's designed for a single
resident i'm not really sure how it can
be more expensive but be aimed
at a single person so let's go and find
out and see how it justifies
that utterly ludicrous price tag
well it's good to see you again alex and
scotty of course yeah it's great to see
you chris munching around the black bone
alex is the founder of i have real
estate a luxury
real estate company and every couple of
months he likes to take me to an absurd
apartment
and make me feel depressed isn't that
right alex that is right
did you like the last place i took it i
did we went to a 20 000
apartment in harajuku last time but
surely you haven't got anywhere
that is as ridiculous as that place for
us
you'd be mistaken what is that this is
the
ultimate apartment for tony stark all
right
this is tony stark's apartment if he had
one in the middle of tokyo this is
actually a
one bedroom apartment one bedroom this
is a one bedroom apartment and it is
actually the largest
one bedroom apartment and most expensive
in all of japan
okay let's go and uh check out this
absolutely ridiculous looking bachelor
pad
25 000 a month
the apartment we're looking at today is
situated in shibuya
about as central as you can get in the
tokyo area
and helping us film the apartment once
again is fellow youtuber sharla
who'll also be looking at an 8 million
tokyo house
be sure to check it out after our tour
of the bachelor pad
so at the entrance of what is probably
the craziest apartment
one bedroom apartment in all of tokyo
probably all japan for that matter the
front door's glass you can actually see
into the apartment but i'm guessing you
can't use the elevator unless you've got
like a key ride you're absolutely right
you actually need a key to get into the
elevator and to get up the elevator okay
so
yes and i've noticed there's an air
conditioning unit for the entrance alone
for this little
tiny roof yes an air conditioner and
that is a pretty heavy duty one too
that's a better air conditioning than
most apartments in japan have just for
this one little room
so are you ready to see the rest of this
okay
i'm not ready no but let's go let's do
it anyway
thank you very much
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you feel the temperature change did you
get it what is the first thing you have
to do when you get into a japanese
apartment or house
other drink gym toy yes but right before
that there's something you need to do
take your shoes exactly take your shoes
off very good point so
where do you put these shoes on the
floor like a door
or in the closet or something or how
about into the walk-in shoe closet i
didn't realize it was gonna be that big
yeah i knew there was gonna be a closet
but i thought it'd be like he would end
there
not be a whole room yeah good god
they fit perfectly yeah yeah you have a
little you have a little space on the
left and right why do people need this
much shoe
space shoe closet like i've got two
pairs of shoes at best yeah you probably
need another 48 pairs to fit this place
just makes me feel inadequate but
hopefully the rest of the apartment
won't do that
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so you step in through this hallway go
right past the first
of four toilets and you are in this
insane living room oh my god
look at the views we've got like three
different angles you've got
shibuya you've got tokyo tower over
there yeah and roppongi hills
i mean that is one hell of a view and
one hell of an echo
as well that's how big it is listen to
the echo that gives you a sense of scale
now i just want you to imagine something
all right so you
are the head of a middle eastern oil
company
right you come over to you come over to
japan right
where do you live you want to live here
exactly
this is the place for the kings of the
middle eastern oil companies what but i
can't become a king of a middle eastern
oil company can we have an ipad this is
where i can actually live here
so i want to show you by the way just
what you get when you pay
2.5 million yen or you know about 25 000
for an apartment everyone
uh you can come over here this is where
you would put your tv rights
and if you look really closely this is
actually a wi-fi router this is built-in
and you have free wi-fi here
free wi-fi for 25 000 what a bargain
just
come and take a look at this
and as you can see this is absolutely
insane this area
is zones not for high buildings so this
is one of the highest buildings over
here right yeah which means that you
have
pretty much other than that guy uh
unobstructed views of
most of the most populous parts of tokyo
how would you sell this in a real estate
manner in real estate terms
i would say that you have unmatched
views of downtown tokyo
and you can see what it looks like right
now in the daytime but just
imagine what it's going to look like at
night because you have roppongi hills
you have torontomon hills over there as
well and you also have that large
red and white popsicle tokyo tower just
unbelievable views at night especially
so there's one more thing i have to show
you just in this kitchen area we step
through here we go to a little balcony
right and if you just follow me through
step right around here you'll come and
you'll see there's actually a second
entrance over here that's not what i
wanted to show you that's not important
what is important is so you have all
this garbage from this crazy party that
you just threw
where do you put it right normally in a
japanese apartment you would have to
take it all the way downstairs and you
know
put it in the big garbage room that's in
the nice building you could just
maybe throw it off the balcony if you're
chris you throw it off the balcony the
peasants below see the peasants below
but if you are actually a normal person
that lives here you would step over here
to this guy right here the garbage
storage room you actually have your own
personal garbage room
which the uh the guy that cleans the
place every once in a while and waters
your plants
uh will actually come and empty for you
periodically
so that's what you get for this kind of
money so we just saw what the kitchen
looks like what the
massive living room looks like you went
outside just imagine
okay what's up those stairs why are
their stairs where does it go
to heaven all right the stairways are
happening right you're gonna see that in
a moment but before we show you that
i have to show you this so you had your
big party you had all your diplomat
friends over you had all your crazy
youtuber friends come over
and you just you're slush you need a
place to crash you got everybody out
it's already three in the morning what
do you do
you go and you pass out so let me show
you where you pass out come on over here
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go through here we have another big door
open it up what do you find you'll see
what is probably i would say the biggest
bathtub that i've ever seen in a
japanese apartment
this is basically you know a bellagio
sized jacuzzi right next to your bedroom
and it is absolutely massive oh you want
to show them how big it is
yeah go for it absolutely wow you could
fit
i mean you could probably fit two three
people in here you could definitely fit
two or three people now let me climb it
right next to it
yeah this is quite spacious in here i
will say though there is no tv
that is one you know downside to this
place i mean you've got the view out the
window exactly who needs a tv when you
have that view of
tokyo tower again yes you can actually
see tokyo tower from your bathtub
so this is is this like a normal bath
that people use as a bar
yeah this is not just a giant jacuzzi
that we can use for fun no
and you're gonna see why this is the
normal bath
all right right there's something bigger
than this
nicer so you're all washed up you want
to go back to bed
what do you do open up this store and
you are in
your massive bedroom massive for
japanese standards at least
but you can see the carpet is actually
made from the same material as tatami
so it's nice and feels rough under your
feet i wonder what it was it does feel
kind of
rough yeah sock's been shredded so you
have like a big bed
there right i would have the big bed
right over here overlooking that other
balcony which you probably didn't even
notice until now yes there's three
balconies in this and one of them is in
the bedroom
your secret balcony is just a secret
balcony yeah if you're having a
house party here yeah you could sort of
slip off your secret balcony
maybe drink have your drink smoke look
over tokyo tower yep and then roll into
your king-sized beds
one of the things so we showed you the
walk-in shoe closet of course you have
to have a walk-in closet for a place
like this
if you can follow me yeah if you follow
me you can keep on following me
and keep on following me you'll see
we're actually in the closet right now
but like look how big it is yeah i don't
think it's really gonna show on film but
this is about the size of the
i'd say the normal kitchen maybe a
japanese apartment you could have
another bedroom in here if you wanted
yeah you could would be a fun bedroom
but you could definitely fit a bedroom
in here absolutely so we've seen the uh
the living space we've seen the
sitting room the three or four hundred
balconies overlooking tokyo
what is up the staircase alex like
you've been very elusive this whole time
and that is the only thing i've cared
about since walking through that door
because
it's quite imposing staircase yeah yeah
it is it's an amazing design so why
don't we find out what's up there
can't beat the free surely not
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[ __ ] hell yeah what is this uh i
think you explained it perfectly well
that is the reason i said that the bath
below is not really
you know all that interesting i mean i
thought i thought the four-person
jacuzzi downstairs was good yeah what is
that
this is this is a massive jacuzzi i'd
probably fit maybe
five or six people into there i mean in
a previous video we did
the 20 000 apartment yes we had a kind
of nice outdoor garden right
this one is better it's way better
because look at the view
yeah you can't beat the view you can't
be the view and also it's a little
easier to use this one and that one was
just a jungle this is really
a nicely you know trimmed garden aloe
vera
aloe vera it's hers yes there's actually
waiting for there's rosemary
so let's come on over here to the
bathroom
and so the toilet's going to say hello
to me hello toilet just opened up for me
and now chris you want to come on into
the bathroom
no no all right well i'll see you anyway
so yeah here's that's a big old bear oh
my god that's deeper than i thought can
we find it as well
it's more like a cave it is a cavernous
large piece of uh porcelain and by the
way it lights up
i'm not going to show you right now but
it doesn't let's fill it up yeah let's
take this video to the next level
bubble bath it is yes seriously
i mean the views this would be a really
good place for a party yeah
do you think they did design this floor
with kind of party in mind
of course they did yes so that's the
thing so this building actually has
one unit per floor and each of the other
units is almost exactly the same as
the first floor that we were on this is
the only one with its own
second living room and jacuzzi on the
roof with
views of rosemary yeah but i all of a
sudden
i realized why the 25 000 might be
justified
um with a number like that i mean that
is a joke
but you can kind of see why it costs
that much now
we've come to this floor i think the
first floor impressive good views
but not worth 25 000 but then you come
up here
see all this see the views of the
rosemary in the herbs and it all becomes
quite clear
all right so we just saw the bathroom
right yeah it was pretty insane that's
the second bathroom in a one bedroom i
can't think of any other one-bedroom
apartment or house or anything
with two bathrooms but are you ready for
the ultimate part of this apartment i'm
ready you all ready
can't be better than the free wi-fi in
the jacuzzi yeah the two free wi-fi for
two free wi-fi
uh let's just go past the third sink yes
this place actually has three
sinks here's the third one right over
here not enough yeah not at all
and come on follow me right and you will
see
probably one of the nicest rooftop
terraces in all of tokyo
not only by the size not only about how
square it is and how you can fit
probably seating for 20 people out here
right
but just the views the unbelievable
views
this is it yeah this is
beyond amazing yeah how far does this
sure balcony stretch around yeah you can
see right over here actually it's uh it
goes
right over here if you have a morning
jog you could have you could
look at this right look at the size of
it one of the things this year obviously
a lot of people have been locked down
can't leave their apartments we had it
in japan for about two months
but if you had a rooftop a rooftop like
this
yeah you could do a morning run you're
good so this end
i'm not gonna follow him
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hey there ridiculous yeah yeah
absolutely and then when you're done and
you're all you're i can tell man you
need to run a little more big big reef
top big roof it's a very big rooftop by
the way it's about
65 square meters about 700 something
square feet so it's
big right and uh when you're done
jogging and you're all
you're all spits in from jargon all day
right you uh you can
go right over there and just take
a little sprig of the rosemary off put
it in your gin and tonic and have a nice
rosemary gin and tonic in the morning
live the dream right you should have
fresh chin tonic from your own garden
after morning run yes this is the best
department in the world but what would
you do with all this space
well there's so much here yeah it goes
around the kind of the whole way
right so what i would do first off is
get a massive table for out here and a
big umbrella too because there's no
covering on the roof you know
so table tennis do well yeah actually
that would be a great idea
except when you hit the ball too hard
and it goes flying off the the ninth
floor of this apartment and
onto the pedestrians down there
don't do that yeah i don't think a pong
ball would kill him but it'll probably
hurt
dropping off the ninth floor leave a
comment below would a ping pong ball
hurt someone
i don't think it would it's quite light
anyway we haven't discussed death by
ping pong
so realistically who is going to live in
an apartment of this size and scale and
cost
uh i would say tony stark otherwise yeah
otherwise known as iron man i think
that's the only person i can think of
apparently i look like robert downey jr
so
do you think this is worth 25 000 yeah
more so than the last one we saw
for sure the bath is better than my bath
and it's pretty hard to beat my bathroom
so
i'm impressed this time what would you
do if this was your rooftop how would
you like
change it what would you put up here a
pool
a pool like a blow up pool some towels
like make it like a beach a beach
on a roof yeah in the middle of tokyo
just want to ask you chris if you had
the money money if money was of no
object
yes this apartment ticks every box you
could possibly want it to tip
honestly two jacuzzi baths incredible
rooftop the best rooftop i've certainly
ever seen
in tokyo in japan anywhere to be honest
for now it will have to remain in the
realms of imagination
and dreams but thank you as always alex
for showing us around this magnificent
and somewhat depressingly good apartment
no problem you can check out alex's
website ihome real estate for more
listings in tokyo
if you're looking to move to the area
yes and i have an instagram as well you
can check that out chris is going to
link to it below all in the description
box below as well as
sharla's video thank you sharla for
filming this she went round an
8 million apartment in harajuku with
alex you can check that out
at the link above but what do you think
guys is this apartment worth the money
is it better than the twenty thousand
dollar
uh apartment we looked at last time let
us know in the comments below but for
now guys as always many thanks for
watching
you brought japan channel we'll see you
right back here to do it next time for
now have a good one