I Moved into a $40 Japanese Micro-Apartment…

nobody knows that just down this alley is a Japanese micro apartment that only measures 90 square feet wow I've heard a small but this is really small and I'm gonna be living here for the next 24 hours to see if renting something like this in my home country is a good idea if it's not illegal in typical Japanese fashion it comes with Room Shoes a tiny little micro kitchen and a full bathroom with its own set of Room Shoes plus you can take a bath if you really want to the washer is bigger than the fridge and the microwave and it's in the best part of Osaka Japan right by all the arcades all the shops all the restaurants there is more to do in every square inch of this place than any other major city in America where I'm from but I feel like we're in New York's East Village especially with all the graffiti spins got some pretty sweet trucker hats fantastic logo for a surf shop then we got the bags and the light club you're probably not supposed to tell people what great sales they have because it looks like a clothing store this looks like an upgrade oh dude looks pretty sweet [Music] thank you if you want to look as cool as me you can right across the street from the light shop Cisco bait memory these are great names look at how crazy this place is there's just people and cars everywhere and the East Village Vibes will not go away there's even a music hall and on the other side of this little square where all the cool kids hang out there's an invasion of chain stores thank God someone called the police unlike New York where I'm from they don't need to use their siren because people see their car and get out of the way ahead of time Game Boy Tamagotchi this is like a garage sale on steroids The Grapes of Wrath Doraemon and look at that you get yourself a big vintage Snoopy wow it's expensive twenty thousand dollars U.S I feel like if you wanted to bring yourself home a conversation starter you could definitely find it here it's also extremely narrow in here I can't turn around oh look at all the cool action figures and then they have a wall of vintage cameras this is like all stuff that was found somewhere oh a typewriter and of course all the stuff we Americans are obsessed with is anyone gonna buy this one and that is a 1963 Ducati motorcycle look at how small it is that's crazy right there okay have a nice day and after you've bought everything you need to look like one of the cool kids you can get yourself a tattoo if there was ever any doubt that'll fix it Levi's Clarks who let them in here disgusting Apple Store gets a pass they've made it impossible to live in modern society without their products or the ability to find their air tags which might be in your pocket anyways these big box retailers they're between where we need to go and where the cool kids hang out okay you see this massive crowd of people crossing the street over here it's not a street it's the longest shopping arcade in the country it's over a mile long and even if you plan on buying nothing you still check this place out it's all enclosed and just seeing it as an American for the first time you'll remember it forever and while you're here you can try to win a fabulous prize from the capsule toy store I don't get why wasting your money on these is so popular although that looks kind of cool Do It For the Memories this is also a sneakerheads paradise and a pet paradise also look at this certain corners of this place Branch off and turn into like their own little thing there might be something down there but I'm scared but we're almost at the grand prize and no I'm not talking about Spider-Man who's also on vacation here from New York he may have moved here permanently but the local superhero is actually gleeca man people come from all over the world just to stand here in front of him and emulate his pose not me though I would never take my picture with glica man I'm too cool for that now that I bought this hat and around the corner from gleeka man this is where the food starts crab roasted sweet potato a simple breakfast local takoyaki right here look at this it's like a zoo of people eating things and stocking up on pokeballs I don't know how but those might come in handy here and check this place out in here you can shoot guns and try to win prizes they're just these cap guns though oh man she almost got something that is some mighty fine looking fancy gyoza always she days Boys YouTube off YouTube I've been outed but this is amazing [Music] that's a pretty cool little house it's not on a street either it's on like a little Alleyway and across the street I'm guessing these are bars or something and there's a little Bakery [Music] thank you [Music] this is the whole thing [Music] foreign [Music] all of these places want you to register with them give them your information after you check in no smoking no shoes be quiet no pets I don't know if it's big enough to have any pets but that's what's so awesome about this place in New York where I live the only time I've ever seen something like this it didn't have a kitchen and it didn't have its own bathroom this has both plus the laundry machine this could change the way people live in a city like New York but it's illegal in New York because it's below the minimum size standards for us us Americans but not only are we going to check this place out and see what it's like I'm actually going to spend the next 24 hours living here which means I am going to be sleeping right here on this little bed with my little light it's actually pretty comfortable [Music] oh cool this window faces the little Alleyway and believe it or not this place is a corner unit because we've got two windows cool look at that we can see down the street get a bird's eye view the whole neighborhood up here I also feel really safe with whatever oh oh I think that's an alarm for the window I don't want to turn that on I might want to open it later what happens if I turn off all the lights still decently bright in here but this apartment's about the same size as where I first lived in New York sleep Loft included it didn't have a bathroom or a kitchen this has both I don't see a ladder for this I guess we're not going up there it's probably good for something like a suitcase and then above the bed this little cabinet here this looks like extra blankets and stuff if you want something I always Snoop around and make sure I check my cabinets oh and there's glow-in-the-dark Stars this is a floor plan it looks like the building has three floors with two apartments each so six total places look at how close it is to the neighbor's apartment they are right across the hall and the stairs here are really really steep these are at a 75 degree angle it's like climbing a little mountain my foot doesn't even fit on the whole step look at that very very careful and look at how the door opens please [Music] I think I'm gonna have to hang this right here on the door tiny place but between that door handle and that right there there's room for everything next to the door we got a full length mirror look at the little tape they put on the light switches each one tells a different story and it also comes with umbrellas but I think that if this were to be your full-time domicile you'd need access to the Lofts because I don't think we have a closet in here [Music] I don't know if this place actually needs a TV look at that extra Room Shoes a couple of Q-tips is this a first aid kit I think every piece of furniture we find in here is going to have some Dual Purpose to it but you know I don't watch a lot of TV and if I had a place like this again I would also not have a TV again now believe it or not this here couch this is actually in the perfect spot to watch movies that is a nice healthy distance from the screen and it fits a guest if there's two of you but if you work up an appetite you're going to want to sit and eat somewhere and I think that is what we are looking at right here on the table they have like this book of all of the instructions how to work the remote out front this is the correct garbage the bar garbage you're not supposed to use but I'm already starting to cramp up and I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna have to eat at this table later today so we'll see how that goes now I'm probably going to be expected to empty this trash but that one's not for the bottles bottles go in here follow the instructions of the trash ninja Fox he probably eats the garbage that you put in the wrong can foreign I think that is a tankless water heater can I make it warmer than 41. oh I can I can burn myself if I want to let's put it back the Light In Here Also reminds me of a swimming pool that's the thing you rescue people with or is it an alien spacecraft but this tiny kitchen's got everything you got your single burner you got your water heater very nice making some tea but one thing I'm not too sure about is this cardboard box on top of the toaster it's full of cleaning supplies but doesn't this thing get hot it probably does maybe they're assuming that if you rent this place you're not stupid and you'll remove whatever's on top they must not rent to many Americans I just like that Ken from Street Fighter is free featured on the freezer that's pretty cool you certainly won't be having Thanksgiving dinner in this place is it even possible to open these cabinets um oh look at that yeah everything opens there's probably way too many dishes in here I doubt anyone actually uses these and under here we have some cooking pans this is pretty good you would actually make stuff here without too much of a hassle everything's easy to reach the sink is also extremely large that's nice to see I'm guessing that these are old water lines that are no longer in use oh water pressure is pretty good and listen this thing turns on I also enjoy the DIY nature of a lot of the piping and stuff here these must be my facial cloth and my bath towel it looks like a full-size towel but you're probably wondering where the dryer is right I don't see one either do you in Japan nobody has a dryer I don't even think that they sell them in this country people hang their clothes I will attempt to do that later because it was a hundred degrees out and if you could smell this video you would probably give it a thumbs down or a thumbs up it's a good thing there's a powerful AC in here that's definitely keeping the room the right temperature we've got ourselves a hair dryer and then this uh cute little bugger right here this is actually the tissue box you like that [Music] thank you [Music] it's a Well outfitted bathroom and if you notice I changed into the toilet Room Shoes that's right no matter how tiny your apartment is there's no excuse to live like a slob and look the door closes when you're sitting on the seat of achievement to open it you push it out if this were to come in it would definitely smack you in the knees but this was designed by people who were smart look at the toilet roll holder that's quite interesting and festive and speaking of the seat of achievement it has uh you know one of these things for your comfort and if you have a very small piece of garbage you can put it in here maybe like a Q-tip that would fit there's also a cutout beneath the sink maybe uh the trash can is too big to go here which is why it was in the corner soap shampoo body wash conditioner it's all right there what goes in this box I have no ideas just for decoration oh these are uh this is going to be interesting to take a bath in I'm definitely going to try this is our fan for ventilation and the shower wand has two positions but is there room for the bath mat [Music] foreign thing I don't get though if that's the fan what is this dome for it's not a light there's no air coming out of it it's just like in there for some reason maybe that's to like access water pipes that might be in the ceiling now if you're exhausted after you take a shower they just fall right in the bed now it's a pretty good bet it's not a twin which I saw in another tiny apartment that was actually less tiny than this one this is a full which is great and look you can see your kitchen so if you're hungry at night you'll know where the food is and I'm very happy I don't have to climb a ladder to go up that would have been awkward it would have made more space but I don't like ladders when I'm tired at nighttime anyways now that we think we know what this place is like and how it works I'm gonna make myself at home and let you know what goes wrong something's probably gonna go wrong [Music] thank you I didn't get any sleep I got about five hours and that's for two reasons um the bar across the street let's just say it's open when you might want to be sleeping which is probably fine for most of the people who rent a place like this but for me if you grew up playing Final Fantasy VII you will absolutely love the view out of these windows no wonder this place was so hard to find everybody wants it but the other problem this causes is that even after you turn off the lights to go to sleep there's still light coming in the windows it's a bright apartment during the day and at night look at this lots of light during the day although I will say it did look pretty cool like almost something out of a movie this place was also forty dollars a night so um I shouldn't be complaining also there's not necessarily enough Outlets here plugging things in you have to get a little creative but it is possible but eating was kind of tricky we've only got the one table and there's no chair so you're sitting on the floor which is normal in Japan but not normal where I'm from so it kind of hurt my back I was also able to find food at the bakery three across the street which was actually pretty good there is a McDonald's which I skipped so that I could go to 7-Eleven and get something healthier can you believe that this is like Bizarro world the other convenient thing about the table is you can easily reach where the napkins are the window still makes a nice end table for your stuff and the laundry was pretty easy to do you just open the machine throw everything in but I did have to use a translator to figure out what everything meant but remember there's no dryer so you're gonna have to hang your stuff also the clothes are all dry that's fantastic and now we know why the loft is still here it's for hanging your stuff they could probably install a metal bar along the base of it like right here then you could hang everything the only other issue comes from really having no chairs in here when I tried to sit and do work on the bed it wasn't super comfortable so I kind of had to use the pillow as a makeshift desk but I was able to get by and this is definitely a fun place and I think Apartments like this are probably what a place like New York City should legally allow because if they did it would help people come to the city without 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Published: Sun Aug 13 2023