Inside a TYPICAL Japanese Apartment [NOT in Tokyo]

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

Channel: Tokyo Lens

Views: 570,941

Keywords: Japan, Tokyo, Vlog, Tokyo Lens, Tokyo Vlog, Japan Vlog, Norm Nakamura, Norm Tokyo Lens, Japanese, japan apartment, inside a japanese apartment, apartment tour, typical japanese house, japan house tour, japan apartment tour, japan tiny apartment, tiny apartment japan, tiny apartment tour, japanese house, japanese apartment, tokyo lens apartment, countryside japan, countryside japan apartment

Id: uXFBOVCW25E

Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 19 2022