Typical Japanese home

[IPheonix666]

Good evening everyone back in the states and around the globe. I have recently temporarily moved out here to ikebukoro japan for computer data researching courses. I will be staying here for 4 years, maybe i wont come back! The food, people, culture, anime video games, everything we americans love about japan. Its all too great, and guess what, its all better than you even imagined!

[ChristopherJacques]

@IPheonix666 Please, just don't be a typical foreigner. Be respectful of their rules and remember they are PEOPLE and not anime characters. =) Hope you enjoy!

[TheVampireCandy]

@joyride199 same here! :D

[THAWRYLYSHYN]

@joyride199 I feel the exact same way !!! :)

[iLOVENATURE2011]

cute house you have there...

[joyride199]

I swear in my past life I was Japanese.

Since I was little I would make a bed on my floor, and sleep there and felt so good in the morning!

I love being closer to the ground, so good.

I love Japanese culture, food, people everything about it!

So peaceful, so immerse! It's amazing!

[steflondon88]

a lot of bedroom not a lot of showing anything else.. what about the kitchen, bathroom, front door, etc.?

[puketinho]

@steflondon88 the rooms look like 2 meters high, i will make a shelf wall to wall at a hight of 1 meter fifty, and i will put my futons up there.They dont look good on the floor.

[MsPolkadotted21]

I really love japan!! I'm going there I pr0mise b4 i turn 18!!!

love it there the sakura trees are awesome!! I nkow how to speak in japanese little only but I will be good at it soon!

[ichaichaparadice]

Ok, I've seen this a couple of times now, what is with you people going all "Oh meh lord, people actually HANG their clothes to dry?!" Um, yeah, see, don't know about you but I wouldn't really want to put them on wet. In my country, Bulgaria, virtually nobody has a dryer so it's nothing out of the ordinary to hang them, and it's not just us and Japan! Geez, get used to it

[maxpowersstp]

@ichaichaparadice Actually in the US most people use dryers but its not considered weird to hang them out either.

[VKQueenVamp]

@ichaichaparadice I live in the us... I hang dry clothing as well.. though where I have moved now.... theres a rule stating no hang dry.... strange.. they say its "gheto"

[moonlightguardian]

very comfortable...very practical... and its very small o_o....jebus....I might suffocate if I live in one of these houses xD

[welwisher]

Mmmm... this is wonderful.

Somehow theres nothing quite like wearing clothes that had been hung out to dry. It feels nicer than machine-dried clothes for some reason. Like machine-dried clothes get fluffed up in the process, and clothes that had been hung out to dry just feel clean.

<3 It's nice.

[SerenityBeleverXX13]

Man i will SOO have a house in Japan, nothingwill stop me!!! man i can see myself there already!! thoses were some loud cicadas 2!!!

[Odysseus154]

@SerenityBeleverXX13 Well, nothing except that pesky law that forbids any foriegner from becoming a citizen. That and you will always be considered Gajin, which more or less means barbarian, and thus, never excepted anyways. Enjoy your life in the 2nd most racist country on Earth (North & South Korea are tied for 1st).

[PhoenixKyuketsuki]

@Odysseus154 You're a complete idiot- Gaijin is short for 'Gaikokujin' which means 'person from an outside country'. There is NOT a law 'forbidding' new citizenship. Just like with any country, you must be in continuous residence for about 10 years before you're even considered for permanent citizenship- it's not something they, or anyone except maybe america, takes lightly. You've clearly never been to Japan and have no idea what their people are like, so fuck off with the racism comments.

[Odysseus154]

@PhoenixKyuketsuki I've been told something completely different from Japanese immigrants to this country so I'm not entirely sure what to believe. I did, however, look up the law and I found some reference to it and it said foreigners can become permanent residents but I read nothing about citizenship.

[Odysseus154]

On a side note, I think the culture is wonderful but I would not want to immigrate anywhere I would be perpetually unwelcome and distrusted (as a resident, not guest). I often wonder why non-white immigrants come to America for the same reason.

[puketinho]

@Odysseus154 There is nothing to wonder, I can tell you , they have only one reason , to earn the money.Persons who have good jobs and earn enough money they never leave their culture .Though these immigrents live in usa, they dont forget there cultures, ofcourse the new generations born in usa , they adopt american culture.And they stay for ever in usa.Like europens before five hundred years.They never went back.

[strangestalk]

it's too hot , in summer at "NAGOYA.", isn't it?

[magnetchill]

those are some very loud cicadas in the background, i wish i could live in a home like that

[timfelton16]

i went to tokyo for baseball and we got to stay with a japanese family.. i was badass..

[bumbacutthoat]

do i need tatami mats if i'm going to sleep on a futon?

[bloodymissb]

No, not really, though there is something to be said about them adding comfort. It's not like sleeping on a normal floor in the west, they are pretty cushy and comfortable, but I would think that if you laid one over a carpet, the effect would be similar. That's what I've done with my futun and it's pretty comfortable.

[Momiji1005]

omg that tomtame thingy (the floor thing)

is like what we had when i was little to take to the beach

we used it like a beach towel thingy

[2curthilton]

tatami

[FrankIeroiscute]

don't they have beds in Japan?

[fantasy6108319762]

yes they do but most Japaneses homes are kinda small so they use those beds.

[backofbehind]

futons are japanese beds. the matresses we sleep on in the u.s. or europe are our style of beds...

[tailsmilesprower24]

@FrankIeroiscute maybe you should look up "futon" in the dictionary.

[ChristopherJacques]

@FrankIeroiscute Yes, they have beds in Japan, but mostly they're for people who consider their Japanese heritage "old fashioned" and want to act more "Western".

Traditional Japanese "beds" are thin pads knows as futons (nothing like what we call futons in the U.S.), which have a fabric covering and are laid on the floor. It's kind of like sleeping on top of a thick sleeping bag. The floors are tatami, which is made from reeds, sewn together, and provides extra cushioning.

[txgrl7]

I hope they gave you permission to film their home.

[backofbehind]

the futons were great! even though they were thinner than my futon here in the states i thought they were much more comfortable. the only thing that is kind of different is that they are all single sized, so if you're sleeping with another person you kind of have to snuggle the futons together. i didn't talk to any japanese couples about their intimate relationships but it was common in the families we stayed with for the whole family to put their futons in one bedroom and all sleep there.

[shaykai]

How were the futons for sleeping on? I'm thinking about getting a traditional japanese futon and I would love your opinion.

Ben