What Look like a 50 000 Yen Flat in Downtown Tokyo

[clnmyjts]

that place is soo damn small...I could flush the apartment down my bathroom toilet

[elenchus]

how you practice the karate in this room

[account99]

Doesn't even have a restroom of any sort. I wouldn't give up living in a car for that. :l I could do a lot in a year with $500.

[Excessivecontrast]

This reminds me of apartments for rent on Wall Street. You pay $700 a month to live in a closet.

[MeyerCassandre]

that is so cute, i would live in it. good price to.

[ritoruka]

That's the whole thing, I'm sure. You wouldn't use a mattress over there: you'd have to sleep on a futon you would put away every morning. You'd have to be an uber clean minimalist, just for the sake of being able to walk 2 feet when you're in there.

Honestly, I'm not surprised. Hasn't anyone here heard of capsule hotels? You have rows of plastic coffin sized boxes in the walls and each box is a "room."

[divra1994]

my apartment is 5-6 times larger and in way better shape then that... O.o

[Redmondkid91]

To be honest I would not mind living in there its easy to clean you can't lose anything in there just set up a small cot every night and in the morning roll it up and store it in a corner

[bobdonda]

@Redmondkid91 hmm, I don't know. I'm fine with small living spaces but this is really pushing it. is there even room to sleep without folding yourself around a corner? there certainly doesn't appear to be room for any kind of mattress.

I also wonder, do you hear neighbors on both sides of you, just a few feet away?

I guess you can survive in a place like this if you only sleep there and spend all your time out, but for that price it's insane. 50k yen is $650 now! that rents a HOUSE where I am

[Procryonis]

this would be perfect for someone who just needs a place for his computer and that´s it.nerd flat basically

[vuer88]

same price 4 something in NYC

[OpticalFascism]

Now that I watch this again, is it really the whole apartment? That might just be the kitchen and the living/bedroom isn't shown.

[fronzel99]

I left my trousers in my flat!

[ooohrob]

500 bucks is cheap for tokyo....wayyy too tiny

[MrJim12341121]

I want to go to Japan but I am afraid it will be way to expensive. 1 dollar=81 yen. If I go for two weeks it may cost me 4000 dollars including airfare. Anyone have any suggestions.

[th3w01fv2]

@MrJim12341121 go to Vancouver instead.

[bobdonda]

@MrJim12341121 yeah, it's unbelievable how much the dollar to yen rate has changed. When I first considered visiting Japan (and sadly didn't take that chance) in 2003, a dollar was around 120 yen. Now a dollar is worth 76 yen... that means everything is 57% more expensive! The way exchange rates can fluctuate is just crazy...

I suppose this is nice for English teachers in Japan though. Before you'd be earning about $29,000 and now it's $42,000.

[OpticalFascism]

I watched a few Japanese apartment tour videos here on Youtube and really like the minimalism of them, but this one is definitely unhabitable. You can barely roll out the futon and have to live without clothes and possessions, because there's no room to store them.

[germanicus24]

To think that 50,000 yen now makes 600 dollars :P

[Ash2theB]

But that how japanese live. . . small. . .the older buildings are kind of bigger and less expensive

[choi4816]

That is inhuman

[WillyyyV]

wow. I pay a little over double that for my apartment in Shinjuku Tokyo but I still only have enough room for a chair and a tv. Plus my bathroom is separate then my shower [u know u are living it bad when u have the toilet and shower together in Japan] >.< Lol. But wow, 510 a month? Pretty good for a roof over ur head.

[kenshinbr]

Tokyo is expensive.I live in Recife, Brazil. With 250 dollars month you can rent a very big apartment. That's is what a I pay. My apartament has 3 dorm rooms and and all of them (even the smalest) are bigger than that. But, of course, my city is as cool as Tokyo... In fact Brazil is piece of s... LOL.

[DarkPhantomSky]

xD well I guess thats because they have so many people living there ;) but it sucks anyway ( at least its clean)

[Noemhy13]

wow, my closet is bigger than that!

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[sharestyle01]

It's super small, but on the up side it is clean and has a small sink and cooking stove.

[alamakazam]

so is this real?

[Tibbon]

Uhhh, yea dude. My apartment in Boston isn't much bigger.

[Ash2theB]

@alamakazam Yep the dorm at the Japanese dorms are actually a bigger than this. . .now that sad

[maxfuransujin]

C'est un truc de ouf quand meme ! c'est trop petit !

[alainbreton]

go to Sakura House, for about the same price, you can get a lot better.

[geohok]

That has to be the most suckiest room i ever saw

[asorokop]

For central Tokyo that isn't too bad really. Just a place to sleep.

[neilduckett]

Barely that!

[michaelovitch]

Buy a camping car .

[Fonderplague]

eff that noise.

[vdp4ever]

Better price than Paris

[xgamer]

for that price i preffer ti sleep in my car !

[absolutionaryism]

What a piece if shit, especially for $500 a month.

[903harman]

@absolutionaryism the floor isn't even real wood.