What Look like a 50 000 Yen Flat in Downtown Tokyo

This video has been taken April First 2009 in Tokyo (Close to Tokyo Eki), it will show you how small a 50 000 Yen ($510USD) per month flat is in Japan... Toilets are IN the shower, and you have to almost sleep in the doorway. The Landlord ask for 3 month upfront to get this flat... Japanese Prison cells are 2 time more specious...

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[absolutionaryism]

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

[alainbreton]

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

[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."

[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

[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.

[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