Tour of my inaka apartment - JET Program vlog supplement

Hey Gang -

here's a little video I shot with my Casio Exilim last weekend after I had cleaned my apartment a little bit.

I can't stress enough how much accommodations vary between JETs, so you shouldn't be bummed if your apartment is way different than mine.

The amazing thing about my place is that I live alone, while everyone else in my building with the exact same apartment floorplan is at least a family of three people or more - a family of five live above me in the same amount of space.

Thanks for watching and more soon.

Peace!
-jason

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[brainsteww]

How soon did you get to contact your predecessor?

[myargonauts]

@brainsteww after I passed the interview in March, I was contacted by JET and told I had made it in the program. Then, about a month later in May I was contacted by the BoE where I would be working in Shimane and inside that package was a letter from my predecessor. I emailed her soon after that and we sent a few emails back and forth, but I never heard from her again after I arrived in Japan.

[ChexXIII]

I am not sure if anyone has asked this question or not, but can two people in the JET program (example: two friends who are doing the JET program together) is there a way for them to live together, or it won't work? I have seen vlogs with married couples, but I always wondered about people who would like to have a friend in the same program under the same roof. Is it possible for this to happen or highly unlikely?

[myargonauts]

@ChexXIII not only can you NOT live together, it is very doubtful that if you and a friend both apply and both make it in, that you will both be placed in the same prefecture, let alone the same city. I've heard that Nova, a language school, often has its tutors live in shared housing, but ALL JETs get their own apartment. You might end up in an apartment bldg with other JETs in the same bldg, but you will have your own place.

[dondondodo]

hey do you know the likeliness of being placed in a place you request? I have grandparents in the Yokohoma region and I visit there often so I'm fairly comfortable with the transportation routes, etc. My grandparents would be able to offer support and advice if I need and I'll always have someone. Would it be likely that I would be placed there?

[myargonauts]

@dondondodo no guarantee, but you have some good reasons for requesting your placement, so that helps. I could be wrong, but I don't think many JETs get placed in Yokohama, since it's so close to Tokyo. But check the JET Programme PDF that you can find on their site with a breakdown of JETs by prefecture and you'll have a better idea.

[myargonauts]

@plasticbeachxx this was my apartment when I was a JET - so I had subsidized rent and only paid 10,000 per month. Very cheap! I know pay 48,000yen per month for my current apartment in a different rural city which is about the same size as the one here.

[plasticbeachxx]

I hope you dont mind me asking but how much do you pay monthly?

[caffinequeen16]

Lucky, you have a dryer! I hear most apartments in Japan don't have one.

[myargonauts]

@MaddieX2010 if you come to Japan as a JET, then I think you have about an 85% chance of having to pay NO deposit. Your housing is largely overseen by your employer and you just have to pay rent. There is "key money" in Japan, which is a "gift" you give to your landlord when you move in and a typical security deposit is 2 months rent in advance, if you're out there looking for an apartment on your own.