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Japanese apartment tour - how much does rent cost

2017-12-13 · 10 min

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  1. Hey, and welcome to my Japanese apartment

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  2. tour. Today we're going to be doing a tour

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  3. in my Japanese apartment, which I, I share

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  4. with my girlfriend. She also lives here

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  5. and I live with her, and I'm paying half

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  6. of the rent. How much is the rent in

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  7. Japan, you might be asking me, because

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  8. lots of people seem to be interested in

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  9. how much it costs to live in Japan because

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  10. Maybe because lots of people are

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  11. interested in living in Japan, and I live

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  12. in Japan, and it's very interesting. So

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  13. I'm going to tell you the rents. How much

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  14. does it cost to live in a place like this,

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  15. you might be asking? Well, it's ¥46,000.

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  16. I'm not sure how much that is in your

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  17. country, but I pay half the rent, so I pay

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  18. ¥23,000, plus I also have to pay for

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  19. electricity, which runs things like the

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  20. heater. Winter's usually colder. I mean,

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  21. winter's usually more expensive because

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  22. it's colder. So, um, yeah, expect that the

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  23. expensive electricity— electricity

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  24. bill will be more expensive in the winter

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  25. unless you like to be very cold all the

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  26. time, and I don't like to be cold. So this

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  27. is the kind of apartment you can get in

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  28. this area for about ¥46,000. That's

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  29. ¥46,000 every month if you were interested

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  30. in knowing that. And for that money you

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  31. get a room which is about this big,

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  32. and there's plenty of room as

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  33. you can see me walking around the room.

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  34. Let me just give you a better view of it.

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  35. So in this room there's space for a double

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  36. bed, a TV, a table. You can put stuff

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  37. on shelves. And we also have a Christmas

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  38. tree. It looks pretty nice, doesn't it?

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  39. And you can have stuff in the corner like

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  40. this. There's even a closet full of

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  41. clothing. And yeah,

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  42. that's basically— I don't really know what

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  43. else to show you. This is the main room of

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  44. the apartment. It's a one-room apartment,

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  45. so you only get one room, but you also get

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  46. a few other rooms. Let me show you the

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  47. other rooms. Oh, there's also this little

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  48. gadget thing. So if someone rings the

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  49. doorbell You can, you can press this

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  50. button and you can talk to the person

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  51. who's ringing your doorbell without

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  52. actually having to see that person's ugly

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  53. face. You also get a nice sliding door for

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  54. some privacy. Oh,

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  55. that's squeaky. So here's the kitchen.

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  56. You also get a fairly spacious kitchen.

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  57. Um, I guess it's not really a kitchen,

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  58. it's more like a hallway, and then you

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  59. have a stove and a cupboard and a sink in

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  60. the side— on the side of the hallway.

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  61. And, um, yeah, this is where all the

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  62. cooking magic happens. My girlfriend makes

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  63. me breakfast every morning. We have fried

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  64. eggs and toast and a banana. Uh, yeah,

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  65. this is the size of the kitchen. It's not

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  66. really much, but you can't expect to get a

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  67. huge kitchen for the price, for 46 ¥1,000,

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  68. you're not really going to get a huge

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  69. kitchen. Um, yeah, I don't really know

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  70. what else you want to know. There's a

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  71. microwave, sink, um, some bins,

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  72. and let's have a look in the toilet.

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  73. Whoops, I forgot to turn the light off.

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  74. Oh yeah, this is the toilet. Just has a

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  75. toilet and a little wash basin on the top

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  76. of the toilet.

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  77. Not much to say about that. Let's turn off

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  78. the light to save electricity. You also

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  79. get a little window here so you can

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  80. tell if someone's in there. And this is

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  81. the entrance where you put your shoes.

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  82. You don't want to walk into someone's

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  83. apartment with your shoes on in Japan.

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  84. That's very rude and not what they do

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  85. here. And then you also have a shower

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  86. room.

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  87. With a tiny little bathroom, and you get a

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  88. shower and a sink. For some reason, the

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  89. sink keeps getting blocked up, and it's a

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  90. bit annoying. Let me show you.

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  91. You see,

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  92. it's taking a very long time for the water

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  93. to drain. Down the drain. And this is

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  94. a shower. You have to use this little knob

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  95. thing to switch between which hole you

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  96. want the water to come out of.

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  97. Sometimes this gets stuck and then you

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  98. have to take this cap off and then tighten

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  99. it with a screwdriver. Look, the

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  100. screwdriver's here. It's not, it's not a

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  101. great shower, to be honest. But, um,

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  102. yeah, there's also— oh look, there's a

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  103. mirror as well so you can see yourself

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  104. when you're having a shower. Oh, that's

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  105. me, in case you're wondering.

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  106. This is what it looks like when a fully

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  107. grown man is sitting inside of the

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  108. bathtub. This is a very typical-sized

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  109. Japanese bathtub and You can actually fit

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  110. 2 grown people in here. I've taken a bath

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  111. before with my girlfriend. We both sat in

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  112. here. I sat like this, and then she sat in

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  113. between my legs, and it was pretty fun.

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  114. If you're in the bathtub together with

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  115. your girlfriend, I would not recommend

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  116. ejaculating underwater because it's really

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  117. difficult to rinse off. When semen is wet,

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  118. it turns into glue. It becomes extremely

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  119. sticky and It took a very long time to

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  120. wash off, and it just wasn't worth— worth

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  121. the effort. So if you're wondering, if you

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  122. were thinking that this bathtub's too

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  123. small for you, then unless you're an

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  124. extremely fat person, I don't think you'll

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  125. have any difficulty squeezing into this

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  126. What else is there? There must be

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  127. something else. How can I make this 10

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  128. minutes? Think,

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  129. think. Oh, I don't know.

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  130. Okay, let's look in the closet.

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  131. It's a closet full of my girlfriend's

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  132. clothing. She has a lot of clothing for a

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  133. tiny person. She has a lot of coats. She

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  134. has about 6 or 7 coats. And I only have

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  135. one jacket. It's not a jacket, it's a

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  136. hoodie. Just because it has a zip doesn't

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  137. mean it's a jacket. You know what I can't

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  138. stand? I can't stand it when I'm wearing a

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  139. hoodie and then people say it's a jacket.

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  140. It's a hoodie. Just because it has a zip

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  141. and it zips up doesn't mean it's a jacket.

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  142. Maybe you can call it a jackie. That was

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  143. the name of my boss from the petrol

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  144. station. She was a nice person, I guess.

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  145. A bit too talkative. I don't know if she

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  146. still watches my YouTube channel. And

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  147. here's my girlfriend's shoes.

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  148. Lots of shoes, typical woman. I don't

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  149. understand why she needs so many shoes. I

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  150. have one pair of shoes and a pair of

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  151. slippers, that's it. And she has 10

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  152. different pairs of shoes. Oh dear, I'll

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  153. never understand why women are like that

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  154. sometimes. And yeah.

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