New home

Finding a nice place in Tokyo is not difficult…that is if you have the cash!

If you want to find a cheap place in the city, it will be the size of 6 toilet cubicles.

If you want to find a cheap and roomy place, you will need to move way out of the city.

If you want to find a cheap and new place, you will need to live in industrial or commercial zones. These places are like ghost towns after 8pm and on weekends.

We have actually been quite lucky. We now live in Meguro which is considered inner Tokyo. We are 2 stations from Shibuya and another 1 to Harajuku. Shinjuku is only 10 minutes by train as well, so we are fairly well situated.

Our place is just under 93 sqm which is huge compared to places our colleagues are living in. We have given up newness (still 1990) for convenience. We have plenty of restaurants and shops in our neighbourhood and the train and metro is only 4 minute walk away. What more can you ask for?

 

Our place has 1 large bedroom, a study, a tatami room and a living / dining combination. We also have a couple of balconies and Matt is in the process of making a grilling contraption to put out on our larger balcony for our barbies.

One of my favourite rooms in our new apartment is our bathroom. There is a Japanese tub for bathing (shorter but deeper than Western tubs) and a large space for showering in. Basically, you can have 2 people dancing in the shower at the same time and still avoid the spray. It is that roomy. I like to get soap suds everywhere and then hose the whole thing down. If I ever build a place from scratch, I must have a Japanese shower room.

 

Setting up our apartment has been a bit of a chore. I have previously only moved into fully furnished apartments so trying to set one up from scratch is time consuming and expensive. We were fortunate enough to have accumulated lots of things from a previous teacher but we have had to buy large furniture items and a TV. We do st

ill have cardboard boxes everywhere but hopefully they will be replaced soon. 

If you are visiting Tokyo, we have enough room to house 3+ people. Just let us know well beforehand that you will be coming.