NOTIFICATION SQUAD: Take a shot every time someone compares a single room to the size of their apartment. So what's the verdict? Good value for money given the private roof oasis and location in the heart of Harajuku? Or simply overpriced mayhem? A HUGE thanks to Alex for showing us around - if you want to explore the amazing properties on his website check out: i-home.tokyo Feel free to drop him a line if you have any questions about moving to Tokyo! - And as for me, it's back to the ironing board.
Actually I was thinking $20K a month wasn't too bad for one of one Tokyo's swankiest neighborhoods until I remembered all of fees upon fees upon fees and the special added fee for the "privilege of paying fees" fee and the "just because we want to screw you even more" fee and finally, the "you gotta be kidding me" fee!
Don't forget if you're spending that kind of money to own a place like this you're not going to clean it yourself. That means you're going to have to hire somebody to clean it for you at least once a day. That's likely an additional 3,000 a month.
maybe it's his friend and he can be himself, or maybe he can can do what he wants because how many of the people judging have a TH-cam channel....vote thumbs down if you do
honestly this place looks like a dump for 20,000 a month. There are penthouse apartments for sale in Japan for 2-3 million that are WAY nicer with newer amenities. 20,000x 16 years is 4 million. You could get a MUCH better loan on 2-3 million and pay a mortgage on a better penthouse than renting this crap box.
This guy is a very skilled salesman. I think his shining brilliance shined particularly bright when Chris said:"This is a great place to sit and eat Muffins." and the boi responded with a quite sincere sounding and slightly flattering:"It is."
@@ladyinwight haha its because this apartment is so nice they can't imagine living there (fair enough). A mansion would never seem homely to me either
@Dan oz Where the fuck do you live where 250m²+ is an "average apartment"? Here in germany most single-family houses have around half that in living space!
The video is not totally depressing, I found the agent cradling a pug in his arms quite amusing (very reminiscent of Doctor Evil with a cat or Paris Hilton with a chihuahua at best)
I think it’s weirder how people are supposed to rent places like that. 20k a month in rent seems like such a waste. If you’re that rich to afford the rent you might as well buy property flat out.
@@Nick-hw4gd People don't though. They even mention it's for high level diplomats/ministers and company men where it's paid for by the Ministry for them to stay a bit.
"This is gonna be depressing". That hits home hard. Most people struggle to get by here in Okinawa, but one day, I had the opportunity to go to the company owner's house to troubleshoot some computer problems (because of course he was using a company computer as his home computer). The house was beautiful and had an amazing view of the city. Plus, he had central heat/AC which I've never seen in any house in Okinawa. I can only dream of living in a home like that here.
@@WookieWarriorz exactly, In Dallas Tx I've seen Apt bigger than this for 4-6k a month. Still pricey but as a westerner 20k for something that small baffles me.
@@finmetalwarrior the states is just toxic here, it's so suffocating sometimes and just standing outside, looking at our dull streets, it gives me a headahce. so I'm willing to learn some japanese and rush to japan.
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. My first thought was with the pug he seems totally the Bond villain. I was waiting for him to say "So we finally meet Mr Broad."
This video made me learn that there is such thing as too much space! (At least in my personal opinion 💦 ) I'd be lost if I had to treck to get from room to room 😂
Haha thanks, at least I'm not the only one xD I also wonder how you could even fill that huge living room with stuff that is actually useful. Like you need a couch, let's say two big couches to see big, a huge home cinema, a big table, someplace to store the kind of stuff rich people like to expose to flaunt their egos (like cups of the richest man or whatever)... then what? The place would be at most 30% filled xD
Agreed. As much as I would like quite a bit of space, that was a lot of large rooms that would to go waste if I was living there; I need space, just not that much space.
What Americans call "English Muffins" aren't actually English...we don't have an English muffin. Only McDonald's have a breakfast muffin and the cake type muffin which are both American haha
Hello there's this trader you should know she's an expert in trading she as made me wealthy, Ever since i started following her strategy & techniques things as be going well for me, Contact via Email @hauserjolietradingoptions and thank me later
Like they said, companies and embassies rent this level. The first to use as part of executive compensation packages and companies can write that off as an expense, and embassies because you need your diplomats to look impressive.
I love how open it is, nearly feels like living in an actual house outside, I've been in plenty roof top two story luxury apartments but they lacked the wood, gardens and glass fronts
日本人：月額2000万？ この金額、アタマおかしい。 外人の不動産や：Here we are world famous in "Tokyo" ,right ? 日本人: 壁のインターフォン類の表示、日本語だけやけど？ 外人の不動産や：Woops !" Shitsurei shimashita 日本人：こんな低いとこにスイッチ、子供ちゃうで、いらえんやろ？ 外人の不動産や：I'm afraid. This is Japanese style. 日本人: ええかげんにしいや・・・
At first I read it as 20,000 yen a month, and was jaw dropping at how good this place was for the price...and then you said dollars, and it all made sense.
This was a cool and different video for the channel. If you are able to make more videos with Alex that would be awesome. Also it is fun that Sharla was the camera man here.
remember, it's Japan, inside the city limits of Tokyo... the SINGLE MOST DENSELY POPULATED URBAN ENVIRONMENT ON PLANET EARTH. period. full stop. no questions asked. no variables needed. it has more people per square kilometre of land than any other urban area on the planet. having an open cityscape view 360 degrees around the WHOLE apartment? every single window shown of the exterior of the apartment, since it's on the top floor... there's NO high rise buildings immediately right next door to the apartment building. that is a SERIOUSLY primo high Dollar $$ view in Tokyo.
@@lesliekilgore648 it's really funny how hyperbolic you got here because you're actually wrong. Tokyo is not the densest city/urban area in the world. Look it up lol. Paris is denser than Tokyo. And any random view in Paris is going to be nicer than this.
@@NeonShadowsx cool, thanks for replying. i guess my info was more than a decade out of date. my ex GF in the 2000's was a US Embassy worker's kid in Tokyo. i don't remember when she lived there, exactly. i remember it was more than a decade in length since she said she even went to HighSchool there and Tokyo U for 9 months. then her dad left the US State Dept. Foreign Services Division for 'home service' here in the States. plus i got the national density mixed up with the city in Tokyo. the 'urban footprint' city of Tokyo person per square kilometre is the highest in Japan! my bad i fucked that one up vs world stats. oops. :( 6,264 persons per square k Paris by the way, 21,000 persons per square k... yes i can do the research. bla bla bla. but you know what, Paris is rather shitty because the city itself is 12,012 square kilometres where Tokyo is 13,555 so over a square k bigger in size. that and i find Paris personally crap. it's insane to navigate. since i didn't speak French fluently every Parisian i interacted with treated me like shit. Google Translate talking out of my phone WOULD have helped, but not much. the taxi situations in Paris were a nightmare. i lost my ass using my credit card in Paris taxis. of course i traveled for pleasure/business there before the EU was formed so. shrug. my situation is very out of date. back then i found Heathrow a lot nicer than the city of Paris, but i didn't leave the airport in London. layover wasn't long enough to bother on that trip. i enjoyed Berlin more than Paris on that trip. the Germans bent over fucking backwards once they found out my nein was almost all i had. seriously, a damn McDonalds' kid in Berlin got 2 other employees who combined had enough English to help me order in German. the Parisians? i got told to 'fuck off American' in every store. even McDonalds in Paris gave me a stink eye. and i can fucking count to three in French and German. so asking for a #1 wasn't that hard in either city. Tokyo on the other hand is a public commuters' wet dream. nigh on 4 years ago old college buddy was there for fun. he downloaded the uhh oh god what was the company's name... Lobster Card? anways, he didn't even need cash, or a credit card, or anything, he set up the phone as a 'swipe' for trains in Tokyo for a week's duration. he typed in/set up 'i'm here, going here' the app did everything. it took GPS location, showed how to walk to the nearest station, how to navigate INSIDE the station, where to swipe the phone, what the trip would cost, where transfers were, up to date by the minute arrivals and departures, if you wanted to arrive somewheres by a certain time from a certain location it could tell you that too. it even told which side of the train to stand on for exit! :o damn app was like HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey. BTW, my ex is working her way up the Honda North American corporate ladder angling for a posting inside Japan before 2030. since she's still fluently bilingual.
I ♥️ that you and Sharla help each other out instead of compete (although this time it was a little more one sided). Plus, I just ♥️ Sharla in general!
As a German i'm pretty unimpressed with the glass walls. First off all seemingly nothing can be opened. And secondly it's only double-glass. In Germany the standard is 3x-glass and it already exists 4x-glass. I find this apartment also really weirdly shaped, with narrow corridors and such.
Was thinking the exact same thing. The rooms are big but the places where you would spend also a lot of time, like kitchen and etc are just narrow as hell ...
@@Shtifu Well it's in the biggest city in existence, so i guess 20k fits the market. The upfront 130k fee is straight out robbery though. The garden is not very japan'esque and the dog feet washer looks like a hobby craftsman did that lol.
@@LittleChell94 that's because the kinds of people that live in places like this dont do things like that. Like cook and clean @mezz a lot of Japanese building is like that. Even as an american I find their lack of....wall and window odd. Not enough insulation, not enough panes of glass, etc. But on the whole, especially with houses. They view construction as somewhat temporary and not an investment. It's very common for a house older than 30 years to not really be considered in the price of a real estate purchase as it's just going to be torn down. Excepting the surviving pre WW2 construction. A lot of the above has to do with classical Japanese construction techniques (wood and paper) and disasters. In 30 years the buildings after multille earthquakes reallyas sound as they should be and aren't up to the latest design codes. So might as well tear them down.
I have to agree, and I feel like they went overboard with the closets. Sure you need storage space, especially when most of the walls aren't actually walls but windows instead. lol. But still, feels very impractical if you'd want to actually bring any furniture other than beds, a sofa and dining table with you.... I did like the wooden flooring though.
3:39 A BIT bigger than most bedrooms in Japan? Good lord.. It really puts into perspective how small Japanese apartments are. I absolutely LOVED the garden. How wonderful is that being able to loose yourself there and pretend you're not in the city
Cree is it really? You think bamboo closets, waterfall countertops and lacquered kitchen cabinets is dated? You think gray is dated? You think cement and stone shower rooms dated? Tell us all why?
Chris expression through the tour: "I'm not impressed or envious by this apartment because there is no way in this reality I would spend money on something like this" On rooftop garden: "I'm jealous with this garden"
That was an amazing view into apartments in Japan. I think Sharla had mentioned all the additional fees needed in order to rent an apartment in a previous video years ago (or maybe it was Rachel & Jun... ?), but I had no idea how quickly they added up!
Hearing how many times this guy said his entire apartment would fit into one of those rooms makes me really appreciate the living situation I have right now. I'm renting an entire house for the price of one room because the homeowner just wants someone to live in the place while his mom is still alive. When she passes he's going to sell the house, I assume, and I'll find another place to live. Here's hoping Mom is hail and healthy for many years to come!
@@combsbrushes777 I sure hope he's coming. I sent him an invitation. He's in charge of bringing the tequila and said he'd get his mom to make some taquitos.
Hes so sold on the apartment that he needs to be constantly reminded its way outside his budget. I do actually wonder if theres stairs up, since last thing I'd want paying 20k a month is to be stranded cause the elevator broke.
@@naderkhouri9468 His clean look and posh accent may suggest he comes from a wealthy background, though it is of course just a stereotype. It probably helps to look and talk that way when dealing with wealthy clients.
I can't imagine living there... Like, not even considering the price, that is just so many windows. How am I supposed to lean anything against the Not Wall. What if someone wants to hang some art or posters. How often do you have (to probably call someone) to clean the windows? Who has time to maintain a garden if you're a rich diplomat? Are you going to let the peasantry into your home to do it for you? Preposterous!
well obviously if you can afford this, you can afford to pay maids and gardeners to maintain it for you. and sad thing is, if you can afford to live here chances are you're probably always working so what even is the point
Despite the price and debates about buying a real house, the house style is incredibly calming. Nice bedroom, awesome indoor outdoor experience, nothing too crazy (except the lift). I think if it was built anywhere else outside Tokyo, where land price is cheaper, this house design would sold instantly.
wow I didn't expect the description of english garden but that really is accurate, those bushes and trees crowding over a path is very reminiscent of my nan's garden haha
'This bedroom is the least big - let's just call it the smallest' - he was in typical estate agent mode there until he remembered you weren't looking to actually rent the place.
"Very rare for Japan, this is dual pane glass" ... sound very odd coming from a place in Europe where 3-pane windows have become the norm for new buildings. I haven't seen a single-pane window in any but the oldest buildings.
I've been living and working in Japan for almost 4 years, and my apartment has single-pane windows. Most house and apartments in Japan don't have double-pane windows. They also don't have any rubber or seal around doors or windows. I can feel the wind because there's a gap between the sliding window in my bedroom. There's also a gap all around my main door. You can see the light from outside. Because of the lack of insulation, my apartment kitchen goes up to 40°C in summer and down to ~6-10°C during winter (the water leaking from my old freezer used to freeze during winter).
looking at the comments i am flabbergasted how many people didn’t like the apartment. my guess? they’ve never lived in a major metropolis and don’t really know the insane value this flat offers. the 2 gardens alone are worth the money you pay! i never lived in tokyo but i lived in london for many years and the housing prices arent that different (i’d even say quality wise you get even less for your money in london cause many houses are old as sin and have very bad insulation, gas n electricity. also mold is a major issue :/) i absolutely love the layout from the masterbedroom to the dog garden to the living room. it is so cool n just feels like your own private oasis in the middle of tokyo. who csres for the gardens though? the person who rents or would they hire a gardener or...?
Definitely not worth, I could rent a small cheap apartment and use the 19000 dollars on food and girls. Worth much more. However, money ain't an issue for rich people.
Housing is actually the only thing I found expensive in Japan. Restaurants, booze, cabs, entertainment, hotels and of course anything electronic were all cheaper than where I live. Ideal holiday destination, in other words, and it's totally unique. There's only one Japan and that's Japan.
@@idanceforpennies281 it may become a bit cheaper down the track due to the shrinking population. If working from home in Japan keeps gaining momentum it may also lead to the population becoming more spread out.
It's undoubtedly a beautiful apartment, tons and tons of space, but I can't imagine that it would be within my price range at any point in my lifetime. 😂 I've only been subscribed to your channel a few days Chris, but you're already one of my favourite youtubers. Always informative and very funny. Thanks for the content! 👍
@@夏蟲嘗雪 USD 20,000 per month for 200 sq meters would be 100 per meter. Thankfully I don't pay that much which makes me feel a bit better, but not much haha
![[안방1열 풀캠4K] 베이비몬스터 'DRIP' (BABYMONSTER FullCam)│@SBS Inkigayo 241110](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AQ4RIghEvUs/mqdefault.jpg)
NOTIFICATION SQUAD: Take a shot every time someone compares a single room to the size of their apartment.
So what's the verdict? Good value for money given the private roof oasis and location in the heart of Harajuku? Or simply overpriced mayhem?
A HUGE thanks to Alex for showing us around - if you want to explore the amazing properties on his website check out: i-home.tokyo
Feel free to drop him a line if you have any questions about moving to Tokyo!
- And as for me, it's back to the ironing board.
Is there a puppy ramen machine?
Epic thanks for the video
If its $20k to rent per month how much is to buy?
Most interesting ad I’ve ever watched
Hi
Chris seems to be so proud about his ironing board kitchen space.
Live by the ironing board.
Die by the ironing board.
Who does not have ironing board kitchen space?
Such an irony
@@AbroadinJapan lmao i can hear chris' voice in this comment
What other uses has an ironing have? Could use one as a coffee table and be an upgrade from a bit of wood on top on a car tire.
Alex was holding the dog like a bond villains, I love it. Chris, you can learn from him - you need more bond villain pets for more subs
He's essentially a post modern Bond villain.
Yes, the first thing I think is he's obviously a bond villan
I'm sure $20K in Texas will get you a 35 bedroom mansion.
And approximately one sq ft in NYC, pre-covid
@@hughjassstudios9688Give it another month. That shit is going to crash. Pretty sure Louis is right.
if you consider an old ranch house a mansion then sure.
@@Tiralful Louis is already right. It started falling a month ago. But then again owners don't sell it, they just keep it as an "asset"
@@hughjassstudios9688 same in London 😭
Actually I was thinking $20K a month wasn't too bad for one of one Tokyo's swankiest neighborhoods until I remembered all of fees upon fees upon fees and the special added fee for the "privilege of paying fees" fee and the "just because we want to screw you even more" fee and finally, the "you gotta be kidding me" fee!
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
The rich probably get to avoid these fees weirdly enough
😭😭😭😭😎😎😎😎
Don't forget if you're spending that kind of money to own a place like this you're not going to clean it yourself. That means you're going to have to hire somebody to clean it for you at least once a day. That's likely an additional 3,000 a month.
chris wore his most expensive t shirt for this. He means business.
I would too! One must always Dress to impress
True but he did wear formal shorts 😂
maybe it's his friend and he can be himself, or maybe he can can do what he wants because how many of the people judging have a TH-cam channel....vote thumbs down if you do
and the camel toe shorts
🤔🤔
I could watch a series of Chris touring Japan houses.
Tokyo Creative does a series on the homes of their staff. Chris Broad? This is the house that Carlos Gohsn escaped from.
I thought the same thing!
Dude seriously he could get alot of views touring different Japanese houses
🤗🤗
Same
This house he showing us
Is bigger than standard size apartment in japan
I love it
This got recommended immediately, nice
Same here. Maybe youtube is stepping it up
Same
I also got a notification 😄
I’m from the twitter gang
A rare phenomenon for TH-cam indeed
Well,
It's empty for a reason I guess.
Surprised to see PD here
honestly this place looks like a dump for 20,000 a month. There are penthouse apartments for sale in Japan for 2-3 million that are WAY nicer with newer amenities. 20,000x 16 years is 4 million. You could get a MUCH better loan on 2-3 million and pay a mortgage on a better penthouse than renting this crap box.
Because if someone wants to purchase an apartment for 20k a month...they would probably just buy a house instead...
My guess this is intended for diplomat parties they will fill it up with hookers and drugs.
@@stephenshields4095 in the heart of Harajuku, Tokyo? Location matters as much if not more than the actual house itself you know...
Really sick handshake at the beginning Chris. Dont know why people say you're old
EXACTLY.
Nothing really meant business until Chris whipped out the sickest handshake to a luxurious suited man with his handsome pug, respect.
That shake could travel back in time and deliver Clint Eastwood several strapping noogies.
I was really fixated on the handshake too and was so relieved to see your comment 🤣
@@ireneg2436 chris just looked so confused by the whole exchange 😂
"I would just roll around on the floor with it."
Don't pretend like you don't already do this, Chris.
In my current apartment, two rolls in and I'd smash into the wall.
@@AbroadinJapan smash *through* the wall
@@AbroadinJapan Even better, now you have an excuse to break in-- er rent that $20,000 apartment
@@AbroadinJapan so you have tried it :P
@@AbroadinJapan PSA: That's five rolls for the average person!
Lol, can't imagine a random rich person watching this video and be like "Yep, I'm moving in tomorrow."
Do rich people watch TH-cam? Or do they have their own secret rich people's version?
@@brintesiacirce9414 no lmao
Edit: I meant that rich people use TH-cam, I was answering his second question.
Realy?
@@brintesiacirce9414 TH-cam premium
@@sivvinod3187 we cant know until we become rich
This guy is a very skilled salesman. I think his shining brilliance shined particularly bright when Chris said:"This is a great place to sit and eat Muffins." and the boi responded with a quite sincere sounding and slightly flattering:"It is."
@@airyanawaejah2323 shekel shekel
It's also natraul to make typos, but this is one is positively supernatraul :^)
Something about your post made me giddy ☺️ carry on
Watching the ads so that Chris can have a bigger kitchen
😂
To eat crisps
In reality we are just buying him a second ironing board.
@@LucaMolteni84 And 7/11 fried chicken!
All I seem to get is political ads xD so I can't watch all of them :(
Alex giving some hard James Bond villain vibes.
I've been waiting for you, Mr. Broad.
Would've been even more villain-like if he had his pinkie on his chin while stroking the pug....
@@thedoneeye what's the rent for the apartment, Alex?
1 million yen! Muhaha!
Names broad, a broad.
Argh, you beat me to that joke by three whole hours
I think what actually impressed Chris the most was the ability to hide the kitchen.
I like how his friend can't turn off his real estate tour self as he's taking him through. Love it.
Lol yeah straight into presentation mode. Habit no doubt
I really needed this video for my own sanity. Thank you.
Did not expect to see you here!
Oh hello m'lord!
Confirmed that all British TH-camrs Just know each other.
@@robertthompson90 LOVE this channel
Cheers for watching mate!
Wise decision to make the pug the CEO
It's like how every gondola company in New Venice makes blue-eyed cats their CEOs (from Aria The Animation)
it seems like a great decision at first, but i wonder if it has any buisness expertise whatsoever. maybe its just paying for everything
Well,at least the pug CEO wouldn't be stealing from the company. Unless it is food.
It's a tax dodge.
@@whocares2087.1 That would be a brilliant unethical decisionm
I've seen more homely offices.
What are you doing here ?
Didn't expect to see you here!
what do you expect from an empty apartment?
@@ladyinwight haha its because this apartment is so nice they can't imagine living there (fair enough). A mansion would never seem homely to me either
😁😁
Looking like an evil genius there holding the dog.
he's a realtor who caters to evil geniuses
A purposely bred disabled dog
@@geshkigal I mean, do you see what properties he's selling? Yeah. He's catering to evil genius billionaires
And definitely not ghey at all.
@@d.martin7692 Poor darling was forced into a bro handshake, I was hurting for him. The lack of respect !!
"This is gonna be depressing"
Indeed.
@Dan oz Where the fuck do you live where 250m²+ is an "average apartment"? Here in germany most single-family houses have around half that in living space!
The video is not totally depressing, I found the agent cradling a pug in his arms quite amusing (very reminiscent of Doctor Evil with a cat or Paris Hilton with a chihuahua at best)
I think it’s weirder how people are supposed to rent places like that. 20k a month in rent seems like such a waste. If you’re that rich to afford the rent you might as well buy property flat out.
@@Nick-hw4gd People don't though. They even mention it's for high level diplomats/ministers and company men where it's paid for by the Ministry for them to stay a bit.
Plot Twist: It's actually Chris's apartment and he's too modest to admit it.
Chris can now afford it with all the subs :P that's why even though it was secret they could show it :P
He must have hired a company to move all his furniture to his secondary house then.
Could afford the apartment, could not afford any furniture lol.
I actually do wonder how much he's paid for all this
@@Dmitrisnikioff He has to be very well off, if not a millionaire.
"This is gonna be depressing". That hits home hard. Most people struggle to get by here in Okinawa, but one day, I had the opportunity to go to the company owner's house to troubleshoot some computer problems (because of course he was using a company computer as his home computer). The house was beautiful and had an amazing view of the city. Plus, he had central heat/AC which I've never seen in any house in Okinawa. I can only dream of living in a home like that here.
No boss should live like that when his workers suffer. Greed stinks.
move to the west, most reasonable houses are nicer than this apartment.
You should work harder 48 hours per day. Oh well.
@@WookieWarriorz exactly, In Dallas Tx I've seen Apt bigger than this for 4-6k a month. Still pricey but as a westerner 20k for something that small baffles me.
Aldemar Aburto yep, this is a nice house but way overpriced, only cause of the usual size of Japanese flat.
This is relatively depressing for the price.
I think all Tokyo is a depressing city.
Everything is cramped and narrow. That being said, if you've ever searched for a home you should realize that everything seems smaller when empty.
Where I live this is a dream come true lol
@@davidetre All cities are depressing.
@@finmetalwarrior the states is just toxic here, it's so suffocating sometimes and just standing outside, looking at our dull streets, it gives me a headahce. so I'm willing to learn some japanese and rush to japan.
Alex standing there stroking his pet pug reminded me of Dr. Evil LOL
Chris favorite part of the tour - "No, you can't come up to my apartment" button
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. My first thought was with the pug he seems totally the Bond villain. I was waiting for him to say "So we finally meet Mr Broad."
Why are all of Chris’s friends super rich and own these huge companies, but he’s still like a university student.
Because they're pretending :D
He may not have a company or something like that, but I think Chris is amazing, I love his personality, he feels like a friend to me
@@josuerosalesmontero783 completely agree on
Edit: *That, I hate writing on TH-cam
All these people need influencers like Chris to promote said companies.
Sure, let me know how it went
This video made me learn that there is such thing as too much space! (At least in my personal opinion 💦 )
I'd be lost if I had to treck to get from room to room 😂
The whole time I was just thinking about how much shopping you have to do to fill up those cupboards
@@ziksy6460 so I wasn't the only one who thought that
Haha thanks, at least I'm not the only one xD I also wonder how you could even fill that huge living room with stuff that is actually useful. Like you need a couch, let's say two big couches to see big, a huge home cinema, a big table, someplace to store the kind of stuff rich people like to expose to flaunt their egos (like cups of the richest man or whatever)... then what? The place would be at most 30% filled xD
Agreed. As much as I would like quite a bit of space, that was a lot of large rooms that would to go waste if I was living there; I need space, just not that much space.
I guess that comes down to philosophy... Diogenes would deface on the person who bought this place 🤣
Finally a rich people video that doesn't make me jealous of their wealth
Easily the most impressive thing is that hella cool handshake at 1:07
You need to get out more.
Really? Huh standard formal greeting in South Africa💭
"This is a great place to sit and eat muffins" no one has ever said more british words than that
with all those controls i wouldn't be surprised if one is setup to be a muffin button
lol we don't really eat muffins in the UK, or even crumpets for that matter, that's just Chris mocking the stereotypes :'D
I wanna go sit at a place and eat muffins now, it is my support local businesses weekend after all.
Scones, don't forget scones
What Americans call "English Muffins" aren't actually English...we don't have an English muffin. Only McDonald's have a breakfast muffin and the cake type muffin which are both American haha
Chris is missing the point, that living room is supposed to be your VR space, you don't need any furniture there.
Some pillows. In case you trip. Definitely some pillows at least.
And yes. I would trip. Over my own two stupid feet 😂
"This is the least big room. Let's call it the smallest." How avantgarde.
He’s like The Godfather of real estate, holding that pug like a boss.
Hello there's this trader you should know she's an expert in trading she as made me wealthy, Ever since i started following her strategy & techniques things as be going well for me, Contact via Email @hauserjolietradingoptions and thank me later
And the dog is his CEO, he worth / makes more money than I do....that’s sad lol
@@JYYB Shhh, don't reveal Dogbert's real identity...
😅
Dat viel mij ook al op, Dr. Evil vibes.
The day Chris starts dressing up for a video is the day I stop watching.
But I mean. He would look bloody good in a suit at least once eh?
😅
@@TopAnimeLoverEver 🥵
If Chris got this apartment he’d go out and buy an ironing board so he could use it as “Valuable kitchen space”.
Not only was it interesting, but you two made it incredibly entertaining as well. Thank you! ありがとう
Chris, Sharla, deep sarcasm, a Bond villain and a bewildered-looking pug. I genuinely don’t need anything else to make my day.
"Big apartments don't care about your feelings."
-Alex Shapiro
I wonder if he has a sister in law who's a doctor
do u mean Ben Shapiro?
I doubt many Abroad in Japan watchers know about Ben Shapiro, but hopefully they now do. Or not.
@@23ofSeptember They gotta know just for the memes, man.
😅😅
Great idea this. Very much enjoy these videos.
Love your Channel!
@@sjappiyah4071 me too!
i love how this man comfortably hold his pug at his office
Do people actually RENT for that much? That sounds insane 😂
Haha check some of the rental prices in HK. Then you will be shocked.
Na, they buy them
Except if the kid is in college, then it is officially the kids bachelor apartment.
Must be nice...
Thats peanuts.
Check out hong kong and singapore.
Like they said, companies and embassies rent this level. The first to use as part of executive compensation packages and companies can write that off as an expense, and embassies because you need your diplomats to look impressive.
Ah, finally we get to see where Pete resides when he visits Japan.
It never really hit me how bad 2020 was until I saw a bond villain turn into a real estate agent.
I chuckled a little 😂
🤣 He even had a pet to stroke like a Bond villain. Luckily he didn't press a lot of buttons. One had to lead to a pit of sharks.
These are hard times
You and Sharla make a good YT team! I particularly enjoyed the bike tour video you did featuring a number of guests, including Sharla!
I love how open it is, nearly feels like living in an actual house outside, I've been in plenty roof top two story luxury apartments but they lacked the wood, gardens and glass fronts
動画を見る前：ドルと円を間違えてないか？
動画を見た後：間違えてなかった。
Before watching: Did he mistake dollar for yen?
After watching: He didn't make a mistake.
日本人：月額2000万？ この金額、アタマおかしい。
外人の不動産や：Here we are world famous in "Tokyo" ,right ?
日本人: 壁のインターフォン類の表示、日本語だけやけど？
外人の不動産や：Woops !" Shitsurei shimashita
日本人：こんな低いとこにスイッチ、子供ちゃうで、いらえんやろ？
外人の不動産や：I'm afraid. This is Japanese style.
日本人: ええかげんにしいや・・・
Well, there are private yachts with captain included, meals, fuel.. for $5000/week.. so why not an apartment in Tokyo.
it would be cool to see the opposite of this video, checking out an extremely budget apartment in a similar area!
This is my favorite property I’ve seen on either of your channels.
Chris: “ *tHiS iS g0nNa bE dEpPrEsSiNG* “ Wise Words Right there
I saw just before Chris said this lol
The dog at the end made me feel better though
"This is gonna be depressing..."
Unfortunately, very true 😭😭
Hyped for "Journey Across Japan: Escape to Mount Fuji"!
At first I read it as 20,000 yen a month, and was jaw dropping at how good this place was for the price...and then you said dollars, and it all made sense.
Alex Shapiro?
Is he going to sell my house with facts and logic?
hypothetically
He can sell your house to FUCKING AQUAMAN in case it is engulfed by the sea after sea levels rise due to climate change.
Nah, he just talks really fast about the features of the kitchen and ignores the rest
A free trip to Israel is included in every deal.
Pictures of his sisters feet with every purchase.
Meanwhile, Pyongyang apartments are free! Provided by the state
😂😂
Thank you based rocket man
LMAO 😂
Sugoi
LOL
Don’t let Chris kid you, he can afford lots of stuff with his 2.4M subscription base. 🥳
1:09 That handshake was smooth
wondering if they had to try it several times
This was a cool and different video for the channel. If you are able to make more videos with Alex that would be awesome. Also it is fun that Sharla was the camera man here.
* camera woman
Chris: My favourite thing about this apartment is the view
The View: a jumble of concrete and glass boxes, power lines, air con motors, &c.
Some people like the city landscape
It's me, I'm people
remember, it's Japan, inside the city limits of Tokyo... the SINGLE MOST DENSELY POPULATED URBAN ENVIRONMENT ON PLANET EARTH. period. full stop. no questions asked. no variables needed. it has more people per square kilometre of land than any other urban area on the planet.
having an open cityscape view 360 degrees around the WHOLE apartment? every single window shown of the exterior of the apartment, since it's on the top floor... there's NO high rise buildings immediately right next door to the apartment building.
that is a SERIOUSLY primo high Dollar $$ view in Tokyo.
@@lesliekilgore648 it's really funny how hyperbolic you got here because you're actually wrong. Tokyo is not the densest city/urban area in the world. Look it up lol.
Paris is denser than Tokyo. And any random view in Paris is going to be nicer than this.
@@NeonShadowsx cool, thanks for replying.
i guess my info was more than a decade out of date. my ex GF in the 2000's was a US Embassy worker's kid in Tokyo. i don't remember when she lived there, exactly. i remember it was more than a decade in length since she said she even went to HighSchool there and Tokyo U for 9 months. then her dad left the US State Dept. Foreign Services Division for 'home service' here in the States.
plus i got the national density mixed up with the city in Tokyo. the 'urban footprint' city of Tokyo person per square kilometre is the highest in Japan! my bad i fucked that one up vs world stats. oops. :( 6,264 persons per square k
Paris by the way, 21,000 persons per square k... yes i can do the research. bla bla bla. but you know what, Paris is rather shitty because the city itself is 12,012 square kilometres where Tokyo is 13,555 so over a square k bigger in size.
that and i find Paris personally crap. it's insane to navigate. since i didn't speak French fluently every Parisian i interacted with treated me like shit. Google Translate talking out of my phone WOULD have helped, but not much. the taxi situations in Paris were a nightmare. i lost my ass using my credit card in Paris taxis.
of course i traveled for pleasure/business there before the EU was formed so. shrug. my situation is very out of date.
back then i found Heathrow a lot nicer than the city of Paris, but i didn't leave the airport in London. layover wasn't long enough to bother on that trip.
i enjoyed Berlin more than Paris on that trip. the Germans bent over fucking backwards once they found out my nein was almost all i had. seriously, a damn McDonalds' kid in Berlin got 2 other employees who combined had enough English to help me order in German. the Parisians? i got told to 'fuck off American' in every store. even McDonalds in Paris gave me a stink eye. and i can fucking count to three in French and German. so asking for a #1 wasn't that hard in either city.
Tokyo on the other hand is a public commuters' wet dream. nigh on 4 years ago old college buddy was there for fun. he downloaded the uhh oh god what was the company's name... Lobster Card? anways, he didn't even need cash, or a credit card, or anything, he set up the phone as a 'swipe' for trains in Tokyo for a week's duration. he typed in/set up 'i'm here, going here' the app did everything. it took GPS location, showed how to walk to the nearest station, how to navigate INSIDE the station, where to swipe the phone, what the trip would cost, where transfers were, up to date by the minute arrivals and departures, if you wanted to arrive somewheres by a certain time from a certain location it could tell you that too. it even told which side of the train to stand on for exit! :o damn app was like HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey.
BTW, my ex is working her way up the Honda North American corporate ladder angling for a posting inside Japan before 2030. since she's still fluently bilingual.
For that price, they could have installed monitors who simulate a nice view all day round...
Definitely interesting mixture of woods. For some reason Japanese love this kind of early 2000s hotel style.
I can see Royataro counting the no of chairs in the apartment 😆😂
Only the true OG's will understand
Yeah mate but you also have to factor in the thickness of the doors as a measure of wealth
I've seen all of Chris' videos but I sadly do not get this reference.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley th-cam.com/video/UUe_-wDuILw/w-d-xo.html Here is the video, it's the first part of the video where they show off the hotel
the super expensive hotel room video 😂
@@iqbalchuvan4890 yeah 😂
I ♥️ that you and Sharla help each other out instead of compete (although this time it was a little more one sided).
Plus, I just ♥️ Sharla in general!
As a German i'm pretty unimpressed with the glass walls. First off all seemingly nothing can be opened. And secondly it's only double-glass. In Germany the standard is 3x-glass and it already exists 4x-glass. I find this apartment also really weirdly shaped, with narrow corridors and such.
Was thinking the exact same thing. The rooms are big but the places where you would spend also a lot of time, like kitchen and etc are just narrow as hell ...
mezz, your comment is very German. +10 points for fitting the stereotype. 🇩🇪👍
As a canadian, I am unimpressed as well, this place is so small for 20k a month.
@@Shtifu Well it's in the biggest city in existence, so i guess 20k fits the market. The upfront 130k fee is straight out robbery though. The garden is not very japan'esque and the dog feet washer looks like a hobby craftsman did that lol.
@@LittleChell94 that's because the kinds of people that live in places like this dont do things like that. Like cook and clean
@mezz a lot of Japanese building is like that. Even as an american I find their lack of....wall and window odd. Not enough insulation, not enough panes of glass, etc.
But on the whole, especially with houses. They view construction as somewhat temporary and not an investment. It's very common for a house older than 30 years to not really be considered in the price of a real estate purchase as it's just going to be torn down. Excepting the surviving pre WW2 construction.
A lot of the above has to do with classical Japanese construction techniques (wood and paper) and disasters. In 30 years the buildings after multille earthquakes reallyas sound as they should be and aren't up to the latest design codes. So might as well tear them down.
that real estate guy looks like an absolute villain with that suit while petting his bull dog
"He's very good at this." Class all the way.
Lol
At this price, one would think they would just buy a house.
Cant buy a house in middle Tokyo and location is everything
buy a house in tokyo?
@@sabereaseera1384 can buy a penthouse
@@sabereaseera1384 You can buy a penthouse also 20k seriously isnt worth it for this apartment. Theres better options.
Not everyone is interested in living in a house, plus those don't really exist in the heart of tokyo lmao
Lol crazy how the finishes looks kinda cheap for this price range... shows you that real estate is crazy in Tokyo.
Compared to a similar valued western property, it's pretty awful. I guess space is just such a premium in Tokyo
I have to agree, and I feel like they went overboard with the closets. Sure you need storage space, especially when most of the walls aren't actually walls but windows instead. lol. But still, feels very impractical if you'd want to actually bring any furniture other than beds, a sofa and dining table with you.... I did like the wooden flooring though.
the game yakuza 0 is all about 1980s tokyo real estate
Indeed ! Im reonvating my home with better materials in a 300k house lol !
thats why you dont want to live in big cities that have limited space (tokyo, HK, london, new york, etc.), its way to expensive for what you get.
3:39 A BIT bigger than most bedrooms in Japan? Good lord.. It really puts into perspective how small Japanese apartments are.
I absolutely LOVED the garden. How wonderful is that being able to loose yourself there and pretend you're not in the city
Yep if you ever watch some other videos of people living in Japan you will see how small apartments are
I love how he was introduced like a millennial James Bind villain-the relax suite-the haircut-holding a confused pug
The only channel that must have notifications on!
Had it on, didn't even ping me on my desktop browser, only on phone.
Anyone else notice how smooth their handshake is at 1:06?
$20,000 a month and the elevator button is slightly tilted.
Surely worth a discount, right?!
Discount %30
whole interior is so dated
Cree is it really? You think bamboo closets, waterfall countertops and lacquered kitchen cabinets is dated? You think gray is dated? You think cement and stone shower rooms dated? Tell us all why?
@@bartwatts1921 because it is. New luxe apartments were doing this 7-8 years ago. Welcome to fashion for buildings. It moves. Don’t lose your hat.
Chris expression through the tour:
"I'm not impressed or envious by this apartment because there is no way in this reality I would spend money on something like this"
On rooftop garden: "I'm jealous with this garden"
That was an amazing view into apartments in Japan. I think Sharla had mentioned all the additional fees needed in order to rent an apartment in a previous video years ago (or maybe it was Rachel & Jun... ?), but I had no idea how quickly they added up!
Hearing how many times this guy said his entire apartment would fit into one of those rooms makes me really appreciate the living situation I have right now. I'm renting an entire house for the price of one room because the homeowner just wants someone to live in the place while his mom is still alive. When she passes he's going to sell the house, I assume, and I'll find another place to live. Here's hoping Mom is hail and healthy for many years to come!
repent Jesus christ is coming, repent before it's too late, Jesus loves you
@@combsbrushes777 I sure hope he's coming. I sent him an invitation. He's in charge of bringing the tequila and said he'd get his mom to make some taquitos.
Hes so sold on the apartment that he needs to be constantly reminded its way outside his budget. I do actually wonder if theres stairs up, since last thing I'd want paying 20k a month is to be stranded cause the elevator broke.
no doubt theres stairs, but probably on the outside as a fire escape.
There are no stairs, otherwise the elevator lock button in the apartment would be pointless
@@XoroksComment There are definitely stairs for safety and emergency
Wow, Alex has my respect. Starting a business is already hard but imagine starting one in a foreign country. That takes hard work.
I'm sure he had a familial cash injection
@@naderkhouri9468 His clean look and posh accent may suggest he comes from a wealthy background, though it is of course just a stereotype. It probably helps to look and talk that way when dealing with wealthy clients.
@Gap What would he have to look/sound like for you to believe otherwise? Or do you think such an occupation is impossible to get into without money?
I can't imagine living there... Like, not even considering the price, that is just so many windows. How am I supposed to lean anything against the Not Wall. What if someone wants to hang some art or posters. How often do you have (to probably call someone) to clean the windows? Who has time to maintain a garden if you're a rich diplomat? Are you going to let the peasantry into your home to do it for you? Preposterous!
The butler will do the chores
well obviously if you can afford this, you can afford to pay maids and gardeners to maintain it for you. and sad thing is, if you can afford to live here chances are you're probably always working so what even is the point
@@ARandomExistence it looks like a posting on a fancy architecture magazine from the 70s.
probably have a full time maid live in the smallest bedroom to cook and maintain the place
I agree with you, on all points. The master bedroom has no privacy. It has another building, staring straight into the room. No thanks.
Despite the price and debates about buying a real house, the house style is incredibly calming. Nice bedroom, awesome indoor outdoor experience, nothing too crazy (except the lift). I think if it was built anywhere else outside Tokyo, where land price is cheaper, this house design would sold instantly.
Maybe if I work hard with sweat and blood until I'm around 65-70, I'll be able to afford the train ticket to the tour.
Lmfao
I might be able to afford snacks if you decide to bring along a companion. Or like, parking fees?
As soon as I got the notification, I immediately paused the Trash Taste podcast to watch this
A man of class I see
U are a person I can truly respect
We are a large demographic.
Oh wow, that's pretty expen-- *OH, A DOG!*
wow I didn't expect the description of english garden but that really is accurate, those bushes and trees crowding over a path is very reminiscent of my nan's garden haha
'This bedroom is the least big - let's just call it the smallest' - he was in typical estate agent mode there until he remembered you weren't looking to actually rent the place.
"Very rare for Japan, this is dual pane glass" ... sound very odd coming from a place in Europe where 3-pane windows have become the norm for new buildings.
I haven't seen a single-pane window in any but the oldest buildings.
Its about room temperature, tokyo is not hokkaido and also a window instead a wall makes it rare.
Yeah, again, you're talking about Europe.
On the contrary, european toilets must remind the japanese of the middle ages. I guess every country has their quirks.
Try living in Australia... we basically have perspex windows 😭
I've been living and working in Japan for almost 4 years, and my apartment has single-pane windows.
Most house and apartments in Japan don't have double-pane windows. They also don't have any rubber or seal around doors or windows.
I can feel the wind because there's a gap between the sliding window in my bedroom. There's also a gap all around my main door. You can see the light from outside.
Because of the lack of insulation, my apartment kitchen goes up to 40°C in summer and down to ~6-10°C during winter (the water leaking from my old freezer used to freeze during winter).
"This is gunna be depressing"
Indeed Chris, it is for us all you are not alone.
@D M in theory yes, in practice idk that we’re gonna change any of this anytime soon
looking at the comments i am flabbergasted how many people didn’t like the apartment. my guess? they’ve never lived in a major metropolis and don’t really know the insane value this flat offers. the 2 gardens alone are worth the money you pay! i never lived in tokyo but i lived in london for many years and the housing prices arent that different (i’d even say quality wise you get even less for your money in london cause many houses are old as sin and have very bad insulation, gas n electricity. also mold is a major issue :/)
i absolutely love the layout from the masterbedroom to the dog garden to the living room. it is so cool n just feels like your own private oasis in the middle of tokyo. who csres for the gardens though? the person who rents or would they hire a gardener or...?
Considering the price, this isn’t worth it at all
Definitely not worth, I could rent a small cheap apartment and use the 19000 dollars on food and girls. Worth much more. However, money ain't an issue for rich people.
I had the same impression.
@@Connetification even for rich people, there are way better apartments for the money, i wouldnt even buy this one when i would be rich
Well.. it costs 42% more as it's made to be fireproof and Earthquake proof.
@@michelbruns Well sound like you're not rich. You just got enough for one place.
4:30 Alright Chris, now I expect videos on this channel every weeknight at 7
Housing is actually the only thing I found expensive in Japan. Restaurants, booze, cabs, entertainment, hotels and of course anything electronic were all cheaper than where I live. Ideal holiday destination, in other words, and it's totally unique. There's only one Japan and that's Japan.
@Miss reign Too many people, not enough land. Further exacerbated by the fact Japan is very mountainous which limits land availability even further.
@@idanceforpennies281 it may become a bit cheaper down the track due to the shrinking population. If working from home in Japan keeps gaining momentum it may also lead to the population becoming more spread out.
I'm in love with that iHome guy. So funny and sweet.
"i'd just roll around on the floor thinking about how brilliant I was" - that was exactly my answer as well.
It's undoubtedly a beautiful apartment, tons and tons of space, but I can't imagine that it would be within my price range at any point in my lifetime. 😂
I've only been subscribed to your channel a few days Chris, but you're already one of my favourite youtubers. Always informative and very funny. Thanks for the content! 👍
So this is where the Japanese adaptation of Parasite would be filmed
@@whitetanooki9384 the anime is parasyte and Korean movie is parasite I think
I thought that too, except it doesn't has a basement 😉
@@octazentai1592 Maybe the family doesn't remember they have a rooftop garden (there's probably a 'shed' space up there).
@@Anjel1e maybe its beneath that bench Chris sat on 🤔
@@octazentai1592 Good idea!!!
Thank you for making this video, I look forward to finding a home in Japan.
It kills me that the elevator button at 9:06, in a $20.000 apartment is not installed perfectly straight...
The drawers aren’t for sock... they for Rolex’s
Or for cum jars. If you're paying for it, you use them for whatever you want.
Chris: Shows off a 200 sq meter penthouse with 2 gardens
Me: Crying in the corner of my 20 sq meter shoebox in Hong Kong
Wouldn't be hard since ur house is literally made of just corners
@@maryshen2926 Don't rub it in even more xD
To make it worse, the sq foot price of that penthouse is even cheaper than that shoebox of yours
@@夏蟲嘗雪 USD 20,000 per month for 200 sq meters would be 100 per meter. Thankfully I don't pay that much which makes me feel a bit better, but not much haha
Hail from HK!
“This is gonna to be depressing” how to start every day.
Ah, after all this talk about meters, finally a unit of measurement us Americans can understand- cars.
*Laughs in banana*