Our new place
We’re moving in on Christmas Day 12/25. Since Diana doesn’t get a day off, she’ll be taking a day off. However, the takuhaibin (courier/delivery services, kinda like Japan’s FedEx, but they deliver anything, esp. luggage) are working, so we’ll get them to move all the junk (IKEA and Costco) that we’ve bought since then.
Features:
- About 800 sq feet.
- Western style kitchen
- Western bathroom
- Dining room view to Nabeshima Park
- All appliances provided
- Separate washer & dryer unit
Our new place is in Shoto, a 10 min walk from Shibuya (south west Tokyo, on the SW side of the Yamanote Loop) View Larger Map. It’s an area where the last generations’ Japanese CEOs lived. We’ve got a nice view of a the park there too.
The place is quite expensive, but we’re attempting to live the city life, and we should be able to manage. We have a modern kitchen with a full size gas stove. The stove is a French-branded stove, so we can actually bake. Trying to find meat to bake will be a different problem, but we can make pastries at home. Most Japanese homes have a tiny fish griller instead of an oven. And, since no one has ovens, the supermarkets don’t sell large cuts of meat.
We have a western bathroom, which means that the toilet is in the same room as the bathtub. Japanese style places usually have a room for the toilet. To us, either way works. It just means that there’s less walls in the place so we get more living space. These days in Shoto, they do tear down some places, and built 3 or 4 story apartments like the one we’re living in.
