Since I did a video on my last Shibuya apartment

And I also did a video on moving to this new place

A lot of people been asking for a full tour of this new apartment

So here it is the old Shibuya apartment was about 35 square meters

while this new apartment is 70 square meters

Which works out to be about

750 square feet

Which is kind of what Maiko and I were looking for

when looking for new place.

As many of you know

We're about to have a baby soon

So, finding a place that just had a little bit more room

for Michael, myself and the new baby

Just made a lot of sense to us

but if you watch my second channel Tokyo zebra

You know how much of a pain and all the issues

We've had trying to find this new place

But fortunately, we found it

and we finally moved in and luckily for us

We moved into this new apartment several weeks before

Japan declared a state of emergency

Which, has made the quarantine a little bit more bearable

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that all said let me take you on a tour of this place.

Let's go

So, first of all

This is the entrance area

and as you can see it's a lot wider and more spacious

than my previous apartment

So, one of the things that I appreciate the most

is that in this place, it has a built-in storage for shoes

Finally, I get my own dedicated closet here

and then just next to it

Maiko has her own dedicated closet for shoes as well

and just below I keep some of my workout equipment

So, if I need to go and I'm on the run I can just quickly grab it and go

Also, another thing that I appreciate

is that the apartment has a lot of built-in wall hooks.

In fact, it's proven quite useful because I'm able to hang a hand sanitizer just right here at the entrance

and there you go!

My hands all sanitized now.

And another thing that I really love about this new place

Is that just in front of the entrance

there's a little space

where you can actually put a vase and hang something if you really want

Let me show you what I put in front of the entrance

because I'm kind of a little proud of it

And here it is YouTube's 1 million subscriber play button.

This is one of those Awards where it wouldn't have been possible without you guys

So thank you so much!

I appreciate all the support ♡

and one thing that I wanted to share with you guys is..

Look just a little bit closer to the play button

it actually says presented to Paula from Tokyo

and Maiko

because they do this channel together

Again, thank you guys so much for the support over the years ♡

I'm so excited for this year to come

and all of the new content

I'll be sharing with you

that said let me now show you the living room

Alright, so this is the main living, dining and kitchen area

In fact, we live in a 2 ldk

which, means in Japan

two bedrooms living, dining and the kitchen

So, I'll be showing you the other two bedrooms shortly

but let me just go through and kind of show you

what we did around this space.

One of the things that was really

important to Maiko and I

When kind of setting up this place

was to make sure

we didn't have a lot of clutter.

If you saw this Shibuya apartment tour

just a few weeks ago

You notice that we lived in a fairly cramped space

and because it was so cramped.

We just had so much clutter, which just

I really really hated

so, in this new space

I kinda wanted to try to keep it as simple as possible

One of the things you'll probably notice first

Is that the living dining kitchen is all connected into this one space.

We wanted to have this kind of Island kitchen behind me

So, that in the future when we're doing more vlogs on

our Tokyo Zebra channel

We'll be able to kind of show you more what's going on

in the kitchen, in the living room

without having to go to all these like separate rooms.

So, we have the main island kitchen there

We have a little dining set over there.

And then we just have this living room

this space right here

You can see that the zebra carpet

which, kind of goes to the Tokyo Zebra Motif.

This kind of separates the dining and the living room area,

but one thing about this living room area

We're actually still waiting for a sofa to be delivered

This pink chair behind me should just be going actually like right here

and then there we're supposed to have another sofa,

but we just couldn't get it in time.

It might just take another month or two to be delivered

So what can you do.

Now, let me show you this apartment from that side of the room

So, a lot of you already know that

Maiko and I work from home

So, we've actually set up this little area

for our work desk

So, one of the things that was quite important to us,

was to keep the work stations here in the main living area

so that when that baby comes we can also watch over

the baby while we're working

But, if you already haven't noticed

this room is kind of in a weird triangle shape

So, we kind of had to make adjustments

in order to make this room work.

First of all, I think this area was originally intended

to be kind of like

where you put your TVs and everything

and then maybe the couch would go here

and you'd face that way

but instead we actually decided to put the TV here

in front of the window

just to open up the space

a little bit more,

because we do have these work stations here

and because we did that

we had to kind of reposition the lights.

What you'll find I don't know this might be similar to your country

But, the light fixtures and apartments are fixed to one location

in order to get around that

I had to get this light fixture bar,

where I can move the light

one meter away and pretty much the same thing

for the dining room as well.

Oh, but let me show you

One thing, I didn't like about this room,

but was able to find a solution for

so just underneath the island kitchen

I actually wanted to put the air filter right here,

but the problem is they didn't have any electrical outlets

They only had it on the other side of the room

So, what I actually did to just like clean things up

because I really hate cables all over the place

It was I ran some molding

from that side of the wall

all the way to this side of the wall

and because the color of the baseboard changed

I also changed the color of the molding

and then determinated

I made this little box where I can put all the cables in,

so it's not so messy

I know pretty simple, but these little things just make me super happy

And another thing that I just really love about this space

is just how the windows wrap around this entire room,

so that when you pull back the curtains

you really feel like there's a lot more space

than It is right now,

because I know a lot of you

who live in Western countries

probably think that, this is a pretty small place

But it's Japan.

So what can you do

Overall, I think we did a decent job

on making this room work

I don't know.

What do you guys think,

but probably I shouldn't take any of this credit

because It was actually Maiko that designed

and like spaced everything out, picked out the furniture,

picked out the carpet.

Pretty much, I just had to agree to whatever she wanted

and I'm pretty happy that I did

Oh, but I did get to choose a TV.

The only thing is we agreed that

I wouldn't go any bigger than this one

So, this is the kitchen area

and as I said before

one of the things I love the most about this area

is that it's an open kitchen

It's just so nice to sit back here

and be able to see the rest of the room

see the views to the TV and also since we have a baby

on the way

It'll be cool to be able to like do stuff here in the kitchen,

while also being able to watch the baby

because what you'll find in a lot of Japanese apartments

Especially, like the one we had before

the kitchen is kind of in a separate room

It's difficult to see what's going on in the dining room

or the Living room

It just makes life easier for us.

Also, what I do like is a kitchen sink is bigger

Before, we have two burners on the stove.

Now, we have three burners

We have a little fish grill,

Which I didn't have before

and now we have an oven microwave system,

so we can actually bake stuff

Maiko's already made lasagna, cookies

and all that kind of stuff.

It just opens up all the stuff

that we can eat and you know

I love food

So, the thing is it's not actually the biggest oven

in the world but ovens are really hard to come by in

Apartments in Tokyo.

So, we're just super happy that we have it

I think a lot of people today

who want ovens will actually buy separate ones that they

set in their kitchen

They don't actually have ones that are built in

in fact

That's one of the things that Maiko and I were really

considering if we didn't have an oven

in the new apartment

We were probably just gonna get a stand alone one

and just hook it up and connect it somewhere

and then just beyond there

You keep all the dishes

and then we have some pots down below

One thing though that I didn't particularly like about this kitchen.

There's this kind of a shelf area just behind me

I wish they had just a little bit more depth,

so that we can actually put stuff on there

But since we can't

it's kind of limited.

We've actually had to buy this cart separately

that's just sitting right here,

so that we can put the rice cooker,

put the toaster oven and just a little bit more supplies

and then just behind me right here

We actually have our refrigerator

It's just a better location

especially compared to the last apartment.

In fact

You'd be pretty surprised how difficult it is to find

An apartment with an open kitchen like this in Tokyo.

And this is the bath area.