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  • today.

  • I found what might be one of the most unique places I've ever seen.

  • They live in cancel.

  • It's like, it's not a hotel, this is actually their homes, let's jump right in and check it out, Cheerio pretty excited to show this one.

  • It is insanely affordable.

  • We're gonna start by taking off our shoes and this is what the area looks like.

  • First off and here is the capsule that we get to take a look at today.

  • That's it.

  • This is what they read down.

  • This is the entire space right here.

  • Full confession usually surprises people for all my time in Japan.

  • I've never stayed at a capsule hotel once in my entire life and wow, this is what the space is like.

  • Now there is more storage space spread throughout this place that I will show you later on.

  • I think the short term, I could probably imagine myself living here my first ever apartment in Japan that I lived in for a year.

  • Well obviously being an actual room with higher ceilings was only about 2 to 2.5 the size of this room here.

  • It was insanely tiny and I lived there for a year because I was never home, but in one of our previous videos, we met Okazaki San who lives in a very small space.

  • She's a design student and her view on things really brought a new perspective to the video and so I actually brought her along today and I want to go grab her now and see if we can't get her reaction to this and how she would use it.

  • So let's go grab her.

  • And while we do that.

  • Just a few interesting notes on this place.

  • Not only are there a bunch of capsules but the building also has multiple floors.

  • Were lucky enough to get permission to film on this floor while everybody is out for the morning and all the capsules are handmade.

  • And for some reason the company seems to be really proud of that fact.

  • Not entirely sure why.

  • And pricing and whatnot will be covered in just a minute.

  • So let's see what Okazaki san thinks of this place.

  • Are you ready?

  • Yes.

  • Mm hmm.

  • So since quite a few people live here today, we only have access to a small portion of the living space plus the shared space.

  • But are you ready?

  • Who we're going now?

  • Tony on the continent.

  • Mhm.

  • What?

  • That woman got cooked.

  • You check out there.

  • Hi.

  • Davis.

  • We will talk about, talk to you about.

  • Go ahead.

  • What's going.

  • What about the uh Oh no, no, no, no.

  • It's gonna get good.

  • Another guy.

  • He's a higher.

  • Yeah, not anymore.

  • What I tell you about.

  • And there's still more moderate.

  • Oh, Oh, they didn't get in here.

  • That's so cool.

  • Oh, come on.

  • Little model.

  • Hey.

  • No, that wasn't, wasn't it?

  • No, you didn't look God.

  • What kind of Okay.

  • Okay.

  • It's basically like a share house.

  • I asked Pakistan if she thought she'd be able to live here herself.

  • Mm hmm next.

  • And amazingly this place is only around 200 give or take a month and you might end up why that called it.

  • You need to cough it up.

  • Japan does have plenty of bigger apartments by the way.

  • Like this place that I just moved into here.

  • It was all the way to three or four bedrooms.

  • It's got two balconies.

  • One of them is a corner balcony but more often than not in Tokyo for a bigger place, you're obviously going to be paying more or you also have the option to move outside of Tokyo.

  • But then if you're working in the city, then you've got to pay for the commute in and out every single day.

  • And that adds up.

  • Especially if you're one of those people who's working multiple jobs and trying to get ahead in life or you're just living there temporarily.

  • Obviously I'm showing lots of tiny apartments.

  • I can understand why people would think that all of the apartments are tiny.

  • But they're they're not.

  • There are bigger places.

  • I just like the tiny places because they're really interesting and they give a bit of a different perspective.

  • Anyway, this place here.

  • I just moved into this like two or three days ago.

  • I think maybe next time maybe next time we should do a tour around this.

  • But it's still basically empty.

  • It's got nothing in it.

  • And that brings me to the obvious question of whether you think you would be able to live in one of those capsules, whether it be short term, long term, a week, a month.

  • Do you think you could do it?

  • I'm still on the fence myself.

  • If it was like when I first came to Japan and I owned nothing and the place was empty like this, I could probably pull it off for a short stay.

  • Not a long one.

  • Let me know your thoughts down in the comment as well as if you would like to see a tour of my new place, I'm gonna be here for a while.

  • So thank you guys so much for watching today and I will see you again also a very huge and important.

  • Thank you too.

  • Okazaki san for joining us once again, everybody in the comments last time was like, you've got to bring her back.

  • So I'm glad we were able to do that.

  • All right now, it's the end.

  • I'll see you guys again real soon.

today.

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