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  • moved into the Japanese countryside two maybe 2.5 months ago, I have a little bit of a special apartment and despite promising to do so, I have yet to show it off along with its many features and question marks like this disproportionately sized entrance way or gang con as it's known in Japanese.

  • Don't get me wrong, april for the giant gang con, it's comparable to the size of some rooms in some japanese apartment.

  • By the way, this apartment has four rooms will go over that later.

  • The gang khan really has nothing.

  • It's got a shoe closet where I own two pairs of shoes, one for daily use and one for running and then the very, very aptly named toilet is right beside it and it is about the most standard japanese toilet or washroom.

  • You will find it has a seat warmer and wash lit there and then up on top is a little sink to wash your hands.

  • That that's, that's the washroom.

  • Now there's this one low spot here in the entrance way and the doorways are somewhat low.

  • But for the most part, this place actually has pretty high ceilings like I'd actually have to like jump in order to touch the ceilings which by Japan centers aren't bad.

  • Not all places have low ceilings.

  • There are plenty of places in japan that do have higher ceilings and this yeah, that's a story for next week, maybe the week after.

  • It involved me nearly falling down a mountain before finally coming across a bear here in Japan that that was.

  • Now, we will tour all the rooms in the bedrooms and whatnot later on.

  • But this actually reminded me this place is fairly high security and this panel is kind of like the main station for that.

  • I can set an emergency, I can stop and start the alarm and everything.

  • There's at least two layers of security.

  • People need to be able to get through in order to get here.

  • There's the front door auto lock, which I need to buzz people in and then my unit, my apartment itself is actually gated.

  • So they also need to be able to get through a gate in order to get in here and there's a security camera that I can see here, monitor people and considering that I'm in the countryside of Japan and not right in the middle of Tokyo.

  • It kind of feels slightly like overkill.

  • The kitchen here is fun, that has a bunch of interesting features, but you know what, let's check out the bath area first and get that out of the way.

  • Very standard jet and that door always closes itself.

  • I didn't do that ghost door scared the living heck out of me on my first day here, all you need to do is kind of bump into it and it'll close and I had gotten all the way to my room and heard the door slam and this place was empty.

  • Well notice that I have nothing but the bare minimum toothbrush, a bit of toothpaste, some wax hairspray a comb, a towel, there's a hair dryer and then this is the actual bath space itself.

  • A huge fan of this light here, square the cube maybe because it kind of looks like a question mark block from Mario and the bath here is a fairly standard sized japanese bath.

  • It's just about big enough for me to sit down and have a, have a knees up kind of bath overall.

  • I would say it's a moderately standard japanese bathroom.

  • And just as I went to record this video today, this light here when I turned out all the lights just to record this video, that special thing because I'm super cheap and usually have all the lights off that one.

  • So I gotta replace it if you don't believe how cheap I am after 2.5 months of living here.

  • This refrigerator is still not plugged in and is completely an entirely empty.

  • There's nothing, I need to get some baking soda in that fridge.

  • I love cooking.

  • I cooked yesterday, but I don't cook often here and I know one of the default comments in Youtube is gonna be a, doesn't that end up actually costing you more and not in Japan.

  • It doesn't my local restaurant that I go to for lunch I fast, I do intermittent fasting.

  • So typically I'm only eating two meals a day, late lunch and then a late dinner.

  • My late lunch costs me about 300 yen at my local restaurant.

  • That, that, that's less than $3 especially with the exchange rate right now.

  • And amazingly for dinner, I'll go even cheaper.

  • I'll swing by the local supermarket that has pre made bentos with rice and meat and everything like that that are already because it's in the countryside super cheap, maybe like 4 to 500 yen.

  • And at night they are discounted 40 to 70% off.

  • So I'll walk out of there with a bento for maybe 100 and 5200 yen, Pop it in the microwave or do what I did yesterday and grab some additional meat on discount because everything goes on discount after like seven PM gets really cheap and there we go.

  • I'm spending maybe 400 to 600 yen on an entire day's food.

  • All that aside.

  • Super quick tour of the kitchen itself, sink is really nicely sized, only have gas burners over here by default.

  • I keep the gas off for safety because in an earthquake, that is the first thing that you're gonna be turning off plenty of storage.

  • Got a rice cooker, microwave, got a toaster oven that haven't used and a water heater, water heater kettle.

  • The word is kettle and then I've got a whole bunch of dishes and plates and cups and then over here there's balcony access for a balcony that goes all the way around there and I have my Washing machine, no dryer, that is what the drying rack is for.

  • This can handle up to five kilograms of my laundry and then there's a sink here for hand washing in case I need to hand wash any of my laundry.

  • And then the living room itself got a tv over here, which of course is not plugged in, I haven't even used it since moving in.

  • This is, I didn't buy this tv by the way and we'll talk about that in a second as well as checking out all the bedrooms, talking about costs and everything and covering one of the most interesting and unique things about this particular apartment.

  • Right after I open up this, I have been waiting forever to open this up.

  • I've been away for a while.

  • This is a gift from ASIS is the steven Harrington edition of the Asus vivo book, 13 slate O L E D.

  • And it comes with a pen.

  • I'm not usually all that excited about the packaging of the product, but this is actually packaged quite nicely.

  • There's so many pockets and hidden things in here.

  • So it seems like this is the main device right here.

  • It has been sitting here for a really long time.

  • I was back in Tokyo for a while to take a radio test which I aced by the way, I don't have a radio license and so any residual charge that this might have had is probably gone ASIS and I did a project together few months back.

  • I believe this is the keyboard And when they heard that I was out starting a new journey in a new life, they offered to send me this gift box.

  • So Aces, thank you very much for that.

  • The keyboard should just snap right on.

  • There we go.

  • And that's really nice.

  • I believe this part here serves as a bit of a back stand.

  • Look that over hit the battery on this thing is pretty phenomenal.

  • And even the pen is really neat.

  • It's got this hidden little USB C inside of here that allows you to quick charge it in 30 minutes and it gives you 100 and 40 hours of use.

  • I already think that you'll be using this for a lot of image editing like this boom all of a sudden it goes from pc to tablet.

  • It's got a beautiful O L E D nano edge display with slim bezels.

  • True to life colors on top of image editing.

  • I think I would really enjoy watching movies on this as well.

  • Way too much fun with this.

  • It will be linked down below.

  • Thank you so much to Aces for supporting this channel and for sending this out to me.

  • Let's get into checking out some of the rooms in this place and I'm gonna get this set up in my bedroom.

  • So before I show my room and reveal the intricacies of my student lifestyle here.

  • I wanna show the room that I was originally gonna take is my room which is the tatami room.

  • This is it right here, it's connected right to the living room space.

  • It's got the traditional washi paper doors.

  • And this opens out to a set of pigeons that were born like a month ago.

  • Apparently pigeons grow into full sized pigeons within a month.

  • You'll notice that there's a bed, you notice there is a study table and then there is an easy style closet.

  • I love these closets, they are giant.

  • You could totally go in here and make your own fork look how much space there is inside of here.

  • You can have your own little.

  • I I can't I can't quite sit up but I'm pretty close to being able to sit up.

  • Probably wouldn't do that on the second level, wouldn't want to break through.

  • But you know, these are traditionally used for storing bedding and stones and everything like that.

  • And there's even more storage space also.

  • Thank you camera.

  • I did not realize that was in there.

  • But honestly I wonder, I'm guessing the average japanese person would need to get some kind of stool in order to access that because otherwise I'm not getting in there.

  • But I ended up not choosing this room for two reasons.

  • Number one is the room that I'm in now has the best access to radio signal and I checked the radio every single morning for weather forecasts and whatnot.

  • And number two is that I may eventually end up with roommates.

  • This is the second room next to mine and again you'll notice a bed currently no mattress, a bookshelf.

  • And the closets here are fairly big as well.

  • Like there's plenty of closet space in here and that was the sound of me tripping up against the bed and then there is another room over here.

  • Again, similar stuff and again, very, very big closets, huge closets.

  • Actually, this was actually going to be my second choice.

  • My bedroom actually has two windows and has better radio signal.

  • And when I say radio here, let me, I mean like this type of radio in order to get any signal.

  • I still need to go out onto this balcony over here.

  • I've actually got two balconies but I use this to check things like Apis and the airport information and I'm just realizing now that if you've missed any of the recent content or if you just stumbled upon this video, I'm in flight school and this place here is where I'm staying for that.

  • So let's take a peek at my room and then we'll talk about what is special about this place which you may have already figured out and costs involved, etcetera.

  • And this is my room here.

  • It's been kind of noisy today.

  • So I've kept the curtains close.

  • I have a nice little semi double bed.

  • I have my desk and study space here and this is for my chair flying, I will sit down and run through procedures.

  • This shelf was in here when I got in here and whoever built this shelf was in a very creative mood, they decided to face one of them this way and one of them this way I managed to pick up this headset here on Yahoo auction for something like $90.

  • But that is most certainly not a $90 headset.

  • So I feel like it was a very, very lucky find.

  • I keep a bit of exercise equipment down here and then all of my other stuff like my flight bag and study here and whatnot is kept down there and then all my clothes are kept here.

  • Yes, I literally do just wear the same stuff every single day.

  • A total of seven t shirts if you include the one that I'm wearing, one for every day of the week.

  • As well as some matching sweaters.

  • A couple pairs of these pants.

  • Just one less thing to worry about.

  • One less thing to think about one less decision to make and look how big this closet is.

  • There's just so much space.

  • It's I I don't have enough stuff to I do have an air conditioner that I never touch and use.

  • That's another reason why I wanted the corner unit with two windows open so that I can get up a breeze going through in the summer.

  • I honestly I'm pinching every single penny that I can and that's actually one of the reasons that I'm staying here because when it comes down to the cost for this place, this is actually somewhat included in my flight school.

  • This entire building is just a normal apartment building, but several of the units within have been rented out for students of the flight schools use, which is why each one of these rooms has beds and desks and everything in it, why it's set up and why I'm not super duper careful about hiding my location because I may not even be here very long.

  • I might be here for the next couple of weeks, maybe a month.

  • But I've also been looking at other places around Kagoshima and Kirishima.

  • Maybe get like a tiny little place because honestly I don't need this much space.

  • But I did promise you guys that I was going to give a for full tour of this place.

  • So I wanted to bring this to you.

  • Anybody interested.

  • I will link some apartment tour, some of the most unique and interesting I have seen in Japan as well as the day in the life of a student pilot here in Japan.

moved into the Japanese countryside two maybe 2.5 months ago, I have a little bit of a special apartment and despite promising to do so, I have yet to show it off along with its many features and question marks like this disproportionately sized entrance way or gang con as it's known in Japanese.

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