Perfect home for a vampire. The inner house is secure, no windows, and unless you know the history of the house you'd never suspect that it's there. . .
The secret house inside the house is probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen and a smart way to preserve a part of history. I'm kind of glad they built it into the house since Japan isn't really know for preserving older buildings
the single bathroom is a deal breaker, especially for 4 stories jesus. That being said, this video was easily the most polished and well edited so far. Great to see the ever improving production.
This is a house with a multiple personality disorder and various identity crisis's going at the same time. It is absolutely a hot mess and still glorious. From the erratic tilework, mixed design themes to having a pawnshop built into it and then going back to just plain old regular tatami rooms and a standard japanese kitchen and bedrooms. To just finally ripping off it's mask and showing it was all built around a old warehouse. I admire the confidence and dedication of the people that shaped this house to what it became, but damnit it is loopy. I love it.
I gotta be honest. At first, I didn't think this channel was going to keep my interest. But you are just improving every video and these make for a great laidback chill watch Everytime. Definitely earned my sub.
By far the most bizarre house yet. Whoever built the new house had great taste. I could just sit in the room with carved wooden wall panels and chill for hours. Piece of art.
That would make a great panic room! I wouldn't want to own it myself, but that would make a cool B&B. Lots of room for the kids to hide in and explore. Thanks for sharing! I love seeing different design ideas. 🍻
That house is awesome. I like weired houses more than boring luxury houses. Thanks for showing it. AND: Finally "fresh" videos. I watched the "transfered" ones as well (for the algorithm and because I like houses ;) ), but I'm happy that you finished the backlog. Keep up the great work. If I ever get rich I may need your services ;)
I'm also a voice actor and what's crazy is at about 8:20 when you asked what I'd use the house for I was literally thinking, "I be the internal rooms would be great for circumventing street noise" haha. Good stuff
The first room that looks like it could be a master looks like it would be an office. Of all the houses I've seen on this channel so far, this is the one I would get. This is PERFECT if you run a shipping business or inventory business because your warehouse is IN your house.
This would legit be great in the event of a zombie apocalypse, nuclear disaster, ww3 or end of the world thg. Just gotta stock up and make it off grid or sthg....
This is one of the most unique buildings in the entire world. Absolutely fascinating I'm not surprised a previous tenant was a VA, because the storehouse part would be an incredible recording studio
your videos are always a treat! This house is really unique. As a Locksmith this really speaks to me :D I would love to live in a old bank building or something similar. The only things even better would be a old church or temple. Looking forward to your next upload :)
This is the most weird looking ensemble of building I've ever seen. I'm glad they kept the old house that is wonderful, but the reason for all those armoured doors which makes a safe out if it, really escapes me...🤔
I have always seen you on Chris' channel and recently on Onigiri, so I have decided to check you out and my mind is blown on the production of your videos. Good editing, a bit serious but always on point with the humor and it is so engaging. I am now disappointed that I just checked on you just now.
I didn't think that I had the capacity to have a crush on a house, but now I know it's possible! Idk how else to put it other than I feel like my soul is built for living and existing in such a space.
as one starting to study interior design and rom-architecture in 2-3 days, these videos are really interesting for me to watch. But sometimes when I see the layout or the choices made, I go "Why?", but then customers are an interesting bunch of people!
While I will never in my life expect to live in any of the properties that are shown on your channel I am always fascinated by their design and general look of the various properties.
Wow, I've been watching various videos where you see tatami mats but as soon as you said the smell of tatami I was hit was a childhood memory of sleeping on a tatami surface. I was born in Taiwan, not Japan, but we do have some Japanese cultural influences. I guess one of those is sleeping on tatami grass. I remember we had a roll my parents or grandparents would unroll for you to lie on. It's great because it still feels cool to the touch even when its super hot. And that smell, I can still smell it now even though I haven't seen tatami or used it in 20ish decades!
Tokyo really does have some unique buildings, unfortunately the other 95% of properties in the city are just generic industrial copy paste houses. Also, who the F$#? would pay 720,000 yen for that??
This is my favorite place so far! I love it, I love it, I love it! If I had the money, I would certainly buy this. I like places that are completely unusual. I'm hoping in the future you will find some more unusual places with a lot of character. Thank you so much for this video!
39cm for outer walls is on the lower end of the stand for many places where I'm from. xD At least in older homes. Newer still have around that thickness, but due to better insulating materials etc it's no longer needed to be that thick. Thickest walls I had in a house though where 103cm (building was from 1630).
I would love to have this type of storage for things. I like to have prepper supplies and all that and having those vault like doors hiding some neat rooms and storage areas would be magnificent for making a ridiculous and overboard disaster/apocalypse prepper area hidden inside your house lol
Would be nice if in North America we preserved pieces of history like this instead of just tearing down everything and building gaudy towers everywhere.
Now THAT would be perfect for my mancave. Casual non descript in the front. Secret hiding place in the back. I'm not even sure what I would keep there, but there's bound to be something (maybe an audiophile or gaming room).
Ok, you put the PC gaming room in the store house. The double bedrooms would be the Theater Room. In every house I look for a place to put my electronics.
would i want to own it...no....could i live in it for say 6 months...yes....too many floors,too narrow...2nd one through the vault door/warehouse,i liked slightly more.....could be a good you-tuber house,to split the crazy 6k price....ouch!
Showed this vid to my colleague and the first thing she said when she saw the hidden house was, "Damnit, that looks like a property Christian Grey from 50 Shades might buy!" I literally LMAO when she said that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've never understood the dishwasher people......Ive had one it was meh......its quicker and easier to wash by hand. The exception would be glasses, but unless you use 50 glasses a day, dishwashers are pointless.
Now I'm curious who the voice actress that rented this place beforehand was...very few folks in that industry likely make enough to afford $6k/month for rent...I'd assume she's one of the bigger names.
Hey Alex, is it possible to find and show us a tall guy friendly house in Japan (190 cm guy)? Most of the places so far that I have seen though your videos are not tall friendly especially the toilets and bathrooms. I will not be able to fit in most of them XD. Thank you :)
I never understood how people that can afford 6k a month in living expenses would actually consider renting a place like this instead of just buying/building a house just like it and probably pay less per month in mortgage... the hassle?... o.O
Id love to move and live in Japan but got a few problems, I'm disabled and can't work ever again, can't even legally work. If I leave Australia I don't get disability anymore...and well I am a white Australian male, been told by Japanese friends that live here that it's fine to visit but esp in the more rural areas...where I'd want to live. Foreigners aren't welcomed much. Maybe oneday, I'll just have to win the lotto I never enter and find a way to make ot so I'm atleast tolerated. (Seriously my Japanese friends have really driven home how little white males are welcome to live there, can't remember the word they absolutely love calling me, and they have made it clear if they had to chose between saving a random. Japanese person or myself they would not only save the Japanese person but make sure I was finished off, yet they call me a friend).
Ok, this is one of the coolest places yet. And one way to preserve history. Though we didn't get to see what was behind door number 2 in the kitchen. I would use the second house to watch movies and stuff. It's amazing.
This thing is really weird ... some parts look like they are from the 60s some look kinda 80s some more the 2000s and so on all mixed up weirdly together also having two different stairways and super thick wall inside the house feels like a big waste of space. This place is so big but still it felt so super small. And I guess its probably super expensive as well.
What is the thing with Americans and the need for one room to be the "master" bedroom? One bedroom to rule them all?? I grew up in a house with 5 bedrooms, and the one my parents slept in, was sized right in the middle, and no different than the other ones. And that is very common in my country. No "master". Would an American always call the biggest bedroom the master bedroom? Or would it be the room where the parents/house owners sleep, no matter the size?
is it just me, or this house would be very uncomfortable to live in? I love it's architecture on the outside but the inside looks like a messy sketchbook, or like there were 5 different interior designers hired and the owner couldn't decide on a single design, so he picked all of them... (i'm not a house expert :) )
If money wasn't an issue and the house for sale instead of rent, I would break out the inner walls of the 3rd floor and make it the living/dining/kitchen lots of light coming in from the balcony make it more suitable for living. and I would remove the kitchen/dining area from the 2nd floor and make it a modern bathroom. and for the roof I would put in some retractable sun/rain screens to cover the roof terrace.
My overall feeling is one of claustrophobia and darkness. I also feel that I would get both tired and lost trecking to the one bathroom located on the 1st floor. The wood tones, though beautiful, and small size of useable windows likely contribute to the lack of natural light. Thus the need to keep the lamps on in the middle of the day. However, for the space, it is obvious that an immense amount of care was used in its construction and preservation. Nicely done, but not for me.
I never understand how everyone is saying that this size of a bathtub is big. Connor, Chris and now you as well. For japanese standard sure but none of you are japanese and should be used to bigger tubs. This tub is tiny compared to the standard in sweden. Here you can sit with you legs straight even if you are 2m tall. I can easily lay down in my bath just with my knees slightly bent but with my entire body under water
While I do like it, definitely not for me... unless i could change a few things. But that warehouse would definitely be used as a gun/weapon room... if I had it here in the states...
So $1500 a week for basically a fortress in the city.. that can be used as a retail shop, or a studio, and a residential property. Wonder what the house itself would sell for.
I can feel really safe living in this house. But just one problem - you can hurt your head/face by running into walls or corners when you are going up or coming down the stairs.
