When my brother and I visited my grandparents in the province many years ago my grandparents sleeps on the floor with a mat even though they have bedrooms with beds. They prefer the floor and my brother and I would sleep with them. 😊. Thank you for this video💕
I loved seeing the "put away during the day" bedding that you use. I have always loved the idea of having a totally "convertible" bedroom. Lovely video. G Ire
I just found this channel! I'm 63 and live in the northern state of Minnesota in the US. I sleep on a fold up tatami mat and a futon! Love it so much. It's been four years since I realized I prefer the floor, and the Japanese arrangement is perfect for me. I love the Japanese culture and the people. Very wise and deeply kind. Thank you so much for creating this channel! I've subscribed and will go appreciate past videos as well as looking forward to future new ones! I'm a fan. :)
Wow. We have no word to express this gratitude. We think your comment gives us & all the Japanese people stronger confidence in the culture. Yes, we truly love to help other people but a high language barrier always makes it difficult. Please look forward to our future videos. We say big thank you to you on behalf of our people.
Thank you! I loved your video. I was born in the U.S. and I prefer sleeping on the floor to anywhere else! I sleep so much better when I am not floating in the air. When I have my own home, I will have a bed on the floor, someday. Thank you again for sharing!
Can you explain what the set up should look like to do this safely? I moved into a place last year and I felt very leery about small bugs or things getting on or in your bedding. I’m in a ground floor unit and even though I keep my place spotless the building is old and I do see little bugs from time to time….
I’ve been sleeping on futon for several years now. I live in California and there is a large Japanese-American population here, the culture is celebrated. The futon has cured my insomnia that I have suffered most of my life. It was not easy to get out of the bed first thing in the morning but after about a week my muscles strengthened and I became accustomed to it. ❤❤❤
Nice video @share-good-things ☮️ Thanks for sharing! I’ve slept on cotton futons on wooden slats, never with tatami mats. I think your room is beautiful, clean & spacious 🕊
I just came across your channel and have subscribed. I enjoyed your video, especially your rolling around on the tatami. Although I am American and slept on western style beds growing up, I have been sleeping on futons for over 30 years now. I love Japanese culture and sense of humor. Thank you. I am looking forward to more videos.
I slept on a futon on tatami mat for the first time while visiting Japan. I slept so well, much to my surprise! A few years ago, I considered trying to duplicate that experience in my own bedroom (U.S.) but, as you point out, tatami mats in the U.S. are very expensive, as are good quality Japanese futons. I stayed with my regular bed. But I look forward to again visiting Japan again someday, and having a good sleep, Japanese style!
I slept on a futon when i was in japan, but it was on a wooden stand not a tatami mat. The best part was how they pinned the sheet to my cover i never lost it.
I think us asians are used to this. I have better sleep in futons than in a bed plus it's not costly as to a Western-style bed where you have to invest in mattresses, bed frames, over head bed frames, etc. Though, i just leave the mattress and futon on the floor instead. Weekly or bi-weekly depends on the dust, i hang the futons, mattresses and pillows outside.
As a child in the deeply rural parts of my area of Canada my family slept on foam mattresses on the floor that we put away during the day. I was an adult before I ever slept on a spring bed.
I live in the U.S. and I’ve been sleeping on a tatami mat and Japanese futon for 2 years now and I love it. I sleep so much better than I did on my regular bed. I got rid of my bed.
When I was young my mother had a good-sized flattish rubber "water bottle" specifically made to be used in bed. She fill it with very warm water, close it, cover it with a towel & put it in bed with us if we were sick!
Can you please tell me more? Is the living room where you sleep or does the bedding serve as both a bed and a sofa? Asking because I want to try something similar and get rid of my bed frame and mattresses.
The Japanese are so practical. I could get used to their kinds of beds. I certainly have no problem not wearing shoes inside, when I was 7 and we went to a Japanese restaurant in 1966 I had no problem adjusting to the very low to the floor table. My parents were both six footers so legroom wasn’t so great for them, but I’m small so I fit perfectly, and I learned with seconds how to use chopsticks. The absolute perfection of the Japanese with everything is just so awesome. Everything is so uncomplicated with them. They’re so awesome.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience related to Japan. Now cherry blossoms are about to bloom, which makes one of the best seasons for visitors. So, If you have a chance, please come visit and experience real Japan.
@@share-good-things you’re welcome. The Japanese restaurant my family went to when I was 7 in Washington D.C. was run by Japanese. All the staff were and it was the first time I ever saw a server wear a kimono. I bombarded her with questions. Mom tried to shut me up but the waitress loved answering my questions. I remember the streets of Washington with cherry blossoms in the trees and on the wet sidewalk. I never forgot it even after 58 years.
Looks great from a minimalistic point of view but perhaps not so ideal as you enter later life. Two bad knees I'm not sure I'd be able to get up again.
You need to put your feet on the floor and your hands on the futon on one side and lift your hips sideways then stand so the pressure is on your hips not your knees. As you start to stand you can put a hand, or both, on your thigh to help you push up if your hips aren't up to it.
well i m doing that too simply because of space. i have a small apartment and i simply cant justify having to waste en entire room of space just because a bed.
I am sorry but when my family visited Japan we stayed in a traditional house in Kyoto.I spent one night on these mats and my back was so sore.Thankfully there was one western bed in the house and the next night I thankfully sank onto it.
I thought for so long that futon was something entirely unfamiliar. However after your explaination, I realise that we have very similar ways in South India. We have sleeping mats made of Korai grass similar to Tatmai mats and since its too hot in the summers here we will sleep on just the sleeping mat itself . We also have cotton stuffed soft mattresses which are rolled/folded up. Everyone in my University dorm used those kind of mattresses. Edit: spellcheck
Thank you for your comment & nice information. We didn't know anything about India, and now got very interested in the Koari mats that you mentioned. We'll visit India someday and check them out with our eyes. Question: what do you guys call the "cotton stuffed soft mattress"? Does it have a special name?
@@share-good-things I'm really sorry, but it's actually Korai. I made a typo. The mattress doesn't have any special name, as far as I know. But there are so many languages in India, so I cannot be sure if there is one in languages I'm unfamiliar with
@aleenaprasannan2146 It's very interesting to know that you guys have too many languages to recognize all of them in India. Thanks for the good information anyway!
@drivenmad7676 I grew up in the US in a desert where the *average* spider was the length of the palm of a womans hand. Trust me when I say having a bed off the ground will not prevent you from waking up with a spider on your bed. They can climb easily.
Never having slept on the floor , however I sleep on a platform bed. The only difference looks to me , is that I’m higher and my mattress is of a denser different material composition. Actually, my mattress is old and sagging on the side that I always sleep on and needs to be replaced. A futon would be easy to keep clean and pretty free from dust mites, dead skin cells etc., IF kept and dusted off and clean on a daily basis. Maybe, there will come a time that one ( myself included) will give a futon floor bed a try. Thanks for info.
I have a bed (it looks like you do too in the video), but I cannot sleep on mattresses. I hate them. I would like to try tatami, but I cannot afford that, so I use plywood.
We usually put it near our feet, inside the futon, but you can place it wherever you want to. We can't sleep without it in winter: Yutanpo is so handy & comfy!
They are called 'open-window kakebuton cover,' and I think you will find online stores for them after googling it. You can easily put your comforter (kakebuton) in & out through the hole on top!
I wondered about this too. I'm disabled and live in the UK. I would be very interested in how disabled people from other cultures manage their homes in their country.
@Elizabeth Huh? I have partial hemiplegia and sleep on a futon on the floor. I just have a bar on the wall to use my non paralyzed side to help me stand. It works fine as long as you can support yourself with an arm or leg to get yourself up in your chair or get to your mobility device
No thanks. It looks like it takes forever to make and forever to put away. Plus, here in the "West," we understand that beds are there to show us where we don't have to vacuum, lol.
Thank you for asking. The earlier you get used to sleeping in futons, the easier it gets to cope with them even at later years in life. We highly recommend switching to futons with thinner mattresses ASAP.
Yes, the white pieces are futons (upper part is called "kakebuton & lower part "shikibuton), and the dark-brown one underneath the futons is a "high-resilience foam mattress."
lol that water thing to warm feet in the winter my grand, grand, grand parents used in Europe. In which century you live? Sleeping on the floor? No central heating in house???
In the UK we regularly use hot water bottles in the bed, even though almost all houses have central heating. It gets cold and damp and not all houses are well insulated, so hot water bottles help reduce energy use and heating bills. And it's just cosy to snuggle with it in bed or sitting on the sofa in the evening with your blanket and hot water bottle. Our hot water bottles are made from natural rubber and we have soft covers for them.
@@Ssaidak well I live in Japan and my husband is Japanese. And I don’t know anyone here who still sleep on futon. They prefer beds because it’s more comfortable.