Looking For a New Apartment in Tokyo 

this basically went from "showcasing beautiful apartments" to "exploring a haunted house" content

i still think alex will bully connor into buying property in japan

$90M apartment...if dude is making 4% commission on that sale he's banking $3.6M, that's WILD

This is such a fun and innovative stream. I wish they can do this again. All the houses/apartments are really interesting.

Seeing Luca's charm of having these high quality intros in Connor's recent videos has to be the greatest character progression of all time

Glad Tokyo Portfolio is joining the Broad/Connor Cinematic universe.

Seeing apartments going for $2500/ month is just wild... I pay about 400-500 per month for my apartment. I know it's because of the location/ city you live in but that amount of money is just crazy

"You can demolish it, but you can't rebuild it. You can renovate it though." I'm german and I feel this.

I don't know who's responsible for it, but the intros are the last few videos have been fantastic. I loved the crazy intro with the Emily and Daidus, and the classic older TV intro vibe of this intro was really charming Edit: I gained the reading comprehension of a six year old and have found out its Luca. 10/10 editor Edit 2: Aight y'all I got it I can't read chill out

Shoutout to the editor who wrote 31:09. Very touching

It's a good sign when the realtor showing you the house is just as surprised as you.

Really like these "Architecture" focused stream/videos - apartments, homes, sites, building methods, history of structures, etc. Japan is such a mix of old (ancient) and ultra-modern. How that mix coexists in the society and how it ends up manifesting in the patchwork urban environment is very cool to experience in this basic way, i.e. finding a place to live. More please. Heck Sharla (Sharmeleon) just bought and is renovating a building and Chris has his recently restored studio space. All good stuff.

35:50 it's basically the same in any building restricted area I think, my parents have a summer house in Sweden near an air base and it's "illegal" (impossible, because the municipality will ALWAYS reject the request due to fears of noise complaints from anyone "living" there) to build anything new, BUT you can just "renovate" the house, which some have done by keeping a single wall and just building a new house within the old houses old footprint, and some have knocked out all the inner walls, lifted the "shell" that remained, and built a whole ass new house inside. Some just keep all the old frame parts and knock down one wall every other year etc, anything to make it more of a renovation than a new building

The reason why apartments in Japan depreciate with time is because they degrade in stability after each earthquake since earthquakes are a constant occurrence in Japan. Residential buildings are normally slated to last for 30 years before it is knocked down and rebuilt. Of course not every building is going to get knocked down and rebuilt in that timeframe, but essentially there is a 30 year guaranty of the building being safe to live in. The land that the building sits on on the other other hand will change in value depending on location.

That last one was chaotic. Would love to see someone buy to rebuild it tho. Make it traditionally themed and try to relocate the bathroom... Maybe make it a studio with a gallery in the lower spot? Or even a small niche desert shop. But if stripped I'd hope they have extra to pay for top end noise reduction... Honestly remaking it to have frosted windows for natural light and remaking the top floor to mostly be like a half landing and not a proper area would probably look better...like a little art studio.. I could do that if I had the money. BUT I think I'd rather get a place with land outside the city 🤣

Watching this and keeping track of all the prices in Japan as if a 22 year old like me could afford to move to another country in my lifetime

That 2 million dolalr house with the doggy door and dog shower doesn't actually seem that bad of a price. You are getting land, a beautiful home, and it is new!

Love this! Connor you are always providing entertaining and hilarious content. Thank you for all you do.

This might be weird but I love the first apartment. It's quaint, enough for one person, and the surrounding area seems quiet enough although I would like it better if there's a bit of background chatter in the streets when the sun sets

That last house was probably a reno from 50's/very early 60's. It's unfathomable for that to be from the 40's. However, the way the wood aged at the second floor does seem to indicate that time period though. Pretty crazy to think about.

I absolutely agree, sleeping in the same place you work can cause memory problems. Your hippocampus is very closely related to your spatial processing. Basically when you enter a new space your mind does a quick reset cleaning up your brain ram and keeping the stuff you need for your new surroundings. It's why you can sometimes go downstairs or leave the room and forget why you left the room or went downstairs and only remember when you go back into the room you came from. It's also why rooms intuitively over history in all countries have been segmented and separated into spaces where different tasks take place and different memories are required i.e (kitchen, bedroom, dining room, bathroom, playroom, lounge, study...). The more rooms your actively living in, generally the less stress, the better memory performance and the better sleep you get. It's incredible how much of a difference it can actually make, experiments have been done showing that if you restrict the activity you can do in a room to only one activity your performance in that activity can see dramatic improvements (since your brain is quick to find the memories it needs, therefore quicker to react and process information essentially reducing your brain lag). It's also why people feel like their mind is much clearer shortly after moving to a new place. Conversely opposite experiments have been done around solitary confinement and such, with opposite effects, causing slower reaction speeds and cognitive skills etc. Basically tldr don't sleep where you work, it's bad for your brain.

They should get a fixer upper show to renovate that last place, would be cool to see!

At 17:37 “Everything the light touches, is our kingdom.” What about over there dad?” “Stay away from that son, that’s Yakuza alley.”

18:35 love the finana in the fish grill lmao

I'd actually love to see them do this again, because I love seeing the different options in Japan! They give me inspiration for my own future home!

I’m so glad you decided to make this. Believe it or not, my family actually had a house in Tokyo when I was a very small kid. I don’t remember too much about it, but it was AMAZING. I would really love to go back there someday. Japan has always been my favorite country although I don’t live there anymore! Anyway, this was really fun to watch, Connor! Thank you!

I was so excited for this because I love Alex's apt/house tours, then I realized I already saw the whole vod of this. XD But that won't stop me from watching the condensed edited version as well. :D

That intro was fire! I love these apartment/hotel/building tour videos you do.

iron mouse jumpscare always gets me man

this was really cool to watch i loved seeing the differences from tokyo to canada and its wild

To be honest, seeing these kinds of videos makes me sooo grateful I have family in Japan that own property. Really interesting locations, and some are REALLY tempting to purchase, but those price points remind me of New York XD.

I love the editing

8:02 Alex went straight for chat's throat

Very interesting start to the vid

actually been loving these irl stream edits and this one was especially interesting

Great editing

I read the title and panicked because I thought Connor had to get yet ANOTHER apartment😭

Love this intro and I've loved your previous few intros you've done! Well done Mudan and Luca 😁

The editing in this video is next level top notch nutty stuff.. like amazing, so much details and humor went into it

Absolutely LOVE the style of that intro!! Very creative. Kudos to whoever came up with that.

I see that last place and the laws as a chance at a unique challenge! I’m not sure what other laws are in place as far as renovations are concerned but, as a DIY kinda guy, that small space looks like it would be a fun project 😆

This was surprising educational and informative

Love the editing in this video

This was actually a fun stream/video

I absolutely love Japan, but their housing situations are super depressing. Anything mildly livable by western standards is extremely expensive. Although to be fair, most if not all of these were in the heart of Tokyo, so it makes sense I guess. Only one of those houses I would consider truly nice.

I wonder if the stigma against older buildings/property is because of the doubt that it might not pass modern building and fire codes, which is a huge factor in an earthquake country like Japan. I vaguely recall that the modern standards were set on the 1992-ish Kanto earthquake, and some of the buildings here were from the 70's.

This was awesome! Id love if you did this again! Thanks for sharing!

Great coloring on the bath entrance. Very romantic. Excellent work as always, Alex

27:11 when you forget to make the ceiling at least 3 blocks tall in minecraft

such a fun stream. thanks for the edits luca.

Awesome video, would love to see more of these!

So many beautiful homes, especially that last one...... seriously though that second to last home is so cool. Thank Mr. Shapiro for the tour. lol Buying a home would seem like the way to go in JP.

I don’t know why but I alway love looking inside houses it’s interesting to see what they look like and how someone choses to decorate it

Looking forward to part 2 already

great video

The thrill of potentially falling through the floor in the last one is part of the charm

The 2 million dollars apartments has actually a pretty okay price for such a big place. Some places in Copenhagen costs like 2 million with half the size of the Japanese apartments.

love the vid connor even the black toyota GT86 in the start lol

Loved that last little weird place!

I have a strange obsession with real estate videos on RU-vid so this is right up my alley)))

Love the content Connor!

I'm in the Philadelphia area and 2 bedrooms are between 1300-1800 but to be fair I would akin Tokyo to be like New York and so I am not surprised to see New York esque apartment prices! The innovations in smaller apartments (like the 400/month one) are always fun to see, and I could see (once the termite problem is fixed) that space having a lot to offer! I didn't love the 2nd house (even with the roof deck), but I adored the 1st house (from the 70s). I love that Alex is slowly getting into more videos all over the place! I love watching his channel, and I always enjoy seeing him interact with y'all! Hope you two can do something like this again! It was so fun!

Thank you, the Rei meme at 3:05 got me, much appreech

Very cool. I would love to see what countryside apartments look like and cost.

Alex is an odd but very likeable fella, he really has helped Connor and Chris produce some great content with his links into the real estate world.

I’m in love with that opening

Really cool video!

That third appartment was so nice. Would love to live in there.

Damn that third apartment is so dreamy. I would love an apartment like that. Just add my family and boom. Me. Husband. Dog. Cat. Also my mother had a similar wave over sink. You wave ur hands underneath to make it go. And its so useful when ur filling a pot bc you can put a pot underneath and it detects it and its neat. I love the vibes of that third apartment. I would let husband have the second bedroom and he could use that walk in closet for his music studio. And I would literally use the third bedroom as my art studio and store like my lolita n goth/punk clothes there. The seasonal stuff too. That fancy three bedroom is a dream. My dream is to have a two story four bedroom house someday. Ofc I’m jobless and rely on my husband’s work and we live in AMERICA. So that is HELLA doubtful. But I would adore that. I love the light up stairs but I would do it differently. Lights on the sides and not under the stair step. Yanno? It would make me so dizzy. Lights on the sides like a strip of LEDS along the wall inside a little foggy sleeve yanno? Like foggy acrylic sleeve with LEDS.

Oh wow I remember this stream! It was so interesting to see the prices for all these houses/apartments!

I love this type of content! It's so cool to see what living is like in Japan.

Honestly the prices are why I'd never want to live in a big city. You pay so much for so little, like for 2 million dollars I could get someone to build myself a lakeside mansion to replace my summer cottage and at that point I'd just move there.

D.Z Nuts direction is on point

Loved the vid! Would be amazing if this could be some sort of series :)

the last part is so cool

Amazing intro

That last house was such an interesting space. Would have loved to see what it looked like when someone was living there.

I still want another of these This was so fun

This was so fun

I've been watching your vids for a long time at this point, and this is honestly one of the coolest vids you've put out. It was so interesting going through and seeing the diferent styles of apartments. Got mad Persona nostalgia while I was watching as well. Also, Alex seems like a chill as fuck dude, you guys need to collab more. Thanks for the tour guys

As someone who cooks a lot no oven is a deal breaker for any living space.

First time i watched a 1080p video in 240p😆, greate video btw

The editing is golden

I straight up bought an apartment in Akasaka last week. Rental might be expensive, but buying isn't particularly bad. At least not compared to any other capital. Smaller than what I'm used to, but honestly fine. I've just been spoiled with space before I think.

Damn a feat I wasn't expecting

10:42 sick Prisencolinensinainciusol reference

COOl video :) suprised this isn't in the main channel tho

his chris impression was pretty spot on

I know the 2nd house was really close to the city centre and a big train station but holy fuck 2000 is so much money for an apartment that small. I could rent a 2 story house here in Rotterdam for that money ( a big city in the Netherlands).

More of these please :)

This was a great video idea. I hope you do one for like each prefecture. Almost like a low key house hunters from hgtv but way better

Nice aesthetic.

Having just finished looking for a condo here in Canada this was really interesting. Tokyo is such an exciting city though - you gotta add 50% just for that.

Love the t-shirt Alex :D

I dont really watch your videos but this was so neat. Thank you. More like this please

I wanna see Alex buy the last place and turn into one of those microhomes ala the tiny house movement

That intro was really well done, really funny haha. Good stuff to the editors, also what a great director

the second one was pretty cool, would def live in a layout like that

Very nice touch on 0:32

The moment in the stream where the stream sniper called alex as pete was funny. I'm pretty sure the fan meant to do that on purpose