Awesome that you guys are living in Japan! I live in a small apartment too. What you could do for air drying your clothes in winter. I put them in a small room. You could put them in your bathroom. Get a drying rack and put it on top of or in the bathtub. Then turn on an electric heater and a dehumidifier inside the room. The heater dries your clothes. And the dehumidifier sucks all the water out of your clothing. This works fantastic, because it’s a small room. Your clothes will be dry within a few hours. And you don’t need your bathtub during the day, so your laundry doesn’t take up any floorspace. Win win :)
I live in Japan and I am happy to see you guys enjoying the life in Japan even though it’s quite tiny. It’s very interesting to see mixed styles of Japanese and western in your home. Looks very cozy.
Yay! That's amazing, you are going to love it. Let us know if you need any help or have any questions moving in - sometimes the JET program just kinda throws you in 😅
I would've loved to have made that tatami room into a bedroom 😍 with a Japanese futon bed and everything! Dream ideas for if I get to do jet in my 30's!!!!!
Awesome production quality, it felt like I was watching one of those big "life in tokyo" type channels. Also I can't unsee this man's resemblance to Riff Raff, but that's kind of a weird reference.
Pretty sure the tatami room is intended as the bedroom since all you need is a futon - that furniture will wear out the mats a lot quicker than traditional furniture.
Yes you are totally right - the tatami room is intended to be used as the bedroom! But seeing as how we have a queen size bed we were recomended by our landlord to use the tatami as our living space, get a small lightweight couch and put mats underneath any furniture!
@@LifewiththeClements I was in Kyoto city and they put me up in a 2DK right beside the subway which cost around $800+ CAD. Perks of living in the inaka!
Your japanese apartment is very lovely and beautiful and brilliant. It may be small but it is very very wonderful. I want to be in japan I want to live in tokyo it is my number one dream and my number one futuristic city.
That will definitely depend on your placement and living arrangements! Our apartment was quite old and the walls were incredibly thin so although our neighbours were quite quiet we still could hear everything
We've heard that as well before, but we've talked to our landlord about it and they hadn't heard of that at all 🤔 We use a very gentle soap and have never had a issue!
You get to pick your top three prefectures that you would like to be placed, and sometimes they accommodate to that and other times they don’t at all. Okayama was not on our list at all but we ended up loving it!
Welcome! We are going to be living in Japan for a year, Adrian is a ALT in a junior high school through the JET programme and Shaneen works part time teaching English 😊
@@LifewiththeClements I can't imagine decorating and buying furniture just for a yearlong stay. I would feel so bad about the waste of resources, not to mention money. Every time I've spent extended time abroad, I've always specifically looked for fully furnished places. One of my places even came complete with bed stuff and everything necessary for the kitchen (including all pots, pans, silverware, plates, and even a French press coffeemaker). The time I didn't have bed stuff, I ended up borrowing from a colleague.
@@catinabox3048 Very smart. Yes we absolutely agree! The apartment was chosen for us though, by the company Adrian works for. Usually we would have had a predecessor living in the house before us (the previous person filling Adrian's position) but unfortunately because of Covid they went home early and the old apartment was given away 😔 Luckily though when we leave, a new foreigner will be taking over the apartment with all the stuff in it!
