What a $20,000/Month Japanese Apartment is Like | Tokyo Home Tour 

Is there a puppy ramen machine?

Epic thanks for the video

If its $20k to rent per month how much is to buy?

Most interesting ad I’ve ever watched

Hi

I would too! One must always Dress to impress

True but he did wear formal shorts 😂

maybe it's his friend and he can be himself, or maybe he can can do what he wants because how many of the people judging have a RU-vid channel....vote thumbs down if you do

and the camel toe shorts

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Live by the ironing board. Die by the ironing board.

Who does not have ironing board kitchen space?

Such an irony

@@AbroadinJapan lmao i can hear chris' voice in this comment

What other uses has an ironing have? Could use one as a coffee table and be an upgrade from a bit of wood on top on a car tire.

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The rich probably get to avoid these fees weirdly enough

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Surprised to see PD here

honestly this place looks like a dump for 20,000 a month. There are penthouse apartments for sale in Japan for 2-3 million that are WAY nicer with newer amenities. 20,000x 16 years is 4 million. You could get a MUCH better loan on 2-3 million and pay a mortgage on a better penthouse than renting this crap box.

Because if someone wants to purchase an apartment for 20k a month...they would probably just buy a house instead...

My guess this is intended for diplomat parties they will fill it up with hookers and drugs.

@@stephenshields4095 in the heart of Harajuku, Tokyo? Location matters as much if not more than the actual house itself you know...

Do rich people watch RU-vid? Or do they have their own secret rich people's version?

@@brintesiacirce9414 no lmao Edit: I meant that rich people use RU-vid, I was answering his second question.

Realy?

@@brintesiacirce9414 RU-vid premium

@@sivvinod3187 we cant know until we become rich

I've been waiting for you, Mr. Broad.

Would've been even more villain-like if he had his pinkie on his chin while stroking the pug....

@@thedoneeye what's the rent for the apartment, Alex? 1 million yen! Muhaha!

Names broad, a broad.

Argh, you beat me to that joke by three whole hours

@@airyanawaejah2323 shekel shekel It's also natraul to make typos, but this is one is positively supernatraul :^)

Something about your post made me giddy ☺️ carry on

he's a realtor who caters to evil geniuses

A purposely bred disabled dog

@@geshkigal I mean, do you see what properties he's selling? Yeah. He's catering to evil genius billionaires

And definitely not ghey at all.

@@d.martin7692 Poor darling was forced into a bro handshake, I was hurting for him. The lack of respect !!

He's essentially a post modern Bond villain.

Yes, the first thing I think is he's obviously a bond villan

In my current apartment, two rolls in and I'd smash into the wall.

@@AbroadinJapan smash *through* the wall

@@AbroadinJapan Even better, now you have an excuse to break in-- er rent that $20,000 apartment

@@AbroadinJapan so you have tried it :P

@@AbroadinJapan PSA: That's five rolls for the average person!

And approximately one sq ft in NYC, pre-covid

@@hughjassstudios9688Give it another month. That shit is going to crash. Pretty sure Louis is right.

if you consider an old ranch house a mansion then sure.

@@Tiralful Louis is already right. It started falling a month ago. But then again owners don't sell it, they just keep it as an "asset"

@@hughjassstudios9688 same in London 😭

Tokyo Creative does a series on the homes of their staff. Chris Broad? This is the house that Carlos Gohsn escaped from.

I thought the same thing!

Dude seriously he could get alot of views touring different Japanese houses

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Same This house he showing us Is bigger than standard size apartment in japan I love it

Lol yeah straight into presentation mode. Habit no doubt

I think all Tokyo is a depressing city.

Everything is cramped and narrow. That being said, if you've ever searched for a home you should realize that everything seems smaller when empty.

Where I live this is a dream come true lol

@@davidetre All cities are depressing.

@@finmetalwarrior the states is just toxic here, it's so suffocating sometimes and just standing outside, looking at our dull streets, it gives me a headahce. so I'm willing to learn some japanese and rush to japan.

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To eat crisps

In reality we are just buying him a second ironing board.

@@LucaMolteni84 And 7/11 fried chicken!

All I seem to get is political ads xD so I can't watch all of them :(

It's like how every gondola company in New Venice makes blue-eyed cats their CEOs (from Aria The Animation)

it seems like a great decision at first, but i wonder if it has any buisness expertise whatsoever. maybe its just paying for everything

Well,at least the pug CEO wouldn't be stealing from the company. Unless it is food.

It's a tax dodge.

@@whocares2087.1 That would be a brilliant unethical decisionm

Same here. Maybe youtube is stepping it up

Same

I also got a notification 😄

I’m from the twitter gang

A rare phenomenon for RU-vid indeed

@Dan oz Where the fuck do you live where 250m²+ is an "average apartment"? Here in germany most single-family houses have around half that in living space!

The video is not totally depressing, I found the agent cradling a pug in his arms quite amusing (very reminiscent of Doctor Evil with a cat or Paris Hilton with a chihuahua at best)

I think it’s weirder how people are supposed to rent places like that. 20k a month in rent seems like such a waste. If you’re that rich to afford the rent you might as well buy property flat out.

@@Nick-hw4gd People don't though. They even mention it's for high level diplomats/ministers and company men where it's paid for by the Ministry for them to stay a bit.

Chris can now afford it with all the subs :P that's why even though it was secret they could show it :P

He must have hired a company to move all his furniture to his secondary house then.

Could afford the apartment, could not afford any furniture lol.

I actually do wonder how much he's paid for all this

@@Dmitrisnikioff He has to be very well off, if not a millionaire.

with all those controls i wouldn't be surprised if one is setup to be a muffin button

lol we don't really eat muffins in the UK, or even crumpets for that matter, that's just Chris mocking the stereotypes :'D

I wanna go sit at a place and eat muffins now, it is my support local businesses weekend after all.

Scones, don't forget scones

What Americans call "English Muffins" aren't actually English...we don't have an English muffin. Only McDonald's have a breakfast muffin and the cake type muffin which are both American haha

EXACTLY.

Nothing really meant business until Chris whipped out the sickest handshake to a luxurious suited man with his handsome pug, respect.

That shake could travel back in time and deliver Clint Eastwood several strapping noogies.

I was really fixated on the handshake too and was so relieved to see your comment 🤣

@@ireneg2436 chris just looked so confused by the whole exchange 😂

Because they're pretending :D

He may not have a company or something like that, but I think Chris is amazing, I love his personality, he feels like a friend to me

@@josuerosalesmontero783 completely agree on Edit: *That, I hate writing on RU-vid

All these people need influencers like Chris to promote said companies.

Sure, let me know how it went

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And the dog is his CEO, he worth / makes more money than I do....that’s sad lol

@@JYYB Shhh, don't reveal Dogbert's real identity...

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Dat viel mij ook al op, Dr. Evil vibes.

repent Jesus christ is coming, repent before it's too late, Jesus loves you

@@combsbrushes777 I sure hope he's coming. I sent him an invitation. He's in charge of bringing the tequila and said he'd get his mom to make some taquitos.

But I mean. He would look bloody good in a suit at least once eh?

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@@TopAnimeLoverEver 🥵

I chuckled a little 😂

🤣 He even had a pet to stroke like a Bond villain. Luckily he didn't press a lot of buttons. One had to lead to a pit of sharks.

These are hard times

I wonder if he has a sister in law who's a doctor

do u mean Ben Shapiro?

I doubt many Abroad in Japan watchers know about Ben Shapiro, but hopefully they now do. Or not.

@@23ofSeptember They gotta know just for the memes, man.

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No boss should live like that when his workers suffer. Greed stinks.

move to the west, most reasonable houses are nicer than this apartment.

You should work harder 48 hours per day. Oh well.

@@WookieWarriorz exactly, In Dallas Tx I've seen Apt bigger than this for 4-6k a month. Still pricey but as a westerner 20k for something that small baffles me.

Aldemar Aburto yep, this is a nice house but way overpriced, only cause of the usual size of Japanese flat.

I saw just before Chris said this lol

The dog at the end made me feel better though

Did not expect to see you here!

Oh hello m'lord!

Confirmed that all British RU-vidrs Just know each other.

@@robertthompson90 LOVE this channel

Cheers for watching mate!

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. My first thought was with the pug he seems totally the Bond villain. I was waiting for him to say "So we finally meet Mr Broad."

Yep if you ever watch some other videos of people living in Japan you will see how small apartments are

Surely worth a discount, right?!

Discount %30

whole interior is so dated

Cree is it really? You think bamboo closets, waterfall countertops and lacquered kitchen cabinets is dated? You think gray is dated? You think cement and stone shower rooms dated? Tell us all why?

@@bartwatts1921 because it is. New luxe apartments were doing this 7-8 years ago. Welcome to fashion for buildings. It moves. Don’t lose your hat.

Haha check some of the rental prices in HK. Then you will be shocked.

Na, they buy them Except if the kid is in college, then it is officially the kids bachelor apartment.

Must be nice...

Thats peanuts. Check out hong kong and singapore.

Like they said, companies and embassies rent this level. The first to use as part of executive compensation packages and companies can write that off as an expense, and embassies because you need your diplomats to look impressive.

The whole time I was just thinking about how much shopping you have to do to fill up those cupboards

@@ziksy6460 so I wasn't the only one who thought that

Haha thanks, at least I'm not the only one xD I also wonder how you could even fill that huge living room with stuff that is actually useful. Like you need a couch, let's say two big couches to see big, a huge home cinema, a big table, someplace to store the kind of stuff rich people like to expose to flaunt their egos (like cups of the richest man or whatever)... then what? The place would be at most 30% filled xD

Agreed. As much as I would like quite a bit of space, that was a lot of large rooms that would to go waste if I was living there; I need space, just not that much space.

I guess that comes down to philosophy... Diogenes would deface on the person who bought this place 🤣

Some pillows. In case you trip. Definitely some pillows at least. And yes. I would trip. Over my own two stupid feet 😂

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Thank you based rocket man

LMAO 😂

Sugoi

LOL

Yeah mate but you also have to factor in the thickness of the doors as a measure of wealth

I've seen all of Chris' videos but I sadly do not get this reference.

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UUe_-wDuILw.html Here is the video, it's the first part of the video where they show off the hotel

the super expensive hotel room video 😂

@@iqbalchuvan4890 yeah 😂

You need to get out more.

Really? Huh standard formal greeting in South Africa💭

Cant buy a house in middle Tokyo and location is everything

buy a house in tokyo?

@@sabereaseera1384 ​can buy a penthouse

@@sabereaseera1384 You can buy a penthouse also 20k seriously isnt worth it for this apartment. Theres better options.

Not everyone is interested in living in a house, plus those don't really exist in the heart of tokyo lmao

Some people like the city landscape It's me, I'm people

remember, it's Japan, inside the city limits of Tokyo... the SINGLE MOST DENSELY POPULATED URBAN ENVIRONMENT ON PLANET EARTH. period. full stop. no questions asked. no variables needed. it has more people per square kilometre of land than any other urban area on the planet. having an open cityscape view 360 degrees around the WHOLE apartment? every single window shown of the exterior of the apartment, since it's on the top floor... there's NO high rise buildings immediately right next door to the apartment building. that is a SERIOUSLY primo high Dollar $$ view in Tokyo.

@@lesliekilgore648 it's really funny how hyperbolic you got here because you're actually wrong. Tokyo is not the densest city/urban area in the world. Look it up lol. Paris is denser than Tokyo. And any random view in Paris is going to be nicer than this.

@@NeonShadowsx cool, thanks for replying. i guess my info was more than a decade out of date. my ex GF in the 2000's was a US Embassy worker's kid in Tokyo. i don't remember when she lived there, exactly. i remember it was more than a decade in length since she said she even went to HighSchool there and Tokyo U for 9 months. then her dad left the US State Dept. Foreign Services Division for 'home service' here in the States. plus i got the national density mixed up with the city in Tokyo. the 'urban footprint' city of Tokyo person per square kilometre is the highest in Japan! my bad i fucked that one up vs world stats. oops. :( 6,264 persons per square k Paris by the way, 21,000 persons per square k... yes i can do the research. bla bla bla. but you know what, Paris is rather shitty because the city itself is 12,012 square kilometres where Tokyo is 13,555 so over a square k bigger in size. that and i find Paris personally crap. it's insane to navigate. since i didn't speak French fluently every Parisian i interacted with treated me like shit. Google Translate talking out of my phone WOULD have helped, but not much. the taxi situations in Paris were a nightmare. i lost my ass using my credit card in Paris taxis. of course i traveled for pleasure/business there before the EU was formed so. shrug. my situation is very out of date. back then i found Heathrow a lot nicer than the city of Paris, but i didn't leave the airport in London. layover wasn't long enough to bother on that trip. i enjoyed Berlin more than Paris on that trip. the Germans bent over fucking backwards once they found out my nein was almost all i had. seriously, a damn McDonalds' kid in Berlin got 2 other employees who combined had enough English to help me order in German. the Parisians? i got told to 'fuck off American' in every store. even McDonalds in Paris gave me a stink eye. and i can fucking count to three in French and German. so asking for a #1 wasn't that hard in either city. Tokyo on the other hand is a public commuters' wet dream. nigh on 4 years ago old college buddy was there for fun. he downloaded the uhh oh god what was the company's name... Lobster Card? anways, he didn't even need cash, or a credit card, or anything, he set up the phone as a 'swipe' for trains in Tokyo for a week's duration. he typed in/set up 'i'm here, going here' the app did everything. it took GPS location, showed how to walk to the nearest station, how to navigate INSIDE the station, where to swipe the phone, what the trip would cost, where transfers were, up to date by the minute arrivals and departures, if you wanted to arrive somewheres by a certain time from a certain location it could tell you that too. it even told which side of the train to stand on for exit! :o damn app was like HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey. BTW, my ex is working her way up the Honda North American corporate ladder angling for a posting inside Japan before 2030. since she's still fluently bilingual.

For that price, they could have installed monitors who simulate a nice view all day round...

Wouldn't be hard since ur house is literally made of just corners

@@maryshen2926 Don't rub it in even more xD

To make it worse, the sq foot price of that penthouse is even cheaper than that shoebox of yours

@@user-vm8pr7wb9o USD 20,000 per month for 200 sq meters would be 100 per meter. Thankfully I don't pay that much which makes me feel a bit better, but not much haha

Hail from HK!

this is ad....

It can’t be $20,000 a month , after 5 months you’d have bought it for the 13.63 million ¥.

@@lasarith2 TRY 14 MONTHS, PLUS UTILITY, TAX, AND GARBAGE.

@@lasarith2 Total of $274,130. That's if you count everything economically scripted into your bill's without internet from University 2gb speed. At an extra $1,224.51 a year for 2gb internet from national university. Average cost to live in a size like that plus cleaning materials. Honestly it's a better cost of living and have considered buying something like this, just to piss of political official or High ranking $4,000 a month high level yakuza membership. LMFAO. I'd get a house in the US for that kind of money, with 10 acres and less utility money. .

Lmfao

I might be able to afford snacks if you decide to bring along a companion. Or like, parking fees?

A man of class I see

U are a person I can truly respect

We are a large demographic.

Lol

What are you doing here ?

Didn't expect to see you here!

what do you expect from an empty apartment?

​@@ladyinwight haha its because this apartment is so nice they can't imagine living there (fair enough). A mansion would never seem homely to me either

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Was thinking the exact same thing. The rooms are big but the places where you would spend also a lot of time, like kitchen and etc are just narrow as hell ...

mezz, your comment is very German. +10 points for fitting the stereotype. 🇩🇪👍

As a canadian, I am unimpressed as well, this place is so small for 20k a month.

@@Shtifu Well it's in the biggest city in existence, so i guess 20k fits the market. The upfront 130k fee is straight out robbery though. The garden is not very japan'esque and the dog feet washer looks like a hobby craftsman did that lol.

@@KawaiiMaterial that's because the kinds of people that live in places like this dont do things like that. Like cook and clean @mezz a lot of Japanese building is like that. Even as an american I find their lack of....wall and window odd. Not enough insulation, not enough panes of glass, etc. But on the whole, especially with houses. They view construction as somewhat temporary and not an investment. It's very common for a house older than 30 years to not really be considered in the price of a real estate purchase as it's just going to be torn down. Excepting the surviving pre WW2 construction. A lot of the above has to do with classical Japanese construction techniques (wood and paper) and disasters. In 30 years the buildings after multille earthquakes reallyas sound as they should be and aren't up to the latest design codes. So might as well tear them down.

Compared to a similar valued western property, it's pretty awful. I guess space is just such a premium in Tokyo

I have to agree, and I feel like they went overboard with the closets. Sure you need storage space, especially when most of the walls aren't actually walls but windows instead. lol. But still, feels very impractical if you'd want to actually bring any furniture other than beds, a sofa and dining table with you.... I did like the wooden flooring though.

the game yakuza 0 is all about 1980s tokyo real estate

Indeed ! Im reonvating my home with better materials in a 300k house lol !

thats why you dont want to live in big cities that have limited space (tokyo, HK, london, new york, etc.), its way to expensive for what you get.

wondering if they had to try it several times

日本人：月額2000万？　この金額、アタマおかしい。 外人の不動産や：Here we are world famous in "Tokyo" ,right ? 日本人: 壁のインターフォン類の表示、日本語だけやけど？ 外人の不動産や：Woops !" Shitsurei shimashita 日本人：こんな低いとこにスイッチ、子供ちゃうで、いらえんやろ？ 外人の不動産や：I'm afraid. This is Japanese style. 日本人: ええかげんにしいや・・・

Well, there are private yachts with captain included, meals, fuel.. for $5000/week.. so why not an apartment in Tokyo.

Love your Channel!

@@sjappiyah4071 me too!