Tokyo living arrangements

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2010/06/01
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by Fredrik Olsen

So today I found out where we’re going to live in Tokyo. The first month I will have a very, very small student dormitory room “with a small fridge, a desk and a bed”. It’s shared bathroom, shared kitchen and shared living room.

Now, this whole thing isn’t super-cheap, but it’s not really that expensive either. It does however seem like either the organization arranging this education or the school is trying to milk a whole lot of money. Transfer from the airport costs 2500 SEK (28000 YEN), while taking a taxi will cost significantly less (20 000 YEN). We won’t be making transfer arrangements with them. But worst of all are these living arrangements, it’s around 6000 SEK a month rent for one of these rooms, and I can get a one room apartment with kitchen and bathroom in the center of town for less.

This picture pretty much explains how sucky the living arrangements are.

Living arrangement

It’s about the same travel-time from the place we used to live to the school. But we paid less for the apartment where we used to live, and that was a real apartment, and as you can see; it was actually close to the interesting stuff in town.

Soooo, yeah… We’ll be looking for an apartment from day 1.

5 comments

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  • DeXimE

    Rip off! lol Yeah go find something better!
    And what, your apartment was a “real” apartment? ;P
    It was more or less like a jail tbh, get something better this time. You be there for over a year…

    • http://tetrisrockstar.com/ Fredrik

      Yes the last apartment was a “real” apartment :P
      I liked it a lot. We're obviously going to get something bigger for spending a whole year. But you make the last one sound much worse than it is, or you're simply spoiled.. :P

      • http://twitter.com/DeXimE DeXimE

        lol, nah I'm not spoiled. If you could see my “house” you would understand… it's uber small. It might have been OK for that month vacation while you where out of the house most of the time. But a full year is a different story… I'm sure you 2 will find something cool!

  • Maho

    How about Waseda area? It's a student-heavy neighborhood, so maybe there're some cheap & nice apartments, and there're lots of restaurants.
    Also, along the Seibu-Ikebukuro Line, Seibu-Shinjuku Line, Chuo Line are fine too. (maybe it's a bit boring to live, but good at transportation convenience and a lower rent)

    Well, summer is not a moving season in Japan, so maybe it's difficult to find many apartments, but I hope you can find nice place!
    Also, let me know when you need some help :D

    • http://tetrisrockstar.com/ Fredrik

      Along Seibu-Ikebukuro would be pretty awesome. But really.. anything is better then what we will have when getting here (up in Warabi).

      I think we'll probably be able to find something, at least through http://sakura-house.com if nothing else. Will definitely ask if we need some language help! :) Thanks.