three days. I've been here filming this little documentary

not for my channel, it's actually for a project for

the Canadian government. If I am able to show it on my

channel in the future I probably will but I'm not really sure

that wasn't talked about, but anyways

because I've been in Tokyo working for the past three days,

I wanted to rent out a place to stay so I didn't have to

travel back and forth because we were starting filming really early

every morning, and,

that would mean I would have to leave my house at like 5am which is not fun

So, I went on air bnb and I found

the cheapest place to stay

in Tokyo. It was just over 3000 yen

a night. If you put that into dollars it was probably about

I would say like around 32 dollars american

a night, which is a really good deal, for a place right in

Tokyo. I'm staying in koreatown

Closest station is Okubo Station,

and if you walk just like 2 minutes down the road, you're

right in the centre of oreatown. There's tonnes of good food

and shopping, and it's really fun, and

Shinjuku station is actually really close, so I'm right in the

centre of Tokyo for just over 30 bucks a night, which is a really

amazing deal. So, I wasn't expecting

the place to be huge. I saw the pictures and it looked

very small, but I was really surprised when I came in here.

It really is really tiny. This is

the bedroom, behind me here. It has a really cute

wallpaper, I'll show you after, and

you can see the kitchen behind me here

And then over here we have the washroom

the toilet/shower, and that's literally it

This is the entire apartment

I would guess that it's about 12m^2.

When you come in you put your shoes down here in the genkan

I've got my bags just sitting here

There's a little garbage can, and

this is the kitchen! It's tiny,

but it has everything that you need. A microwave,

a hot-water-making pot

some bowls

Down here they've got some mugs and cups, salt and pepper,

all the cooking utensils, and there's one burner, so you

could cook here, if you wanted to, I didn't try it out, I just went

out to eat, cus I'm in koreatown, the food's amazing.

Sink.

In here they give you a little bit of storage which is actually

the only storage space in the entire apartment

They're just using it for some pots and pans, and oils and

laundry soap or something I think that is?

So inside the fridge it looks like this

it's basically a normal fridge, but a really small version

it's got a little area here which is the freezer

so you can keep things frozen if you put them inside here

That's about it! Can't fit much in here,

a few drinks, but it's good if

you're just staying for a few days and you wanna keep some drinks cool

Alright now for the grand tour

of the bedroom. Here's my futon

they actually give you two futons, so

two people can stay here comfortably, but, I layered

them on top of each other because it's just me so

I could get some extra layers, and it was actually super comfy

It was really nice

And you may have noticed that the floor is

tatami mat

Traditional Japanese flooring, it has

a very distinctive scent to it, it kinda smells like

Hay, I guess if I could

compare it to something you guys would recognise. The

smell of hay. I really like it, some people

aren't a fan of the scent, but I think it gives a very

traditional Japanese feel to a room

The room also comes with all your basic stuff, like

tissues, toilet paper, a little mirror for doing makeup(it was kind of a struggle

to do my makeup in there this morning, but i'm glad I had something),

a hairdryer,

and a TV, which I never use,

but I guess it's good, for some people.

And then my favourite part is this really pretty sakura

wallpaper that they've out on the wall here

I wonder if their landlord knows about this

they never let you change wallpaper

or anything in Japan, but it looks like they've just

attached this wallpaper to the wall, but it looks really nice,

I think it goes well with the other red walls

And I found a hook, it took me so long

to find this, I was like "oh no! There's nowhere to hand my jacket"

but I found a little

a little hook to hang my jacket on, so that works.

There's an air conditioner which was much needed, because

it was freezing last night so I had the heater on all night.

And here there's like the remote controls and a little table

charging station.

And that's about it for the bedroom, so very small

but definitely enough for a stay

in Tokyo

Are you ready for the grand tour?

Tada!

This is it.

This is the entire toilet/shower room

The toilet's in the corner here, and when you have a shower you basically

can close the toilet lid, and sit on it

and have a shower there if you like.

Or you can stand in this little area here

It's very crowded

And yeah, that is about it guys

That is the entire apartment a total

of about 12m^2,

I would say. I'm really curious

as to how much the rent is. Like I said, the location is great

which will definitely up the price a bit , but

it's really tiny. This is the smallest apartment

I have ever been in, in Japan.

So for those of you who aren't familiar with how Air bnb works,

this isn't a hotel, or a place specifically made for

customers to stay, it's actually someones apartment

that they've rented, and, like probably a spare apartment

that they own, and they're renting it out for travelers,

or people that are here in Tokyo on

business, Japanese people that are on business to stay.

So this is an actual apartment building that has regular residents living

in the other rooms, so there are people that are living here

as their, their normal house, not using it as a hotel.

So what do you guys think?

Would you be able to live in a place like this? Apartments in Japan

are quite tiny, normally,

but this is definitely the smallest one

I have ever been in. But like I said, it has

everything you need, if you are able to

minimise your possessions,

I feel like, you could live here, no problem.

I would be, probably the most

frustrated with the kitchen, because I like to cook,

and having one burner is a super pain in the ass.

My first two apartments in Japan,

I believe, only had one burner, and I really didn't like it

So I think that would be the thing that bothered me the most.

Not to mention the very tiny fridge, because I do a lot

of cooking, I would not be able to store many ingredients in there.

But other than that, I think it's definitely doable, it's probably

quite cheap, and the location

is amazing, so

it really depends what your priorities are.

I'm actually going to a concert today with my friend Greg, so I'm gonna be

meeting up with him in the afternoon, and I told him to come here,

to my Air bnb so he can check it out,

and I wanna see what he thinks, because he lives in a pretty small

apartment in Japan, but even so, I would say it's about

two times the size of this one,

so this will probably be something new for him.

Greg's here!

Welcome, to my home -I was hoping this was

the right one, I was lost at the bend? but we're good we're good

Imagine if you just knocked at some strangers door

-Like "Hello!"

So I was just giving my viewers a tour

of the room, and I told them that

I told them that it would probably be

a new experience for you, because for me this is the smallest apartment

I've ever seen, in Japan, but

yeah, come on in, take a tour

-Oh God!

Let us know what you think

-This already looks way smaller than I had imagined

Cos your place is really small, right? To me, that was

the typical small Japanese apartment

-Yeah, but it's bigger than this, it's like

wider - Yeah, i was just telling them, I think your place is maybe two

times the size of this in total? I would say -Mmm, cos I also have

-You have like the hallway -The hallway

-and the kitchen -My kitchen is like twi-

-yeah, this is, welcome to the kitchen

-My kitchen's like two times this, and then - Yeah

-Where-where's your toilet

-That's the best part! Come see the toilet

-Isn't that the shower? -And the toilet, in one

Greg's not a fan of the

no one is really, it's kind of -Oh no!

it's kind of frustrating, because the floor gets wet

when you have a shower and then it's wet all day

so when you go to use the toilet the floor's all wet

-Ew -But,

they do provide you with slippers, but I

I just give up, and I got the slippers wet in the shower, so

They're pretty useless now, but if you wanted you could kind of prop the slippers

up in the corner and try not to get them wet and you could use them

-Yeah, cos you can't put them out here cos the mats -Yeah cos then the tatami would get wet

Yeah, it's really weird to see a washroom,

and then tatami, because you don't want anything on the tatami

You don't want shoes, you don't want water

and it looks like maybe some of the previous people that stayed here,

just stepped right on the tatami cos it's kinda wet

It's got like a stain

Yeah, that's such a weird design. You'd think they would put

some kind of difference flooring, just at least

in front of the bathroom part, but

But yeah, that's it!

Do you think you could live in a place like this? -I'm trying to figure out

pooping on

a kinda wet seat, but that just does not sound like the best experience.

-You'd have to wipe it off every time, you'd have to dry it off

-But then where would you put anything? I can't even hang a towel in here

-I just realised that there's no place for the toilet paper

-No

They had it just sitting on the table here, when I came in

But they're yeah there's no toilet roll

because you wouldn't be able to keep the toilet paper in here because it would

get wet when you had a shower -You don't even have a

You can't even like, flush the toilet?

-No there's a, that thing

-Oh my gosh they look the same

How would you even know?!

Oh wow -Yeah

That's, that's small and that's big flush

-Oh, it's on the side -Yeah

-That's different

At least you've got a painted mural -Yeah,

the wall's nice right?

-Oh, it would have been cool if it was painted

-That would have been cool, they probably would have charged a little more than 30 bucks a night

if they hand painted it

How much do you think the rent is here? I was just trying to figure out

how much the rent would be

you're right in like central Tokyo, you're really close to Shinjuku

but because of the size, I would say like maybe

450 dollars a month or something

like 45000 yen

if I had to guess, that's what I would say

-Probably like 500 dollars-Yeah, you think?

with tax because-cos it's quite old,

it's not like it's new or something, so it's old and small

-Yeah, right? So once you had your clothes, they would take up