+Rachel & Jun; Jun Will you guys do any collabs?? :D

+Can't think of a name Damn they've done 1 collaboration already, 'culture shock between Japan & korea'. but now that Martina is in Japan, they should collab. along with Texan in Tokyo, Sharla & strawberry mochi. or maybe just a double date with Rachel & Jun and Martina & Simon. show them around. give em a warm welcome :)

Maybe you could go on a double date Rachel & Jun with Martina & Simon. Show them around. Give em a warm welcome :) I'm sure Jun could cook up something delicious or you all could go out ^_^

Ha! Yes, ours is not staged :)

That's lovely of you to say :)

I agreee

This makes me so sad for both of them. 😢

congratulations

+Chin Yee Ning HI!

+Simon and Martina House looks great!! Congrats :-D Must be a huge relief to finally have a homebase in Japan.

+Simon and Martina your home looks great

+Simon and Martina Congrats! I'm so happy for you ^_^

me too!!!!

Omg loveeeee ur channel!

FUCK EUROPE! THE FUTURE IS ASIA REGION

+HEERO Yuy really dude?? do u not know how pack Asia is?? I would like to walk around freely and not rubbing on strangers

+HEERO Yuy really dude?? do u not know how pack Asia is?? I would like to walk around freely and not rubbing on strangers.

+Simon and Martina Thank you! I'm glad I could help! :)

+Simon and Martina And now Portuguese subs are up, too! Thank you, kind stranger :D

+Simon and Martina YEEEY \o/ i hope i could do that for every vid!

+Simon and Martina Im looking to house hunt in japan in about a year. But i was wondering do you go on holiday for 2 weeks then house hunt ? or something else. Im struggling to find places.

+OnniBuchtProductions Yay! Thank you!

+Simon and Martina The house looks good!

+OnniBuchtProductions Well, we only showed you a corner of it. We'll show you more once it's ready :D

+Simon and Martina Nice! :)

+Simon and Martina Im looking forward to seeing it :D

me too!! be careful guys D:

Ditto on the US, last landlord was a crook! Some are really awesome (my previous landlady was so freaking incredible! ) and some are snake oil salesmen.

You are a kind soul :)

+Juno Wardoyo I was thinking the same thing!

I caught that too lol

OMG ok i thought i was going nuts haha

+Mridula Deshpande CONGRATS ON THE NEW PLACE!!!!!!!!

what luhan reference? :o

+Yoyo Kim The pan flute(Ooh oh ooooooh).....Was it just me?....*Sorry*

+Mridula Deshpande ooooh hahaha

I find it even funnier for me because I play the flute XD

+MetalOfHeaven777 What's an obaachan? I haven't learned that word yet :(

It's an 아줌마! :D with maybe a little bit more grandma connotation.

+MetalOfHeaven777 AH! Yes! We'll share stories about our obaachan for our next Eat Your Sushi episode :D

Haha I knew it would be coming sooner or later!

Japanese obaachans are the best!

Thank you!

+soohyunq Queensland in Australia (different state guys) is exactly the same :p It seems like a pretty solid system without any flaws if you ask me, the only thing I could debate about is how strict they are on pets. I guess if I owned a house and I was renting it out I wouldn't want animals ruining the place, so I can see where their coming from in a sense.

+soohyunq Same goes for Melbourne!!! Accept for the pet one. Melbournians who rent out houses are more kinder for that situation, but not so much for apartments..

+soohyunq It's pretty much the same in New Zealand, especially with having pets

+soohyunq It's similar here in Chile, you pay a deposit (1 month) that covers any damage. Pets are not strict but there are some places that don't accept dogs, cats are usually OK.

+soohyunq Pretty identical to how its done here in the U.S.A. Deposits tend to be first, last and damage. So if you are renting and the Monthly rent is $1000 then you would need to pay the landlord $3000, however you would only get back the "damage" portion of the deposit, assuming you've not wrecked the place. As for pets most charge a monthly pet fee, plus an extra deposit. There are some places that unless its a service animal they wont rent to people with pets. As for kids, only special 65+ housing can deny renters based on having children.

+MetalOfHeaven777 Are you in Japan as well? Or was this somewhere else they made those rules?

Yes I live in Shiga Prefecture :)

+MetalOfHeaven777 Ah. I don't know where that is yet.

Tsk Tsk. Shiga is near Kyoto. I'm about ten minutes away from Kyoto, in Otsu, right on the shores of Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake. It's a REALLY awesome place. I work at the city hall for tourism stuff so if you guise ever came this way I could hook you up with all the cool stuff :)

+MetalOfHeaven777 Awesome! We really want to do travel videos around Japan. Your area sounds great! Hmm...

+Dagmara K But yes, it's common for people to come look at your place before you've left it. The owners want the bussiness going! Thankfully my previous landlords usually gave me notice beforehand so that I coould conveniently go out for groceries for example :)

How much do you weigh?

Same...

+darkmanknight1 115 lbs...

+Bobshouse Oh, I thought they were talking restaurants, Subway vs McDonalds. Actually, Im jealous, I lived in Japan for 3 years and really miss it...I remember my first house also, much better than those paper thin walls in the apartments.

Yes. You can eat more mcd and you get to exercise to work everyday. Perfect.

We can't wait to see them, too!

+̶ ̶C̶r̶o̶s̶s̶m̶y̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶ They said they would once they get more settled in so they won't be showing us just an empty house.

Yes that's what I am waiting for !!!!

+Kookie's Suga Glazed Donut 😉

+MoonLitCat Is it strange that I want to see the empty house? To see the changes and before/after? I like the process of a house becoming a home. I may be strange tho...

they did one!

Yeah, you didn't seem to mention him ! But congrats on the house !

same thought!! ;-;

+ThatGurlGrace J They did kind of mention him at the start. Martina mentioned rubbing her face on the house and that's what cats do to say "This is mind.". Also dogs tend to make more noise in Japan then cats so more then likely he wasn't to big of an issue. Besides do we really think they would forget Meemer with how freaking in love with him Simon is? Man Warrior could never leave his mighty kitty.

Maybe meemers is too fat to bring to Japan

OCSleazy That's horrible! Besides he's been running up and down stairs at their friends places, I wouldn't be surprised if he's lost some weight.

yeaa

+Ervin Jackson Why are you replying to loads of comments like this?? Do you really have nothing better to do with your life?

if they both had enough money to spare for those apartments LOL

Actually even the chapest apartments that have their toilet and bathroom combined have a bath thube :D Its just something everyone from Japan needs...

brea seroto Nah no, I think house in Seoul more expensive than Tokyo. Rent house you need "key money" $10.000 above. (You didn't have a bath up for that) it's just a apartement. How about a house? So yeah, is not cheap at all.

+Dylan Grey i hope you guys go to school festivals also! i heard there are school festivals that are open for public!

the channel is called "life where I'm from" and it's all about this little Japanese girl and her dad making videos about life where they're from: Japan. I think it might help you guys. anyway, thanks for making awesome videos! and can't wait to see what you guys think!

+Saint Mikhael Gintama is better.

I'll have to check it out 😀

+EvenInArcadiaIExist no

+Saint Mikhael Its kinda over rated imo :v

You can get evicted if your children can't control their volume tho 😊

+Jessica Sebastião I like the way you think! Thank you :D

also Martina looks really pretty in the green dress ^-^

+Jessica Sebastião I like that dress on her a lot :D

Simon and Martina awww, Simon your so sweet! 😊😊😊

Welcome to the family! Your girlfriend sounds like a great girl :)

+ReveredInventor +Simon and Martina OMG! I love you! and Love you guys

+Kathryn aka KitKat Rachel and Jun lives in Nagoya and Simon and Martina lives in Tokyo (Kichijoji). By train (Shinkansen) it takes about 100minutes to get there.

+Christer Markusson Yeah, also if you're not including walking to each others places, Rachel and Jun not meeting them there, etc. it could be about 2 hours and 20 minutes as I believe Rachel and Jun are 20-ish minutes from the closest station to them and Simon and Martina are about 20 minutes from the closest station to them by walking!

They actually did a video with them before already. it's called: what surprises us about Japan/ Korea or differences between a Japan and Korea...something along those lines. I can't quite recall right now.

Oh and I totally didn't read your comment properly lol you already knew that Hehe sorry

+TheRealSala Every place we saw was really nice, except for one which was huge but bizarrely laid out.

+Simon and Martina Yeah was that the ladder one? Cause that one looked pretty cool, like a hipster kinda house 😂😄

+TheRealSala No, it was actually a different one that we didn't show in this video. Its walls were covered in shelving that couldn't be removed, but all of the shelving was really small and tight. I think it might have been just for collectables? I don't know...

+Simon and Martina Wow! that doesn't sound too goo. So when are we getting a tour of your new house? 😄 I've been looking for an apartment to rent in Aus with my sister recently and seeing you guys finding a home gives me hope that we can find a good apartment 😄😊

+MiyukiItachi I really doubt its substantial at all, but I did consider it a solution to overpopulation; simply restricting where families with small kids could move in. This may or may not have been influenced by the screaming babies living below me, and the fact that we werent allowed to have a cat 'because pets are too noisy and damaging'.

+MiyukiItachi I heard in some part of Japan, family got a big compensation if you have more children because they have less young people than the old ones

+MiyukiItachi Actually, one of the main reason is when a woman has kids, it will be much harder for her to get a job.. And if she already had a good job with a nice salary, she might lose that job..

+Kevin Sean Really? O.O if you dont mind me asking, why could having kids possibly result in them losing their jobs? or why would it be harder for her to get a job because she has kids?

+EMJKfunnTim3s it's because women are expected to stay home and look after their kids instead of working..

Usually only like 3-4 weeks rent in advance also.

+E - Paige Yeah it's a basic bond. So you give them 3-4 weeks rent in advance plus some then when you leave generally you get your money back if you haven't destroyed anything in the house.

+E - Paige I think because Japan uses monthly rent, everything else is done monthly in line with it, which really sucks for agent's fee (1 month vs 1 week). It hurt my pocket when I moved to Tokyo. Literally spent less than 2 days with the agent and had to cough up close to NZ$900 for the agent fee alone.

Temiko L Fuck. I plan on moving to Japan at some point, so thanks for the heads up. Better start saving like fuck.

Ah cool! Good luck! I feel like a lot will depend where you move to and how much time you have to shop around because you can find deals where they're doing no agent's fee, and some places don't require key money which makes a huge difference. Unfortunately I had to pick something very quickly so my apartment is quite expensive. Plus had pretty much all the extra costs. My apartment (in Tokyo) cost 1 month key money, 1 month agent fee, 1 month deposit (half of which will be deducted when I move out for cleaning fee), pro-rata first month in advance, antibacterial fee, and lock change fee to move in. I think it added up to the handsome sum of about $3000 of which most I will never see again (and remember, this is an empty apartment that still has to be furnished)... 2 weeks later my next lot of monthly rent was due. X_x The only fee I didn't have to pay was guarantor fee. Not trying to scare you off it, but be prepared and shop around before you commit!