kydes desk setup is the most efficent and minimalist desk solution ive ever seen. its amazing

I'm used to Toronto pricing and whenever I see your apartment cost breakdowns in Tokyo I always am surprised at how not-crazy-expensive it is and I think it's cheaper than Toronto. I grew up hearing how expensive Tokyo was but I think it's more affordable than many other massive cities. You guys are right, the food (good food) is so cheap there vs every time I go to Toronto I get sticker shock at any eatery.

Compared to Nyc this place is a steal! It would easily be 2500 monthly, and that’s being very very modest and not in the actual city. I always toy with the idea of relocating to Tokyo. And this just made it so much more appealing

Thanks for creating this and sharing. Love to see your apartment.

Yaaaaay! I have paused this as it's really late where I live, and am looking forward to watching this on my day off tomorrow when I get up with a yummy coffee! You guys are so positive and a breath of fresh air!

Yes! Finally! I've been waiting for this one for a while. I love your apartment. It's really cool and it doesn't seem cramped as many others I've seen before. You can't imagine how much I enjoyed this. It feels like I've been invited to your home. Thank you. It was a pleasure seeing your crib. Happy for your low expenses. Cheers! PS That monitor-arm is neat!

Hi Kyde & Eric , just want to thank you both for the journey this year from all your videos , really looking forward to whats to follow in the future , loved following you on all your videos from the start and will continue , I hope you both have a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year :-)

Seems like a decent price for living in a city. The extra fees that are usually charged are insane!! Glad you all found that loophole

Love your videos!! This is actually cheaper than I expected, to live a stone throw away from Tokyo Station I would of thought the cost would of doubled. Keep up the great work!!!!!

Thanks for the apartment tour! It's fun to see what changes as you have gone from apartment to apartment and what stays the same. I was waiting for the toolbox reveal near the genkan. Golden Balls looks happy to inside as well! I think the cost is great for the convenience and location! I am in rural TN, and I would gladly pay those prices to have the convenience you have. I have to drive 45 minutes to the nearest Walmart and the food choices are of course not as varied or delicious! Thank you for sharing!

Nice view of the city!

I swear, watching you to is like watching a Seinfeld episode....lol, nice apartment ya'll.

Great Primus t-shirt Eric!

Nice video been to Japan twice from Australia

Looks like you guys are using all the possible space in that apartment!! great video :D

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Yeahhhh finally!!!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting so long for this tour! Btw, holy umbrellas Batman!!! Wha?

Poor Eric is going to be all hunched over by the time he's 50! I love the Japanese way of having the toilet in a separate area. I wish they'd do that in the States. Makes sense!

How is the cost for our apartment compared to where you live? For reference our place is 41m² (441ft²) and here's a floor plan: kydeanderic.com/fp.jpg Liking, commenting, belling and subscribing helps us out. Subscribe here: goo.gl/mkAwyy Here is a follow-up video breaking down monthly costs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jspijNCq2LGleo0.html

You guys make the best apartment tour videos! I think that's why everyone (including me) was looking forward to this one. (A "K&E Cribs" playlist might be good?) Congratulations on scoring this place! And it looks like you two are very happy there. I love the passing back and forth of the camera. It's not only entertaining but also practical in a tight space. Hahaha. During the cost breakdown, I was wondering about your total monthly expenses, like with utilities, transportation, average food spending, etc. but I see in the comments a lot of other people asked about that too. Looking forward to that video! (I'm also curious about the first month or two costs for things like setting up your place with all the appliances and little bits you would need. We have been here just visiting for 2 months and had to go out and get things like a bath mat, hangers, and a few storage containers.) We're from the Toronto area so I think rent and stuff is comparable, if not a bit cheaper in Tokyo, when you factor in other costs of living. We live in a house an hour-ish outside of Toronto and pay about the same for our mortgage but also have a car and none of the conveniences of living in a big city. Right downtown though, you cannot find anything decent for less than $2000-2500 anymore. Other random thoughts: That faucet extension thing would be great for filling bottles or jugs that otherwise have to be tilted sideways to fit in a shallow sink. The door magnet catch reminds me of the cabinets that were so popular in the 80s with no handles on the outside so you had to push them in for them to release. Ahhhh, natsukashii. GOLDEN BALLS!! 😄 We bought a similar tanuki to take back with us - I've always wanted one. Ours doesn't have a name yet though. We'll have to get him situated at home in Canada and get to know him before we properly name him. Does Cotton the cactus still exist? Sorry for the super long comment! I love apartment tours.

that was a really interesting video....very informative. It would be interesting to know how much it would be for an apartment twice the size. Thanks for a great video.

When Kyde and Eric drop an hour video during finals study time... lovely torture

11:18 just watched a micro apt. tour earlier today and that's the same minimalist set up they had! Brilliant!

Good tour! I think you are right, the price might seem high compared to more rural areas, but for metropolitan it's pretty good.

thanks for the info & breakdown. that price seems expensive at first glance, but it's actually very reasonable when everything is taken into consideration : - per person cost - location - distance to public transport - view (as a photographer, i'd sit out on the balcony all day long & just take photos) best part : y'all can literally touch *"The Golden Poop"* from your balcony

*Finally, the apartment tour* 🥳 Let me get my coffee and waffle ready.

Keeping the tv box! Always! Makes it easy to move it and a sturdy box to use when ever needed :)

Yes, drawers in the kitchen are great. You can't have enough of them 👍 I am currently having my breakfast, good times 🙃

Most informative rent breakdown on youtube ever, u guys are so underrated. Now get working on that baby discount ;)

Ding, ding, ding! You are a winner! You have an amazing find. I live in a 3br townhouse in the Princeton NJ area. Your monthly note is cheaper than my mortgage and you live in Tokyo! Plus you are close to transit. Wow.

I’m from New York City and yes your rent is not expensive. Loved the video.

Great tour! Appreciate the cost breakdown. Comparable apt here in NYC is around $3000. Moving to Tokyo end of January. Rented a temporary furnished apt near Okachimachi Sta. while we look for permanent 2LDK place. Can't wait to get there!

cool vid. that bathroom is huge for japan

Cool t-shirt dude

Nice apartment!

The kitchen is small but overall a really nice pad. That out door space is killer. There should be some cool night views. Also huge thumbs up on the Primus shirt .

Man only took one year to post this :) This is your best apartment, love the guitars. That desk needs to go into subreddit /perfectfit.

So informative... thank you guys for inviting us into your cosy little sanctuary and also for the snapshot of the rental environment in Tokyo 🙏 (one can only dream...) Speaking of sanctuary, I'm doubly jealous because for some weird reason (I'm non-religious. Very.) the whole area around Senso-Ji is my happy place. Please say hello from me to all the fishies in the aquariums outside Don Quixote next time you're around there 🐠🐠

I used to hate the idea of mesh chairs until I used one and it's incredibly comfy. And you're spot on about not making it sweaty. Having flashbacks to leather car seats...

Thanks for sharing... Useful (size, etc.) information... :) Genkan size is a little awkward (had similar size in Osaka recently)... Would be nicer / easier if a little bigger... Everything else seems like a livable size I could totally deal with... I agree with Eric's "Keeping of the (TV) box" idea... :) The manual height adjust desk seems like a 'Clever Eric' kinda thing too...

Looks very decent and modern. Very nice!

You guys need to come visit fuchu! I’ve always wanted to meet y’all!

I love that door locking mechanism! Our bathroom door always swings halfway shut after you ooen it, and I always walk into it on my way out :( TBH I liked your Tokyo apartment a little better because it seemed to have more light, but the new kitchen has so much more storage!

That seems very reasonable for Tokyo both for the size and for the location. Size seems decent for Tokyo as well.

Nice tour, thank you! 16:50 You're right, looking down (or looking up for that matter) onto the monitor isn't good. But your laptop seems to be just on the height-adjustable desk, so you either have a good typing position and you have to look down, or you have a good viewing position and you can't type. So i'd get one of those notebook stands which puts the display on eye level (or put it on a stack of books etc.), and then put a seperate keyboard and mouse in front of it.

Key Money sounds like the biggest scam XD

Kyde was right; her introduction was super cute! Heh. Also, renting in Seattle is super expensive, around $1,500 on the low end at roughly the same size as yours. We currently rent a house(1500sq feet) further out(about 30 miles out) for around $1,500, though. Anyways for what you're getting, I feel it's a good deal, especially without those ridiculous fees. P.s. Thanks for being so detailed, it was really cool seeing your guys place and the price breakdown was super informative :3.

UR Housing sounds amazing. Surprised more people don’t know about it.

About appartment, one thing that needs to be said is there is a huge difference between private owners (like if your dad owns a building with X number of appartment versus corporate owned building like the one Eric and Kyde are in. In general, private owners will charge you everything they can (legaly) as high as they can. Because hey! "free" money! Where with corporate owned building, they want to fill the whole place asap which translate into easier, faster and usually cheaper prices. Also, as soon as you are outside of the main Tokyo area, prices start to drop fast. I'll take my example as living in a Leopalace21 owned building. Im 15-20 minutes out of Ikebukuro, in straight line (few stations to do depending if i take an express or semi-express train to get there) and been that "far" from Tokyo mean they have trouble filling the whole building. There is 20 appartment here, at most 10 have people in them. This is a 1 Room appartment, with a small kitchen and normal bath area. Between 20 and 25 m² depending on the building. When i showed up to the company with my realtor agent (i dont speak japanese, all paperwork is in japanese), they told me if i signed for 8 months they would give me 1 month free of rent. 12 months and it would be 2 month free rent. Since it's a corporate owned building, i only had 2 different "move-in" fee. No key money, no deposit, no lock exchange, no guarantor. In the end, the move in cost was 120 000 yens. Since i signed for 1 year, they gave me 2 month free rent. My rent : 72 000 (including internet). Total cost of the appartment for 1 year : 840 000 yens. (Kyde and Eric will pay 1 736 700 for one year, but double size, so it's logic) Im pretty happy with my situation :) My work pay my transportation fee to Tokyo Station, so it's perfect! Takes me between 50 and 60 minutes to get there. Edit : They also have the ~100$ gift if you recommend someone to move in with Leopalace!

I think it's a great price, especially for the location! I also think this UR ahousing has adopted an "american" style of dealing with apartments. At least in my area of California, it seems like they are aiming at what we would call "low income" with the types of leases offered. Also with the child credits. I love the apartment, and think it's an awesome concept, that is definitely solving many housing issues.

When we visited Tokyo, we were at the shrine across the river from you and I was looking over at the buildings on your side of the river and I would never have thought you could live there for that price. I thought it would be much more expensive. I think you got a great deal considering all the conveniences of living there ie: great transportation system, cheap food, and actually living in Tokyo. The one thing about living over there is downsizing to the norm of size standards. I would have a hard time doing that but I have an almost 2800 sq ft house and I really like my space :)

Livin the dream ❤️👌🏼

Chicago- My friend paid $1200 a month for what you have twenty years ago. I’d say for a major city you are killing it.

You guys have a beautiful apartment and considering where you're living it seems surprisingly reasonable. I'd be hard pressed to find similar prices for 1 bedroom apts around me and I live in a dumpy post-industrial metro area in the midwest. Admittedly you'd get probably twice the square footage for the price but on balance I'd rather be living in a place like Tokyo lol! This was neat to see; thank you for showing us around!

Thanks for sharing. I have been looking for that thing you showed for your computer to raise it. Who makes it? Since you love it, I'm sure that it will be sturdy and something that I need to buy. Thanks!

You know it's a japanese appartment when there is a closet full of umbrella. I bet you didnt even purchase half of them ;)

For your kitchen. Find something that covers your sink. I have made a wooden cover for my sink when I didn’t have enough counter space.

Kyde: look at this weird thing! Eric: let met tell you about this toilet.

Hello, I am a Japanese living in Boston. I am so jealous. The smallest good studio in Boston/Cambridge is about 500 sqft and rent is about $2700. Those old three-decker houses that look nice in the Scorsese movie are cheaper (studio $1600), but the wall/ceiling is paper thin, you hear footsteps, conversation, TV sound from next door every minute in addition to rodent problem. The quality of life here is lower than any city in Japan I can think of. You can find $1300 studio in suburb, but commuting takes 3 hour/day and car related expense costs $700/month. You can find the cheaper one in Dorchester but it’s so dangerous that you can't even walk one block at night. I miss Japan.

My 7 year old walked in as I was watching this, saw Eric and said "hey it's VSauce!"

The outside of the apartment reminds me of the building in the newer Dredd movie.

Sorry to interrupt you, but that hamburger helper on the wall is the best visitor drawing ever!

OMG that is an Awesome Price, and this from someone who owns property in Oregon, Oklahoma, and Arkansas! Very cheap for you all.

25:44 You could see if you could slide some plywood under the cushions. I have fixed an old couch that way. The plywood distributes the weight on the springs under the cushions so you don't sink so deep. Yeah its a little stiff but if you don't like sitting in a hole, it might just do the trick. (I had the hardware store people cut it down to the size I wanted. I have a little coping saw that I could shape it with too but a rectangle worked for the couch I had.)

Considering my rent in the states - I live in like a smallish city - is about 800$ and I had to pay first and last months rent plus deposit, honestly 1300$/month to live in Tokyo is insanely cheap to me! I was paying about 1100$/month at my last apartment in a different state in a city with only 20,000 people. I've lived all over America and 1300$/month to live in Tokyo to me is insanely fair. Wow I am in shock! I might be moving to Japan in a few months so this was a really helpful video overall. Thank you for making it! :D

Very interesting video! You didn't mention utilities/internet as well as building amenities and bike/scooter/car parking expense. Is there storage available?

Seems pretty legit! I'm out West in Tachikawa paying 140,000/mo for a brand new (2016~) 1LDK, but your location is pretty excellent and that price is super reasonable, especially with the refurbishments to kitchen, etc that it looks like UR did before you moved in. Plus, you've got a giant golden poo to look at whenever you're feeling down. Can't be beat.

The complex we live in just had a renovation and a one bedroom apartment starts at $2400 not including water and trash that gets metered.

The monthly fee is not that expensive, I lived in Poland and was paying a similar price for a flat in the city center. What I do think is expensive is the amount of fees, damn that's a lot. Good you found that loophole

I pay that much for a 600ft studio in Austin Tx. So you guys have an amaaaazing deal!

I'm in NYC. For $1200 here you might find a small studio in an okay neighborhood if you really hunt around, but for most people $1200 means you have roommates. What's the square footage on your place?

I think that’s a great price for living in Tokyo! Much cheaper then I thought and your apartment is very cute for the two of you. I wonder what this building charges for a 2 bed unit. Also the fact that you don’t have a car payment and those expenses makes it so much more worth it.

It struck me that you must feel like Gandalf walking through Bagend all the time 🧙🏻‍♂️ this apartment is so cozy and y’all are adorable.

1200 inside the city while being a walking distance away from a station is unimanigable here in Calgary, even more so for bigger cities like Toronto. Most you can find around Calgary is 1500+

Just saw Primus a few weeks ago with Phillip H. Anselmo and Slayer, AMAZING!

5 minute walk to a station in the middle of Tokyo, that's a fantastic price. PLUS you don't have to go through the whole guarantor hassle. AND a balcony! Great find! Do you feel safe and comfortable in that building compared to other apartments you were in?

Wait, you were able to put that bidet on yourself? How did you do that? I've been looking up how to install a bidet in Japanese toilets but have had no luck!

@48:30 we pay less than that for 5 acres and a big house. An hour from DC

From California, a pretty expensive state. But I'm up north close to Oregon. $1200/$1300 would get you a 3 bedroom/2 bath house. But, in a major city like Tokyo, I would have expected to pay more. So, I think it's a pretty good deal.

You should try a do-it-yourself repair of your old couch. Just do a google search for ideas.

the washing machine noise that sounds like a scream seems to be from the solenoid switch that controls the pressure from the hot or cold water input, usually the cold, seeing that the pressure is more and so kills the switch prematurely.... hopefully there’s stock and some repair support

Nice tour. Are you allowed to grow fruit and veg on that balcony? That would be awesome. I usually walk past your house on my way to skytree...I’ll give you a wave next time.

Have you considered a piece of hardboard under the couch cushions. It may support you more and stop the sinking into a hole feeling 😁

"some umbrellas"

wohoooooo! :D

As an avid home cook, the kitchen would drive me bonkers (some would say "more so"). But one has to weigh the trade-offs and I would say you guys won the lottery.

Do you think 2020 will be the year we get hitch hiking to the Southern Point of Japan? Like to Tanegashima or Yakushima Island .

Hello from Detroit , GREAT VIDEO . do you own a motor bike , and if so do you have parking at your apartment ?

It's cheap for a major city. What would it be for a 2/3 bdr? I like that it costs to get rid of couches etc. Great move despite its $ pain

Seems very cheap and super convenient! I wonder about energy prices living there too? Me & my partner rent a end-terrace house in Northumberland UK with a large garden and 3 stray cats (one who is constantly sitting with his tongue out- we have named Mr.Derpins) for £400 a month

Wait is that right next to the Asahi building?! (Spying it on Maps) What a location for a pretty reasonable price!

Your place is really nice, the 'weird heating thing', looks like, what we would call in the UK, a storage heater maybe?..

Hi. Thanks for the vid. I keep boxes for most things. I think I'll get more if I sell anything. I have a pretty good deal on rent: no deposit and £270 per month for an apartment (flat UK) with two large bedrooms, a big kitchen, a large living room and a utlity room. I also have separate gared drying area the size of a medium garden. I get free bus transport anywhere in the country (England). Can you recommend a small rice cooker? Thanks again for showing us around you very tidy apartment.

How about utilities? I understand it depends on the usage but what would be like a approximate cost of say electricity gas trash water and internet?

Wow, out master bathroom has a separate toilet room with a door. We did that when we remodeled the house before moving in. The previous owners didn't have the separate room, but the toilet (AND bidet) were on the opposite side of the bathroom from the shower. We got rid of the bidet (not knowing how useful it is), and later put a bidet seat on the toilet. I wonder if we can buy a Japanese toilet (with built in bidet) in the States (provided the control labels are in English!, though it would be worth the effort to learn just enough Kanji to read the control labels)? I bet the Japanese toilets are low flush to save water (and actually WORK!) I think your rent is cheaper than my daughter's apartment in Cambridge Mass. But her's may be more square feet. She is also near the MTA as you are near the RR.

Very reasonable

When I lived in Nerima your buddy Taka hooked us up with a great place. Was paying ¥106,000 with 2 cats. We transferred to Seattle at the beginning of the year I have a place in North Seattle that with parking and the cats is $1950 a month

Ok question 1 - what is a steamer and how do I make it? Question 2 - can I get that door hold/lock thing on Amazon? I have a door that won’t stay open and slowly closes and hits me in the bum when I want it to stay open.

Hey K&E...could the door stop thingie be for earthquakes?