Japanese Narrow Buildings

How would you live in one? I mean... what if you slip and fall over against a wall? Won't the building fall over or something?

well, the country already has to put dead people on top of city buildings. so i can't really say i am surprised by this.

One things that is good is that if your hunted hunted by a tourist group of fat people and you yourself is thin.

Just escape into the house and your free

Truly marvelous

holy fucking fuck!!!!

I really like these houses, they're kinda cool, wouldn't mind living in one.

pretty normal i must say.

Hell what's that?! I couldn't possibly live in an apartment like that. Why they even build it? Well, a few of those buildings are not that narrow, just lanky. But why building it in this style? It reminds me of european gothic buildings which are very tall in order to be closer to God.

FAKE! THEY ACTUALLY CONCEAL SOME GUNDAMS THAT JAPAN WILL USE WHEN INVADED BY NORTH KOREA!!!

They must have gotten the idea from an LCD TV.

I really don't care if they are real or shop or whatever it is that you people are saying. They look really cool and are there for a reason. I don't mind living in one of those room/apartment compared to living inside a car! =P

And you know.. if you were actualy buying a apartment in one of those, (Well, not now, but bout 15 years back, same sized apartment) it would set you back more than 1 mio (1 Mio USD, not YEN), speaking about tokyo or other major citys here.

Can those buildings really stand an earthquake...?

Some of them looks like PS3 and Wii.. And i can't even imagine how the kid in that last pic fits in that house...

The engineer in me says some of these have to be shoops they just would not be structurally stable.

how would you fit into #11, is that possible?

also whats the dude in the last pic doing.

eh, cool houses :) why in Estonia had so small houses:D good for students :)

About the only way I'd live in one of these buildings is if I owned the whole thing. That's about the only way I'd have adequate floorspace.

Two words come to mind: chocolate kettle.

Some don't look terribly bad, but some... why?

Anonymous said:
I wonder what the rent on these places are at

I bet the rent is SLIM

=3 cwhutididthar

I wonder what the rent on these places are at

And the wind huffed and puffed and blew down the house--

Seriously, if a strong enough wind came by blowing full front at the house, bye bye house!

Wow, I'd be afraid to live in one of those free standing apartments, I'd keep thinking a strong breeze would make it fall over. (though i'm sure it woulden't happen. Still would be freaky.)

That narrow house, barely wide enough for a Mediterranean Style front door was very cool. I'll bet it came with a sizable price tag as well. I think it should have been built to be three and a half stories tall. Instead of just two and a half! Is it in Tokyo? Let's see more bizarre buildings like these, please.

there's no way in hell I would fit in that

I demand European pics. I've heard these super-narrow buildings are common there. Especially in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin.

some of them are shopped, indeed.

It's like a storefront without a back. XD

I see you just swiped this from here:
http://www.bouncingredball.com/2008/12/10/20-really-thin-buildings-and-houses-in-japan/

I am absolutely stumped by #12, you'd have to walk sideways in that.

Not surprised at all. They had buildings this thin in Nagasaki as well. I'd totally live in that first one given how nice the view probably is.

Most of those buildings look comical. I can't imagine living in something like that.

it's like wayside school lol

wow... 2d housing. for my 2d waifus

so ronery

How safe would one of these be in an earthquake? They must have some truly mad engineers and building codes.

it looks like it will fall... kinda like placing a card verticaly...

Some of the perspectives on these make me have to rub my eyes and look again to make sure I'm seeing the dimensions correctly.

the ones that a ridiculous are obvious shops cuz the join lines have no picture noise. But then again I play with myself in front of a mirror.

lol, ahaha, it's like simtower irl