Japanese Narrow Buildings
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: Feb 12, 2009 09:17 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Image Gallery, Real Estate, Tokyo
As we saw before, Japanese realtors consider no crevice beneath their notice, as long as it is in a central urban area. In this gallery you can see more of their addled creations.
In the interests of not perpetuating false stereotypes about Japanese urban architecture, I should point out that these buildings are regarded with incomprehension even by Japanese, most of whom would not care to live in one. They are far from commonplace.
Needless to say, there is also no question of these being Photoshop creations; I and many of you have personally seen examples of such.
This building is gaily called “Try-Angle”:
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what's with the kid on the last picture?
I would totally rent one of these apartments if they were real.
they are real
Well than it looks like were renting a place there XD
i think so small house are normal size >_>
*think about my student live -_-*
My shooping sense is tingling.
Reminds me of that episode of Detective Conan...when a kid is kidnapped and she said to her dad that outside the window there was a 'tall tower'...Shinichi was like "wtf there's no tower in this town!" and finally realized that the girl was looking at a 'slim building' from sideways... ;-p
lol pics are from russian site...well some places in russia are narrow too...
Holy damn!
This is awesome!
Now I would like to see how it looks like inside those apartments.
move you bed out to your hallway lol
You'd have to get an extra small bed to just get it into the building. Some of those look like they couldn't fit a tatami mat across.
There is no hallway :D
majority of the japanese sleep on futons anyways so i dont think sleeping is an issue.
You can fold your futon in half and jam it in a small room and sleep in it like a hot-dog!
and japanese are quite short too.
Yeah, I'd love to see the blueprints or floor plans for those places.
first I would like to know rent on them
and second how do u go up floors ladders?
I wonder how they build pic8 or pic10 buildings between the other two... D:
a la tetris?
Some are really thin... others are just umbelievable!
Number 12 for instance, comparing the building's width to the guy who's walking... the building seems thinner!
Indeed, I looked at that one and instantly thought "that's not a building, that's a wall o_O"
^
| is me btw...
theres a few that look like the Giant Robots that run rampent around japan crushed the rest of the building so they just stick a new wall on and called it a houce... even thou its more like a wall....
I know that these are real, but I honestly believe that 12 is a facade.
Japan's so conservative... I wonder what it's like to live in one of those?
no way any of those are earthquake proof.....
It would just fall over and crumble around them. They would just brush off and go about their day.
Some of these things look like the apartments inside would be about average studio size. I'm pretty sure number 12 is a false front, or a decorative wall to the building behind it.
I really want to see the inside! I bet their about the size of some notoriously small New York apartments.
They look as if they would be standard 6 tatami 1K apartments, probably with an elevator and stairs at one end, with one apartment per floor. the only difference is probably that they usually have more apartments to each side...
because of the angle i think there is a possibility that 12 is triangular just like the last pic... if not then that's the only house in the gallery w/c in my opinion is uninhabitable
lol, ahaha, it's like simtower irl
it's like wayside school lol
fuck yeah wayside school
Most of those buildings look comical. I can't imagine living in something like 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.
I am absolutely stumped by #12, you'd have to walk sideways in that.
they have triangular plans so the viewing angle gives a false impression of how wide they are at the other end
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.
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.
They are real. I have personally seen similar.
read the artefact comment... I srsly LOL'D...
Feeling stupid now? Oh no you don't... People who pretending to be clever won't feel that huh?
Internet tough guy alert.
I'd recommend learning 2 English before attempting to flame anyone, junior.
OH BUT STOOPID PEOPLE DONT LEARN HUH, I LOL, KEKEKEKEKEK.
Additional retard points for being a suck-up as well.
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.
it looks like it will fall... kinda like placing a card verticaly...
japanese engineers. do not fuck with them :P
im just saying... as a fellow engineer ^_^
Yeah, especially considering they actually have a building in Osaka that has a freeway going through it. Why can't we do that here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_Tower_Building
Reminded me the 9 tsubo houses or something like that.
It looks like the buildings would tip over if it was hit on the side with enough force.
shooped or not...it still made me lol XD
Uuuuuuh... I'd be very claustrophobic living in one. But if I feel nauseous, the toilet would be at least in the same room, lol
Such buildings will be a thing of past since "Sky City 1000" will be built any day now...
Makes me think of the space limitations in Hong Kong~
I commented in the last article to do with these... The term is Spite House (or spite fence) where a building or fence is made to annoy a neighbor or government. Search it up on wikipedia...
Ah! Thank you!
I spent the rest of the night Googling (sic) spite houses...
Am I the only one who can see that half of these are shopped? They just don't make sense. And other buildings just appear smaller, hence the business buildings around them. One more note, a couple buildings seem to have a weird angle taken on them. spotted two triangular buildings.
I'm not going to bother repeating myself any further.
You shouldn't, gave them fair warning in the article itself...
I'm not an expert when it comes to identifying shopped pictures but the part with the narrow building on every picture hurts my eyes. x.x
Looks shopped to me.
14 is shopped and i imagine many others are too
14 is real. I saw that exact building in Japan when I was visiting.
^--- that's me btw
here's google maps proof if you still think its shopped. move down the street to see another angle if you want.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Tokyo+Midtown&sll=35.659075,139.728992&sspn=0.000802,0.001733&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FYU3IAIdCyBUCA&split=0&ll=35.664581,139.730759&spn=0.000401,0.000866&t=h&z=21&layer=c&cbll=35.664581,139.730759&panoid=pI88FgBPDgC624-iunqwcQ&cbp=12,289.14124324166323,,0,-4.0557275541795015 [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Tokyo Midtown&sll=35.659075,139.728992&sspn=0.000802,0.001733&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FYU3IAIdCyBUCA&split=0&ll=35.664581,139.730759&spn=0.000401,0.000866&t=h&z=21&layer=c&cbll=35.664581,139.730759&panoid=pI88FgBPDgC624-iunqwcQ&cbp=12,289.14124324166323,,0,-4.0557275541795015]
Its like urban tetris
They look like they're ready to tumble when an earthquake occurs..
No place for fatties in Japan.
In an earthquake..
They must have gotten the idea from an LCD TV.
FAKE! THEY ACTUALLY CONCEAL SOME GUNDAMS THAT JAPAN WILL USE WHEN INVADED BY NORTH KOREA!!!
gundam wouldn't fit in that, mind you :D
mind you own buseiness
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...
Can those buildings really stand an earthquake...?
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.
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
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.
pretty normal i must say.
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.
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?
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.
until some strong winds remove you and your apartment :3
I see you just swiped this from here:
http://www.bouncingredball.com/2008/12/10/20-really-thin-buildings-and-houses-in-japan/
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.
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.)
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!
there's no way in hell I would fit in that
It's like a storefront without a back. XD
some of them are shopped, indeed.
I demand European pics. I've heard these super-narrow buildings are common there. Especially in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin.
I wonder what the rent on these places are at
I bet the rent is SLIM
=3 cwhutididthar
eh, cool houses :) why in Estonia had so small houses:D good for students :)
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.
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.