Eye-watering rents for tiny Tokyo apartments seem to have reached a new low, with “capsule apartments” in central Tokyo making their TV debut.
The rent for the tiny Shibuya tomb is quoted at ¥45,000:
The “residences,” part of a “super tiny share house,” appear to be intended to provide ultra-convenient sleeping space in some of Tokyo’s most in-demand areas, rather than as conventional dwelling space.
The monthly rent of some ¥45,000 has been massively criticised as a huge rip-off even for central Tokyo – and it is indeed hard to ignore the fact that even in Minato city, Tokyo’s most expensive area, it is possible to find conventional (if dreadful) 1-room apartments for ¥50,000-¥60,000.
Comparisons to Hong Kong’s “cage” housing are also all but inevitable:
The boxes – despite reporting to the contrary overseas – are almost unheard of in Tokyo and have been the subject of much enthusiastic scorn and mockery online:
“Poor Tokyoites!”
“This is a joke, right?”
“Even Japanese would not want to live in this.”
“I like these tiny spaces – though not at that price.”
“I could understand it if they were paying ¥5,000 for it…”
“10k is the limit for this.”
“Guys – you can get a rubbish apartment in Tokyo for 50k, no problem.”
“Come on now – 50-60k gets you a one room apartment even in Tokyo.”
“I’m surprised anyone thinks the merits of living in central Tokyo extend this far.”
“These are just country bumpkins showing off.”
“They are probably in the very top residential district in Tokyo though. But if you could live in these, wouldn’t you be better off making a 1 hour commute into Tokyo from the suburbs?”
“When I was a kid this is how I imagined prison cells.”
“This much would get you 3DK public housing in the regions.”
“Good way to keep yourself working – have a dwelling so dismal you don’t want to go home.”
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Reminds me of the slum areas of Deus Ex Human Revolution.
The future is now... >_>;
Wow. you read my mind.
I think that was actually linked in an article on Kotaku when this was featured a couple days ago. So you guys are definitely not the only ones.
They're already here few years ago, 'mun! For people who missed the train or something!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
Only if you live outside of the states. We're the last home-owning nation on earth, and yesterday some guy on the radio was going on about turning us into a nation of renters. ;_;
"We're the last home-owning nation on earth"
No, you're not.
You know.. even if you believe otherwise,... but before you actually payed for that home, you don't really own it. Buying on credit doesn't equal paying for it.
You sir, are utterly ignorant. It baffles me that you would even come to such a conclusion. There are 196 countries in the world and out of those 19 are ahead of USA in home ownership rate..
You do realize that homeowners in some countries actually *own* their homes, as opposed to being in debt up to your eyeballs and owe more money to the bank than your home's worth... right?
Yeah, some "ownership" you've got there. Cows that love being milked, moo.
well, if you weren't soo bitchy about what kind of work you'd want, maybe you wouldn't BE in debt in the first place. 'muricans tend to be like that frequently.
No, people spend more money then they have, that puts them in debt, not whatever job they did or didn't take.
I was about to take his comment seriously...but then I realized he's from 'MURICA!! >.>
Tell this to ppl in post-soviet countries, where almost every family owns their houses. Without any mortgages.
So if they died in their little boxrooms, do they unfasten and slide the 'room' out and it automaticly becomes a coffin?
They'll start dying of suffocation soon enough. Hong Kong cage housing are intentional designs by necessity. You need airflow through these things.
I think the hidden wall panel slides sideways, the inhabitant is dropped in a truck and we'll see "Soylent Green 2 - Pink is the new Green".
The future is now ^^
Wheres the airholes :)
In modern world homeless people have more freedom than citizens.
Homeless people are citizens.... Homeless people have more freedom in spirit, but not in actual laws. If anything they have less due to the partial justice system that sees the homeless as nothing more than vermin.
A spider while being in there would be a living Hell for me.
Hope it turns into a spider girl
At least the cages of Hong Kong seem to be more well-ventilated.
they are like the futurama's robots apartments
except without closets
Yah the closet in those is huge.
I love sales bot... X3
So when a child cries and run to his parent's bed in the middle of the night because he saw a monster in the closet, would they believe him now or what?
More like running crying to the monster's bed in the middle of the night because he saw his parents live in the closet.. wait wa..
Mommy! There's a filthy otaku in my closet.
I love the Japanese Culture and all but who the hell would spend $500/monthly to live in a closet? yea.... No thank you.... -. -
I wonder how big a prison cell is in japan...
Not sure but in the US if you put a prisoner in a cell that small you could end up in a cell.
i'd rather migrate to norway and apply for 'residency' in their jail.
I'm getting claustrophobic only by looking at it >.<
Is this a coffin?
500$... you know you can get a better apartment for that, right? you're not exactly earning 30,000 a day so idk.. just a thought
In Brazil you could rent a decent house in the best cities with this value.
heck in pittsburgh pa you can get a decent appartment for that and houses if u look in the suburbs and for those that hate pittsburgh it is one of the top 3 most livable cities in the usa
You could rent a 2 bedroom house in Ft. Worth, Texas area for $500 US a month -__-
You could rent a 2 bedroom house in Ft. Worth, Texas area for $500 US a month -__-
I'd rather live in an aging boardinghouse, like the ones Japan considers uncool, than live in a CLOSET.
This really is about supply and demand. In the densest city in the world, space is in such short supply that the demand has raised prices to an unfathomable level, and this article just proves what a parody life is like in Tokyo.
Tokyo is not the densest city in the world. Not even close.
So sad. No room to bring the girlfriend over for a quicky.
Hope the boxes are thick. Or else neighbors would hear you fap.
In pic 11, they're filming an AV. :3
I think the neighbours can even hear your stomach gurgle.
500$ for a box? Japanese is crazy.
Damn. I live in Fukuoka in an appartment with a room, a bathroom/toilet, a kitchen and an appartment for roughly $450 USD a month. In a nice area.
But my sister has a single room in London - just one room, nothing else, that costs that much a week. So this wouldnt surprise me in Tokyo.
the sleeper on my kenworth has more room than that!!
I wouldn't mind living in this as long as the rent is less then 100 dollars, actually I think this is more better then living in a house/apartment as long as there is a way to shower and internetz then i'm fine.