{"id":6911,"date":"2014-09-25T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T12:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidejapanblog.com\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:38:40","slug":"the-tokyo-renting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/the-tokyo-renting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tokyo Apartment Rental Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Like this post? Help us by sharing it!<\/h4><ul class=\"wpfai-list\"><li class=\"wpfai-list-item facebook\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911&amp;t=\" title=\"Facebook\" class=\"wpfai-facebook wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-facebook fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item twitter\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911\" title=\"Twitter\" class=\"wpfai-twitter wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item pinterest\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911&amp;description=&amp;media=\" title=\"Pinterest\" class=\"wpfai-pinterest wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-pinterest fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item linkedin\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911&amp;title=\" title=\"Linked In\" class=\"wpfai-linkedin wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-linkedin fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item envelope\">\r\n      <a href=\"mailto:?subject=&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911%20-%20\" title=\"E-Mail\" class=\"wpfai-envelope wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-envelope fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item stumbleupon\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911\" title=\"Stumble Upon\" class=\"wpfai-stumbleupon wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-stumbleupon fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><li class=\"wpfai-list-item reddit\">\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidejapantours.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6911\" title=\"Reddit\" class=\"wpfai-reddit wpfai-link wpfainw\">\r\n        <span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\">\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-square fa-stack-2x\"><\/i>\r\n          <i class=\"fa fa-reddit fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i>\r\n        <\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/li><\/ul><p><strong>After recently seeing the 2 years on my apartment rental agreement come to an end, I had to reengage in activity with my Tokyo Estate Agents\u2013 and oh how the memories of 2 years prior came flooding back, when my bank account was completely drained<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6916 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0212-510x680.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0212\" width=\"348\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The realities of life in Tokyo \u2013 rich or poor, Japanese or expat \u2013 is that there is very little space. So, while average rental costs may not exceed other great cities across the world, living space is typically very limited and you end up with very little for your hard-earned yen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>I decided to stay put in my little ferroconcrete den for another 2 years for reasons that may become clearer as you read on\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>As in my home country of the UK, (real) estate agents in Japan are not the most popular organisations, and likewise, the image of the money-grabbing landlord holds true for many here in Tokyo, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, you need a roof over your head: first the apartment hunting game. The majority of property owners wishing to rent out to tenants prefer to channel all the contractual and legal wrangling through the estate agents. Hence, pretty much any area of Tokyo will have a wealth of (wealthy) agents around the so-called <em>Ekimae (<\/em>station front) area. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>All display \u201cgreat deals\u201d in the shop window for what I call \u201cghost apartments\u201d \u2013 ones which have always (coincidently?) just been rented out, when you enquire\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201dBut what about this one, Sir?\u201d So, you are lured into the shop by the marketing hook and start to trawl through the dozens of rooms on offer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6917\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0210-510x383.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0210\" width=\"359\" height=\"273\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">40,000 yen (4\u4e07\uff09\/\u3000250 pounds for a studio apartment, no deposit, no key money required &#8211; something is fishy &#8211; haunted, a murderer&#8217;s former abode, railway tracks running through it or simply disgusting? Don&#8217;t worry, its already unavailable anyway!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>And when I talk of rooms, the Tokyo singleton on an average white-collar salary is often only able to afford the one room \u2013 a tiny single room studio apartment. Unlike in London, house sharing is also not an option in Japan\u2019s capital, so your room is where you eat, sleep, watch TV, entertain\u2026 At least you have privacy, well, that is if your walls are not paper thin!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6924\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_3423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_3423-510x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3423\" width=\"296\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early afternoon in this dark 6 tatami mat room and the light needs to be on already!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Apartments are very often still measured using the old Japanese system of counting tatami mats. These traditional rush straw mats are, sadly, increasingly giving way to vinyl flooring or timber parquet, however they are still the way to gauge living space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6919\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0198-510x680.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0198\" width=\"295\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A typical plan of a (large) apartment, showing the balcony on the left, even the 2 gas rings and sink in the kitchen (K) and each tatami mat in the \uff12main rooms\uff08\uff16\u7573\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Tokyo tatami mats (a little smaller than their equivalents in western Japan) are 1.76m x 88cm. A typically-sized main room for single occupancy is therefore a mere 6 \u201d<em>Jo<\/em>\u201d, i.e. 6 mats, so pretty tight at just under 10 square metres! This one main room will often (but not always) have a small built in wardrobe, and your one source of light \u2013 hopefully sliding glass doors which give out onto a little balcony space (perhaps itself the size of a single mat).<\/strong> <strong>You certainly need to know where the sun is going to be when choosing &#8211; north facing is not a good way to go unless you want to live under artificial lighting whenever you are at home, day or night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6921\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0182-510x680.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0182\" width=\"304\" height=\"402\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making the most of a balcony &#8211; fake ivy, astroturf and cactuses, along with a few herbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Other areas in the apartment \u2013 the <em>genkan<\/em>; a tiny square area a little lower than the rest of the apartment floor, which has room to park 4 pairs of shoes orderly by the front door; a kitchenette with one or, if you are lucky 2 gas\/ electric cooking rings; and a prefab, plastic bathroom where you can literally shower whilst on the toilet. Don&#8217;t expect to stretch out in the bath either \u2013 Japanese style is box like and deep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6914\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_3473-510x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3473\" width=\"304\" height=\"402\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No need to worry about getting the bathroom floor wet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What about heating? Typically a joint AC\/heating unit is fixed on the wall, up by the ceiling \u2013 great in the summer but as rudimentary physics dictates, warm air rises, so not so perfect on cold winter nights in a country that lives on the floor!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So there you have it \u2013 otherwise no fittings, curtains, furniture, bedding, oven, fridge, TV or washing machine, (by the way \u2013 you may have to have that on your balcony!) Essentially, a box with little character and questionable insulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What other criteria are people looking at closely when apartment hunting? Aspects such as aspect (inevitably) &#8211; one worry being that your wonderful view, above the Tokyo cables and poles, may disappear if construction of a neighbouring building starts (some seemingly appear overnight here). You may soon find a towering, shadow-spewing edifice which extinguishes any natural light that you ever had.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6920\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0184-510x680.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0184\" width=\"275\" height=\"362\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least there is a view &#8211; even if not the finest!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Equally important &#8211; how far is the nearest overground or underground railway station on foot? The great majority of the millions of Tokyo commuters use what has to rank as one of the finest public transport systems in the world. Getting to your nearest train station is key in the dash to and from the workplace, and people are keen to reduce the commute in light of long working days. Too close though and your room will be shaking from 5am till past midnight every day of the year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6918\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_0206-510x383.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0206\" width=\"375\" height=\"285\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 train stations within walking distance &#8211; 7 or 8 minutes on foot, an ideal distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Another consideration &#8211; is the building a flimsy walled \u201capato\u201d (often found in smaller and older apartment blocks)? The better option is modern robust, ferroconcrete \u201cmansion\u201d (a far from a country manor house), which is far better if you don&#8217;t want to hear the clicking of your neighbour\u2019s chopsticks as they eat, let alone any nocturnal activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6913\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_3616-720x538.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3616\" width=\"387\" height=\"293\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The so called &#8220;designer&#8217;s mansion&#8221; &#8211; sturdy, functional and coolly expensive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Oh, and of course, there is cost to consider! In Japan, the process does not simply involve a deposit payment, your first month\u2019s rent and you\u2019re set. Other quite substantial costs are incurred depending on the landlord\u2019s decision on how much <em>reikin <\/em>\u2013 (key money) to demand. This often irks the foreign tenant in Japan, as it seems to serve essentially a way of saying \u201cthank you, almighty landlord for allowing me to pay you most of my salary for a dingy box provided with gas water and electricity for the next 2 years\u201d. 2 months\u2019 of deposit is quite common, and this is often non-returnable, no matter how spotless you leave a dwelling on vacating it. A guarantor company may even be required, which essentially covers your missing rent if you decide to make a run for it \u2013 another month\u2019s rent. Oh, and of course, there is the friendly agent\u2019s fee \u2013 take a month\u2019s worth why don&#8217;t you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So let\u2019s break it down using a tiny apartment example to really emphasize what many single Tokyoites require to secure 6 tatami mat place, an hour by train from the (huge) central Tokyo area. Let\u2019s assume a modest 80,000yen (500 pounds) rent per month. Initial costs to get a contract signed, may work out as expensive as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 month\u2019s rent upfront<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 month\u2019s deposit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 month\u2019s <em>reikin<\/em> (thank you\/key money) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 month to a guarantor company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 month to the agent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Add in a little change for insurance payments and you are possibly heading towards a figure of 600,000 (around 4000pounds) to be paid in order to get a rental agreement signed. And remember, this is for a box of around 20 square metres, which you can do very little to \u2013 no redecorating, no car, no motorbike, maybe even no bicycles (where are you going to park it \u2013 on your bed?) no pets, no musical instruments, no life..?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hasten to add that I have decided to sacrifice a large proportion of my salary to actually have a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> room to live in \u2013 an excess indeed but living out of hotel rooms for a fair part of the year, my need for more than one unit within which to exist is very important for my sanity. The sacrifice is well worth it and having just paid my friendly agent an extra month\u2019s rent to re-sign the contract for another 2 years, I won\u2019t be moving for a while. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6912\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidejapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_3650-720x538.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3650\" width=\"361\" height=\"273\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, this was the money I handed over to the estate agent in order to simply secure a rental agreement!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sacrifices, sacrifices, but of course, I have all the attractions of one of the most bedazzling cities on the planet on my doorstep. 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