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50 square meters would be very large for a 1 bedroom in Tokyo. My 3 bedroom two hours outside Tokyo was 85m^2 and cost around 2500/month.
by jki275 8y ago
50 square meters would be very large for a 1 bedroom in Tokyo. My 3 bedroom two hours outside Tokyo was 85m^2 and cost around 2500/month.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYa, they would be much smaller. Rents in Tokyo appear cheap, until you look at them on a square meter basis.
- sgrove 8y agoThis is an interesting contrast though - similarly in Paris, apartments can get much smaller than SF. The difference is, in SF, you simply don’t have the choice.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoA lot of that has to do with American building and rental codes.
- jki275 8y agoNever tried to rent in Tokyo, but I can imagine the prices are astronomical in any decent areas.
- dahdum 8y agoThey really aren't, they are just small compared to western standards. You can get a two bedroom in Shinjuku for $1900/month, it's just going to be around 625 sqft. Transport in the Tokyo area is so good it's not really a big deal to live further out either. A big reason is that the Japanese land zoning approach is far more rational than the US approach. Much has been written about it[1]. 1. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-costs-tokyo https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...
- jki275 8y agoThat's astronomical for that amount of space.