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Yep, apartments in Tokyo are getting bigger. Decades ago, a tiny little apartment with no toilet or bath was not uncommon: all the residents of a building shar

Yep, apartments in Tokyo are getting bigger. Decades ago, a tiny little apartment with no toilet or bath was not uncommon: all the residents of a building shared a couple of toilets, and had to go to a public bath down the street. These days, there's no such thing as a modern apartment without these conveniences. The one-bedrooms LDKs are available in larger sizes now, and the 3-4BR LDKs are getting quite large. Near me, they've torn down several 50-year-old 5-story apartment buildings and are replacing them with bigger 13-story buildings.

cyberax 3y ago
> Yep, apartments in Tokyo are getting bigger It's somewhat true. The average apartment in Tokyo is 66 square meters (with 40 square meters of living space). That's slightly up from 48 square meters total in 1990. However, 1.5 million homes in Tokyo have living space smaller than 20 square meters. And that number is growing, because of new "microapartments" being built all the time.