Looking For a New Apartment in Tokyo

this basically went from "showcasing beautiful apartments" to "exploring a haunted house" content

i still think alex will bully connor into buying property in japan

$90M apartment...if dude is making 4% commission on that sale he's banking $3.6M, that's WILD

This is such a fun and innovative stream. I wish they can do this again. All the houses/apartments are really interesting.

Seeing Luca's charm of having these high quality intros in Connor's recent videos has to be the greatest character progression of all time

Glad Tokyo Portfolio is joining the Broad/Connor Cinematic universe.

"You can demolish it, but you can't rebuild it. You can renovate it though."
I'm german and I feel this.

Seeing apartments going for $2500/ month is just wild... I pay about 400-500 per month for my apartment. I know it's because of the location/ city you live in but that amount of money is just crazy

I don't know who's responsible for it, but the intros are the last few videos have been fantastic. I loved the crazy intro with the Emily and Daidus, and the classic older TV intro vibe of this intro was really charming
Edit: I gained the reading comprehension of a six year old and have found out its Luca. 10/10 editor
Edit 2: Aight y'all I got it I can't read chill out

Shoutout to the editor who wrote 31:09. Very touching

Really like these "Architecture" focused stream/videos - apartments, homes, sites, building methods, history of structures, etc. Japan is such a mix of old (ancient) and ultra-modern. How that mix coexists in the society and how it ends up manifesting in the patchwork urban environment is very cool to experience in this basic way, i.e. finding a place to live. More please.
Heck Sharla (Sharmeleon) just bought and is renovating a building and Chris has his recently restored studio space. All good stuff.

It's a good sign when the realtor showing you the house is just as surprised as you.

35:50 it's basically the same in any building restricted area I think, my parents have a summer house in Sweden near an air base and it's "illegal" (impossible, because the municipality will ALWAYS reject the request due to fears of noise complaints from anyone "living" there) to build anything new, BUT you can just "renovate" the house, which some have done by keeping a single wall and just building a new house within the old houses old footprint, and some have knocked out all the inner walls, lifted the "shell" that remained, and built a whole ass new house inside.
Some just keep all the old frame parts and knock down one wall every other year etc, anything to make it more of a renovation than a new building

Love this! Connor you are always providing entertaining and hilarious content. Thank you for all you do.

The reason why apartments in Japan depreciate with time is because they degrade in stability after each earthquake since earthquakes are a constant occurrence in Japan. Residential buildings are normally slated to last for 30 years before it is knocked down and rebuilt. Of course not every building is going to get knocked down and rebuilt in that timeframe, but essentially there is a 30 year guaranty of the building being safe to live in. The land that the building sits on on the other other hand will change in value depending on location.

That last one was chaotic. Would love to see someone buy to rebuild it tho. Make it traditionally themed and try to relocate the bathroom... Maybe make it a studio with a gallery in the lower spot? Or even a small niche desert shop. But if stripped I'd hope they have extra to pay for top end noise reduction... Honestly remaking it to have frosted windows for natural light and remaking the top floor to mostly be like a half landing and not a proper area would probably look better...like a little art studio.. I could do that if I had the money. BUT I think I'd rather get a place with land outside the city 🤣

That last house was probably a reno from 50's/very early 60's. It's unfathomable for that to be from the 40's. However, the way the wood aged at the second floor does seem to indicate that time period though. Pretty crazy to think about.

That 2 million dolalr house with the doggy door and dog shower doesn't actually seem that bad of a price. You are getting land, a beautiful home, and it is new!

Watching this and keeping track of all the prices in Japan as if a 22 year old like me could afford to move to another country in my lifetime

This might be weird but I love the first apartment. It's quaint, enough for one person, and the surrounding area seems quiet enough although I would like it better if there's a bit of background chatter in the streets when the sun sets

At 17:37
“Everything the light touches, is our kingdom.”
What about over there dad?”
“Stay away from that son, that’s Yakuza alley.”

I’m so glad you decided to make this. Believe it or not, my family actually had a house in Tokyo when I was a very small kid. I don’t remember too much about it, but it was AMAZING. I would really love to go back there someday. Japan has always been my favorite country although I don’t live there anymore! Anyway, this was really fun to watch, Connor! Thank you!

I'd actually love to see them do this again, because I love seeing the different options in Japan! They give me inspiration for my own future home!

That intro was fire!
I love these apartment/hotel/building tour videos you do.

They should get a fixer upper show to renovate that last place, would be cool to see!

18:35 love the finana in the fish grill lmao

this was really cool to watch i loved seeing the differences from tokyo to canada and its wild

I was so excited for this because I love Alex's apt/house tours, then I realized I already saw the whole vod of this. XD But that won't stop me from watching the condensed edited version as well. :D

Love this intro and I've loved your previous few intros you've done! Well done Mudan and Luca 😁

I absolutely agree, sleeping in the same place you work can cause memory problems.
Your hippocampus is very closely related to your spatial processing.
Basically when you enter a new space your mind does a quick reset cleaning up your brain ram and keeping the stuff you need for your new surroundings.
It's why you can sometimes go downstairs or leave the room and forget why you left the room or went downstairs and only remember when you go back into the room you came from.
It's also why rooms intuitively over history in all countries have been segmented and separated into spaces where different tasks take place and different memories are required i.e (kitchen, bedroom, dining room, bathroom, playroom, lounge, study...).
The more rooms your actively living in, generally the less stress, the better memory performance and the better sleep you get.
It's incredible how much of a difference it can actually make, experiments have been done showing that if you restrict the activity you can do in a room to only one activity your performance in that activity can see dramatic improvements (since your brain is quick to find the memories it needs, therefore quicker to react and process information essentially reducing your brain lag).
It's also why people feel like their mind is much clearer shortly after moving to a new place.
Conversely opposite experiments have been done around solitary confinement and such, with opposite effects, causing slower reaction speeds and cognitive skills etc.
Basically tldr don't sleep where you work, it's bad for your brain.

actually been loving these irl stream edits and this one was especially interesting

I love the editing

Very interesting start to the vid

This was surprising educational and informative

Absolutely LOVE the style of that intro!! Very creative. Kudos to whoever came up with that.

The editing in this video is next level top notch nutty stuff.. like amazing, so much details and humor went into it

iron mouse jumpscare always gets me man

such a fun stream. thanks for the edits luca.

I'm in the Philadelphia area and 2 bedrooms are between 1300-1800 but to be fair I would akin Tokyo to be like New York and so I am not surprised to see New York esque apartment prices!
The innovations in smaller apartments (like the 400/month one) are always fun to see, and I could see (once the termite problem is fixed) that space having a lot to offer!
I didn't love the 2nd house (even with the roof deck), but I adored the 1st house (from the 70s).
I love that Alex is slowly getting into more videos all over the place! I love watching his channel, and I always enjoy seeing him interact with y'all! Hope you two can do something like this again! It was so fun!

To be honest, seeing these kinds of videos makes me sooo grateful I have family in Japan that own property. Really interesting locations, and some are REALLY tempting to purchase, but those price points remind me of New York XD.

I don’t know why but I alway love looking inside houses it’s interesting to see what they look like and how someone choses to decorate it

This was awesome! Id love if you did this again! Thanks for sharing!

Loved the vid! Would be amazing if this could be some sort of series :)

Love the content Connor!

I see that last place and the laws as a chance at a unique challenge! I’m not sure what other laws are in place as far as renovations are concerned but, as a DIY kinda guy, that small space looks like it would be a fun project 😆

I love this type of content! It's so cool to see what living is like in Japan.

Love the editing in this video

8:02 Alex went straight for chat's throat

I've been watching your vids for a long time at this point, and this is honestly one of the coolest vids you've put out. It was so interesting going through and seeing the diferent styles of apartments. Got mad Persona nostalgia while I was watching as well. Also, Alex seems like a chill as fuck dude, you guys need to collab more. Thanks for the tour guys

Great coloring on the bath entrance. Very romantic. Excellent work as always, Alex

Great editing

Very cool. I would love to see what countryside apartments look like and cost.

The thrill of potentially falling through the floor in the last one is part of the charm

Oh wow I remember this stream! It was so interesting to see the prices for all these houses/apartments!

Looking forward to part 2 already

27:11 when you forget to make the ceiling at least 3 blocks tall in minecraft

I wonder if the stigma against older buildings/property is because of the doubt that it might not pass modern building and fire codes, which is a huge factor in an earthquake country like Japan. I vaguely recall that the modern standards were set on the 1992-ish Kanto earthquake, and some of the buildings here were from the 70's.

Love your videos Connor, your streams make me laugh ♥️

This was actually a fun stream/video

So many beautiful homes, especially that last one...... seriously though that second to last home is so cool. Thank Mr. Shapiro for the tour. lol
Buying a home would seem like the way to go in JP.

I have a strange obsession with real estate videos on KRplus so this is right up my alley)))

Awesome video, would love to see more of these!

Thank you, the Rei meme at 3:05 got me, much appreech

Damn that third apartment is so dreamy. I would love an apartment like that. Just add my family and boom. Me. Husband. Dog. Cat. Also my mother had a similar wave over sink. You wave ur hands underneath to make it go. And its so useful when ur filling a pot bc you can put a pot underneath and it detects it and its neat. I love the vibes of that third apartment. I would let husband have the second bedroom and he could use that walk in closet for his music studio. And I would literally use the third bedroom as my art studio and store like my lolita n goth/punk clothes there. The seasonal stuff too. That fancy three bedroom is a dream. My dream is to have a two story four bedroom house someday. Ofc I’m jobless and rely on my husband’s work and we live in AMERICA. So that is HELLA doubtful. But I would adore that. I love the light up stairs but I would do it differently. Lights on the sides and not under the stair step. Yanno? It would make me so dizzy. Lights on the sides like a strip of LEDS along the wall inside a little foggy sleeve yanno? Like foggy acrylic sleeve with LEDS.

The 2 million dollars apartments has actually a pretty okay price for such a big place. Some places in Copenhagen costs like 2 million with half the size of the Japanese apartments.

I like the intros. I liked the more pumped up ones more tho. Pure ecstasy

I’m in love with that opening

D.Z Nuts direction is on point

Alex is an odd but very likeable fella, he really has helped Connor and Chris produce some great content with his links into the real estate world.

That big house around the 25 min mark, that looks like it was designed after the traditional houses that are still found in Kyoto, with a huge modern twist, very cool

The last apartment and gremlin mousey in the attic shadow got me laughing so hard! Keep up the good content!

I absolutely love Japan, but their housing situations are super depressing. Anything mildly livable by western standards is extremely expensive. Although to be fair, most if not all of these were in the heart of Tokyo, so it makes sense I guess. Only one of those houses I would consider truly nice.

Honestly the prices are why I'd never want to live in a big city. You pay so much for so little, like for 2 million dollars I could get someone to build myself a lakeside mansion to replace my summer cottage and at that point I'd just move there.

I dont really watch your videos but this was so neat. Thank you. More like this please

Love that intro♥
Really clever :)

That last house was such an interesting space. Would have loved to see what it looked like when someone was living there.

Amazing intro

Loved it ❤️

This was a great video idea. I hope you do one for like each prefecture. Almost like a low key house hunters from hgtv but way better

Damn a feat I wasn't expecting

I read the title and panicked because I thought Connor had to get yet ANOTHER apartment😭

Love the t-shirt Alex :D

The little grimlin cameo @4:33 is gold.

I've seen alex in a lot of those "showing off Japanese apartment" videos, but he's always been in a suit. Nice to see him comfy in casual clothes

his chris impression was pretty spot on

I was wondering if this is a new video. It turns out it was an old stream video. Still fun to watch. Alex, you should do more videos to your channel. I like watching you touring luxury apartments 😄😄

I'm glad someone confronted the "Fresh air in Tokyo?" thing cause I had the same thought when you said it lol

40k? God damn, I want to see someone do a renovation project on that because I think someone could do something interesting with it

I wanna see Alex buy the last place and turn into one of those microhomes ala the tiny house movement

I still want another of these
This was so fun

The editing is golden

Having just finished looking for a condo here in Canada this was really interesting. Tokyo is such an exciting city though - you gotta add 50% just for that.

I want to see you take Alex to the most expensive crane games for a tournament.

More of these please :)

love the vid connor even the black toyota GT86 in the start lol

The moment in the stream where the stream sniper called alex as pete was funny. I'm pretty sure the fan meant to do that on purpose

I straight up bought an apartment in Akasaka last week. Rental might be expensive, but buying isn't particularly bad. At least not compared to any other capital.
Smaller than what I'm used to, but honestly fine. I've just been spoiled with space before I think.

Loved the intro 😁

Great stream!

I live in an 2000€ Apartment in Frankfurt (Ger) and after seeing this video I will never think that I pay too much for that