Gaijin Houses in Japan Also Known as Guest Houses
Can you imagine paying 8 month’s rent just to move into an apartment? Oh, and none of it will be returned! Well if you come to Japan and want an apartment this is a fact. That is where this other option comes in “Gaijin Houses” also known as Guest Houses!
A guest house or “gaijin house” as we say in Japan is an inexpensive type of accommodation for foreigners, who stay in Japan for one month or longer, and who want to avoid the hassle and the expense of renting and furnishing a regular apartment.
Renting an apartment in Japan not as expensive as most people think. But there are many fees applied when you move in. This is where it becomes a hassle. There is the realtor fee, deposit, gift money to the landlord, and a few others thrown in for fun. Each fee is equal to one month’s rent. Therefore your first month’s rent could be anywhere from 4-10 times the amount of rent. Only the deposit will be returned…hopefully.
There are many guesthouses in Tokyo, but they are sprouting up all across Japan. Guest houses are a much better deal. With only a small deposit and no extra fees, they provide safe, clean, affordable accommodation while searching for a long term apartment or on a short term stay. They come equipped with kitchen facilities, Internet access and laundry facilities, and each room is usually furnished with a small fridge, TV and a futon or bed. Since the actual features and overall quality of each guest house can vary enormously, however, a resource like Gaijin House Japan can make the difference between a successful and a miserable stay in Japan.
When trying to find a guest house it can be a dreary task not all guest houses have great English websites. And not knowing the country well you may have a hard time knowing where to look. Enter “Gaijin House Japan!” Gaijin House Japan’s main feature is a continually updated series of articles on every guest house across the length and breadth of Japan. Allowing travelers to comment on the guest houses they have stayed in, thus providing an “in person” view of Japanese guest houses – the good, the bad, and the dirty!
Features of Gaijin House Japan include:
- Guest House FAQ – All the common questions asked about Guest Houses.
- Guest House Articles – Detailed articles on every guest house across Japan, including photos, videos and travelers comments.
- Gaijin House Lounge – A friendly forum where members can talk about travel in Japan and share helpful tips.
- 100% FREE Classifieds – Look for share-mates, roommates, rooms, and even “sayonara sales” for selling your stuff when you leave Japan or buying stuff when you arrive.
- Useful Links – Learn even more at other recommended websites about Japan.
If you are planning on visiting Japan then this is a must bookmark website!
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Help answer the question about houses
How can houses be constructed without individual unique lintels in external brickwork?
I am currently doing a city & guilds course on major property problems. i have sailed through the questions up until now. i have a question and i am not sure on so i thought i would ask you lot.
Here goes:
Explain how houses may be constructed without individual unique lintels in the external brickwork.????????
at first i thought this may be a trick question as any load bearing wall in a house would need to be in the ext. brickwork.
please help.
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haha FTW my friend got that tattooed on her inner lip. i love this house, i doubt this house would sale for 80,000 but who knows. man it is like heaven there!
You should get a wii!
if they are short spikes they are to keep the birds away from the house….(3 in long) sounds cruel but bird poop will rot a hole in the house
if they are long spikes it sounds like a old lightening rod
Well here is the dirt of it.. you really need to have a hill of some size so that you can dig back into it.. you can't just dig a hole and jump into it.. that would be a grave.. so instead of a grave you need a cave.. a big enough cave to build a house in.. and of course you need to re-inforce the roof of the cave or else it could become a big grave.. and since most hills are rocky, diging a cave is not something you can do with a pick and shovel..you can dig a grave with a pick and shovel..but a cave requires moving a lot of dirt.. and it ain't easy.. yes it is economical and helpful to the environment.. and perhaps more people should do it.. but when they get all the dirty details… they decide that it is more desirable to build a house on top of the ground than it is to go in a hole.. and thats just about the whole dirty explanation..
Wow… Can I buy this for $80,000?
Small houses packed with goodies FTW!
Why do the japanese are leading of every invention? genius guy!
Set a lower asking price than the others (that doesn't mean you have to accept a ridiculously low offer).
Stage it correctly … someone's already mentioned this. Google "tips on staging a home" or watch the TV show "Designed to Sell".
Ask the realtor to have an open house.
Put ads in the paper and free classifieds.
Advertise it different ways … to business people, families, retirees, etc. Each group is looking for something different. Example: In a retirement living newsletter put an ad that emphasizes the easy floorplan and quiet neighborhood. Put another ad in the classifieds or in your church bulletin about how great the schools are and the friendly neighbors.
Ask your realtor for other tips.
Make sure it's listed online, in more than one place if possible. You can even put a classified in the Real Estate section on eBay!
Repaint the outside a unique color (but not like neon or anything) to make it stand out.
Make sure it needs NO work. Are the floors new? Cabinets? Appliances?
Landscaping! Curb appeal is more important than we think it is.
yeah i mean i would love that house! it is so nice! i would make due with the space i had! it may be dangerous for small children though!
i would like to be a gamer, i have no game systems at all. i guess i could play something online! haha
wow this was so amazing, i dont know about the floating sink though where would you store all the cleaning product?
If you know what base you are going to you can look at this site and see the floor plans on some of the housing. You will be eligible for a two bedroom.
https://onestop.army.mil/
Keep in mind some of those pictures are out of date and lots of new housing has been built on some of the bases. You will sign in to housing expect a waiting list. It can be anywhere from a few weeks to almost a year.
I’d take that over a mansion!
True…I guess you would have to do what they do and just cram it all on the sink! haha, or you could neatly place them on the sink or below it.
That house is all I need.
The second room would be just for video games! haha, yes I am a gamer!
omg why would you want to flip a house? that would make a mess!
I'm assuming that your talking about lintels over doors and windows. You can lower the ceiling height, or raise the window height to the ceiling.
Cheap houses around here have 7ft ceilings with just the header around the outside walls and the windows go right up to the ceiling.
Hope this helps
There are actually potentially several factors that affect household cleanliness, regardless of how many hours you spend working on it.
First, how many people and pets are in your house and what are their ages? The more people and pets per square foot, the messier the house is going to get faster and be harder to keep clean.
How are the people in the house about cleaning up after themselves as they go along? Even if you have, say, 3 people and no pets, if the people leave their things trailing through the house, get out everything in the kitchen every time they eat, leave dirty dishes, crumbs and open containers out, throw trash AT the can instead of putting it in the can, etc., etc., etc. – your house will never be clean no matter how much time you spend cleaning it. ONE personal slob can ruin it for everyone else in the house.
How much organization do you have in place so that everything has a place it belongs? The more things that have to be "kept" out in plain sight, in stacks or piles, on counters, etc. the messier your house will look and the harder it will be to clean. If you want a house that appears clean most of the time and is relatively easy to clean you have to be brutal on clutter!
Do pets and people track in debris from outside making floors a perpetual mess? Getting GOOD high-quality outdoor mats and indoor floor mats can save you hours of work per week trying to keep floors clean.
My biggest home cleaning proactive trick is to outthink the mess. I look at what mess is giving me the most trouble and then figure out how I can short-circuit it – what can I do before hand to keep it from happening. I'm doing this constantly – looking at the next thing that bugs me most. This is a "forever" practice, I've been doing it for years. There's always some next thing that needs to be improved.
The two most recent changes I made were, first, moving my daughter's toys and stuff all into a bedroom rather than in a "playroom" that was the first room when you walked in the front door. While I hate having her stuff in our shared bedroom (which is very large), it does more for my peace of mind to walk into a clean room when I come in the front door.
Second, I put a larg-ish baker's rack in that front room (which I turned into my office since I'm in school full time). That is the dump-it spot for everyone's backpacks, keys, wallets, papers, mail, etc. Of the four of us here, 3 carry backpacks, 2 or us share a set of keys, 3 of us get mail, one has bike gear that gets dropped (helmet, gloves, etc., etc.) and I have one adult "slob" who leaves his stuff all over the house. Now, most of the stuff lands where it belongs, if it doesn't I can ride someone's hide to move it, and I have a clearly-defined grounds for getting PO'd if my "slob" leaves a trail through the house.
If you set up good proactive measures for keeping it straight, it shouldn't take 30 hrs to clean every week. A house can be completely cleaned (as in toilets, floors, dusting, etc.) in 4-6 hours a week by one person. It's all the mess cleanup that takes so much time – picking up dirty laundry, taking out trash, unburying the furniture, etc. If everyone in the house were working together and all you had to do was cleaning – you could get EVERYTHING done in 4-6 hours, with the possible exception of laundry and seasonal tasks like cleaning light fixtures or washing exterior windows.
One last factor, believe it or not, I THINK, is a person's inner peacefulness. This may seem weirder than weird, but when the people in the home are "ordered" inside, they seem to instinctively keep their environment ordered as well. That doesn't mean they are naturally organized, just that a peaceful inside produces a peaceful outside. Harmony in, harmony out.
…the "little" birds will flock in most anywhere… the thing to remember… the size of the entrance "hole" will most always determine the size of the bird looking for a home… Martins like the Hotel lifestyle… multi levels and lots of rooms all in one BIG building on a post about 10 ft. off the ground (and they eat bugs, bugs, bugs… "Google" up bird houses and check it out.
Cool house, I’ve seen something like it in Germany, but It wasn’t in a modern style like this.
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