We are Moving! Japanese Hour Tour
Okay, we are officially moving out of our house in Japan. We are all packed up, and so I thought we would do a little house tour. So we have memory of it, and just to also see what houses in Japan kind of look like. Now this is an older house. We were just renting it, but lived here for three months. I don’t think this is like your traditional Japanese house. No. This is very much a– Built in the 80s or the 70s, and it has some traditional aspects to it. So it’s a little different to regular houses. So where do we start? I guess we start right at the front door. Got the whole house here. Here’s our truck with everything in it. See, front door sliding door. See, you walk in immediately, just concrete. And this is for all your shoes. So you take your shoes off, and you have them facing the door. Obviously, we don’t have any shoes because we got it all packed away. You walk in here, here’s Kate. Immediately, this is the weird part now, you walk in straight into the bathroom, but it’s not really much of a bathroom. Literally just a sink in here. Toilet, this one isn’t a bidet, which I was so disappointed about, but it is heated seats, so. And the thing in Japanese culture, as soon as you come in and take your shoes off, you wash your hands. So maybe that’s why the sink’s right there, I’m not sure, but. That’s a good point. Also Japanese toilets, while this isn’t a bidet, it does have, as soon as you flush it, so you’re meant to wash your hands in the top of the toilet. Sink, normal sink, this is just concrete wall. Then, this is a room, this is the landlord’s office, so we don’t go in there. Cool pattern, sliding door. That’s more traditional Japanese room. That’s the only traditional one. We then have our shower, which is actually a, just like a wet room. So it’s like a, yeah, just a wet room. Bath that none of us could fit in. And it’s literally an entire room. Yeah, just a shower. We never went in the bath once. But yeah, this whole room can just get wet, so. That is that. We don’t have doors, we just have curtains. We just have curtains. So you walk through here, kitchen, microwave, toaster oven, we don’t have like an oven, so that’s rice cooker, which is mandatory, pretty much in Japanese owned bins. bins. This is our stove, which does have this, which we didn’t use once, brand new. They always have massive sinks. This sink is so big, like, it’s like the length of my arm, for some reason. They don’t have dishwashers, though, so they normally do all the dishes by hand. If they have a dishwasher, it sits on their bench, not like a– Yeah, no, no, no. Not like a big one. Not on the wall, like we have. So windows, another step down, this just leads you outside. Nothing really much to show. Watch your head there. Obviously it’s a door upper, there are all these holes in the walls, and they are just where we’ve had some frickin’ gigantic Huntsman spiders, and cockroaches every night, so that’s kind of why we’re– We’re exterminators, which we are not. Which didn’t– Me, I’m not happy about, after that spider, I was like, I have to get out of here. I don’t mind doing the odd cockroach and stuff, but when it’s like– But that spider was the size of a good plate. Yeah, I literally, we woke up the other night to watch the wrestling at two o’clock in the morning, and I had to kill five cockroaches in 10 minutes. One was above our head. One was above our head, one was like on the table, like by my laptop, so that’s okay. Japan in summer. Living room, dining room, this is cork board, room, this is cork board, because I don’t know why. because I don’t know why. It’s probably concrete under there, other than the floor room. It’s all been doing door upper. Neighbors office out here. I spent a lot of my time out here. So, sliding door. You have all these bug screens on them, because, you know, bugs. There’s a cockroach right there. I spent a lot of my time sitting out on this chair, which some of you might have seen from some other videos. Every morning came out here, drank a coffee, wrote down in my journal, and just admired this view. and just admired this view. and just admired this view. So it is quite congested, obviously house there, house there, house there, three houses, four houses, and then same on the other side. There’s Kate. Coming back inside, close that up. (door opens) Coming back inside, just a whatever that is. This was my office. I spent most of my time in this chair right here, working, generally, whatever. Then we have our couch. That’s where that big huntsman was. It was the size of a plate. Coffee table, couch, this is where Kate spent most of, actually no scripts there. The bed is where Kate spent most of her time. That’s not true. (laughs) Couch, gigantic bookshelves, (laughs) Couch, gigantic bookshelves, which we didn’t read a single book. I remember Kate was very excited about all the books. Didn’t see the pickup one. I read my Kindle. (laughs) (laughs) We had this big wardrobe thing. This is where the huntsman ran into, where I had to fish it out from under this wooden thing. I had to get Kate to help me out. And finally, again, no door into the bedroom, where it was just this bed, window, and then a gigantic bookshelf of more books that we never read, wardrobe, very old-fashioned wardrobe. I wish now some cockroach traps. cockroach traps, that’s nothing. Yep, down here, one, two, three cockroach traps. One more down by the side. Oh, look, more books that we never read. Oh, look, more books that we never read. And yeah, that’s the entire house tour. It’s very exciting times. And don’t get me wrong, we’re so grateful to be able to stay here, like three months. And it was cheap rent. Three months, we got a full reset from normal busy lives. God, it’s hot in here. It was a very peaceful place to reset and work out our goals. Yes, incredibly peaceful. Incredibly peaceful. There’s no street traffic, there’s nothing. We’re in farmland, which is– Beach is literally right there. There’s no bug, there’s no bugs, there’s plenty of bugs. There’s no traffic, you can’t hear anything. The neighbors are all old and quiet. There’s a family mart 10 minutes away. And this thing, instead of a jug, you have this, which is literally just hot water on demand like a Zippo. Zip? Zippo, Zip, Like a Zip Zippo, Zippo, Zippo Zippo Zippo Zippo Zippo Zippo Zippo. Yeah, so yeah, we’re so grateful for this place. It has served us really well. Some awesome memories been made in here. We just have a little pile of stuff we need to take out and then we– This is all the stuff traveling in the cab. We’ll go do some videos outside. And yeah, that’s it. We’re all done. We don’t live here anymore, so. Three months, it was awesome. We’re ready to go, excited for our next adventures. And yeah, thanks to this house for– For serving us well. For serving us well, despite the bugs. It has been awesome and I wouldn’t change a thing. wouldn’t change a thing. So yeah, awesome. All right, see you on the road. See you Nara. See you, Nara. And for the final time, we’re leaving the house in Hamamatsu. Three months. (soft music) (birds chirping) See you in Nara.
Final House Tour in Hamamatsu 🏠✨ | Moving Cities in Japan 🇯🇵
After calling this cozy little place home for the past few months, it’s time to say goodbye to Hamamatsu 😢
Before we pack up and hit the road, we wanted to give you one last look at the space that’s held all our memories — the laughs, the chaos, and everything in between.
This isn’t just a house tour — it’s a farewell to the chapter that started our Japan journey. From the quirks of Japanese apartment living to the spots we’ll miss most, we’re showing it all.
Next stop: a brand new city, new adventures, and (hopefully) better insulation 😂
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