{"id":34,"date":"2008-07-31T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T05:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~espeed\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/living-conditions-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T23:43:01","slug":"living-conditions-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/living-conditions-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Conditions in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in Japan for a bit now, and as I’ve subtly alluded to, I’m not sleeping on the streets.\u00a0 Previously, I’ve mentioned that some sort of apartment exists, but I’ve not really gone into more detail than that.\u00a0\u00a0 The purpose of this post is to shed some light onto the nature of my living conditions.\u00a0 To that end, this post will probably be pretty short because the apartment is small and generally, apartments are not very interesting.\u00a0 This post will be divided up into 4 short sections:\u00a0 my room, the kitchen, the toilet, and the bathroom.<\/p>\n

I’ve already shown you a picture of my room in my first post about Japan.\u00a0 It still looks like that.\u00a0 It’s quite large by Japanese standards.\u00a0 I have a western style bed (with a sorry excuse for a mattress), a desk, 2 shelves and a bunch of hanging racks.\u00a0 It basically serves as a place to sleep, eat meals, and hang my clothes up to dry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Kitchen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The kitchen is small with a stove, fridge, and washing machine.\u00a0 I’ve only used the fridge and the washing machine thus far, but I’m sure the stove is fine as well.\u00a0 I use the fridge to store my bottle of water, and that works for me.\u00a0 I don’t have any other use for such a place.<\/p>\n

\"Toilet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The toilet is essentially a closet with a toilet in it.\u00a0 It’s fairly small, but I can fit inside fairly easily.\u00a0 It’s one of those robot toilets Japan is famous for: heated seat, bidet, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Shower\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The bathroom, which contains a shower and a bath is much larger than you might expect.\u00a0 This is probably because in Japan the bathrooms sole purpose is taking showers and baths.\u00a0 It’s somewhat convenient and much better than the shower stalls I’ve seen at other places.<\/p>\n

I have pictures of all these places but they’re inaccessible at the moment.\u00a0 I’ll try to put them up soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in Japan for a bit now, and as I’ve subtly alluded to, I’m not sleeping on the streets.\u00a0 Previously, I’ve mentioned that some sort of apartment exists, but I’ve not really gone into more detail than that.\u00a0\u00a0 The purpose of this post is to shed some light onto the nature of my living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[30,4,31,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}