Funny real estate site

In the Shinshu area, the policemen go skiing with "Wanted" prints of Tokyo subway sarin attack. They are of course serious about it, but I am bothered by a feeling of strangeness.

Anyway the super small room and Japanese castle have not been rented yet. I must tell you I have a fixation on architecture/buildings. Of course I love beautiful buildings (PRADA Aoyama. I love the building, but I have no interests to visit the inside.), but also strange ones (Umemboshi and POOP on Google map).

realtokyoestate is good site to find nice apartments and house for rent and sale in Tokyo. Wow it would be nice to live in here, or here. But I am caught by them because they have many funny place too. I like my thin building collection, and I want to add this one to them. This room is very thin too, the width is about 5.6 feet (172cm) or so at most. Japanese call this type place eel's bed. Do you know this building in Canada holds the Guinness records of "the narrowest in the world"? It is about 178cm, but that was much narrower! And for me this building in NY has much impact.

Sometime high-designed apartment (in Japan, we call it "designer's apartment") make me disappointed, artistic and eccentric is different. Do you want a bathroom in the center of your house like this? I won't like a bathroom with glass walls.

The other good point of the site is their dialogues, which are so real and funny. For example, they call this "amusement room" because of the thrilling feeling (actually if you are weak for ship, you may get it they say) caused by the badly slanted floor. The former inhabitant had good sense to have yellow and white light. From things left behind, it seemed to be GAIJIN (foreigner), ha ha ha funny. For this room, they talk honestly "the selling point is the very bad taste of interior". Hospital, Cat house, they have funny rents. Please check it out!

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Comments

[abraxis]

actually, I like the house with the bathroom in the middle. Looks like nice materials.

The glass bathroom however...couldn't they use frosted glass?

[Shay]

Whoa, those are some radical buildings. I'm impressed.

[Mike (a different one)]

Ohayo gozaimasu Mari-san!

Next to the Prada building on Omotesando Dori is this building. We went to Tokyo for the first time in October; we saw this building before it was finished.

I've heard the building is somewhat controversial. With your knowledge of architecture, what do you think of it?

[Mike]

Hi Mari

I like the cat house. That kind of building would only work in Japan. The place that you said looked like a gaijin had lived there, I think it's possible. Sometimes people won't rent nice apartments to foreigners, so we get stuck with bad interiors like that!