Living in a Japanese House or Apartment
- There are high tech toilets, most sinks in the bathroom are on top of the toilets to save water.
- Take off shoes, if not you are rude. Genka is shoe storage. The floor is usually made higher so you know you have to take off your shoes.
- Flooring is usually wood, if it’s carpeting it’s very thin, you can put rugs on the floor.
- Tatami room (weaved grass flooring) used for tea ceremonies and traditional activities and now it’s for special occasions. Houses usually have one room like that.
- You usually sleep on the floor on a futon. Beds usually take up too much space since Houses are relatively small there is not enough room for one. When you don't use the futon you can stack it in a closet and take it out when you need to use it.
- Houses and Apartments in Japan are EXTREMELY expensive. The farther away from the city the cheaper and the bigger.
- Kitchen sinks in Japan DO NOT degrade foods.
- Trash is taken out everyday. Examples of trashes (Foods , 5 different kinds of plastics, used electronics, cloth, paper that can’t be recycled (oil paper), etc.)
- Ovens are the size of a toaster (in other words, SMALL)
- Walls are very thin, so it gets very cold easily. Heaters/Air Conditioning only heat up one or a few rooms in the house, not the entire house. It saves a lot of electricity.
- Very rare to have a dryer machine, usually you have to hang dry your clothes.
- Japanese love to eat, but for some reason their kitchens are small.
- A lot of places don’t have parking especially in the central city area, because Japanese people rather take the bus ,ride bikes, or trains.. therefore there aren't many cars.
- They care about the community and know their neighbors very well and look after each other.
- They have a lot of gardens and plants. Traditional old houses have gardens in the middle.
- Japanese watch a lot of TV, they usually don’t use the computer much, they use cell phones most of the time. Most cell phones in Japan have TV on them, even the flip phones.
- Japanese showers and toilets and in separate rooms, they wash their bodies before they go into the tub so the tub water is clean. Everyone in the family can use it, it’s just water, no soap in the tub.
-Japanese screen doors are paper and wood.
- Take off shoes, if not you are rude. Genka is shoe storage. The floor is usually made higher so you know you have to take off your shoes.
- Flooring is usually wood, if it’s carpeting it’s very thin, you can put rugs on the floor.
- Tatami room (weaved grass flooring) used for tea ceremonies and traditional activities and now it’s for special occasions. Houses usually have one room like that.
- You usually sleep on the floor on a futon. Beds usually take up too much space since Houses are relatively small there is not enough room for one. When you don't use the futon you can stack it in a closet and take it out when you need to use it.
- Houses and Apartments in Japan are EXTREMELY expensive. The farther away from the city the cheaper and the bigger.
- Kitchen sinks in Japan DO NOT degrade foods.
- Trash is taken out everyday. Examples of trashes (Foods , 5 different kinds of plastics, used electronics, cloth, paper that can’t be recycled (oil paper), etc.)
- Ovens are the size of a toaster (in other words, SMALL)
- Walls are very thin, so it gets very cold easily. Heaters/Air Conditioning only heat up one or a few rooms in the house, not the entire house. It saves a lot of electricity.
- Very rare to have a dryer machine, usually you have to hang dry your clothes.
- Japanese love to eat, but for some reason their kitchens are small.
- A lot of places don’t have parking especially in the central city area, because Japanese people rather take the bus ,ride bikes, or trains.. therefore there aren't many cars.
- They care about the community and know their neighbors very well and look after each other.
- They have a lot of gardens and plants. Traditional old houses have gardens in the middle.
- Japanese watch a lot of TV, they usually don’t use the computer much, they use cell phones most of the time. Most cell phones in Japan have TV on them, even the flip phones.
- Japanese showers and toilets and in separate rooms, they wash their bodies before they go into the tub so the tub water is clean. Everyone in the family can use it, it’s just water, no soap in the tub.
-Japanese screen doors are paper and wood.