Tiny House in Tokyo has a nice sound system

[TonyJZX]

i came across this to see how other countries deal with housing...

the pic is at 0'58" - owner has a nice integrated but of course i wonder how this sounds in a compromised room

but cute to see how they live

 

[JSmith]

Looks like a McIntosh MA5200... surprised considering their living space that this amp was "affordable", about $7k new? Then again, I suppose housing density is high in Japan in general.


JSmith

 

[JLGF1]

"The average floor area per home in Tokyo is 65.18 square meters."

 

[Snoopy]

"The average floor area per home in Tokyo is 65.18 square meters."

65 square meters is alright really for 2 people.
I'm living with my wife in a 54 square meters apartment In Germany. And for a while when friends visited, we where 4 people.

While we lived 6 months in Bangkok we rented a 35 Square meters apartment.
That's where there was really no space for a big TV or a nice stereo system.

So that little house in the Video looks really nice to me I'm surprised they squeezed a turntable setup in there. And McIntosh. Would have assumed they would go with a nice Japanese integrated amp.

 

[TonyJZX]

i think i might be looking at Japan with rose tinited glasses but its hard to come to any other conclusion that we messed up here in the west

how did we get to a point where an avg. two bed apartment is many hundreds of thousands and rent $2,000 a month plus.

I mean I get that we dont want to live in 65 squares but there should be something in between and to see how affordable rent is in Japan.

And also how 'over capitalised' some are here.... my dad has a 6 bed house 3 car garages huge block on two storeys that is in a wealthy suburb that is many multiples of millions, that i will probably have to go back to soon. I have two kids, one already in university, one is a toddler and so I think that some urban spaces are unsustainable unable to be economically managed unless you are already very wealthy.

 

[mhardy6647]

I have a futon in my hifi room.

 

[kchap]

Not my style, but very charming.

 

[JeffS7444]

That doesn't look like an "affordable" home to me.

 

[Berwhale]

That house is huge! They should move to London - £90,000 ($110,500) for 7msq... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...est-microflat-sells-for-80-above-asking-price

 

[Veri]

That house is huge! They should move to London - £90,000 ($110,500) for 7msq... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...est-microflat-sells-for-80-above-asking-price

What in tarnation is that

 

[oyama]

I was a little curious, so I looked for additional resources.

保坂猛 建築都市設計事務所

建築家 保坂猛が主宰する建築設計事務所です。

www.hosakatakeshi.com

Giving priority to the location, they purchased a 10 tsubo (33 square meters) plot of land in their desired location that fit their budget. Although the initial plan was to build a two-story house, the wife, who had read in a book that a commoner's row house in the Edo period at that time was 9 shaku 2 ken (9.6 m2) where a family of four lived, said "6 tsubo is too big," which led to the planning of a one-story house with a total floor area of 19 m2.

oh...

 

[thewas]

As much as I like those small Japanese houses I wouldn't want my hifi system and vinyl collection to be next to the washing mashine both when listening or flooding.

 

[Keith_W]

I like it, they live a life of minimalism. Except for that record player, he would be better served by getting rid of the records and freeing up space. Streaming gives you a massive music "collection" and takes up hardly any space at all.

You guys heard of Parkinson's Law? Demand rises to meet supply. Examples are, expenditure rises to meet income, time dilates to meet a deadline, appetite expands to meet the size of dinner. With housing, the amount of crap that you hoard expands to meet your living space. This is definitely true, after I moved to a larger house it only took me a few years to fill it up with crap again. I was telling the wife that we should move to a smaller house so that it would force us to get rid of all the crap.

 

[mhardy6647]

I like it, they live a life of minimalism. Except for that record player, he would be better served by getting rid of the records and freeing up space. Streaming gives you a massive music "collection" and takes up hardly any space at all.

You guys heard of Parkinson's Law? Demand rises to meet supply. Examples are, expenditure rises to meet income, time dilates to meet a deadline, appetite expands to meet the size of dinner. With housing, the amount of crap that you hoard expands to meet your living space. This is definitely true, after I moved to a larger house it only took me a few years to fill it up with crap again. I was telling the wife that we should move to a smaller house so that it would force us to get rid of all the crap.

Somehow I sense a contradiction of cosmic proportions when I think of minimalism and McIntosh (to say nothing of record player).