Japanese apartments are rarely designed with a living or bedroom along the front exterior wall. Odds are when you first open the door, there’s a kitchen, dining and laundry area, and also a bathroom ...

Featuring an irregular geometric form, this apartment building in Saitama, Japan, accommodates homes for seven families, as well as red-painted communal areas at street level. Local studios Eureka ...

Today we're looking at the home of Japan's most EXTREME Minimalist. Owning only 250 items, his life seems like quite a challenge, but let's take a look inside his Japanese apartment and see how he ...

The cliche that everything in Japan is miniaturized is certainly true when it comes to urban living. The apartments in Tokyo designed for students are smaller than many walk-in closets in suburban ...

Japanese 5S Micro Apartment - 24sqm/260sqft. Posted: April 1, 2025 | Last updated: April 1, 2025. Inspired by the Japanese 5S organisational method, architect Nicholas Gurney created a streamlined ...

Because Japan has lots of people and not as much space, interesting housing solutions are a necessity. ... Japan's Crappiest Apartments. By. Brian Ashcraft. Published October 2, 2018.

Japanese apartments are famously small — tiny, in fact. While some urbanites are lucky enough to live in houses, others live in condos with multiple rooms, and a good deal of us live in one- or ...

Meet the young Japanese who have decided to live in a shoe box. By Hikari Hida TOKYO — At the end of a long day at work in the offices of Japan’s professional baseball league, Asumi Fujiwara ...