Helped Alex to move earlier this week. Employing a moving service would have probably cost him 6 arms and 6 legs. So I recommended renting a van and doing it himself. As he didn’t have a Japanese driver’s license, I became his chauffeur for the day (although it only took both of us about 3 hours to move his stuff).
Rented this mini-van from Nippon Rent a Car. The shortest time period you can rent a vehicle from them is 6 hours. For this particular mini-van, 6 hours including insurance costs ¥7140.
This was his apartment. I think it has a 1DK layout; 3 dedicated spaces for a room, dining room and kitchen respectively. For this amount of space, he was paying ¥88,000 per month.
Are you renting a spacious apartment in Japan? How much is your rent?
Driving back to his old place for the second trip! Those vending machines you see on the left dispense cigarettes and beer. In Japan, cigarettes are referred to as たばこ (ta-ba-ko, from tobacco) and beer, ビール (bi-ru).
I thought living that close to a transmission tower is hazardous to one’s health, and maybe one’s electronics. I do my best to live as far away from one as possible. Do you have a transmission tower right outside your window?
If it’s any consolation, we are all mutants anyway. Bombarded with radio waves, microwaves, Google Wave etc everyday, our bodies probably can adapt up to a certain limit. Beyond that, strange happenings occur.
The first trip moved most of his personal stuff. This second trip was for his furniture and home appliances. His mattress was too long to fit in length-wise, so I placed his clothes rack under it. Besides driving, improvisation is also one of my strong skills. ^^.
Well, he moved from a ¥88,000++/month 1DK apartment into a ¥33,000/month room. His new rent is all-inclusive. He probably won’t see any electrical, water or gas bill again as long as he stays here.
It’s a miracle he could fit everything he had into such a tiny space!
When you rent a car, you usually fill her up before returning her. We travelled 22km and consumed 3.69L of gas. ¥7140+¥464 brings the grand total of today’s move to ¥7604. Not too bad.
In the bottom portion of the receipt, you can see numbers for change should the customer pay ¥1000, ¥5000 or ¥10,000.
An apartment right opposite his old place was being cleaned.
Whenever one moves out from a rented property in Japan, the landlord usually takes a portion (if not all) of your deposit. Part of the amount will be used to clean up the place for the next potential tenant.
Related posts... maybe:
- moving on
- Suburban Japan
- Ingenious Parking in Japan
- Out of focus
- Valentine’s Day and White Day in Japan
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Luckily, a recent research study showed that there is no association between cell phone use and brain cancer. One less thing to worry about!
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December 18th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
That’s good to know!
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We moved recently and we had to hire help from movers. In Vancouver, there is a big variety of service for moving. There are those that would loan you boxes and then move your filled boxes and furniture on the day of moving, they are more expensive usually. There are those cheap Chinese ones that will just move your belongings but you will have to be very organized and pack everything in boxes. We lucked out with some good and cheap movers that moved all of our stuff for C$270 in only 4 hours. Compared to some of my colleagues who spent C$700 moving, ours is definitely cheap, fast and pretty good.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 2:24 am
It got you and all your stuff there in many one pieces. I would say that they were awesome! ^^.
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