Our apartment

We don't make claims of liking our apartment that much. In fact, we're pretty open about the fact that we don't like it. It's old and not well cared for. Really the only positives are that it's cheap, close to Kelly's work and bigger than our other option, which is my school's apartment. Nevertheless, it's our place and as I was talking to my friend James on Skype the other day, he mentioned that he hasn't really seen many pictures of our apartment to the point where he knows what it looks like.

So, earlier this week I walked around taking pictures of the apartment with my phone and now I will share those with James and all of you. (Warning: I did not clean the apartment at all before taking these pictures.) So here you go. This is what we see every day...


What we see when we open our front door and walk into our apartment:


The front door from the inside. And our new shoe shelf. Makes the genkan much tidier.


Turn right after entering and you see the guest bedroom. Otherwise known as "the place where we throw all of the stuff that we don't have room for anywhere else and then try to clean and make livable when someone is staying over." Those clothes would usually be hanging outside to dry, but it was pouring down rain the day before so I hung them up inside.


Our wardrobe:


Turn left after entering and you see the bathroom area:


Behind that door:


The shower (across from the sink):


Turn right after entering (and after the guest bedroom) and there is the kitchen. That bag hanging is the recycle bag for プラ: Pura - everything plastic you could possibly imagine. We don't have a trash can for it yet.


The kitchen sink. And some newly purchased Dr Pepper.


Open the shoji doors on the left side of the kitchen and you have the living room:




The underside of the kotatsu table:


Turn left when you enter the living room and you see the bedroom:


Our futons (without sheets)


The view from our bedroom window. That's Mt. Fuji in the distance:


The view the other direction:


The door you saw in the kitchen leads to this, the balcony (equipped with washing machine and clothes line):




The view from the balcony:


Kelly's school, also from the balcony:


Go out the front door and you have the stairs. We're on the 3rd floor:


Fuji-san from the stairs. Getting harder to see every day as we near the summer:


The other direction:


Our local neighborhood rice field. Since I took this the field has been flooded because apparently that's how you grow rice. That's also how you attract thousands of frogs to croak all night long.


So there you go! I hope you enjoyed the picture tour. No more writing for tonight. Goodnight!