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In the 23 wards of Tokyo, for instance, multi-unit structures such as apartment houses accounted for 62.5% of all housing in those wards. In terms of tenure, 62.4% of housing in Japan consisted of owner-occupied dwellings, 24.3% of units leased by the private sector, 7.6% of units leased by the public sector, and 5.2% of housing for government ...
San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
Capsules in Tokyo Capsule hotel in Warsaw, Poland.The lockers are on the left of the image, while the sleeping capsules are on the right. A capsule hotel (Japanese: カプセルホテル, romanized: kapuseru hoteru), also known in the Western world as a pod hotel, [1] is a type of hotel developed in Japan that features many small, bed-sized rooms known as capsules.
Bakemono premiered at Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco at the 4 Star Theater on December 9th, 2023. [5] It will be released on German DVD/Blu-ray Mediabook from Midori Impuls while an English-subtitled Blu-ray is available on crowdfunding sites.
A coin locker in Japan, costing 100 yen per day. According to the Japanese government survey, the homeless staying have little interest in manga or the Internet, and are instead using the place because of the low price relative to any of the competition for temporary housing, business hotels, capsule hotels, hostels, or any other option besides sleeping on the street.
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life (妖怪アパートの幽雅な日常, Yōkai Apāto no Yūga na Nichijō) is a Japanese light novel series by Hinowa Kōzuki. Kōzuki first released the light novel in 2003, and concluded it in 2009 within 10 volumes (and a later side-story collection in 2013).
Sky City 1000 is a proposed skyscraper for the Tokyo metropolitan area. It was announced in 1989 at the height of the Japanese asset price bubble.. The proposal consists of a building 1,000 m (3,281 ft) tall and 400 m (1,312 ft) wide at the base, with a total floor area of 8 km 2 (3.1 sq mi). [3]
It was the world's first example of capsule architecture ostensibly built for permanent and practical use. The building, however, fell into disrepair. Around thirty of the 140 capsules were still in use as apartments by October 2012, while others were used for storage or office space, or simply abandoned and allowed to deteriorate.