While businesses are final offices in central Tokyo or encourage painters to paint from their homes due to considerations about the coronavirus pandemic, other young people are moving to the suburbs where rents are less expensive, the area is less expensive and nature is closer to the door.
With the evolution of Japanese pictorial practices, fewer young people are susceptible to living in high-rental shoebox-sized apartments near central Tokyo’s shopping districts. Instead, they prioritize their way of life by opting for where they live.
Yutaka Kanai, product manager at xenoknowledge lab, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence-based knowledge analytics company, recently moved from central Tokyo to Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, a city with impressive coastlines where it dreamed of living.
“The main explanation for why I left Tokyo is that I didn’t have to go to the office,” said Kanai, who is an avid surfer. Now he lives in a space on the beach.
The PC scientist is now in favor of a greater work-life balance, and says he can pass the navigation every morning as well as running.
The Kanai workspace has also been expanded. When his company began to inspire telework, he spent his days in his Tokyo apartment running a computer in his living room. But now you can use 3 monitors in the largest office in your home.
“I feel less because my workspace is bigger now,” he said.
Kanai is one of many who have begun to think again about what “home” means to them after the Tokyo metropolitan government last March asked citizens to shout not to leave for non-essential reasons because of the virus.
Since the end of March, the number of perspectives on the Suumo genuine real estate and housing data site has increased. Such accumulation is unusual, as traffic has an end to decrease after the January to March period, when new academics and staff register to locate apartments before the start of the university and fiscal years in Japan in April.
According to the execution through Recruit Sumai Co, a company of the Recruit Holdings Co group, suburban houses have attracted attention, as the city of Chigasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture recorded a dramatic 90% increase in the number of outlooks in May compared to just one a few months earlier. Registration traffic at Chuo Ward in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo, doubled in May from January.
“To paint comfortably at home, the area and calm are felt as more than before, so newly built houses in some suburbs of the painting class are gaining popularity,” said Yoichi Ikemoto, editor-in-chief of Suumo, Japan’s top housing news. Site. Website.
So far, timeshare between central Tokyo and suburban or rural sites has been largely reserved for seniors, but it is not unusual among other 30-year-olds with annual incomes of between 4 and six million yen, he added.
Given the existing climate, a service that remains long-term in cottages or suburbans is also attracting attention.
The number of newly registered “ADDress” members, a service in which members can use more than 50 households nationwide for 44,000 yen depending on the month, has increased considerably since January.
There are many requests from 20 and thirty year old staff living in Tokyo, and homes in Narashino City, Chiba Prefecture, where it is easy to get to Tokyo in an emergency, have been flooded with reserves, according to Tokyo-based ADDress.
Although the state of emergency declared in the wake of the coronavirus crisis rose in May and the economy is beginning to recover, Ikemoto hopes that some other people who have become accustomed to running from home move in to make the most of their convenience. Lives.
But the vast majority, he thinks, will be urban dwellers.
“More people will moderate indifferentArray houses … in the rich suburbs by nature or those that have advertising facilities,” Ikemoto said. “However, I don’t think there’s a big migration to the suburbs of central Tokyo, which has many fashion stores, grocery shopping complexes and educational options.”
Can you believe how wonderful it would be if I led to the repopulation of small towns and a more wonderful rural investment? Japan can become a pioneer in a local industry revolution. Array.. Or not. Probably not.
The life of my dreams in Japan would really be to run remotely while living in the countryside in an ancient Japanese space where I can practice each and every sports on my doorstep, cultivate my own food and have the time and power to interact with my neighbors who live several feet rather than a few inches and separated through a thin plywood. If telework remains (hopefully) in Japan, I hope others will make the decision to return to the countryside and decongest the cities. This assistance will not only attract more investment in more remote places, but will also help others live a better life rather than live daily from a box-sized space to a box-sized workspace.
We will see two main changes: one away from cities and the other towards commercial districts, because redundant offices are switched to residential spaces, and a third: reduced-price hunters and ”new poor” escape what’s left in the middle.
What remains will not be for long, as tax regulations inspire owners to leave abandoned buildings intact and praise developers for the construction on “green” unspoiled plots than for rebuilding existing sites.
Unless you’re in party mode, living in the middle of Toyo is stupid.
Unfortunately, as tempting as it may seem and attractive, once the pandemic is forgotten by all, which will be a few weeks after the progression of a vaccine, everyone will simply return to their pre-pandemic lifestyle, so that urban spaces follow. Grow.
I would love to live in IZU or on the most sensitive mountain if I can paint remotely. IZU dreaming.
Once life returns to normal, Tanaka-san and Suzuki-san will live in their lunchboxes in Shibuya and Shinjuku again and take crowded trains every morning.
It depends on the individual thought to make it happen, if you don’t like what’s on TV, you replace the life of the channel, it’s the same thing, I don’t like to replace it, it’s just you who can live what life you’re going to live.
Japan had the chance to replace after its 9/11 disaster, but that is not the case. Life and business are back to “normality.” Although he knows that tsunamis are part of Japanese life, a surfer bought a space on the beach; life is back to normal. I think the same thing will happen with this pandemic. The old farts that still control the country will stay true to their old “normal” habits. I think a smart replacement indicator will be to keep an eye out for whether Japan will keep track of virtual PDF signatures and get rid of its hanko system. If this is the case, it will be a major step towards workplace decentralization.
Can you believe how wonderful it would be if I led to the repopulation of small towns and a more wonderful rural investment? Japan can become a pioneer in a local industry revolution. Array.. Or not. Probably not.
That would be great! But I’m holding my breath.
The life of my dreams in Japan would really be to run remotely while living in the countryside in an ancient Japanese space where I can practice each and every sports on my doorstep, cultivate my own food and have the time and power to interact with my neighbors who live several feet rather than a few inches and separated through a thin plywood.
Just like here.
If telework remains (hopefully) in Japan, I expect others to return to the countryside and decongest cities. This assistance will not only attract more investment, but will also help others live a better life rather than live daily from a box-sized space to a box-sized workspace.
100% agree
The old farts that still the country will stay true to its old “normal” habits. I think a smart replacement indicator will be to keep an eye out for whether Japan will keep track of virtual PDF signatures and get rid of its hanko system. If this is the case, it will be a major step towards workplace decentralization.
excellent point
I worked and lived in Tokyo for a long time, but I didn’t like life in Tokyo and the people there. They live a complicated life in a big city. People are self-centered and hostile. Their hands take care of each other and have no position to look at others. The distances with others are great. Even siblings and parents, although they live in Tokyo itself, do not have close relationships. Tokyo is not a civilized position to live.
@vanity perhaps it wouldn’t happen so far as to say that Tokyo is not civilized, but it would be a lie if he said that his other people are not cold. I’m in Itabashi, a little more on the periphery, and the rest of the people are and it’s been nice, for the most part. If you are going to live in Tokyo, I recommend you decide on a position a little far from the hustle and bustle.
Really great about the situation of everyone’s dream life. Reminds me of mine.
All this is so beautiful, until one realizes that living in the maximum of these spaces requires non-public transport to do the bare minimum.
You want to stop by for a drink at the convenience store, take a 10- to 20-minute motorcycle ride or get in the car and get there.
Rain, display, etc Array … it will make the bike complicated for more cars, then the small suburban roads will be even more fun to drive (yes, sarcasm).
I was there, I’m sorry, no thanks.
vanityofvanities agree 100%
Until public schools introduce computer science as a theme in the curriculum, the freedom to live in the countryside will not be an option …
@vanityofvanities
I don’t know where I lived in Tokyo, but I lived for many years in the northeastern working-class district (shitamachi) and recently moved to the shitamachi district.
I made many more friends who had smart neighbors, useful and helpful community associations than closed-minded people, the new follows the old regulations and “you’re from here” attitude we had while living in the countryside/suburbs.
Tokyo is not an exclusive place, there are 23 villages Chuo, Minato, Shinjuku, etc Array.. These are not places to live if you need to socialize with neighbors, if that’s what you need then Adachi, Kita, Katsushita, sumida, Taito, etc …
@kurisupisu
Computers, first check the school buses.
When I lived in the suburbs, I was too far away for my number one school youth to walk, even the public bus stop was far away and, at best, was productive four hours away. Many parents and I had to take their young children to school and pick them up. Many used scooters to take 6.7.8-year-olds to school.
Have you ever wondered why most people living in the suburbs have a driver’s license and families have more than one car (usually a full-size car and a Kei car)?
Because everything is far away, public buses are between non-peak hours and early service closure.
My 2 adult children living in Tokyo do not drive and have shown no interest in doing so, they are not even licensed. But all his former college classmates from outside Tokyo, besides Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and more, all drive cars.
So, as I found out it was a less expensive accommodation, in the end I needed a car and this cost, even a smart used car needed a loan, insurance, taxes, gasoline, tires, etc., like living in Tokyo (yes, the larger living room) and everything had to be planned well in advance and if by the possibility you forgot to pick something up, it meant getting back in the car and getting to the store / with the nearest.
In Tokyo, I can leave my house and have the selection between 3 conbini and 2 supermarkets in less than five minutes walk.
So the crowded 40-minute morning will be changed in 2 hours?
Yes, I live in Tokyo, not downtown, but I don’t want other people to be bloody and selfish. Without understanding what other people are going through, it’s very unfair to use those tags. I think they can rarely fall that way, but Tokyo can be a pretty ruthless position to live in.
I worked and lived in Tokyo for a long time, but I didn’t like life in Tokyo and the people there.
I’ve been living in Tokyo in Setagaya for thirteen years and this doesn’t push me. I NEVER said or said hello or hello to anyone unless my neighbor is fast and my gym despite being in a residential area. If I walk down a sidewalk or a street, I regularly check out to make way for other people, but as a gaijin who deserves to know my position, it happens that men regularly change their ways to get to me head-on. Maybe it’s my imagination? I asked my friend who had just arrived from Okinawa and was promptly surprised at how competitive and rude other people are on the subway, even if it’s not too crowded. Before Tokyo, I lived in Osaka and Kobe for five years and did not forget any similar, rude and bloodless behavior. So, if you have another party in Tokyo, it’s great, but for me it’s a position that I moved into painting and I’ll be happy to leave.
I lived in Japan in the country for a few years, but I didn’t like it.
Although I am no longer young, I am back in Tokyo and am very satisfied here.
I want a lot of people around me, the noise and smell of Tokyo.
I agree with Vanityofvanities.
The other people in Tokyo are very, very good to me. Wherever you are and wherever you go, they are open and helpful.
In the field where I have lived before, others are not used to foreigners and have stayed away from me. They are too shy and foreigners seem to be suspicious of them.
In Tokyo it’s different. People are open and like to communicate with me.
I feel at home here, and that’s important.
In the field, I felt lonely and depressed.
But what’s in the countryside are the little Izakayas, toured by Mom and Dad for several generations.
But fortunately I found out what it says here in Tokyo.
Téméraire
You live in what is the most snob community of Tokyo’s 23 communities.
I’ll do Setagaya on every single opportunity I have.
Collapsed place!
Move to one more place to run.
The other people of Setagaya don’t even settle for other Japanese who aren’t from the region or the money.
Adachi, Arakawa, Taito, Sumida, Edogawa, Kita, etc.
These are smart positions. That said, if you’re going to live near Ueno Park, Asakusa or other stalls, don’t wait too long, stay away from this kind of post and the Shitamachi spaces are great.
I just moved 6 months ago to another area of shitamachi, everyone greets me, all my neighbors who showed up to settle gave recommendations on local garbage collection (what time I can get them out, etc.) the most productive vegetable shops, or where it has the most productive costs for meat, etc.
Shitamachi is the way to pass if you’re in Tokyo.
There is no genuine replacement between countries in their capital. It all depends on whether you first have a circle of family members or not, and then whether your task allows telework or not.
People have a tendency to move much more, so community relationships are at most productive rather than secondary and superficial. It’s nothing new.
Demographics will also reduce space costs, allowing for more options.
Living an hour from downtown was never a challenge for me. It would have a lawn that would live in a rabbit cage, but it is not in Japan where time cancels out most of the year this positive point instead.
I hope to get my hands off homes outside Tokyo before the mass exodus begins.
It turns out that at least 0.33 staff will never repaint day by day in Tokyo’s workplace buildings once this is done. Probably as much more as it lasts a long time.
With this new popular remote paintings in mind, I moved two weeks ago from a very trendy three-year mansion on the 21st floor, 8 minutes from Tokyo Station, to a similar fashionable three-year apartment on the 7th floor in Saitama 34 minutes from Tokyo Station. Positive points: Less noise from the city (traffic, construction, endless fire sirens and police); Cleaner air rental (can smell it on air-dried clothing) (40% less for a 15% smaller apartment); subscription to a less expensive gym. Negative points: all in Tokyo much further; countless perfect restaurants are no longer close by; temperature about a warmer degree, less than a refreshing breeze.
I worked as a freelancer in the country and I love it. I do a lot of things outdoors, grow our own food and have a big, beautiful house. Where we are 5-6 C colder than the city and there is plenty of snow in winter.
The reviews about cars are perfect. Every adult, even in semi-inaka, wants a car and their journey is expensive. I think many other people underestimate or deny the full cost of owning a car. If you’re in a relationship, two reasonable used cars can seamlessly charge you a million yen a year when you use the numbers. It is with low acquisition fees and loose parking.
I sold the mansion years ago and moved to the country. Now I have my own food supply, I went on horseback and I rarely want a car, we use solar motorcycles and our own energy. Electronics is now completely sunny and you still don’t have it if you want, the water is underground and we use rainwater tanks for crops, life is not bad. Lots of wood to heat and cook reasonable gas, low electronic costs, not bad.
rgcivilian1
If I happened to do all this, I’d go back to Canada, more space, less expense.
Don’t come to a country with limitations and off-grid.
my dream of leaving Sapporo (your city and climate), and moving further south, in a warmer, snow-free place … A small town across the ocean, somewhere with reasonable genuine property, convenient for a big city for the occasional stopover for the things it offers. my father angel took me “by chance” to Onjuku, on B Street, which ticked all the squares on the list of criteria. I’m fit anyway…….
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@jiji Xx
Where, by any definition, it is “practical for a big city for occasional visits”.
As for the warmest, of course, in Sapporo, but a very incrusting wind swept the rainy writer, heavy rains in the rainy season and worse in the typhoon season. I was there for six months as a criminal sentence.
I sense the telework.
But my greatest fear is to start building an uncompromising ethic that looms over them to explore them in virtual meetings.
Honestly, it would be a nightmare.
Why not paint from home, when you can either your intellectual capacity and 10 hours a week? The undeniable fact of traveling for the maximum of others adds the equivalent of one week a month to their schedules.
The life of my dreams in Japan would really be to run remotely while living in the countryside in an ancient Japanese space where I can practice each and every sports on my doorstep, cultivate my own food and have the time and power to interact with my neighbors who live several feet rather than a few inches and separated through a thin plywood.
Currently I rent an old Japanese space in the countryside (Kumagaya), where I grow my own vegetables, but I do not communicate much to my neighbors. It’s a great lifestyle, however, recently rain and mosquitoes make paintings or lawn games a remote fantasy.
Unless you’re in party mode, living in the middle of Toyo is stupid.
Yaya. I’m rarely in the way those days. Museums, galleries, shops, restaurants, izakaya, live events, exhibitions, etc. are more my thing.
Tokyo: Don’t settle for any replacement if you like those stupid things.
“Tokyo is a civilized position to live.”
Completely agreed
Glen @Christopher
“Tokyo is a civilized position to live.”
Oh seriously? Low crime, streets, educated people, smart neighbors, blank streets, public and effective transport, simple shopping.
Name a great outdoor city in Japan with everything!
Name a city of intellectual length (note the part of the city). It’s almost the same.
The name of the article is a little strange.
I very much doubt that many of those who pass into the suburbs are from Tokyo.
Few other people born and raised in Tokyo will do something like this.
It’s basically the newcomers from the countryside/suburbs who leave.
I do not anticipate that someone born and raised in positions like Setagaya moves much less the shitamachi Edo-ko.
For the guy who was talked about at the beginning of the story, living across the sea and surfing every day are definitely benefits. But he’s probably single. If I had a family, it could be anything else.
There is a contrary trend for other seniors to return to high-rise apartments in urban centres. That’s why all those Mori projects are growing. A huge one is being built in Nishi-Azabu that will be a small community. And the village of athletes for the Olympics will be changed by apartments and all have been sold.
Wealthy seniors should come from the suburbs and live in communities where they have everything they need. There are supermarkets, medical clinics, etc. Serviced apartments like Oakwood also meet this need.
For others, the city offers very good restaurants, museums, nightlife, sports facilities, parks, cinemas, etc., etc.
I think it would be a disgrace if the buildings at stalls like Marunouchi and Otemachi were emptied. Think of the thousands of restaurants, cafes and food stalls that serve those buildings. They’d go through the bankruptcy. Shopping districts are the center of a city. Seeing them empty is depressing, like hotels, airports and empty theme parks. I saw a picture of downtown Melbourne last week. It looked like a ghost town.
The telework fits some, but it’s not for everyone (myself included). I love the city, but I also enjoy Tokyo’s outdoor weekend tours. And I would have liked to have a bigger floor, I’m happy.
If I had to live and paint in Tokyo for a while, I don’t think I’d still be there.
The asphalt/tokyo sabaku jungle is for me.
It tickled me to read that I live more or less the dream life of several posters, mutatis mutandi. Outside, on the sticks that come out of the house, blank and with new air, I grow my own vegetables, friendly to the neighbors. I prefer my beautiful and elegant house to an old Japanese-style space much harder to leave blank and no cockroaches, and the lack of public transport (20 minutes walk from the nearest exercise station) means that when my driver/husband should not be I had the maximum time on my bike; Normal exercise, along with long daily walks with dogs, helps me stay in shape.
As for a few who were actually born and raised in Tokyo who chose to leave the big city, it was Mr. Cleo, born and raised in Shibuya, who was the first to advise us to move here; I can’t believe I ever need to back down.
@cleo
Why do other people think pointing out the exception means anything?
30 years in the shitamachi region have raised 2 years, all our friends are shitamachi, all friends of my sons shitamachi none would leave, maximum construction houses with double kitchen, as is the very large around the genuine Tokyo.
Why do other people think pointing out the exception means anything?
Just prove that not everyone fits into the mold of your experience.
The MiL lived his entire married life in Tokyo, he would never dream of moving; was surprised and horrified when he found out where we were going. But it also doesn’t have mold compatibility either; she was born and raised in the darkest Ibaraki.
You don’t have to be angry with other people who have another point of view. If you and your family, friends and friends of your children are satisfied to live in shitamachi, that’s fine. However, it’s not for me.
Valid CSRF
@cleo
My is with the article. Poorly documented.
An example with no background on the origin of this or whether it is local to Tokyo.
I know some surfers in Tokyo, but one is from Tokyo.
My son’s friends and college daughter who live outside Tokyo have or are looking to approach their home country.
But like Edo-ko, neither my children nor any of their original Tokyo inhabitants would care.
Mr. Cleo doesn’t lead to any of my 2 adult children and he doesn’t even have a license, or any of his friends in Tokyo who don’t see the need, this just makes any place without smart public transport a problem.
I wish one of them would get the driver’s license because I’m tired of driving them with them and their friends (when there is no public transport or they miss the last train). I know I can say no, but my daughter knows how to calm Dad down.
If other people left the cities in the countryside, it would lead to a revitalization of the country and perhaps the national economy.
For me, I love the Sea of Japan and Ishikawa and I’ll never leave here. I’m under pressure when I go to Osaka to go shopping, even for a few hours. The biggest cities I like are Kanazawa, Kyoto and Nagano.
He’s probably a lucky computer scientist, he can’t even move. If the director is in Tokyo, they will need to see your smile at least once or twice a week just to keep an eye on you and make sure you know who your boss is, especially if you’re a woman.
Antiquesaving27 July 09:05 JST
All this is so beautiful, until one realizes that living in the maximum of these spaces requires non-public transport to do the bare minimum.
You want to stop by for a drink at the convenience store, take a 10- to 20-minute motorcycle ride or get in the car and drive.
Rain, display, etc. Arrangement… it will make the bike complicated for more cars, then the small suburban roads will be even more fun to drive (yes, sarcasm).
If your concept of a smart life is to walk to buy a sugary drink in a kombini, the countryside is not for you.
If your concept of a smart life is to walk to buy a sugary drink in a kombini, the countryside is not for you.
Personally, I prefer a place where I can walk/bike/train without a car.
I don’t give a damn about a sugary drink.