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Where to live in Tokyo?

I must admit Minato Mirai was dreadful at the beginning but now it's kinda cool
My company had an office in Yokohama until it just relocated to Ousaki. Nice for shopping. Had my favorite pawn/antique shop there until the end of October when it closed down for good.
Now Yokohama is shit.
 
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The morning commute on the trains in Greater Tokyo has to be seen to be believed. The evening commute is also crowded, but it tends to be more spread out time-wise. Hence, it's not quite so bad. Nevertheless, the last train full of drunk salarymen can be amusing.
 
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The morning commute on the trains in Greater Tokyo has to be seen to be believed. The evening commute is also crowded, but it tends to be more spread out time-wise. Hence, it's not quite so bad. Nevertheless, the last train full of drunk salarymen can be amusing.

Nothing like being swept out of a train by a crowd of commuters. It's like being carried out to sea by a strong ocean current.
 
Nothing like being swept out of a train by a crowd of commuters. It's like being carried out to sea by a strong ocean current.
Or going into a train thinking this is packed to the max, only to get smashed in by 10 more people like sardines in a can.
 
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Took some lapse-time video of a line smashing into the shoan shinjuku line at rush. Didn't think they'd all fit. They did.
 
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Stay in the 23 wards inside Yamanote line ... If u want nice. . Azabu Juban , Midtown , Hiroo, Minami Azabu ...Can walk to many places ....
Daikenyama is nice but train wise have to go to Shibuya to get anyplace else ..

Budget is going to be the deciding factor . .Cuz u can pay ¥100,000/month to ¥1,000,000/ month. Ritz Carlton Residence are the later ...

After budget then decide what u enjoy doing the most ..

don't forget key money , deposits, fire insurance etc ...
 
Stay in the 23 wards inside Yamanote line

You wouldn't have lost any information and at the same time could have being more precise if you just said "inside Yamanote line". As not all 23-ku are even partly inside Yamate line and inside there is nothing else than some of the ku's.

It is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which ku's are inside the Yamate line and which are not. :ROFLMAO::p

As for the budget there are several places near where I live where the rent is way over a million per month and we are quite far away from the green trains.
 
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Azabu Juban , Midtown , Hiroo, Minami Azabu
honestly, apart from the fact that to incredibly superficial people these areas are somehow aspirational, what exactly is 'nice' about them? They are all inner-city areas surrounded by major roads and expressways. They all have nice apartments but also surrounded by shitty old housing blocks and bad infrastructure. Just because some Japanese ladies you meet at the Hub will immediately drop their panties when you tell them you live there (believe me, I know, I used to), actually living in those areas isn't that special.
 
what exactly is 'nice' about them?

You get to stay in your gaijin bubble, talk with only other foreigners in English and shop in supermarkets specialising in foreign products?

Personally the only thing that would make me consider moving away from Japan is if I was forced to live in Hiroo.
 
talk with only other foreigners in English and shop in supermarkets specialising in foreign products?

One of the most infuriating things Ive ever seen; I was at the International supermarket in Hiroo and there was a ex-pat wife type shopping there nearby where I was. She had a personal shopper (he had on the uniform), a Japanese /US bilingual guy, who was walking around with her and explaining the products and what she should buy. I could understand that if they were at the local supermarket but they were in an international store where everything is in English and mostly imported goods.

I just know when she went back to the US she was telling all her fellow housewives about her adventure in Tokyo and how she even shopped at the local stores.
 
One of the most infuriating things Ive ever seen; I was at the International supermarket in Hiroo and there was a ex-pat wife type shopping there nearby where I was. She had a personal shopper (he had on the uniform), a Japanese /US bilingual guy, who was walking around with her and explaining the products and what she should buy. I could understand that if they were at the local supermarket but they were in an international store where everything is in English and mostly imported goods.

I just know when she went back to the US she was telling all her fellow housewives about her adventure in Tokyo and how she even shopped at the local stores.

maybe she was French? We’re not very familiar with the American crap they sell at National Azabu :D
 
maybe she was French? We’re not very familiar with the American crap they sell at National Azabu :D

Only would work if she was illiterate but could understand spoken English. :p
 
Only would work if she was illiterate but could understand spoken English. :p
Or is just simply not familiar with oz, lb, and other exotic mentions . Also some products we don’t understand at all even if fluent in english. Spotted dick anyone?
(Ah no sorry this one is british)
 
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It is good to live within reasonable taxi distance of your preferred boozing and hunting grounds.
 
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I used to live in western Tokyo, in one of 23-wards but outside the Yamanote loop in a leafy neighborhood where the houses were smaller yet decent by Western standard. The house I lived has gone at the end of the bubble era, replaced by 3 narrow/small houses. A larger house next door was replaced by 8 small houses. Whenever I go to that neighborhood, I feel nostalgic but also feel suffocated. For me, western part of Tokyo is not attractive since it has been destroyed by those developers of all those ugly small houses . This is another reason why eastern part, like Taito ward, looks refreshing as the area preserves old Tokyo better. I could catch a glimpse of old Tokyo in some part of Minato ward, too, which is very attractive to me.
 
I used to live in western Tokyo, in one of 23-wards but outside the Yamanote loop in a leafy neighborhood where the houses were smaller yet decent by Western standard. The house I lived has gone at the end of the bubble era, replaced by 3 narrow/small houses. A larger house next door was replaced by 8 small houses. Whenever I go to that neighborhood, I feel nostalgic but also feel suffocated. For me, western part of Tokyo is not attractive since it has been destroyed by those developers of all those ugly small houses . This is another reason why eastern part, like Taito ward, looks refreshing as the area preserves old Tokyo better. I could catch a glimpse of old Tokyo in some part of Minato ward, too, which is very attractive to me.

Exactly. People originally wanted to live in those areas because they had nice neighbourhoods with good spacious places to live, greenery etc. then property developers catch on to the popularity and start stacking up a load of box like houses and apartments that ruin the area, but because those locations have been deemed aspirational or ‘cool’ people still go there anyway, even though their is no good reason to apart from to tell their freinds and family they have a place at xxx location, even though its a pre-fab 80sqms split into 3 floors in a soulless row of another 20 pre-fab 80 sqm boxes.
 
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maybe she was French? We’re not very familiar with the American crap they sell at National Azabu :D
French only know about eating raw Onions.........so it smells..:p
 
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