My Apartment

I realised today that though I've been living in Japan for over a year and blogging since June, I am yet to show you my apartment...  Despite shacking up in a one-bedroom unit, I consider myself quite lucky - my pad is one of the biggest in the prefecture and after a raft of early shopping trips, looks quite good (even if I do say so myself).  So, while it's relatively tidy at the moment in prep for guests on the weekend, check it out:

This is my kitchen.  I'm lucky to have a massive breakfast bar style counter for heaps of benchspace!

The apartment is very open plan, though there are sectional dividers that I can pull across to separate the rooms if necessary.

This is my loungeroom.  To the right is where I hang my washing to dry (it's too cold at the moment and there are too many bugs to hang my clothes up on the balcony).  I bought the lounge, fluffy floor rug, throw rug, cushions, lamp and TV when I first got here - you should have seen it when I arrived (it was a thorough bachelor pad!).  Unfortunately, the photos on the wall aren't mine, but were taken by my pred.

A small display table in my house.  Apparently it is very New Yearsy in theme...

This is my combined bathroom and laundry.  To the right is the shower room.  To the left, the WC.

This is my bedroom.  My closet is mostly full of storage boxes, shoes and chests of drawers, so this is where I hang my clothes and park my laptop.

This is my bed, of sorts.  Essentially it's just a futon on the floor.  I always thought about buying a real bed, but with 7 months left in Japan, it seems like such a waste of money to buy one now...