This is a web gallery of the apartment in Tokyo that my husband and I have lived in for 17 years. It has all the warts of being such an old place but we like it anyway. It feels more spacious than most apartments in Tokyo because of its roughly square shape. If the doors between rooms are open, you get a more open feeling and it seems more spacious than it really is. This is in contrast to most apartments in Tokyo which are often long, narrow and tunnel-like. Our location is also quite convenient and we've never had a commute longer than 45 minutes to our various jobs. For about 10 years, my commute was only 25 minutes long and only 12 of that on a train. By western standards, we live in a tiny space. The largest room, the bedroom, is probably about 13' x 9' and the ceiling is 8' high. The smallest, the living room, is about 9' x 9'. The kitchen is somewhere in between. It's hard to convert to western measurements because Japanese apartments are measured by the number of tatami mats that fit into them.

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