Big in Japan: How to rent an apartment in Tokyo

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12-30-2007 @ 12:40AM

shari said...

Even for Tokyo, 170,000 yen a month is a very, very expensive place though I guess if it's big enough to share with another person, it's not too bad.

However, it's not 6 months of *salary* to rent an apartment as most people make more than 170,000 yen a month (a low pay rate is 250,000 for most foreign folks). It's 6 months of *rent* (first and last, 2 months gift, 1 month security, 1 month rental agency fee). And you are going to get roughly half of that back (2 months applied to your rent and some, possibly most, of your security deposit back).

The biggest impediment to renting isn't covered here and that is the discrimination you face as a foreigner. A lot of landlords say, "no pets, no foreigners, and no prostitutes."

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