My New York City apartment had just enough room for me, my roommate, and her cat Mimi. And while our narrow kitchen and living room sometimes felt tight, it also felt affordable for $2,550. That was ...

(CNN) — Swedish retailer Ikea is becoming a landlord in Japan with a tiny apartment it will rent out in Tokyo. The 10-square-meter (107-square-foot) apartment is located in the Shinjuku district and ...

When I tell my friends and family back home that the Tokyo micro-apartment my boyfriend and I share is 21 square meters, one room and only has a single-burner stovetop, I invariably see the same ...

TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The price of new apartments in Tokyo during 2023 averaged more than 100 million yen annually for the first time ever, pushed up by rising labour and construction costs as ...

The price of new apartments in Tokyo toppled a 30-year-old record in 2021 as rising demand from dual-income households and increasing construction costs boosted the Japanese capital’s once-moribund ...

Two videos on TikTok recently went viral and showed the crazy differences between two different micro apartments — one in the East Village neighborhood of New York City and the other one in Tokyo, ...

Hanami is the name of the Japanese festival of admiring flowers. During the Hanami, the Japanese enjoy all kinds of flowers but sakura is the queen of flowers. Its beauty and grace underpin the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. There might be apartments that are smaller. There might be apartments that are dirtier or are in worse neighborhoods. But this is one bad Tokyo ...

Swedish retailer Ikea is becoming a landlord in Japan with a tiny apartment it will rent out in Tokyo. The 10-square-meter (107-square-foot) apartment is located in the Shinjuku district and will cost ...