Finally.. an apartment?
The apartment saga is fairly interesting (and long) one. Today, I finally got an invoice to pay for the apartment I was interested in. Fees in random order:
- 2 months rent (april, may)
- 1 month's thank-you-for-the-opportunity money to the landlord
- 1 month's fee to the real estate agent
- 2 month's guarantee (of which most likely 1 month goes to cleaning once I leave)
.. and scale the 6 months involved with the 113k yen/month (about 800 eur?) and you realize that moving to places in japan is not exactly cheap.
My next problem was, how to get the money. Alternatives: visa (no go, some sort of stupid 3k eur / week limit on cash withdrawals, even assuming I had the limit to do it). International money transfer? Went to the receiving bank, and they told me that I could get the exact information only from the branch office where the target account was, and I needed to call them. At this stage, I was starting to get REALLY pissed off, as both the delays involved and additional bureaucracy did not appeal to me very much. I was NOT very happy.
Luckily my boss had extra cash on his bank account and graciously loaned me the 5k-ish eur I needed until I can get local bank account of my own. :-) I will most likely get the keys tomorrow, barring something unforeseen (duh). Would be nice, considering I get tossed out of the hotel day after tomorrow as someone has reserved this same room from that point onward (and I'd rather not move).
What happened since last post otherwise? Hmm. Mon-Fri apartment hunting pretty much, Saturday I walked around Tokyo a lot (maybe 30km, at least my feet were killing me afterwards after pounding tarmac so long), going to see the sakura in Asakusa (Sumida park), Ueno (Ueno park), and finally Chidorifuchi near Kudanshita station (north of the emperor's palace), all of that just walking from Asakusa. I crowned the day by walking home from there too.
Not good idea really, was too tired to do much on Sunday except play Go (10 games at Nihon Ki-in, half wins, half losses), and play with computer.. Anime addiction picking up again :)
Some pictures coming up too I suppose, soon.
- 2 months rent (april, may)
- 1 month's thank-you-for-the-opportunity money to the landlord
- 1 month's fee to the real estate agent
- 2 month's guarantee (of which most likely 1 month goes to cleaning once I leave)
.. and scale the 6 months involved with the 113k yen/month (about 800 eur?) and you realize that moving to places in japan is not exactly cheap.
My next problem was, how to get the money. Alternatives: visa (no go, some sort of stupid 3k eur / week limit on cash withdrawals, even assuming I had the limit to do it). International money transfer? Went to the receiving bank, and they told me that I could get the exact information only from the branch office where the target account was, and I needed to call them. At this stage, I was starting to get REALLY pissed off, as both the delays involved and additional bureaucracy did not appeal to me very much. I was NOT very happy.
Luckily my boss had extra cash on his bank account and graciously loaned me the 5k-ish eur I needed until I can get local bank account of my own. :-) I will most likely get the keys tomorrow, barring something unforeseen (duh). Would be nice, considering I get tossed out of the hotel day after tomorrow as someone has reserved this same room from that point onward (and I'd rather not move).
What happened since last post otherwise? Hmm. Mon-Fri apartment hunting pretty much, Saturday I walked around Tokyo a lot (maybe 30km, at least my feet were killing me afterwards after pounding tarmac so long), going to see the sakura in Asakusa (Sumida park), Ueno (Ueno park), and finally Chidorifuchi near Kudanshita station (north of the emperor's palace), all of that just walking from Asakusa. I crowned the day by walking home from there too.
Not good idea really, was too tired to do much on Sunday except play Go (10 games at Nihon Ki-in, half wins, half losses), and play with computer.. Anime addiction picking up again :)
Some pictures coming up too I suppose, soon.
posted by Wanderer at 14:45
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