So today I found out where we're going to live in Tokyo. The first month I will have a very, very small student dormitory room "with a small fridge, a desk and a bed". It's shared bathroom, shared kitchen and shared living room.
Now, this whole thing isn't super-cheap, but it's not really that expensive either. It does however seem like either the organization arranging this education or the school is trying to milk a whole lot of money. Transfer from the airport costs 2500 SEK (28000 YEN), while taking a taxi will cost significantly less (20 000 YEN). We won't be making transfer arrangements with them. But worst of all are these living arrangements, it's around 6000 SEK a month rent for one of these rooms, and I can get a one room apartment with kitchen and bathroom in the center of town for less.
This picture pretty much explains how sucky the living arrangements are.
Living arrangement
It's about the same travel-time from the place we used to live to the school. But we paid less for the apartment where we used to live, and that was a real apartment, and as you can see; it was actually close to the interesting stuff in town.
Soooo, yeah... We'll be looking for an apartment from day 1.
