Hi everybody!
It's super sudden for me (just received notice from work less than a week ago) but I'll be moving to Japan (specifically Maizuru, Kyoto) for the next 6 months – 1 year next week. I've already started the process of renting a place with my partner there, and though nothing is official yet I'd like to get ahead of myself and start looking into furnishing.
As I've read from a bunch of other posts, people recommend Nitori and Facebook marketplace for buying furniture. I unfortunately do not have the option to look through Facebook though as… no foreigners live or have lived here I guess :') I have also started looking for used furniture shops in the area, but not much comes up unfortunately. If anybody has better Japanese than I do or has visited or lived in Maizuru, I'd appreciate some help in locating some shops.
Anways, what I'm really wondering is, what appliances or pieces of furniture would you recommend I buy and which ones to rent? Granted I haven't done the most research as I've been busy with packing for the move since I'll be leaving extremely soon, but any advice is welcome.
Also, I've seen some of the rental companies offer furniture/appliance rentals of their own, and I'm wondering what people think about that. Do you think their rates are worth it or are there much cheaper options available elsewhere? To give an example of what one company has shown me, they offered a choice of 4 appliances for 5500 yen, but near the bottom, it also says "+ Initial cost: 22,000 yen/(first time only)" which kind of confused me.
Any advice is welcome once again, even if it's not about this furniture stuff, because I'm certainly stressing myself out! Any additional advice on what to pack would be amazing as well… please… I've browsed a multitude of forums and posts already but my fear of forgetting things is overwhelming me…
Thank you in advance!!!!
by Altruistic-Gur-6993