I work in two different places and one of them is a 3h commute away, so I want a place to crash near my second workplace at the cheapest cost possible (30,000 max with all fees included).
Is there any website where people look for roommates or someone else to share rent with?
I did find cheap old apartments with shared toilets for 13,000 or even cheaper with no bath, and that’s fine. The problem is that sometimes I may not go to the apartment for 2 or more weeks, and finding your apartment all moldy and the mailbox overflowing at the end of a long workday sounds like a nightmare.
Corporate owned sharehouses start at 40,000 + fees + a hefty contract fee. And all those have shifts for the residents to take out trash, clean, etc, which I can’t follow because I won’t be there most of the time and I don’t want to have to take the trash out or clean for a week every month when I may only spend a max of 1 or 2 nights a week in the house.
EDIT: I’ve checked hotels, and almost every hotel that fits within my budget are fully booked if you try to book it on the same day (it’s Kyoto, I should have mentioned). And it’s not a risk I’d like to take, I want a place I know I can safely go whenever I need without planning in advance.
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Cheap hotel would be my choice for those parameters
Yeah just stay in a business hotel like apa or toyoko inn or route inn.
Hostels offer dorm rooms and are quite cheap. Obviously it depends but could be something like 3k per night.
Why not stay at a internet cafe? Its not ideal byt for one night should be enough
I see people looking for roommates on regional Facebook groups sometimes. But quite rare. People that I know that live with roommates always live with friends of friends or coworkers etc. No strangers.
You’d be better off staying at Kaikatsu club. About 2,100yen for 6 hours and includes free shower and drinks. They’ve got those individual rooms now these days. Should definitely fall under 30,000yen
They’re a blessing.
https://www.room.free-d.jp/ look at these sharehouses. There’s no chores and minimal moving fees
>I did find cheap old apartments with shared toilets for 13,000 or even cheaper with no bath, and that’s fine. The problem is that sometimes I may not go to the apartment for 2 or more weeks, and finding your apartment all moldy and the mailbox overflowing at the end of a long workday sounds like a nightmare.
If it were me I’d probably choose this option. I have left my apartments for longer than 2 weeks many times but never had any problems at all. What are you afraid is gonna get moldy? Chances are many of these apartments are just sitting there for months before tenants move in anyway.
As for the mail, presuming you don’t register it as your primary residence, you can probably just ignore your mailbox or tape it up even.
The things that you should be more concerned about are upfront costs, contracts, insurance, utilities, all that mendokusai stuff. But imo the advantages of having another apartment which you can use whenever you want to do whatever you want should outweigh the downsides.