Low cost long term apartments in Tokyo or Yokohama

[sumosan99]

Hello everyone,

I am about to land in Tokyo and start work teaching contract for a few years.

Can anyone recommend cheap apartments in the Tokyo or Yokohama areas?
Have any foreigner experienced any issues in getting an apartment?
What should I be looking out for?
....any advice at all would be really appreciated.

TIA,
sumosan99

 

[Glenski]

I hate to answer a question with a question,but hasn't your employer helped you with this? Most eikaiwa have housing set up already with secondhand furnishings in them. If they don't have housing ready from a previous teacher, they usually offer to help you look for one.

And, yes, foreigners may have problems getting apartments. No employer, no guarantor, no apartment in most cases. Sometimes we foreigners also get discriminated against. That's why you should get a place through your employer.

 

[tinnytim110]

Have you tried Tokyo Aparto
tokyoaparto.com
This company found me a super apartment for the same monthly price I was paying at the guesthouse in Tokyo.

 

[anpan]

hi,when you rent apartment in japan, you have to find guarantor .guarantor is person who live in japan and have source of income in japan.can you find them ? if you can not find them ,you have to hire guarantor company.but they charge very high fee.cuz, when you do not pay your rent, guarator company have to pay rent on behalf of you.their job is risky so, they charge high fee.
but if you have some amount of money , why do not buy apartment ? If you are willing to buy apartment out of center of tokyo,you can buy it rather cheaply .especially, in saitama or chiba prefecture.there are enough transportation in japan, so you can go to your school or office by train.and moreover if you want to buy it cheaply, it is better of you to buy foreclosed properties in japan.you can buy it very cheaply.i know that one foreigner bought house and land at the price of only 1500000 yen.you can find their blog site when you search for "foreclosed , japan, akiyama".

 

[simrnz]

as far as i know housing is provided by your job or company and i wonder why you are not provided by your job, well now you have to do all your own so as per my experience, people don't want to rent to foreigners. another prob is no matter who you are you need a co-signer. my advice is jsut to buy apart rather than renting coz your stay is to be for years not months or weeks and believe me finding a good rent is really impossible.

 

[caster51]

to buy an apartment in chiba or sitama?
ﾂ??,500,000? in moutain?

 

[anpan]

you can buy property within 1 million yen in saitama

case number 2007（ke ）585
bidding standard price : 960,000 yen
Bidding duration : 2009/06/04 ～ 2009/06/11
Transportation : ＪＲ kawagoe line sashiougi station 2.66 ｋｍ
category : apartment
address saitama prefecture kawagoe city (埼玉県川越市大字古谷本郷上組字江遠島 １４９２番地５)
room number :４１１
room space : ６９．８３ sq meters

you can go to ikebukuro in Tokyo from sashiougi station within 45 minutes by train.

so, you can buy your apartment within 1 million yen.
if you are interested in such kind of property, please e-mail us.
could you search with "japan foreclosed properties Mizushima " ?

sincerely

 

[Mi8]

try to see
_tokyo.apartment-office.com
from 43000 Yen/month