Moving into Tokyo

Somewhere in the last two weeks, I've gone to work...but aside from watching a 2nd year student grab another 2nd year student's penis and squeeze as hard as he can. And...hmm, watching a 1st year student crash through a door.  Oh and teaching in an unheated building with windows wide open while it's snowing outside...not much has been going on.  Well, at least it seems that way, since most my time is consumed with apartment hunting in Tokyo.  What I'm hoping for:

1) Sharehouse, Roommate, or Apartment
2) A shared room that is AT LEAST 6tatami (about 98 sq.ft.) / or apartment that's 20sq.m (about 217.8 sq.ft.)
3) Relatively clean (i.e. no mold, no bugs, and nothing falling down)
4) Under $800/month (yeah, seriously I'm actually going to pay $800 bucks for 217 sq. ft apartment)
5) Somewhere within a 25min train ride from my new job


What I've found:

Share House 1-
Found this through a website called sharese.com. The rent is about 680/month, plus around 70/month for utilities  (the utilities really are that cheap...water, gas, and electric).  Maybe it's because they feel sorry about the landowners sucking the very souls from their tenants.  The house has 6 rooms/roommates.  2 Germans, 2 Japanese, and 2 empty rooms (1/2 men, 1/2 women).

About 10 minute walk from the station (about 20min train ride to work).  Very nice neighborhood, but the house is very small.  Only one bathroom and shower for 6 people....OH MY!

So...not that I was expecting much, but this definitely leaves something to be desired...do I really want to feel more dirty coming out than going in?







Kitchen is very spacious for a Japanese house.  Very nice.  A tad messy, but what can you expect with 6 people.  I'd say the place was rather nice seeing that 6 people lived there.

Dining room...not much going on here.






Living room with the German girl that comes with it. 






First bedroom...probably 98sq. ft.  Large closet...at least I think so.  It comes furnished...with...hopefully everything but the clutter.

Second bedroom...probably about 8 mats...again, somewhere in there.

Oh and I forgot to mention the 5 plants in the room.  I'm not sure what the person is hoping to accomplish...increasing the oxygen count of the room?  Or... it is a guy's room, possibly trying to air-out the room.

Hmm, I wouldn't mind keeping this...although most of the books are hard core science fiction.

Hmm, the hallsways are cramped and the thought of trying to share one bathroom with 6 people is well, mind blowing.  While the price is certainly right, the place feels like a cave...or more like a dorm.  I'd like to think that I'm kind of past that phase in my life.