xD This is awesome. I've seen several hostel living spaces but not an apartment before. It looks rather small but I don't need very much room myself so I wouldn't mind staying in something like this when I decided to visit Japan. (Hopefully I can go at the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011.)

Thanks for showing this! I'm certainly curious for more if you plan on showing more.

Ok, I'll pick up something from my archives a bit later :)

Oh yeah, this apartment suits perfectly as a temporary dwelling. Even kitchen works fine as long as you don't plan to give a banquet. Lack of shelves and a desk annoyed me much more. It's awfully hard to write properly on such a low table, and my homework writings looked terrible T_T

I'm happy to hear you are going to Japan :) If it's not a secret, what would be the purpose of your trip? Have you been to Japan before?

Ah~, it's no secret at all. I've always wanted to go to Japan since I was a kid (way before I realized I was into anime and such). I figured that it's about time I make true to that dream and start planning to go. The only thing is I have no clue on how to start planning something that big. xD Not only that I'm not sure how long I want to stay there.

So desu ne...
I usually start with making a list of things I want to do and places I want to visit.

This is really cool, thank you for sharing!

Before I would have thought something like this would have been perfect for me; I tend to keep within a small space anyways. But I think I'd have the same problems as you, with the lack of shelving and the small kitchen. I thought the kitchen in my house was small enough. @_@

Though I may be new to figure collecting, I have a few other small collections of things. In this situation I'd have to pack it up into off-site storage. I'm too clingy for that. ;_;

Yeah, you got what I was saying. Btw, what are those other things you collect? :)

My most favored collection is a set of dragon plushies that I have. They're made as promotional products for a mortgage company, and you can only get them by doing business with them. I'm fortunate that my mother works in such a field. :) Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore, and I didn't get to finish my set. :< I got most of the ones I really wanted, but there a few that I still wanted.

There's also a local movie theatre that has decent gashapons every now and then (that's rare in America, we have cheap crappy gashapons here). I have a little set of Carebear figures from that, and a set of other little plastic animals. I don't go to the movies often enough to have any others.

Me, the boyfriend, and my sister all collect knives/swords. The boyfriend just ordered another sword the other day, in fact.

There's many others. I've always had a collective nature, back to collecting marbles and Pokemon cards as a child. I think I'll make a post for my dragon figures/plushies here shortly, once I can snatch the camera back from my sister.

Wow... then you are blessed to collect figurines by Maker!
Myself... Besides figurines I collect Japanese textbooks oO Oh, it probably doesn't fit :P

Looking forward to get acquainted with your dragons. Rrrrr! ^_^

Hehe, collecting textbooks is fine too! When I first got into Japanese, I had a few different English-to-Japanese dictionaries. There'd always be some stuff that was in one but not the other so I had to have more than one. :P But my first one, a little purple pocket-sized one, fell apart after so many years. :( I never really did end up learning Japanese, either.

すばらしい！Jobibiちゃんはいろいろなことが上手ですね．．．

I remember these photos :) But this time there were some new ones.

Myself, I really don't much care about spaciousness (in case it's not REALLY small, heh), but the absence of gloomy and angry male roommates seems to me almost obligatory now :)