Our Japanese Apartment: Part 2

We were very thankful when arriving to Shimonoseki to find that our apartment was very spacious and has 3 rooms not including the kitchen or bathroom. One room we use as a living room, one for us and one for Samuel. We were only expecting 1 or 2 rooms and a small kitchen/eating space. 

Our style of apartment is actually refereed to as a Japanese mansion because there is so much space and the walls are thicker then most other Japanese apartments. The Shimoda's,  that took us to the Samurai Residence, (Click Here), helped the church in finding an apartment for us. We are very thankful for it and the extra space that we were not expecting. It's perfect for us and our size family, until baby #2 comes along ;)

Entryway view with the bathroom door on the right and our bedroom door on the left. 

We come through this door from the entryway to get to the kitchen.

This closet is in the hallway between the entryway and the kitchen. 

The middle shelf holds extra food and various items because we do not have a pantry. 

The bottom shelf is perfect to store our suitcases.

The top shelf is great for storing boxes for appliances when we move or for storage later. 

Looking into the kitchen from the entryway. The storage closet is on the left and the sliding doors to Samuel's room are on the right. Curtains are hung in this photo also and you can see next to the table on the right the sliding doors to our living room. 

Samuel's other sliding door.

We purchased a shelf to keep our oven on and other items that we use on a daily basis as well as our wonderful Japanese style refrigerator. 

This is our kitchen!! It has lots of cabinet space. I actually had to purchase a step stool because I couldn't reach the top shelves.

Dishwashers are not commonly found in Japan unless they are purchased separately and they are about the size of our oven that would sit on the counter. We found an awesome dish-strainer!!

There is no central heat or AC, so we only heat or cool portions of the apartment at a time. For this reason being able to section off certain rooms of our apartment is great. We only heat or cool the room/rooms we are currently in or using if at all. (Click Here) to see our first pictures/blog post of 'Our New Home! in Japan.'