{"id":53587,"date":"2023-03-20T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/you-could-cook-while-on-the-toilet-a-night-in-one-of-tokyos-micro-apartments"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:00:08","slug":"you-could-cook-while-on-the-toilet-a-night-in-one-of-tokyos-micro-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53587","title":{"rendered":"You could cook while on the toilet: a night in one of Tokyo\u2019s micro-apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny homes, which measure just nine square metres \u2013 or three tatami mats \u2013 are the architectural answer to rising rents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/video\/2023\/mar\/20\/tokyos-micro-apartments-justin-mccurry-spends-a-night-in-a-tiny-home-video\">Justin McCurry spends a night in a 3 tatami mat apartment \u2013 video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is one of the shortest viewings in estate agency history. As soon as the door opens, every inch of living space except the sleeping quarters is visible.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny <em>genkan<\/em> entryway, which could nearly accommodate three pairs of shoes, leads to a shower cubicle on the right with just enough room to swing a sponge, next to a toilet that \u2013 door left open \u2013 one could occupy while just about rustling up dinner in a kitchenette 50cm away on the other side of the \u201ccorridor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/you-could-cook-while-on-the-toilet-a-night-in-one-of-tokyos-micro-apartments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny homes, which measure just nine square metres \u2013 or three tatami mats \u2013 are the architectural answer to rising rentsJustin McCurry spends a night in a 3 tatami mat apartment \u2013 videoIt is one of the shortest viewings in estate agency history. As &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53587\/revisions\/53588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}