Recently, I’ve been showing you shots of the neighborhood and the view, but nothing inside the apartment. Actually, we got it cleaned up enough to be presentable in the past week, maybe 3 or 4 days ago, so there’s no reason (aside from slothfulness) to put it off any further.

You may recall the layout, if you were keeping track of comments from previous Ikebukuro posts. This was the floor plan, with numbers representing tatami mats, each tatami roughly 3 x 6 feet:

Inside that floorplan, this was the expected layout:

Although in “bedroom 2,” the “computer desk” (light beige rectangle on the right) had to be thrown out, that was for the best–it would have seriously overcrowded the room for no good purpose. The sofa in the living room we moved back a bit from the TV… but aside from those two changes, everything was placed as planned, and works very well. So with that layout established, let’s look at some main points of the apartment:

First, the kitchen, as viewed from near the dining room table (the dark brown thing with four chairs around it):

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Turn a little to the right, and you can see the living room area (note the green curtains, a recent apartment-wide addition):

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Step back into the kitchen a bit and look back towards the balcony windows:

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The following views do not have enlarged images. If you go down the hall from the kitchen area to the bedrooms, then on the right is the bath area:

Hidden in there on the left side is the washer-dryer, and almost at the door on the left is a second mirror-cabinet dressing area. Turn around, and you see the main bedroom:

The bed does take up most of the room, but there’s more space than there seems in this image. Out of frame, there’s a fair amount of floor space beyond the bed, and full-sized closets to the left.

And just around the corner is the hallway leading to the genkan, and the front door:

There’s more, but that’s enough for now.