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Japanese house

There are a single house and an apartment. In the apartment, there are two type of the rental system and the purchase type.

1) Single house

The right figure shows the typical single house in the suburbs of the city. The land area is small, about 150 square meters, because the land price around the city is very expensive. Almost of the single houses are made from wood.

2) Apartment type

The apartment type is small than the single house type. The right figures shows the typical purchase type. It is so difficult that people in Japan own their home because of high price. It takes about $200,000 - $400,000 to get the house. So a lot of people lives in the rental type apartment.

3) I will explain the features of Japanese house.

Entrance

At the entrance, we take off our shoes and then put on slippers.

Japanese style room (Tatami room)

In the old Japan, the almost all houses were Tatami room. Tatami mats are a traditional Japanese flooring. Made of woven rush straw, and packed with straw, Tatami are made in individual mats of uniform size and shape, bordered by brocade or green cloth. At Tatami room we sit on the Tatami mat and sleep in futon (Japanese bedding) put down on a Tatami floor. Though nowadays a wooden flooring room is the main style, there are usually one Japanese style room in the Japanese house. At Tatami room, we take off slippers.

Wooden flooring room

We call a flooring room the western room. At the western rooms, we use a desk, a table, chairs and a sofa and the bet to sleep. Flooring rooms are kitchen & dining, living room, bet room (right picture), child room and so on.

Child room

In old Japan, there is no child room. But nowadays a child room is provided to an each child. In that room, children study, play TV game and sleep.

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