Cycling all around Japan

I recently sold my roadbike, so it is a good time to look back on the around 10,000 km that I rode it during the last 5 years.

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Internet for our new house

We just built our house in Tokyo. In this post I will cover how we got internet.

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Home inspection and why we decided to skip it for our home

Building a home is often the biggest purchase of one’s life. But most people are not experts in home construction, so to avoid being cheated by the builder, some people hire a 3rd party company to inspect the house to ensure no corners were cut during the construction.

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Delay in the mortgage for our house

We bought land in Tokyo last year and just finished building our house. We are financing both the land and the house with a mortgage, and just run into some delays with the mortgage. This won’t affect much, but it makes the interest on the bridge loan about 50,000 yen higher, and makes the mortgage of the house start later.

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Receiving the keys to our new house

Last week our house was finished, and we had the official handover (家の引き渡し) yesterday.

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