Choosing our family car in Tokyo

We recently bought a minivan for our family, living in Tokyo. In this post I’ll cover how we chose the type of car that we bought.

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Garden structure (carport, bicycle shelter) rules in Tokyo

We are building a house in Tokyo. The house design is finalized, and the constructions is ongoing, so we are finalizing the garden design. One common thing to put into the garden is some sort of roof over either a car or bicycles, often referred to as カーポート(carport) and サイクルポート (cycleport). We just learned that there are rules about these.

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Designing our house

We recently wrapped up the design of our house. I will share how it went in this post.

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Ichijo friend referral

Ichijo, as most major house makers, offer a friend referral system.

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Why we chose to own our home instead of renting

Back in January 2023 I wrote a post on the renting vs buying decision in Tokyo concluding that the two options have comparable financial outcomes (assuming the renter invests the additional money into a diversified portfolio). Yet we decided to build our house. In this post I’ll share the reasons that contributed to this decision.

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