hello welcome to the last video in my series about moving in Japan today's
topic is the actual move and settling in step 1 preparing for the move when I
first came to Japan from Australia I did not bring a lot with me so most of the
stuff that I did bring I just packed into boxes and searched by Australia
Post the second time I moved from a previous apartment into our current
place I use a company called ART moving center and I was very happy with them I
don't know if it's just with this company but ART gives free quotes so I
just had to arrange a time for them to come tell them exactly what I wanted
them to move and they gave me a quote on the spot once I decided to go ahead with
ART they provided me with three boxes packing tape and paper to wrap
breakables if there are items you want to get rid of but you don't want to pay
the oversized garbage removal fee then you'll have to try and give it away or
sell it there are secondhand stores all over
Japan a big one is called book off which is a chain store or you could try
secondhand buy and sell groups on Facebook like Tokyo sayonara sale Sayonara
Sale nationwide Kanto foreigners classified mottainai Japan etc
a colleague of mine also used a moving company could recycle boy this is
a moving company and recycle shop combined so apparently they can take
away your unwanted items for free or for a fee depending on what it is and of how
much you should be to them I will leave links to recycle boy art and book off in
the description box below for your new place your agent will give you a
checklist to go through the property and write down any existing problems with it
do this process really thoroughly and if possible bring someone with you as a
second pair of eyes because when the time comes for you to leave you don't
want to be blamed or made to pay for anything that wasn't actually your fault
so there are existing issues or damages take notes and photos as evidence for
your own record in terms of setting up utilities this does not take long at all
water and electricity can be set up online you just need to specify what day
as would gas and internet someone needs to be home for that but gas only takes
around 5 to 10 minutes and a little bit longer for internet step to the actual
move on the day of the actual move I just had
to tell ART where I wanted everything to go in my new place so have a good idea
of where you want things to be so then the movers can put it there for you or
at least in the room that you want it to be in which will be less work for you
later I also have to make my own way to the new apartment so just check with
your moving company about whether or not you have to arrange your own transport
step 3 settling in as I mentioned earlier I did
not bring a lot with me from Sydney so all my furniture appliances etc were
purchased here in Japan the main stores that I used were IKEA Nitori which is
like a Japanese IKEA yodobashi camera yamada denki and Aeon I will talk more about
all these doors and others in future videos finally if you've made fun with
in Japan make sure you get a change of address form from the post office so
then all your mail can be redirected to your new home you also need to go to
your local ward office to have your address updated there and of course
don't forget to update your details with other important places too like the bank
your workplace if you have one etc so that's it thank you so much for watching
my series about moving and renting an apartment in Japan if you found my
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