Inside Japan’s CAPSULE Tower | 140 TINY Tokyo Apartments

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  @AbroadinJapan · 5 years ago (edited) · pinned

  SAD UPDATE, the building is now being demolished. I went to take a look one last time in this follow up video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhe8qg16PPU">https://youtu.be/mhe8qg16PPU</a>

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• GE

  @geraldsoon957 · 5 years ago

  Cant believe Too Much Volcano is such a massive hit that when Chris turned on the radio, TMV was blasting on radio!

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• CH

  @chursteen · 5 years ago

  “jenga with washing machines” thats literally my first thought

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• PA

  @Patterrz · 5 years ago

  Sad to see so many interesting looking buildings get torn down and replaced with generic towers

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• LY

  @lynnj9995 · 5 years ago

  When I lived in Tokyo in the 80s I had a friend who owned one of these apartments and I got to stay there from time to time. The bathroom was the smallest I&apos;d ever seen but super-efficient. There was a platform bed so you could look out the window in the morning. The only thing I ever worried about was getting out in case of an earthquake. I wasn&apos;t sure that the structure would hold together. Thanks for this wonderful memory!

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• SH

  @SheKnives · 5 years ago

  Whenever the tower does come down. I hope they manage to keep the original capsule intake. It&apos;d be cool to have in a museum.

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• ZU

  @ZuKuPLayer · 5 years ago

  As a foreign tourist travelling alone, this could be a perfect substitute for a capsule hotel. I&apos;d love to stay in such place. Too bad they won&apos;t preserve it, nor recreate it with eliminating the flaws of it&apos;s predecessor. It&apos;s a shame that new generations won&apos;t ever see buildings like this with their own eyes anymore.

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• AI

  @ainsleyharriott2209 · 5 years ago

  The fact that you can’t open the windows would be a dealbreaker for me. The air would get too stale.

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• KI

  @kittikat4124 · 5 years ago

  I hope that when this building eventually comes down, a capsule or two is saved. Especially that original 70s capsule, it is such a good visual of the time period

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• JE

  @jesseg1699 · 5 years ago

  I wonder why they didnt just turn it into a hotel. Someones apartment you cant really disrupt to move a cube, but a hotel room you could. Im sure there are a lot of tourists who would love to stay in a cube.

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• CA

  @cabbage_cat · 5 years ago

  the inside really does look futuristic, it&apos;s like the inside of a spaceship cabin

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• IT

  @itbibo · 5 years ago

  It’s so unfortunate that such an innovative style of building was thrown aside over the years. I’m happy to hear that there is a crowd funding movement to immortalize some of these capsules as potential pieces of history.

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