Tokyo residents sleep in ridiculously small rooms

[Precocity]

[eynon81]

I'm trying to imagine the funk.

[Precocity]

Imagine if you were claustrophobic?

[NAB]

Those are most likely their "residences" during the week only.

It's not unusual for people working in Tokyo to have more than one residence. One for the week when you're working, and one many hours away that's your "real" home. Those, obviously, barely fall into that category.

[eynon81]

[BetterThanEx]

I didn't see a bathroom in any of those pictures. I'm going to assume there's a communal bathroom

Really makes me appreciate what I have as far as living arrangements.

[The Dharma Bum]

Imagine a future where most objects can be easily produced by additive processing so keeping personal items would be an exercise in futility because the designs would evolve so fast. It would be better to be able to throw all of your stuff into a disintegration unit at the end of the day and use the reclaimed raw material the next morning to make everything you will need for the day (including clothes). Then just go outside and find a car to go about your business.

Vending machine homes wherever you happen to find yourself that evening could be pretty cool if materialistic attitudes have been abandoned and any good that you needed could be nearly instantly manufactured by any nearby additive processing unit. Each housing unit could even have one.

[PoS]

Ive seen firsthand (but never slept in) those capsule hotels in Japan and I have a feeling thats where the future will end up as with this Keynesian welfare state system. Ive seen people actually live in them on a permanent basis.

[Mo~]

[The Dude]

I saw on some channel some dude in (I think Hong Kong) had a small apartment but he was an engineer of some sort and built into his apartment a rotating wall.

His one room was everything. A bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom. All he'd have to do was rotate a wall and convert his bed into a couch or bench/chair. He also had special blinders for the large window depending on what he was doing.

It was pretty neat. The apartment room was much bigger than the one in the OP, of course. But it was a super-efficient use the wall. Sure, it sucked that he had to turn off the TV to get to the fridge in the kitchen, but it's a lot better than not having a kitchen.