#14 Moving (hikkoshi)｜Moving a house 🏚️🇯🇵 Japanese Listening Practice

Konnichi what's up! Welcome to NINJA JAPANESE PODCAST! I'm NINJA SENSEI. Everyone, thank you for studying Japanese today. You are doing your best! In this podcast, I introduce useful phrases and Japanese culture in gentle Japanese. Today, I will talk about moving a house. Let's get started! Everyone, my background has changed. Have you noticed? That's right. I moved recently. This is my new house. Thank you very much! I moved on September 18th. So today, I would like to talk about the process of moving to Japan and my new house. First of all, this is the process of moving to Japan. The first thing I did was download an app for moving. There are two famous apps. One is SUMO and the other is HOMES. In this app, there is a lot of information about houses. All over Japan. From Hokkaido to Okinawa, there is information about houses in all over Japan. In this app, you can find the house you want to live in. It's very convenient, isn't it? For example, I want to live near this station. Rent? Rent is the amount of money you pay every month. How much is the rent? You can filter and search by setting conditions. If you find a nice house in the app, Next, contact the real estate agent. Another difficult word came out. Do you know the word real estate? Real estate is real estate in English. So, if you find a nice house, You can contact the real estate agent from the app. Contact, Next, I will actually go to see the house. I will go to the house with the real estate agent. This house has such a point. I will be explained like this. I went to see three houses this time. Among them, I liked this house the most, so I chose this house. It's like that. If you decide that you like this house, Next, Make a contract. It's a contract. I was a little surprised this time, I made all the contracts online. The real estate agent sent me the contract, I signed the contract, I read it, I checked it, I sent the contract to the real estate agent again. It's like that. When I signed it, I signed it while having an online meeting. It was just an online contract. After signing the contract, Next, I will get the key and move to a new house. That's all. Once you decide when to move, There is one more thing you have to do. That is to contact the real estate agent. The real estate agent, For example, the bed in the house, These shelves, Desks, Furniture. He will carry the furniture, The refrigerator, Washing machine, Microwave, He will also carry home appliances. After that, clothes. He will ask the real estate agent to carry all the things in the house. That's why I ask the real estate agent, About 70,000 yen to 100,000 yen. Well, it depends on the amount of luggage. If you have a lot of things in the house, It may be more expensive. In my case, it was about 70,000 to 80,000 yen. Yes. And, Well, That's right. Like that. All the luggage comes to this house, After that, unpacking, How do you say unpacking in Japanese? Katadukete? Katadukemasu. Well, If the real estate agent carries all the luggage, After that, I will clean up the room by myself. Now I can live. Yes. Like this. This is the process of moving. It's about the process. Yes. Next, I will talk about my new house. I'm excited. I really love this house. There are many reasons why I love it. First of all, the sea is close, The surroundings of the house are very quiet, There are a lot of windows, It's bright, After that, It's new. Do you understand? This is the first time I live in this house. No one has lived here before. It's a really new building, So it's very beautiful and nice. I like it. After that, There are many delicious restaurants and fashionable cafes near the house. And the supermarket is also close. There are really only good points. Yes, yes, yes. I didn't buy this house. Rent? It's rent. In Japanese, it's called chintai. Because it's a rental house, I pay rent every month. I pay rent once a month. There is such a rule. Yes. Is there anything else? Hmm. New house. Oh, and it's a little interesting, The rules of garbage in this area are very strange. It's a little strange, isn't it? It's very detailed. There is a calendar for garbage. Monday is burning garbage. Tuesday is...no. What was Monday? Monday is... It's like a spray can. Tuesday is burning garbage. Wednesday is a plastic bottle. Thursday is cardboard or old paper. Friday is burning garbage again. There is a rule of garbage every day. At first, it's a hassle to remember and check it. That's a little minus point. But I love everything else. I'm really looking forward to living in this house from now on. So, finally, I'd like to talk about housewarming. I mean, I'd like to ask you. There is not much housewarming culture in Japan. Even if you move to a new house, you don't invite your friends and party together. How about your country? Do you party with everyone after you move? Don't you? Recently, when I talked to a student of online lesson, a Swiss student, he asked me, Do you do housewarming? I said, I don't think so. I've been wondering what your country is like. So I have a question for you. Please leave a comment. Do you do housewarming in your country? Is the process of moving the same as in Japan? Is it different? Or is it a little similar? Please let me know your culture like this. Okay, that's it for today. I'm sorry. I didn't have a script today, so it might have been difficult to understand. Today, I talked about moving to Japan. Thank you for listening to the podcast until the end. Let's have fun studying Japanese together in the next episode. See you next time!