I am planning to arrive in Japan with a WHV at the beginning of November. Usually those on a WH seem to live in sharehouses but I am not a big fan of it. So I have done an immense amount of research about different housing options. I have already found some foreigner friendly real estators that even accept applications from overseas and don't care about usual obstacles such as not having a Japanese emergency contact person, however the problem is not having a Japanese bank account yet. Therefore I was thinking about booking something like oakhouse for a month to set up necessary things such as a bank account, residence card, phone number etc. in order to rent an apartment from an agency. The reason I want to rent an apartment is that it's pretty much the same price in the end compared to those sharehouse options in the area I am interested in. For example this oakhouse place for 12 months would be 758000 yen while the apartments including initial costs, contract breaking fee (under 2 years), rent etc. would be around 700000 yen (the agencies have sent me breakdowns of the costs so I know what it is). Ofc I would need to pay the utility bills and furniture by myself but that's not a big problem considering the privacy that your own place offers. So is there something that should be taken into account?
by nh_jp