Comments on: On Heating an Apartment in Japan

By: Getting cold | Smiling Rice

Getting cold | Smiling Rice — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:38:12 +0000

[…] trying to figure out how my heater works I stumbled across these two: “On heating an apartment in Japan” which starts with “Japan does not believe in warmth without risk.” and “How to cut out home […]

By: 41 Things I Like About Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

41 Things I Like About Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:32 +0000

[…] nostalgic for the wet and icy cold while cradled in the sweaty palms of summer. While Japan’s insane lack of central heat left me in bitter shivers, I did find no small comfort in curling up under the warmed blanket of a […]

By: Big_K

Big_K — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:49:55 +0000

Now it makes sense why a cold is a death sentence in all those anime I’ve been watching.

By: ABD4EVR

ABD4EVR — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:23:07 +0000

I used to chuckle about the gas space heaters with “extension cord” supply hoses. Kept my apartment warm, though.

By: Still, Only in Japan… « paperdoll81

Still, Only in Japan… « paperdoll81 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:28:52 +0000

[...] trying to heat your apartment become a game of Russian [...]

By: Paperdoll

Paperdoll — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:39:46 +0000

I share your cynicism about Japanese heating…as I sit here on my cancer rug, burning a pile of ¥1,000 notes…

By: Red

Red — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:56:51 +0000

Forget the apartments. The schools are just cement boxes and they refuse to pull out the heaters (no matter how cold) until Dec 1st. No ifs ands or buts. I sat at school today in heat tech, 2 sweaters and a wool coat and scarf with those air activated heat pads attached to me under the sweaters, all over my body.

Every year the teachers can’t seem to understand why influenza shuts down the schools. I want to scream in their face for making those poor girls come to school without tights, or leggings or anything but those skirts. It’s child abuse.

By: Laura4NYC

Laura4NYC — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:03:23 +0000

This is pretty funny!

By: Keeping Warm in Germany | Sherbet and Sparkles

Keeping Warm in Germany | Sherbet and Sparkles — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:45:05 +0000

[...] on facebook just posted this amazing blog post about keeping warm through winter in Japan. The joke is that Japanese buildings don’t have [...]

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:44:42 +0000

Interestingly enough, heating options in Japan vary depending on where you live. If you’re far north enough, things do get better. I lived in Sendai Japan in the fall and early winter and it was cold! I remember how depressing it was to come home to a cold apartment and to be able to see my breath inside the house. No insulation and only a kerosene heater to rely on. Then I moved up to Morioka in Iwate and there was a huge difference! My new apartment was insulated and I could come home to a warm apartment and we had an electric heater attached to the wall that worked really nice. We didn’t keep it on all night but it kept the apartment warm enough till the next morning. I lived there from December till about May. I can imagine that you can find even better options up in Hokkaido.