Finding Apartments in Downtown

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Isabela Contreras and Ashley Neira are looking for the apartments

 Ayaka Okamoto(The Fountain staff)
 After APU students spent wonderful time 
in AP house for a year, students have to 
move out. Some students can be a resident 
assistant (RA) and they can continue to live 
there but others need to find a new apartment
off campus in downtown.
Real estate
Usually, students start looking for the house 
before two months of moving out. Before looking 
for the house they need to choose real estate 
and contact with them. There are three real estates 
agencies in Beppu: Betsudaikosan, Apaman shop, 
and Creotech. 

 Betsudaikousan is in front of the  Beppu post office. 
Some students make a contract with them and 
Teerawat Sukhanonsawas, APM, 1st, said that 
some clerk in Betsudaikousan real estate can speak 
English.

 Apaman shop is in front of Marushoku supermarket 
in Mochigahama. They have the home page for 
foreigners in English but there are no Clark who 
can speak English. Nguyen H. Hanh, APS, 2nd said 
they cannot speak English. 

 Creotech is in the A building of APU campus. All of 
their residents are APU students because Ritsumeikan 
group established it, so they consider students life and 
recommend apartments. They have the home page in 
English and they explain from finding room and moving 
out and difficult real estate glossary in both of Japanese 
and English same as Apaman shop.

 After students contact them and make an appointment, 
students can choose the house and go there with the 
clerk. Before you go you need to prepare like Nguyen. 
She imagined house she wants to live and thought 
about location and house fee. If you have imagined 
and have preferences clerk can suggest good house 
including location and house fee more easily and faster.
Location
Students care about convenience for them. Some 
students want to live in the place near the shopping 
center and others want to live in the place near the school. 

 If students want to live near the shopping center 
or hospital, students should live around Mochigahama 
because in Mochigahama there are shops and 
restaurant like Hirose supermarket, Marushoku 
supermarket, Max Valu supermarket. Also, there is 
Beppu post office and Mochigahama is not so far 
from Beppu station.

 If students want to live near the school they 
should live around Kamegawa. Janina Anni-Maria 
Lehtinen living in Kamegawa said it takes for 
15 minutes from Kamegawa to APU by bus. If students 
go to APU from Beppu station by bus it takes about 
for 40 minutes.               
Carrying items
After finding apartments and made a contract 
student have to carry all of their items and also some 
student need to buy furniture like a bed, a shelf 
and so on. Some students ask their senior or their 
friend who has a car license to carry them by 
car and others use moving service. 

 When Lehtinen goes to Nitori furniture 
shop she asked her friends to help to carry futon. 
Some students need to buy big items like futon 
or bed same as Lehtinen. Of course, students can 
ask their friends to help and also they can use 
carrying service. When people buy some furniture 
at Nitori shop they can send it to customer’s house. 
This service charge for sending but it’s very 
convenient.  
There are some problems when international 
students find apartments in downtown and it is 
little hard for students but moving out and living 
their own room is good. Yuka Sugimoto APM 
moved out from AP house and live in her own 
room now. She said that living in the apartment is 
comfortable because I choose my room and furniture, 
so it is more private space than AP house. Also, 
she said “ That’s why I can concentrate on my 
work and enjoy my life in downtown". 






Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 7:12 PM

    Thanks for writing! I know it was difficult for me to choose an apartment.

    ReplyDelete

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