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Also, winter in most of Japan is quite short. By mid-February, Japan warm up quite fast.

Now we are coldu and homeress

Idc about central heating dude we desperately need heat insulation at least with the windows!!! They have it in Hokkaido so why not in Honshu? My room in Tokyo is colder than outside in the winter it’s ridiculous!!!

Houses in Norway has VERY good insulation nowadays. But it has been discovered that too much restriction of fresh air flow is related to an increase in allergies and respiratory suffering.

Noted, I will not visit Japan in the winter 😂

COME TO THE YORKSHIRE PENNINES,MATE- SINGLE GLAZED WINDOWS FREEZE ON THE INSIDE+ WHEN ATTIC BEDROOM GOT FULL PENNINE WINDS- MY PISS BUCKET FROZE!!!

In Russia some time ago was used an item similiar to that hot water bottle, called warmer ("грелка"). It is flat, and made of rubber, so it is very comfortably to use in bed.

How cold is winter in Japan? still find the home very interesting. I like the architecture pleasing and clean lines

Just insulate buildings better. With or without central heating that would help. Also, turn off the heaters in rooms not used with central heating, would that not save money?

IR panel heaters could be effective here, I.e. don't heat the air but the surfaces. Even with air movement you feel warm, and they can be disguised as panel doors etc.

Dude has two sweaters and a jacket inside the house :)).

Here's a groundbreaking idea... If you're cold, put a lot of clothes on. From, South-East "England'istan".

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I find going out for a walk even on the coldest days, helps me feel warm in the house. While Alberta, Canada is not the coldest place on earth, today's temperature feels like -24C (-11F) and thats cold enough for me! 😂

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Only problem for me... no time to make the food...

Surely there must be a way to preserve the look and feel of your typical Japanese home, with better insulation and a heater. Some chairs might be nice too. Apparently Japanese people don't have bad backs like mine.

I live in the UK and have just realised I have a Japanese mindset when it comes to heating! Great video!

I saved on heating for years, which was fine in my 20s. But now I have kids, and they started catching colds, so I began heating more. I'm not sure if being cold really boosts one's immune system, but I suspect the effect is minimal. Also, when a house is cold, there’s a high risk of mold spreading. I was hoping this issue would be addressed in the video. How do they manage the risk of mold due to cold in Japan? Thanks!

About the japanese having a culture of using little energy... On January first I was at a party with several USA citizens and one that had just immigrated from the USA to Portugal asked how much electricity he should get in he's new house as in the USA he didn't even knew how much he had, just knew it was enough to have everything runing at the same time and then some... We explained that it depended on the house but usually between 3.45kva and 7.5kva. Then a japanese lady explained she just had 3.45kva and asked "you need more to be able to use more stuff at the same time by the American, she just replied "No. I need to be careful. I don't need more power". We, the Portuguese European kind of seat comfortably in between the 2 mindsets but we do tend to also value energy efficiency.

Iceland has solved most heating problems with geothermal heating and good insulation because the process of heating up a space over and over again costs a lot of money and just keeping the temperature stable over a long time is more cost effective. And Iceland is a volcanic earthquake island like Japan.

you guys there need central floor heating, especially with those high ceilings.

I spent 3 months in Hokkaido 30 years ago, where I was very cold, as the houses out there have no/poor insolation. In Scandinavia the houses are better insolated with heated floors and air-recycling systems constantly changing the air with dry air. Insolation is a big thing here, because it reduces heating cost, reduces CO2-emission and gives a much more comfortable heating of the house.

And here in Bangladesh winter is 10 deg c. We are blessed.

Dont you have problems with fungus with that one-point-concentrated heating system?

Kanto is cold as hell...but I don't need heat in my office (the building is large and stores daytime heat well) and I usually don't use heat in my apartment as it never gets colder than about 12C.

idk if im poor or japanese now

This video randomly popped up in my recommendations on a cold January day in rural England, fascinating insight into a different culture’s experience of the war on chilblains, instant subscribe

In that case, the best heating system for is infrared heating. Air-conditioning is useless, because they must have good wall insulation and must be turned on all the time, 24h every day..

Everything you heat up to stay warm, is what we use to heat up the flat, so we do not need to eat and drink warm to stay warm.

5:04 - this is not being modest, my dear Japanese bretheren. To be used to air conditioners themselves, is luxury, a cost both on the pocket and nature. Still - maximizing using all possibilities from one thing, is definitely you culture's virtue - yet at the same time you have plastic packages, which contain plastic packages for each separate cracker :D. Truly bizarre yet a culture I wish to learn more of. 💙

just wondering about the typical room temperatures during winter. Here in germany I usually keep the temperatures around 17 to 18 degrees celsius with central heating and I also watch the humidity of the air to keep it as dry as possible

I think another very important factor is that Japan (except Hokkaido) has a climate comparable to that of southern Europe, not northern Europe. Here are the average annual temperatures of a few selected cities: Stockholm: 7.5°C Sapporo: 8.5°C Munich: 9.5°C Berlin: 10.0°C London: 11.5°C New York: 12.5°C Madrid: 15.0°C Kyoto: 15.6°C Tokyo: 16.0°C Rome: 16.0°C Barcelona: 16.5°C Fukuoka: 16.5°C Los Angeles: 18.5°C Houston: 20.8°C

I'm left wondering if the use of iroris and kotatsus contributed to the Japanese cultural emphasis on being a good member of community. Being clustered so closely for so long with family members, and not really having an alternative besides being cold - or moving to another room and use up precious resources - creates a strong incentive to adopt conflict-avoidant strategies to deal with what is effectively 'cabin fever'. And in a family hierarchy, a strong inclination to defer to your elders (both parents and siblings) even when they're wrong. Is there a notable cultural difference between people who grew up in Hokkaido, who use central heating, and the rest of Japan?

Very interesting indeed. Watching this in shorts and a T-shirt. Yesterday it was -5 degrees Celsius outside and I am grateful we DO HAVE a central heating.😀

With the population decline being a near-irreversible fact right now and with more and more Japanese families becoming disassociated from each other even when they're living in the same house... I can't exactly say those kotatsu are doing their job.

One way to regulate Demographics

I heard that winters in Japan are short (at least in majority of country) and not very frosty. In that case it is clear that you can survive in that way. In northern Poland the winters are for three + months. But now is shortige of snow, frost and even rains.

You must be a pretty stupid person if you enjoy being in the cold, when there are so many effective heating solutions available today.

Interesting, this is closer to how people have lived before modern central heating and may suit humid Japan better than dry and much colder Finland. British houses during the winter now have central heating and better insulation, but with the humidity we have big problems with condensation, mould and difficulty drying clothes without also a dehumidifier.

Having insomnia, sitting in my garage at 0300, in front of a space heater, next to a table. I just moved the heater under the table...🤯

I love bamboo shoots! Having grown up in Kentucky, one of my favorite childhood meals was "Hot and Sour" soup from the American-Chinese buffet. As for Japanese food, while I do love firm tofu for soups, I prefer silken tofu used to make Agedashi tofu. Dashi is so tasty! I especially like it with Osaka style okonomiyaki.

Our ancestors also used to warm their homes like this, before central heating and radiators.

Old Houses like ours here in Switzerland also did not have Central Heating. It was really Beautiful to see that old Japanese House. Thank you

Watching you film that inside in a coat makes me cold!!

I grew up in Michigan and we only heat rooms in use when possible. My understanding is Japan doesn't get quite as cold. Also, some houses in the US use wood stoves, fire places and boilers for reasons similar to Japans reasons. I rather like the boilers because you can have it keep things like bathrooms at least a little bit warmer than outside without it being the full temperature of the other rooms. My parents have a house that is boiler but also has wood stoves so you can adjust the heating to just be warm in the wood stove area by turning the boiler off and using the stove. I live in an apartment and often I don't even need to use the heating because my neighbors blast it so high😂

Central heating can be switched on and off per room, so it does not mean the whole house is heated constantly. As for efficiency, the electric heaters I see often in video's about Japan are really expensive and inefficent, or at least they would be here , compared to gas.

In Romania, nei paesi non abbiamo il riscaldamento centralizato, ma abbiamo le stufe alte di terracotta, in ogni stanza.E molto caldo e confortevole.q

Very interesting. Japanese are thoughtful and clever people. Unfortunately most of these foods are not available or enjoyed by Europeans. Still we can learn from this. Hot water in the morning, hot soups, ginger tea, green teas all can be adopted by us.