Dash Living Hatagaya

Dash Living Hatagaya is a furnished apartment building in Nishihara, Shibuya-ku. The streets are low-rise, shopping happens along three shotengai, and the pace drops the moment you turn off the main road.

What has grown up along these shotengai is the reason to be here. Wood-and-concrete storefronts, a coffee roaster with a terrace under a low-hanging tree, a natural wine shop downstairs, a record shop with listening stations, American barbecue from a custom steel smoker. They supply each other, too: the coffee shop's bread comes from a bakery down the road, the restaurants pour the wine shop's bottles.

Every home is a 1LDK with a separate bedroom alongside a living, dining and kitchen area, ranging from 35 to 50 sqm. Furnishings, utilities and Wi-Fi are all in place, and the terms skip the usual Japanese obstacles: no key money, no guarantor, no agency fee.