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HOUSE EXCHANGE 준형 서울에서 도쿄로! (1)

하우스 익스체인지 서울에서 도쿄로!

  쉐어하우스 보더리스 하우스입니다! 일본 도쿄로 하우스 익스체인지를 다녀오신 입주자분을 소개해드릴게요!   입주를 도와준 도쿄 팀 스태프의 말에 의하며, 입주하신 날부터 반갑게 맞이해주신 룸메이트 덕분에 신나는 첫날을 보내셨다고 해요. 다들 반갑게 맞이해주셔서 너무나 감사드려요! 도착하신 날부터 바로 환영회를 해주신다며 하우스 근처 펍에서 친목도모를 하셨다고 하네요. 여름의 도쿄는 불꽃놀이 대회가 많아서 지내시는 기간 동안 유카타도 입고, 룸메이트 분들과 유명한 불꽃놀이를 보러 가셨다고 해요! 한여름밤에 불꽃놀이라니 너무나 멋진 추억이 되었을 것 같군요! 한달 동안 하우스 익스체인지를 가셨기 때문에 룸메이트 분들과도 많이 친해지셔서 이렇게 서로서로 그려주시기도 하고! 규모가 큰 하우스에 계셨다 보니 다 같이 파티도 하고! 처음 방문하신 일본을 알차게 즐기고 오셨다는 준형 씨 🙂   혼자 자유여행으로 가는 것도 즐겁지만, 현지에 도착했을 때 이렇게 환영해주는 친구들이 있다는 것은 정말이지 너무나 행복할 거 같아요!   *입주자 한정* 하우스 익스체인지를 경험해보고 싶으신 분이시라면, 언제든지 연락 주시길 바랍니다! 더욱 자세한 사항은 아래 링크에서 확인 가능합니다!   http://www.borderless-house.kr/houseexchange  
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Why foreign students choose share house, even though they can live by themselves with same rent?

Borderless House was introduced by the magazine “Asia no Tomo(アジアの友)” over 5 pages, as one of the spotlighted accommodation for foreign students in Japan!

In this article, we would like to focus especially on “Why is Borderless House popular among foreign students in Japan?”, referring to the contents in the magazine.

“Meeting Japanese” is important than living by themselves

・・・We experienced the difficulties of finding accommodation for foreign people. We felt that this is significant problem in Japan, thus we started to manage the accommodation for foreign people by ourselves to solve that problem. After we searched what kind of life foreign people spend in Japan, we found out that they could hardly meet Japanese…(From the  article in the magazine)

Though it is hard for foreign students to live in an apartment because it usually requires a guarantor and a long contract term, more real estate companies are getting positive to accept foreign people recently.

However, share house is still popular among foreign students, because they cannot get a chance to make Japanese friends and to use Japanese if they live alone, despite they come all the way to Japan.

Our efforts on finding tenants and house to maximize the interaction among tenants

・・・To make an environment for foreign people to know Japan more, we decided to start a share house where half Japanese  and half foreign people live together.  What we put importance when we find a property is the position and the size of living room, which is the most important place for communication among tenants. We lay out a living room of all houses so that tenants can see each other at least once a day. Also, we ask tenants not to bring their own TV or home electronics into their own rooms, so they use refrigerators and microwaves in living room・・・ (From the article in the magazine)

For such foreign students who are longing for making Japanese friends, we are putting efforts to deepen the interaction among tenants.

Half of the tenants are Japanese

One of the remarkable feature of the Borderless House is the ratio of nationalities in each house. We balance the ratio of Japanese to foreign people 50:50, which makes the environment for foreign people to live with Japanese for sure.

“Big living room”  “No Home electronics in each room”

Additionally, we arrange the each room, furniture, and consumer electronics carefully, to promote the daily communication.

In this way, we are putting efforts to make the living environment where foreign students can always communicate with Japanese and make friends with them, which makes Borderless House special among a number of share houses in Japan.

▼Read more details for more details for our passion for  building a better community

“Our Passion for Building an Original Community in a Borderless House”

Interaction with foreigners also attract Japanese

In the article in the magazine “Asia no tomo”, Borderless House was introduced as “a popular share house for foreign people”. However, you might wonder why it is popular to Japanese too.

Actually, since many foreign people comes to Borderless House to meet with Japanese, that’ s why Japanese also enjoy staying here, because they choose to Borderless House to communicate with foreign people.

You can see the magazine “Asia no tomo” at international affairs division. etc at each universities.

If you are looking for a chance to meet with Japanese, feel free to take a look at Borderless House!

▼Let’s looking for a share house! ：http://www.borderless-house.jp/jp/

▼For Japanese Language School students : http://www.borderless-house.com/partner/languageschool/

▼Recent Media Information：“Borderless House was articled in a domestic science textbook!”

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Borderless House Picnic Party in Taiwan 2016

It was long overdue!! In this hot summer, BORDERLESS HOUSE in Taipei hold a picnic party event for our tenants on 29th of May, 2016 !!

The first of BORDERLESS HOUSE event in 2016 was picnic at the Huashan Creative Park.

Lots of our tenants from different houses joined us. We also invited people who was interested in making friends from all over the world!! We drank beers, enjoyed tasty food, played games and listened to music. We spent such a wonderful time together. ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و In the beginning of the party, we ate and drank. Let’s get ready to play games 😀   Here are all cute members who joined our event!!   After picnic time, every member had got to know each other. Then, our first game is coming~~~
    We prepared some songs and pictures of movies and anime for our tenants to guess where is the song or character from. Which team will win this game!?!?   Next game~!!! Do you know what were they making? a ( The answer is ” Taipei 101″ !!! ) Last game was our group activity!! Let’s hold our hand and “get the electric shock”!!!   Reward for Winners!!! Congratulations !!!   All of Borderless House staffs are really appreciate everyone who enjoyed our event!! We couldn’t have such a nice picnic event without you!! All participants had enjoyed to talk with people from other houses during whole event! You can meet with and make friends with a lot of people from other houses in our event! Why not live in our share house and make friends with Taiwanese and people from all over the world! International share house in Taipei – BORDERLESS HOUSE TAIPEI http://www.borderless-house.com/tw/
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Living costs in Taipei

Hello, this is Borderless House! I’m sure we can’t know the real life of foreign countries, and one of the important point is living cost. How much do we need to live in Taipei for a month? Today, I’ll introduce how much it would be cost for a month in Taipei(1 month living cost in Taipei)!

■ Rent in Taipei

There are many types of houses in Taipei. ※We will upload regarding the house type later. If you would like to live by yourself, it would cost around 8,000 NTD-15,000 NTD in general. You can find the house which would cost around 5,000 NTD/month but I recommend you the house over 8,000 NTD thinking about the cleaness and difficulties of negotiation with Taiwanese landlord. About the rent for living in BORDERLESS HOUSE, the information is as below 😉 -Private room:          12,500~15,000 NTD -2 Females room:       9,000~9,500 NTD -2 Males room:             9,000~9,500 NTD -3 Females room:        7,900~8,800 NTD -3 Males room:             7,900~8,800 NTD -4 Females room:        6,900~7,900 NTD -6 Females room:        6,700 NTD You can get more information by setting Search Preference on the website!

■ Utility fee (Water, gas, electricity)

The electricity fee is expensive in Taipei. It exceeds 1,000 NTD/month in summer period. Water is cheaper and it costs around 200-300 NTD/month. If your house has a kitchen, gas fee costs around 200-300 NTD/month. In Borderless House, utility fee is 800 NTD/month including electricity, water, TV, gas and internet fee! (The electric power consumption in summer period would be high, so utility fee for May. to Oct. will be 1,200 NTD.)

■Phone / Internet fee

If you install the internet in your house, it costs around 1,000 NTD/month. (Some landlords kindly include internet fee into the rent.) You can use tethering by your cell phone and it costs around 800 NTD/month. But some tenants just buy a prepaid card in order to save money and you can get it in around 300NTD.

■Food budget

One of the big expence of living cost is a food budget. There are many restaurant in Taipei and it’s really cheap. Many of tenants spend around 150-300 NTD/day for food&drink. Break fast：around 50 NTD Lunch：50-100 NTD Dinner：50-100 NTD Drink：20-40 NTD

■Transportation

The tansportation system in Taipei is very convenient and cheap. An one-way metro ticket for the Taipei Metro (MRT) within Taipei City costs about 20NTD. There are also rental bikes (called “U-bikes”) provided by the city where the first 30min costs 5NTD. As you can see you won’t spend much money on transportation.

■Toiletries

Initial costs for daily toiletries such as toilet paper, hair shampoo and hair conditioner might be high but once you have them you will get along with the above mentioned amount of money. Moreover, in some drug stores there are special offers where you get two products for a price of one, so again, sharing with your housemate will help you safe money! ■Leisure Activities
Leisure Activities approx. 1000-3000NTD/month This depends on how much you go out with your friends. A famous leisure activity in Taipei called “shrimp fishing” for example costs around 300NTD per hour. At Taiwanese taverns called “熱炒” (re chao) you can get plates for 100NTD, so count in around 500NTD for a dinner. We also hold seasonal events for all the tenants in Borderless House, which you can have fun and meet new friends with a low budget! Check our events review below: –Go hiking together~enjoy the fresh air on Jinmian Mountatin! –Sharing your Stories in our Christmas event with our tenants! –Everyone was able to bond and become closer! – Board Games Event ■Conclusion Living costs per month in Taipei is around 24,000 NTD – 30,000 NTD.
-Rent 8000-15000 NTD
-Water, Gas, Electricity fee 1000-1700 NTD
-Internet/phone 800-1000 NTD
– Food 4500-9000 NTD
-Transportation fee 800 NTD
-Toiletries 500 NTD
-Leisure Activities 1000-3000 NTD
You can fully enjoy your life in Taipei for 24,000-30,000 NTD/month and if you go to local restaurant or shops, you can save more money! Let’s enjoy your life in Taipei with Taiwanese and people from all over the world. ⇒Share House list of Borderless House in Taipei
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HOUSE EXCHANGE Enjoy winter in Korea!

Hello! This is Borderless house! In this winter, how about going to Korea by Free House Exchange Program? You can stay for free and meet friendly house mates! Let’s enjoy Korean culture and fantastic places!  

The watch-Night bell ( 24:00 31st Dec ~ 1st Jan )

Wish you a Happy New Year in advance! The ringing of the bell means a new year has just started and people make up their mind for the new year while listening to the sound of the bell. A lot of people gather by Bosingak bell where is near Jonggak station to experience this on New Year’s Day. Although it would be a first time to see others, they say ‘Happy New year’ to each other and make some goals for the new year to make their lives better. How about saying Good Bye and Hello to New year in Korea through House Exchange Program?

Kimjang (Making Kimchi, end of Nov ~ early Feb)

Kimchi, well-known worldwide, is the most representative of Korea fermented food! Kimjang means making Kimchi in Korean word and people do it to eat throughout the winter. Seoul has held several Kimjang events every year to tell the world about the benefits of Kimchi. You can have some Bossam and Suyuk which are boiled pork with Kimch made by you through this event! There is no doubt that Kimchi with boiled pork is the one of the most popular in Korea. Why don’t you try making Kimchi and letting the world know it with House Exchange Program?

Seoul Plaza Ice Rink (Middle of Dec ~ Middle of February)

Stop skating in an indoor ice rink! Do Skate in an outdoor ice rink with fun in Central Seoul! Enjoy ice Skating which is considered the centerpiece of the Olympics in Central Seoul. Seoul Plaza located in front of Seoul City Hall offers the outdoor ice rink for all people every year. Although this offer is for a limited period only, but it makes all people spend their time more profitably. We hope you can have this great experience through House Exchange Program.   We Hope many our Tenants TRY to join House Exchange Program and have good Experiences. We are really looking forward to seeing you in every country! Thank you.
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HOUSE EXCHANGE Enjoy winter in Taiwan

Hello! This is Borderless house! In this winter, how about going to Japan by Free House Exchange Program? You can stay for free and meet friendly house mates! Let’s enjoy Japan’s culture and fantastic places!

One of the most popular old town in Taiwan~ Jiufen ~

I would like to recommend you to visit Jiufen one of the most popular spot in Taiwan. It takes aournd 1 hour and half from the center of the Taipei by bus. There are a various kinds of shops and restaurants and you can get folk items and enjoy local foods! One of the attractive point in Jiufen is the landscape in the evening. If you go to upside of the town, you can see a whole view of the town which is shining with lanterns. Let’s visit here with your housemates and feel Taiwan culture!

Local market you can enjoy cheap and delicious cuisine ~ Night market~

One of the famous thing in Taiwan is Night market. There are a tons of restaurants and shops which make you feel local atmosphere in Taiwan. The most famous and biggest night market in Taipei is Shilin night market, just around 12 min from Taipei main station. It’s too big to see all shops in one night but you can visit there several times and get local food and souvenirs in this market

Beitou hot spring One of the famous hot spring in Asia~ Beitou~

Beitou is famous for hot spring where about 40 min from central Taipei by train. This hot spring which was found by a German guy when Taiwan was ruled by Japan, has 3 types of hot springs and you can enjoy it by day trip! This hot spring is mixed Taiwan and Japanese culture, so you can feel Asian history in here! It’s nice to visit a hot spring in cold winter, isn’t it?   We Hope many our Tenants TRY to join House Exchange Program and have good Experiences. We are really looking forward to seeing you in every country! Thank you.
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HOUSE EXCHANGE Shinpei Osaka to Seoul

Hi, this is BORDERLESS HOUSE in Osaka! One of our tenants, Shinpei went to Seoul with House exchange program. He said he is very interested in Korean cultures, so he is thinking about going to Korea all the time. Since he is Living in Osaka Toyonaka1 House with a Korean house Mate, he is getting interested in Korean cultures. So this time, he went to Korea, and Stay in Mapo2 House in Seoul from 2nd of Dec to 8th of Dec.   <He is eating Samgepsal, Korean BBQ>   <In front of Sejongdeawang statue>   Here is the comments from him! Q1. Why did you apply for the house exchange program? I really wanted to go to Korea, and when I heard about this program, I thought it will be much very to go there with this program since I can experience more real Korean cultures than I go there with my friends or by myself. Even though I wanted to go to Korea, I did not know about Korea well, so I do not want to go there for only short travel. I wanted to do Deep travel and to have rich Experience. Especially, I can stay there for FREE, so why not? lol   Q2. How was your trip? If I say it in a word, it is very similar between Korea and Japan. I already told you, I am very interested in their life, and culture, I kept attention to everything like their fashion, atmosphere of the street, buildings, cars, CM, and so on! It is just same as Japan. And when I went to book store, I was very surprised since the Japanese book was No. 1! Lol At the same time, I found the different things; there are lots of cafes, and they use credit card a lot Wi-Fi is everywhere in Korea! Also, transportation fee like taxi or bus is very cheap compare to japan.   When I found like this, it was very interesting.   3. What is the most memorable episode? I am not sure that this story is an episode or not, but the thing is that I met my roommate, Han! He brought me the club, pub, and restaurants, and we talked a lot! He lived in Japan, so he already known about how to speak Japanese, and Japanese cultures. Especially, I was able to understand about the education, and job hunting because of him.   4. Do you have any comments? I can not say about my house exchange program without Han! Since he was my roommate, I was able to enjoy this program I guess. I mean I can not speak any Korean, but my roommate, Han speaks Japanese, and we get along well. So it is very important to match the share house and the house mates!   I really appreciate it since I had really good time, and great experiences there! Thank you !!!   What a great experience! If you are interested in this program, please check the details of House Exchange Program HERE!