[marktwain]

Sounds like cheap digs in Tokyo.

[Vigilanteman]

It is all realative. My daughter lives in a high rise housing peninsula surrounded on three sides by the Aoyama Cemetary. Very nice flat for her, our two grandsons and son-in-law. Market rent is maybe JPY 330,000 per month. With the "ghost" factor, it is only JPY 280,000.

A good share of her neighbors are non-Japanese who love the relative bargain (or, more appropriately, whose companies and embassies which pay the rents do) plus the Japanese who aren't bothered by the ghost factor. But it still isn't exactly cheap.