The #クソ物件オブザイヤー2017 (crappy rental properties of the year 2017) tag is gold. This place has been rented for ¥96,000/month. 
Rent this place and you can be relieving yourself the instant you get home, even while you're taking your shoes off in the genkan.
The toilet here is a bit more challenging; exit your living space, walk across the publicly accessible staircase area, and do your business.
Fan of fresh air? Just 6 tatami mats of space inside, but a sprawling 50-mat balcony. Bring a tent! Bring several!
Genkan straight to toilet once again, but from there you have plenty of options.
It's a, uh, a rotenburo. Yeah, that's the ticket.
I'm assuming the shaded bits of the "wood deck balcony" are overhanging roofs so you can use the toilet and access your closet even when it's raining. Bonus: two front doors! (?!)
Loads of rooms in this one. Hope you like them; it's a registered cultural property, so you can never make any modifications.
¥250 million gets you an entire island! (Note: white areas are owned by third parties and are not included. Hope you don't need to land a boat at the island's only dock.)
Exit the elevator at center to access your toilet and bathroom ring; outside that is the living space.
Oh well, it's not like you needed a place to sleep. Or even sit down, really.
Handy access to your tub and toilet via the balcony. Is that a sink hanging off the edge of the railing?
Handy access to this balcony via, yep, you guessed it, the loo.
It takes a special kind of real estate agent to disrupt the industry with ideas like "a closet can be the bedroom."
I hear you, OK. You're tired of the whole balcony game. Here's one you can't get to unless you climb over your stove and kitchen sink.
The D in this LDK stands for dōjō, not dining room.
It's only ¥20,000 a month, stop complaining so much, man
Assuming this one is a mistake in the drawing, unless you really do need to enter your living space from the veranda.
Multiple variations on this. It's a booming trend! Alert the Japan Times.
Great views. I'm certain it's structurally sound. Earthquakes don't happen here, do they?
Naked installation of a unit bath or space pod? You can decide!
There will always be fans of the Phil Collins, but this may be the best apartment complex name in Japan.
(here's Phil)
After you get out of the bath you need to walk, like, 15 minutes to get to the sink area
Meanwhile, in Taiwan, check out the views from this apartment tower
"The smell has mostly gone away, and the property management firm says the flooring looks good enough that it can stay as is."
One toilet ought to be enough for any two apartments.
All right, on the other end of the scale, a cool billion yen gets you this house that is actually inside of Shiba Park. Tokyo Tower Views! suumo.jp/jj/bukken/shos…
At least this one comes with a curtain (the dotted line) for super duper privacy.
Important to note that San Francisco is not falling down on the job. Here's a $2,000 Presidio Wall studio apartment.
Land to south owned by government; land past red line unbuildable due to planned road expansion. But we fit a fifth apartment in there just the same! world-architects.blogspot.jp/2017/07/tsuyos…
The bad news about this thread: four of the properties are fakes created for a Japanese joke site. obakensan.com/y_fudou/
Never fight about whose turn it is to take a bath again—you've got three tubs! Also, the second floor is a laundry hallway.
And here's another one of those properties that makes me want to shake the owner by the shoulders and ask why s/he didn't just sell this sliver of land to the neighbors.
If you liked that 50-mat balcony, try the 100-mat version on for size.
You get your own doors and your own toilets, but you share everything else.
Ah yes, barrier-free design, just in time for the 2020 Paralympics.
If you want to do laundry with that washing machine on the balcony, you had better be slender.
The tub? Oh it's out in the garden, just where you'd expect it to be.
The centerpiece of any modern home's living space
It's a serious hike from the front door to the dining room, but at least you can take a bathroom break on the way
MOAR CLOSETS
Keeping it simple this time
Looks like Galadriel's flat in Caras Galadhon is back on the market
Here's another of those "let's build a home on a plot 250 cm wide" places. aka-ryoma.jp/images/top_nou…
Not so much a balcony as a jungle.
Not so much an apartment as a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
My kids would never not be playing hide-and-seek in a place like this.
