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What a Japanese Moving Company in Tokyo is like

A day-in-the-life video following a move between apartments in Tokyo using a Japanese moving company. It shows how the movers work and what the experience is like.

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters recommend it for the movers' rigor and discipline, which they find oddly satisfying to watch.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Paolo fromTOKYO
Topic
japanese moving companies
Format
documentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Longtime Paolo fan, he does a great job with his "typical workday" series. Not sure of the exact number he's done, but I personally estimate I've watched at least 20-25 of these across a wide range of industries (majority are in food preparation/service but he …

    nervousvarun on Hacker News · 2025-05
    In A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video]
  • Decent family houses in Tokyo are definitely more expensive than this, but not hugely (also Kyoto surprisingly). There's some interesting things about the Japanese housing market, for example, many homes become "worthless" after the end of the mortgage -- so they depreciate and are more …

    bane on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month
  • Maybe if you used the Tokyo based Art Moving Center also known as Art Hikkoshi Center ( アート引越センター ) [VIDEO] Seeing their rigour and discipline is like a visual ASMR video.

    AndrewOMartin on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.