Never Too Small walks Yoshinani House, the Musashi-Kosugi rental that video producer Takashi ‘Ryu’ Harada and graphic designer Nodoka ‘Kamado’ Miyamoto named after an old word that means, roughly, “whatever works.” The listing title is 55 m² / 592 sq ft — not a tape-measure — in Kanagawa Prefecture, between Tokyo and Yokohama.
Video: Inside Japanese Couple’s Small Creative Home Filled With Clever Hacks, 55sqm/592sqft. Channel: NEVER TOO SMALL. Uploaded July 23, 2026. How I Live Small Ep. 19. Twenty-one minutes. It is a rental.
In the living room, Ryu holds a patterned blanket up to the television. The subtitle is the whole move: you can use a blanket or a towel to cover it. When the screen is off, it is not a black rectangle on the wall. It is another textile in a room already full of books, chairs, plants, and bottles on the floor.
What the still shows: a tall wood bookshelf, a fridge and microwave at the kitchen edge, a chair-poster on the wall, a big plant in a white pot. Glass bottles lined up.
Kamado meets you in the genkan. “This is our entrance.” A floor-plan overlay dots the hallway. The hall is narrow: a full-length mirror, a wavy hat-shade light, umbrellas on the inside of the door.
Ryu and Kamado sit on tatami at a low round table, plants on the bench under the blinds, a paper lantern over the mats.
The bedroom still is the hard one. Ryu stands by an open steel shelf — pots, camera gear, baskets — and the subtitle says it was really tough from an interior design perspective. A paper wall light warms the bed. Storage stays open. A clothing rack takes the season.
For a Japanese-inspired tiny house with a genkan on Tiny House Talk, see The Abundance of Less: A Japanese-Inspired Tiny House With a Genkan and Tokonoma. For another small house that borrowed a Japanese name, see Shoji: A 130 Sq Ft Tiny House That Leaves Nothing Out.
Watch the Full Tour
Credit: NEVER TOO SMALL, “Inside Japanese Couple’s Small Creative Home Filled With Clever Hacks, 55sqm/592sqft,” YouTube, July 23, 2026. How I Live Small Ep. 19.
Highlights
- Channel: NEVER TOO SMALL — How I Live Small Ep. 19
- Tour: Inside Japanese Couple’s Small Creative Home Filled With Clever Hacks, 55sqm/592sqft — uploaded July 23, 2026; 21 minutes
- Yoshinani House, a rental in Musashi-Kosugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, between Tokyo and Yokohama
- Owners: video producer Takashi ‘Ryu’ Harada and graphic designer Nodoka ‘Kamado’ Miyamoto
- Named Yoshinani after an old word meaning, roughly, “whatever works”
- Listing title 55 m² / 592 sq ft — not a tape-measure. It is a rental
- TV covered with a blanket or towel
- Instagram: @nvtsmall · @yoshinani_house · @__.ryu · @nd_kamado
Learn More
NEVER TOO SMALL — Watch the tour · YouTube channel · Article (writing: Bec Vrana Dickinson) · Instagram @nvtsmall · Facebook
Yoshinani House — Instagram @yoshinani_house · Ryu @__.ryu · Kamado @nd_kamado
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