A curious thing is how expensive Japan is the maintenance of the home or what in Spain would be something like "community" or "overhead ladder", that is, costs that are the floors and in Spain is normally paid a small amount of money every month to a joint account with all residents in the building, and is usually responsible for making changes all the steps of the building every few months (at least in Castellón).

In Japan, this does not work that way if not in that constructed the building is the alleged owner of the property, and who built the estate put a doorman in the building which is in charge of building maintenance , buy the things that may be required for the community, or even change things in their own flats. In our case, for example, in the building we live in now will change all other camera intercoms and we will change the tap in the bathroom for another model that fits better our washing machine "free" and put " free "in quotes because we do not have to pay anything, but since he owns an apartment, you pay every month to those who built the building to do all the maintenance, and usually these amounts are quite expensive if compared with Spain.
The prices paid monthly building maintenance varies depending on which floor you live (higher plants are the most expensive), as big terrace, many people living on the farm (the larger the farm less paid because there is more money to collect) and so on. Prices can go enter the 10000 yen to 35000 yen per month, although I'm sure the luxury buildings should pay much more.

In our case, for example, the building is small) only has 5 floors and live in the 5, so that every month we pay 27,000 yen per month cost of the building only.

All these expenses are not usually pay when you rent an apartment, as these costs are already included in the rent and is the person who owns the ground that pays this money to those who built the building.