u/Fcm_English

My wife and I are planning to move to Sapporo for about a year starting in February 2027. We're Brazilians in our 20s, no kids, and we'll both be working remotely for our company back home.

We're hoping to find something around 50/60 m², ideally 20 minutes of central Sapporo. Our total monthly budget for the two of us would be around ¥400k, including rent, utilities, groceries, going out, etc.

Do you guys think that's enough to have a pretty comfortable year in Sapporo?

We'd really prefer a furnished apartment, especially since we're only staying for a year. How realistic is it to find a furnished 50–60 m² place with a one-year contract?

And if furnished apartments are too expensive or hard to find, how much should we roughly expect to spend furnishing an empty apartment? Things like a bed, sofa, desk/chairs, fridge, washing machine, microwave, etc.

I'm honestly pretty lost when it comes to furniture prices in Japan lol.

Also, if there are any neighborhoods you'd recommend that are around 15–25 minutes from downtown and have good access to supermarkets, restaurants and subway/train lines, I'd love to hear them.

Sorry for so many questions!

Thanks!

Edit 1: if that helps, our bank statement is around 920k yen monthly

Edit 2: I've been practicing Japanese for some time now, and I should be able to have conversational japanese until Feb/27.

Just curious on you guys' opinions

I don't know about you all, but, I'm very excited to play the dune world mod, with the sandworms and all, spice, I'm hoping for a ton of mechanics, are you guys excited as well or am I the only one?

Both the dune and arrakis my dune mods by the way by.

Edit: It's a Reddit post here on this subreddit, a trailer, the discord server is on the same post too, from 7 months ago.