Tokyo:
A Certain Style
by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

It's always nice to see how others live. It's a small cramped book with lots of interior shots of small cramped rooms. Wonderful. And I thought I had a lot of stuff. I need to get to work. Here is the review that turned me on to this book:

Tokyo: a certain style. By Kyoichi Tsuzuki - a review

This is a small format, 400 plus pages long, colour documentary of the inside of lots of apartments in Tokyo. Real apartments. From the small to the tiny. Not luxury and certainly not Hollywood.

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And another review:

Tokyo: A Certain Style

It might not seem like it at first glance, but it takes a certain flair to decorate one's living space. This is even truer in cramped Tokyo apartments, where space comes at a premium price. With this in mind, Kyoichi Tsuzuki put together Tokyo: A Certain Style, "the perfect coffee table book for people with really small apartments." The book is an enormously tiny album of Tokyo abodes; it clocks in at eight inches tall, but packs in more than 400 photographs. The subject matter includes apartments, flats and houses in Tokyo, lived in by a staggering array of people: students, artisans, professionals, and others. Perhaps rooms are not quite compelling of a subject matter as the latest demon-slaying manga, but Tsuzuki's book is quite charming.

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And I found a site which has most of the book online, but I definitely prefer reading the dead tree version.

Tokyo: a certain style

Ah, think of the serene gardens, tatami mats, Zen-inspired decor, sliding doors, and shoji screens of the typical Japanese home. Think again. "Tokyo: A Certain Style," the mini-sized decor book with a difference, shows how, for those living in one of the world's most expensive and densely packed metropolises, closet-sized apartments stacked to the ceiling with gadgetry and CDs are the norm. Photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki rode his scooter all over Tokyo snapping shots of how urban Japanese really live. Hundreds of photographs reveal the real Tokyo style: microapartments, mini and modular everything, rooms filled to the rafters with electronics, piles of books and clothes, clans of remote controls, collections of sundry objets all crammed into a space where every inch counts. Tsuzuki introduces each tiny crash pad with a brief text about who lives there, from artists and students to professionals and couples with children. His entertaining captions to the hundreds of photographs capture the spirit and ingenuity required to live in such small quarters. This fascinating, voyeuristic look at modern life comes in a chunky, pocket-sized format-the perfect coffee table book for people with really small apartments.