Meet the Tiny Japanese Portraits Welcomed

When you decide to live alone in your early 20s, usually the first apartment is not very large. Unless you get a good 'patronage', you are likely to go through many rogues until you can organize all the furniture, books, appliances, and even get into the apartment.

However, no matter how small your home is, it is likely to be larger than the impressive Japanese capsule hotels. Over there, each "room" is big enough to fit a bed and some objects - it's almost as if you're sleeping in a more modern coffin.

In the Living Close series, created by photographer Won Kim, Japanese hostel accommodations are portrayed in an intimate and welcoming way. In small cubicles, backpackers can stack T-shirts, blankets, and personal effects as if they were at home. The most curious thing is that the walls are made of wood and there is only one light source.

Even though housing is modest, young people find space to organize comforters, bags, headphones, notebooks, fans, toiletries, electric instruments and many books.

Personally and pleasantly, Kim has proved that it doesn't take much to create a home. Instead of showing holes in the wall where individuals sleep, he portrayed part of the tourists' experience in the Land of the Rising Sun.

“The messier the room was, the cozier I found myself, ” said the photographer. “I don't directly direct the viewer to recognize anything in my art. But somehow they feel welcomed by watching those tight little rooms, instead of feeling cloistered, ”he concluded.