Watch Terrace House: Aloha State on Netflix from Anywhere

A new kind of reality show

Let’s face it, aside from multi-season giants like Survivor or The Amazing Race, North American reality shows are boring, outdated or just plain awful. Furthermore, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of better realities worldwide for each and everyone’s individual taste and specific target audiences.

The show goes as follows: it randomly picks 6 young people and simply shoves them into a house, where they are forced to coexist in realistic settings. This is the main attribute that distinguishes this from other reality shows: there’s no script whatsoever. Furthermore, the six youngsters involved are real students or have real professions, and continue living their normal lives, doing their mundane jobs/tasks – albeit in front of a camera.

Like we said before, the newest season is intended to appeal to North American audiences even more, since the well-tested format moves to a new location: Hawaii. The third season, consisting of 24 episodes, will also be available through Netflix and will be released worldwide in blocks.

Watching terrace house first hand

We have some bad news for North American Terrace House watchers: Aloha State was fully released in Japan on November 1st 2016, but other non-Japanese Netflix subscribers can only enjoy the show in blocks of episodes. In other words, while Japanese Netflix users have been enjoying the entire show for months, in the U.S., and in other countries where Netflix is available, only the first few episodes are available for streaming since January 2017.

In case you want to get a head start and enjoy the series the way the Japanese do, we recommend the use of a VPN. However, Netflix likes to make it hard on people using these kinds of software, therefore you need to go through a couple of steps first. The first one is to find a VPN offering at least one server in Japan, which won’t be that much of a problem. Second, you need to make sure that your VPN of choice is not blocked by Netflix itself. And last but not least, get a Netflix Japan subscription, so you don’t get stuck on the log in screen.

Having checked the tasks on your to do list, just connect to the Japanese VPN server, and you can enjoy the virtual visit to Hawaii and meet your new friends. And as a nice little surprise, you don’t have to be afraid of getting your connection throttled by your ISP since they won’t know what you’re doing.