Just started watching your videos and enjoying them. Been looking at homes in Japan for sometime now, but more towards the southern area as I'm not cold weathered.
We live in Okayama, and our friend helps us to buy an akiya house. our house on the tv show in the USA . We went there every year, and we loved the people, the culture, the neighborhood, and the food and we have a lot of friends there. these towns have a lot of foreign, Contact me if you are interested to buy a house in Japan.
Stephen, that second property looked like it was well elevated above the river when you visited, but perhaps seasonal flooding is an issue? The water damaged wall is usually a sign of some roof damage. Thanks for sharing these two properties!
Thanks for watching! Yes the house was elevated, but the water level was also quite high...😢 It wasn't raining much that day so I feel that river could be quite dangerous during the monsoon rainy seasons in Japan. Yes the walls were likely damaged from water leaks before but I think they fixed up the roof afterwards.
Wait when you buy this property you get all the free furniture and stuff in there too?? That's really appealing that really makes me want to move I can literally pay cash for this property why doesn't Japan allow more people to move there and become citizens more easily? This home would be perfect for me.
The biggest issue is paperwork. The system for buying homes in Japan is very old-fashioned, so it goes slow, and varies wildly by town/city/prefecture. Second, language barrier. Most of the offices do not speak English and won't accept paperwork in English. Third, many of these places require full fluency in Japanese to actually live day-to-day. Unless you work from home for an international company or remote work for a company you already speak the language for, supporting yourself in Japan can be very tricky. Remember that the wages in Japan are a bit low compared to most countries. Lastly, many more rural areas are not welcoming of foreigners as a permanent resident VS super-friendly to foreign tourists.
In most of these types of houses, how common is it to not be able to see much of the original flooring or walls? Mine is so vanilla that everything can be easily seen except for the thatched roof, since they covered the top with copper and the inside with a ceiling (which I plan to remove).
That is pretty common now even in the downtown area of these smaller cities.... most people are driving in Toayama so that probably made the streets look more empty
Better and wiser in the Philippines, some big real estate developers are taking land, building new houses in uniform or villages with shopping malls, and making better-surrounding people. Old houses like that, with no charm and durability, should be a dump immediately with a bulldozer. Japan should think better than underdeveloped countries because the government has money to make a better place for the Japanese and avoid often giving donations like in the Philippines, where only Politicians get rich and take your donation.
I like the townhouse that you showed and I would love to try to be able to get that one only if you was able to help me through our contacts Hero on the phone on the laptop or whatever I don't know if you have my email address and I also like that other one for 1.5 million yen but I like to get something like that also close to a river but the townhouse was possibly ideal for me at this moment but I love your videos and I hope I hope you keep up the good work and try to get a little bit closer to different but areas around around Osaka and Kyoto areas and maybe even in in the kanegawa area
If you could only post away the how someone could get into unpacked with you with your email and it's possible to talk with you about buying one of these houses would be wonderful
you're kidding me? sorry, maybe I'm ignorant because here in my country even run down houses will cost at least 40k euros...but you're telling me I can actually go to Japan and buy houses like this for such a funny amount of money? 😁
Please tell us about the old houses with ghost that are for sale, please. If your house has a few ghost is that very bad in Japan? Will the price be lower?
I asked my wife about this one and it needs to be disclosed on the listing for this there is a law in japan on this because at one point i was interested in distressed properties.
Perfect timing
Time to buy :)
Thank you for such a wonderful resource.
Great video, thank you.
Just started watching your videos and enjoying them. Been looking at homes in Japan for sometime now, but more towards the southern area as I'm not cold weathered.
We live in Okayama, and our friend helps us to buy an akiya house. our house on the tv show in the USA . We went there every year, and we loved the people, the culture, the neighborhood, and the food and we have a lot of friends there. these towns have a lot of foreign, Contact me if you are interested to buy a house in Japan.
Facinating places!
That second one is worth it I think, even with the risk of flooding it is still a nice place.
I wonder if the second house got flooded with the recent earthquakes?
Stephen, that second property looked like it was well elevated above the river when you visited, but perhaps seasonal flooding is an issue? The water damaged wall is usually a sign of some roof damage. Thanks for sharing these two properties!
Thanks for watching! Yes the house was elevated, but the water level was also quite high...😢 It wasn't raining much that day so I feel that river could be quite dangerous during the monsoon rainy seasons in Japan. Yes the walls were likely damaged from water leaks before but I think they fixed up the roof afterwards.
@@GoodOldHousesJapan hi. Do u look for houses for foreigners?
I’d love a traditional townhome. Don’t want a huge house.
Wait when you buy this property you get all the free furniture and stuff in there too?? That's really appealing that really makes me want to move I can literally pay cash for this property why doesn't Japan allow more people to move there and become citizens more easily? This home would be perfect for me.
The biggest issue is paperwork. The system for buying homes in Japan is very old-fashioned, so it goes slow, and varies wildly by town/city/prefecture. Second, language barrier. Most of the offices do not speak English and won't accept paperwork in English. Third, many of these places require full fluency in Japanese to actually live day-to-day. Unless you work from home for an international company or remote work for a company you already speak the language for, supporting yourself in Japan can be very tricky. Remember that the wages in Japan are a bit low compared to most countries. Lastly, many more rural areas are not welcoming of foreigners as a permanent resident VS super-friendly to foreign tourists.
In most of these types of houses, how common is it to not be able to see much of the original flooring or walls? Mine is so vanilla that everything can be easily seen except for the thatched roof, since they covered the top with copper and the inside with a ceiling (which I plan to remove).
I'll be in JP this June, can we meet up, I am interested in the Akiya house. Please let me know... thanks.
It's a little odd seeing a non-rural place like that with such little activity on the streets; no bicyclists, walkers, car traffic, etc.
That is pretty common now even in the downtown area of these smaller cities.... most people are driving in Toayama so that probably made the streets look more empty
Better and wiser in the Philippines, some big real estate developers are taking land, building new houses in uniform or villages with shopping malls, and making better-surrounding people. Old houses like that, with no charm and durability, should be a dump immediately with a bulldozer. Japan should think better than underdeveloped countries because the government has money to make a better place for the Japanese and avoid often giving donations like in the Philippines, where only Politicians get rich and take your donation.
Cheeper to buy house then
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I like the townhouse that you showed and I would love to try to be able to get that one only if you was able to help me through our contacts Hero on the phone on the laptop or whatever I don't know if you have my email address and I also like that other one for 1.5 million yen but I like to get something like that also close to a river but the townhouse was possibly ideal for me at this moment but I love your videos and I hope I hope you keep up the good work and try to get a little bit closer to different but areas around around Osaka and Kyoto areas and maybe even in in the kanegawa area
Hi Marion, thanks again for the comment! Please do share your email address and I will get back to you there as well.
If you could only post away the how someone could get into unpacked with you with your email and it's possible to talk with you about buying one of these houses would be wonderful
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you're kidding me? sorry, maybe I'm ignorant because here in my country even run down houses will cost at least 40k euros...but you're telling me I can actually go to Japan and buy houses like this for such a funny amount of money? 😁
Please tell us about the old houses with ghost that are for sale, please. If your house has a few ghost is that very bad in Japan? Will the price be lower?
I asked my wife about this one and it needs to be disclosed on the listing for this there is a law in japan on this because at one point i was interested in distressed properties.
I wonder how these houses held up during the earthquakes, especially the first one.
The city looks lovely
Great video.