Excellent information. Very much appreciated it. Loved your excel spreadsheet. Need to attempt to recreate that. Great info on your search criteria. Plenty to think about.
(If google translate was correct) - doing a competition with an architectural project is a nice idea, but definitely not for a heritage building in Kyoto. Somehow feels like it would be dissrespectful.
Great adventure! Totally surprised about the property prices there, as Japan appeared to me as an expensive country. Where I live, in Rotterdam NL, you would pay over 300.000 Euros for a home like this, this close to a main railway station, in a major city, in this state. No different in the UK, Belgium on Germany I reckon. Very interesting to watch, really unique content (though I started foĺlowing you for the Grasshopper videos)🙂
The preference for newly built housing, that follows most recent earthquake safety standards paired with vacant housing/depopulation crisis creates a lot of good buying opportunities in Japan. Also I should note that cost of living in Japan (outside of Tokyo) is much much lower than anywhere in western Europe.
Oh that's simple - start with a Duolingo app for the first few months and then move over to 1-on-1 tutoring via Preply.com . That's the least intrusive way (in terms of your existing schedule) to do it.
We have not acquired any type of visa/residency. Every time we go to Japan, we're getting a regular tourist visa (max 90days - per - visit and max 180 days - per - year). It's possible to get a working holiday visa as well, that let's you do 180 days in one go. If we'll need/want to stay longer than 180 days/year in Japan , then we'll have to open up a company in Japan, hire at least one Japan citizen - the company would then hire us and through it we could get proper residency permits. It's a bit tricky with double-taxation and so on, but once we get to that chapter - for sure we'll be doing a TH-cam video about it.
@@geddanI would recommend checking the requirement for hiring staff as Benton Homestead have a business manager visa (via startup business manager visa) and they did not need to hire any Japanese staff.
Excellent information. Very much appreciated it. Loved your excel spreadsheet. Need to attempt to recreate that. Great info on your search criteria. Plenty to think about.
Happy to read this! :)
Great information, got my like and sub, thanks
Really glad to hear it! :)
Thank you for so much information. I am moving to Japan for work and will be buying a house.
Ah, enjoy it!
Поздравляю! Предлагаю сделать конкурсный проект, как это было с отелем Накагин)) Конкурс на лучшую концепцию этого дома))
(If google translate was correct) - doing a competition with an architectural project is a nice idea, but definitely not for a heritage building in Kyoto. Somehow feels like it would be dissrespectful.
Great adventure! Totally surprised about the property prices there, as Japan appeared to me as an expensive country. Where I live, in Rotterdam NL, you would pay over 300.000 Euros for a home like this, this close to a main railway station, in a major city, in this state. No different in the UK, Belgium on Germany I reckon.
Very interesting to watch, really unique content (though I started foĺlowing you for the Grasshopper videos)🙂
The preference for newly built housing, that follows most recent earthquake safety standards paired with vacant housing/depopulation crisis creates a lot of good buying opportunities in Japan. Also I should note that cost of living in Japan (outside of Tokyo) is much much lower than anywhere in western Europe.
Sure would be sweet if you included links to learning Japanese. I follow you manly because of grasshopper, but found this very interesting.
Oh that's simple - start with a Duolingo app for the first few months and then move over to 1-on-1 tutoring via Preply.com . That's the least intrusive way (in terms of your existing schedule) to do it.
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This is very interesting topic, but one question for me was not answered - what type of visa/residency have you guys acquired?
We have not acquired any type of visa/residency. Every time we go to Japan, we're getting a regular tourist visa (max 90days - per - visit and max 180 days - per - year). It's possible to get a working holiday visa as well, that let's you do 180 days in one go. If we'll need/want to stay longer than 180 days/year in Japan , then we'll have to open up a company in Japan, hire at least one Japan citizen - the company would then hire us and through it we could get proper residency permits. It's a bit tricky with double-taxation and so on, but once we get to that chapter - for sure we'll be doing a TH-cam video about it.
@@geddan Wow, so you are doing all this on tourist visa. That's crazy!
I wonder how it will go for you, will be watching with interest.
@@geddanI would recommend checking the requirement for hiring staff as Benton Homestead have a business manager visa (via startup business manager visa) and they did not need to hire any Japanese staff.
@@CB-sx8xh But we want to.. creating job opportunities and through them finding connections to the land is quite valuable in long-term
The renovation will cost more, Japanese contractors never stay within the budget. Especially now with imported materials and the weak yen.
That's what proper contracts and phasing is for.