Going Alone

This 200-year old house in Wakayama Japan has quite a story! Located along the ancient Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, the current owner...

Here’s another interesting place, which includes a forest! Located in Okayama, near the Japan inland sea, this 100+ year old house, built...

Here’s an interesting place. It’s an older farm in Oyabe, Japan being offered for free. The current owner is actually hoping a foreigner...

A long time ago, when I was rich and before I lost everything (easy come, easy go, right?), my friend John Souchak used to tease me about...

This house may be my favorite yet. The current owner purchased and renovated the place for his parent’s retirement, and with their...

Imagine owning and operating a small Showa-era Japanese apartment building in the hot-spring resort community of Atami, roughly an hour...

Would you like to become a farmer in Japan? Or maybe a fisherman? How about both?? This listing on the beautiful island of Shikoku is for...

Address: Japanese: 〒413-0023 静岡県熱海市和田浜南町2 English: 2 Wadahamaminamichō, Atami, Shizuoka 413-0023, Japan Triangle house in Atami Click...

Some of you may remember me telling the story of a Japanese farmer in the village of the Long Bear who offered to sell me his entire farm...

Price slash: $53,000 to $36,000 USD I found another house for sale in Japan which I know is featured in one of my old Walking in Japan...

After visiting the supermarket today, and fussing over our vegetable purchases, Yumiko suggested that perhaps we should buy a house in...

Here's a bathhouse (sento 銭湯 in Japanese) located close to the airport in Shizuoka, Japan. Though closed for the last few years the...

I've found another old house for sale in Japan which makes a cameo appearance in one of my old softypapa videos. The video in question...

The current owner of this 96-year old traditional style Japanese farmhouse is ready to "hand over all the home and all of the rice fields...

After dinner tonight, Yumiko and I checked out this farmhouse for sale in the village of Matsuno, about eleven kilometers as the crow...