Going Alone

Yumiko found a house today with perhaps the best story yet. It’s a geisha dormitory in Atami which once served the high-class...

This house has a story within a story… Yumiko found the listing and then passed it over to me to discover the location of the house on...

This house doesn’t have a story (that I know of at least) though Yumiko and I have taken a strong liking due to its humble amenities and...

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...

Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...

This copy of Going Alone has an interesting journey ahead. It’s going to a twenty-something young man who chose to go alone to one of...

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...

Following World War Two, and especially after the start of the great Economic Miracle, an exodus of young people left the Japanese...

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...

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...

Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...

There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...