The promise of low-cost or free homes in Japan has dreamers and chancers dashing to among the nation’s extra rural hamlets to make chump-change bets on the disused and dilapidated.
Quaint farmhouses. Conventional wooden, clay, straw and bamboo kominka with thatched roofs. Distant mountain lodges with million-dollar views.
For the correct particular person with the correct abilities and the correct expectations, shopping for an akiya, which implies empty home in Japanese, could be a rewarding expertise that yields a novel area and a livable residence, competitively priced.
