From California: Thank you so much for the video. The one thing is that I find myself trying to will the video camera to look up rather than down so much. Floors are somewhat interesting but, for me, I prefer to see the whole room, not so much the floor. 🥰🙏

Very informative thank you

Do Japanese Government give you money to fix the home

What is Tatami

How much is 1.111 million yen

You have allergies

Why Japanese Don’t like people to live in their country.

Akia bank , Nathan’s city

Portable AC , Heat

How much it’s cost to renovate the house

What about the heating And AC System

What about the heating And AC System

Beautiful video! I been to Kanagawa twice to visit my sister and her family, its so clean and safe even at night we go to the park, no problem. I been to Tokyo with friends that used to work iside the Base.

Is the house on the Mountain looking at the sea.

Do they speak English in Japan, is it hard to understand Or learn the language

Change to English

The most shocking part of the tour is how all these large glass walls are single panel? Both towards the street and towards the garden. It cannot be comfortable in cold and hot seasons and super wasteful of energy. In Denmark, every house has energy label. And you would not find single panel windows anywhere, even though better glasses are expensive, people acknowledge the long term saving and environmental impact. I know Steven installed double penal windows for his Kyo Machiya house. Amazing:) I wonder if it is actually uncommon to do? and How much are double or triple panel glass doors in Japan anyways?

Hi! I am your fan! And planning on realising my own dream of buying and renovating old house in Japan! Would you share the renovation cost for this house also? Was it more expensive than the purchase cost of the house?

Hmm Grandpa said with western style you smoke into the lungs. With kiseru you only smoke into the throat. Slightly confused on how that works? Do you just not fully inhale or what? How awesome this 300 year old shop has an online presence.

Why do viewers think you are Japanese? You sure sound kabayan to me. Thanks for your informative videos.

It’s a beautiful house.

If you do not have to be a legal resident (I.e. you can be a tourist) why did the civic akiya bank ask fir your immigration status ID?

Nice, that's just what I was looking for!. Id also avoid the whole west/north coast since I consider the amount of snow that it gets a danger for an old house

Thanks for the information on map resources in Japanese. You have almost no accent and I am trying to figure it out. I am guessing archipeligo SEA - e.g. Indonesia or Philippines.

All very interesting. But practically speaking - when one wants to do their due diligence, are any of these data maps available in English?

Scientific data about earthquakes is not a matter of opinion.

"Land of the Rising Sun" means nothing to 99.9% of Japanese these days. That is because it is an expression created in China to refer to Japan since Japan is east of China. However, about 90 years ago the west expanded it's meaning to refer to Japan's imperial ambitions and territorial expansion of that time.

coffee table in that second house is probably worth half the price of the home :)

kinda scary, but i just want to live in japan, i was there in my 20s and now in my 40s too old for what ifs good info though

how about the subsidies? are the foreigners eligible for the subsidies? loved your content

I love this! Renovating and rescuing these lovely historic houses in Japanese towns suffering from declining population is excellent! I have a profound feeling for Japan, and would love to renovate a traditional house for myself. Is this possible for soneone from England?

San Diego has the human poop map.

Нормально дедуля вжарил, так бы его спайсиком в падике раскумарить он бы свою забегаловку бросил и к нам бы переехал

Why don't you clean up your sinus then talk?

with all factors taken into consideration....the final section of the video become most valuable... Thank you so much for your hard work! I just started look into buying and renovating a countryside house in Japan!

Thank you for the information. I will keep this in mind on my search

One thing ive been think about, how easy/hard would it be to buy an abandoned commercial building in Japan ? Sort of interested in getting a building and using it for something, maybe growing specialty crops in it by using hydroponics. Edit: I got interested in it after a Japanese dude bought an abandoned school and started using it as a hostel/coffee roastery

14:47 "It's hard to imagine" To be fair, id expect a platform as scummy and crap as Twitter/Xitter to have such activities. Just look at how filled it is with bot accounts, Elon Muskrat is sure doing a "fine jobe" dealing with all that (just as good as KZbin is dealing with scams and malware filled ads)

Arigato gozaimashita, awesome video on kiseru

Nice vid , thanks for the view .

Lots of solid, akiya in fair condition in Chichibu, Saitama...which is an awesome traditional town that has a comfortable 90 minute express train to Tokyo

My gods this makes me want one so badly

interesting stuff

I would add any house built on landfill. Avoid neighborhoods that have names with kanji like 池 (pond)etc, which no longer has an apparent pond present. Landfill plots move MUCH more in an earthquake.

can you help me buy an akiya?

I l like the style of this house.

めちゃ普通の日本人が正しい英語でまともな話してる！とても良いですね！👍

Protect this man at all cost. He is singlehandedly keeping Japan safe from gentrification 😂

house for free is one thing but then u actually have to keep it and maintain it. there are media like water, electricity, heating etc. apart from obvious land fee or property fee. these properties had their pipes unused for decades so the installations in these buildings as as bad as they can be. probably u would have to replace most of them. the fact that u cannot stay there without the visa for longer than 90 days also doesn't help. it's a clever move from japanese government to fix the problem which instead they would have to deal with (at some point these buildings will be a threat that they can collapse and i assume japan has it's laws that the prefecture or some other official institution is obligated to demolish/dismantle a building regarding this threat).

not connected to sewage and beside a river seems icky