We started a website to help foreigners buy cheap homes in Japan. We've bought 6 homes ourselves, but it's not the money-maker you'd expect.

Two friends started AkiyaMart as a Zillow-like website to search for homes in Japan. They now own 6 homes in Japan, but the ...
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Beautiful Japanese Tiny Home Adds a Glam Twist to Zen Aesthetics

Although it might sound surprising, the Mizuho isn't a Japanese-style tiny home born in the US or Australia, but an actual Japanese model designed for the emerging tiny house market in Japan. At the ...
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Ultra-Compact Tiny Home Is a Surprisingly Sophisticated Take on Japanese Minimalism

This tiny home comes all the way from the Baltic region of Europe and boasts less than 200 square feet. Still, its interior is hardly that of a rustic log cabin. Scandinavian aesthetic meets Japanese ...
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Single-floor tiny house fits working and living spaces into 21 ft

One of the more enjoyable things about covering tiny houses is seeing each country's take on the art of downsizing. The ...
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Narrow L-shaped tiny house, central Tokyo 50sqm/538sqft

Set on an oddly shaped, and extremely narrow plot commonly called a ‘Flagpole’ plot in Japan, Flagpole in Nakameguro tiny ...
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Sora tiny house is impressively small in both size and price

For those looking to dramatically downsize on both space and budget, Dragon Tiny Homes' new Sora may fit the bill. The tiny house has a length of just 16 ft (4.8 m), while squeezing in sleeping space ...