Inside a FREE TINY HOUSE in Japan

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I suffer severe depression and I’ve had this recurring thought that I need to live in Antarctica for a year. I’ve convinced myself I want to write about the experience, but deep down, I realize it’s a part of me that wants to hide in darkness. I’m terrified I might actually succeed in detaching myself. I see the same thing in many Japanese people in these videos. I instantly feel their loneliness, as unexplainable as it is, with so many people living so close together. There is a charm to these enclosed living spaces, but also a feeling that these are tombs.

Surprisingly roomy little cabin. From first glance I thought it was a tiny shed but it's really nice and cozy insides. Hopefully someone is able to acquire it and keep it going.

I build custom homes for a living, so fixing one of these things up for myself would be easy and fun. I've wondered about these houses and how to get into them. I didn't even know where to start, but you've pointed me in the right direction! Thank you!

Man.. I always wish I had my own property here in the US. Just finding a house like that for 40k would be a dream in itself.

I don't think I could ever live somewhere like this permanently, but staying for a few months and just working on the house, enjoying the outdoors and maybe doing some writing and craft just quietly alone in that space sounds pretty amazing

Another tiny house video... As an introvert who wants to get away from all the drama that comes with dealing with people, this is my kinda place...

I did insurance repair work for almost a decade (fire, water, storm damage kind of stuff). You never open the fridges, lol. Just unplug them and leave either leave the doors propped open or wheel them away... All-in-all this property looks really nice for an Akiya. Thank you for showing this to us.

As someone who has grown up in rural areas I would absolutely love living is a house like that. Being out in the woods is something special. As a school teacher the school turned coffee shop is a place I plan to visit on my next trip to Japan. I would love to have a place like that.

8 million abandoned homes? That does seem excessive. I'm glad you explained the reason for so many akiyas and that there is a lot more involved with buying one. Thank you for showing us around the cabin. Enjoyed it as always

I find it very surprising that, adding up all the expenses, buying an akiya isn't much cheaper than buying a new house. I'd love to see akiya become more affordable and easier to acquire, since it would help reinvigorate rural communities and provide another incentive for foreigners to move to Japan.

I lived in Japan for 3 months and saw a whole abandoned village in Niihama, it was magnificent! I wish i could go back and live there again.

Exploring Japan and documenting all of the abandoned places is actually so overwhelming at times, but so beautiful as someone that has been doing this since I was 15. I don't even focus on the houses too much because there are just way too much of them. I focus on bigger properties such as Hotels and old Onsens, which I have found hundreds of abandoned hotels across Japan, some so massive you couldn't understand why they were abandoned.

Loved the idea of buying an abandoned home in Japan but now it seems it might be a little harder than I thought. Great video and great insight!

This is quite huge for a "tiny home". That loft area really is most likely intended to be the bedroom but looks perfect for it! I could see this being really well decorated and making an absolutely beautiful home!

One minute in and this is already the nicest abandoned home I've seen on youtube!

Seems a lot of homes like this started showing up after the dams were built. I recall you talked about it in a previous vid that focused around abandoned villages in the mountains. People had to move to stay connected to supply lines, so they dropped everything and abandoned what little they had in their mountain homes. The school house story is still a pretty cool one.

Being 98% through the purchase process of buying a home in Japan, I obviously looked into Akiya and did a bunch of research on what it would take/how much it would cost to go that route. Being as it's meant to be a "vacation" home for me for a few years and then a place that I'd spend several months of the year at during my retirement, I was looking at some more urban ones or ones with better access to infrastructure. There are Akiya that have been repossessed (financially abandoned but maybe still inhabited!) or abandoned for various other reasons even in/closer to urban cores - but I quickly found out that it would require many other hoops and processes, like possible eviction of squatters or previous owners, disposal of thousands of pounds of collected trash, retrofitting or renovating the whole structure for code compliance, the cost of tearing down and the depreciation price on new construction, some property is illegal to rebuild upon due to zoning, the fact that as a foreign national not currently living in Japan - you cannot get a bank loan or mortgage, etc. I decided that the relatively straightforward process of just buying regular real estate was more appealing. haha I'll be in Japan in 3 weeks to do my first in-person viewing of my new house before I wire transfer the final payment!

Got home after two weeks in Japan last night, already missing it and wishing I could move there permanently. Hopefully these videos can continue to fill the Japan sized hole until I can go back again 😊

Thanks Norm! Always super entertaining stuff and real high quality content with tons of cool. Facts on Japan🇯🇵😊