Among them is the small city of Sabae ... “I often get inspiration from very Japanese things, for example, houses, gardens ...

On the coast of Japan ... a little house with a view of the ocean for $37,000. In Kyoto, you can buy a house in walking distance from historic temples for $80,000. And near the city of Kitakyushu ...

They eventually purchased an "akiya" on the small island of Omishima in the Ehime Prefecture. Akiyas are abandoned houses in rural Japan. After buying a house, they completed the paperwork that ...

Eric McAskill bought an abandoned house, or akiya, in the Japanese countryside for $23,600 ... area," McAskill said of the village. "It's a small, quaint town, and it's known for having onsens ...

Sangenjaya is a small ... houses just get abandoned that way.” Wormann paid around $100,000 for the property. “What I’m essentially paying for is the land. This is 90 years old. Houses in ...

His tiny factory is really nothing more than a small hut behind his home in Kanazawa. The western Japanese city produces nearly all of the country's gold leaf. But now the industry is threatened ...