However, it was during the pandemic that the couple first learned about akiya, or abandoned ... town near Masuda city, where they found the perfect akiya — a traditional Japanese house ...

and doing this in Japan seemed feasible, especially considering that the country has 8.5 million akiya, or abandoned houses, in rural areas for sale. It helped that Evan also speaks Japanese ...

Rural towns are offering grants to new and returning residents in hopes of reviving abandoned homes, as young people move to ...

Today, the battleship-shaped land mass sits completely abandoned on westcoast Japan - with tourists drawn ... It was handed by the company to the city of Nagasaki in the early 2000s, and, after ...

Kimura says that he is often told by people to whom he gives tours of the city from around Japan that they too have many decaying, abandoned buildings and vacant houses in their own hometowns. Nozawa ...

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With property prices often shockingly low, these forgotten houses ...

(Kyodo) KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo ... with many buildings abandoned and left to go to seed due to a lack of funds for their demolition. In the city's restaurant district, a huge vacant six-story ...