you get this itch where you just want to get an akiya and start renovating an old house in the Japanese countryside," Byron told Insider. Rural areas in Japan have also become more accessible to ...

Deborah and Jason Brawn bought an abandoned house in rural Japan ... was in Mitocho, a small town near Masuda city, where they found the perfect akiya — a traditional Japanese house constructed ...

With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses ... of rural living,” Mr. Allen said. “The fact that property in the ...

“The new Japanese Heritage Shōya House will offer a glimpse into rural Japanese life some 300 years ago and provide insights into that culture and its sustainability practices,” Karen ...

It’s hard to say what’s cooler about the Japanese ... house at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens — the centuries-old wood structure that was once the center of a ...

Due to the shrinking population and internal migration toward cities, there are millions of unoccupied houses in rural Japanese towns ... It was in Mitocho, a small town near Masuda city, where ...