How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a candid look at the real costs and paperwork of buying and renovating an abandoned Japanese home.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tokyo Llama

Topic

buying property in japan

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside highly recommend the YouTube channel Tokyo Llama. He's spent the last four years renovating a beautiful traditional style Japanese house and property about an hour outside of Tokyo. He talks about the …

• On a similar point, this video goes through the costs of buying an abandoned house in Japan: [VIDEO] To be fair, although there are a lot of "extras", the sums involved still seemed relatively small.

• Should head over to Japan... Exploring the eerie beauty of Japan's abandoned villages --- [LINK] -- [LINK] 171 points | 4 months ago | 126 comments The top comment by nataz: > If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside …