[Gideon911]

Originally Posted by 911heaven

Sounds like a great adventure! Ballsy move as well for sure! Just got my guest house on it's stilts today so I'll send you some pics. I bought this place 9 or 10 years ago for 1 million yen, which is 7.5 K USD at current exchange. It has the 180 year old kominka house which I'm jacking up by myself as a hobby and weekend bach. The guest house I've built out of virtually free material. It will sleep 3 people, me, wife and daughter til we get the house finished off. Until now we've stayed in a tent inside the house, but it's in the way on rennovation so I built this guest house! Someday we can have guests stay there or do the Airbnb maybe.

The land is 262 tsubo (x 3.3 sq meters per tsubo). I saw some pop up today NHK news about Tamba Sasayama city, a village called Maruyama. We are in that city but out in the mountains. Property tax I pay anually is 5,800 yen on this property. Beautiful view, lots of wildlife and boy do the city folk love to come out here from Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka!









That black snake in the grass just protects the property from intruders which aren't many.

Fun project! Being from southern CA I love seeing all that greenery