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Freaktography. Forgotten and Abandoned Country Grow-Op House. Posted: May 7, 2025 | Last updated: May 7, 2025. Tucked away in the countryside, this abandoned house hides a secret past as an ...

One person it did not dawn on recently is Alex Kerr, an author and Japanologist originally from Maryland, who became an akiya owner in 1973 when he acquired an abandoned country house (known as a ...

Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama and his wife Hila convinced the owners of an abandoned Japanese farmer’s house to allow them to transform it into a guest house back in 2012.

Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama and his wife Hila convinced the owners of an abandoned Japanese farmer’s house to allow them to transform it into a guest house back in 2012.

There are more than 8.5 million akiya, or abandoned homes, in rural Japan, according to the country's 2018 Housing and Land Survey, its most recent on record. By some counts, there are many more.

You could nab one of millions of country houses for sale for just $25,000. ... Japan has a glut of older, abandoned homes in rural areas, as Insider has previously reported.

Jaya Thursfield, an Australian who moved to Japan 2017 with his wife Chihiro, bought an abandoned house not far from Tokyo for 3 million yen, or around $23,000, in 2019, and set about renovating it.