4 resorts nearby
¥180,000
5 bedrooms
Kamikawa, Hokkaido
1973103 m²2220 m²
Find an Akiya Ski Home.Live the Japow Dream.
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- Empty homes across Japan
- Freehold
- No Japanese residency required
- Under ¥10m
- Snow-country homes still exist
- 180 nights
- Potential annual short-stay rental
The short version
Japan has nine million empty houses
An akiya is simply one of them. Most sit in places nobody visits, inherited by families who live hours away. A few thousand sit under the deepest snow on earth.
Where it works
Snow changes the maths
A cheap house an hour from anything is a cheap house. A cheap house twenty minutes from lifts that run December to May is something else. These are the towns where both are true at once.
How we measure it
Powder Zone
Kilometres mean nothing on a mountain road in February. Every home here is measured along real roads to Japow’s reviewed resorts, so a house isn’t “near the snow”: it’s eleven resorts within the hour, and here are which ones.
Search by drive time
Live listings
Houses on the market now
Real listings, with every photograph the source published and the drive to each resort measured.
The buying guide
Everything else is in the guide
Can you buy one as a foreigner? What does it cost to buy, fix and keep? Who looks after it when you’re home? The full answers, in one read.
Read the buying guideStart with the search, not the dream
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