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Speaker: We're finishing 100% our original Akiya down in Beppu, which we call Gisouji Lux. Located in a hot spring town. Putting the final touches because we are planning to sell our Beppu house to it. Yeah, big, big news. There's a community hot spring nearby the house. There's a Michelin star hot spring nearby the house. There's wild hot springs up in the mountains. There's the whole range of hot springs. This is a great starter kit house, I think, for someone who's just getting into the game.
Speaker: Honestly, pretty it easy mode. It's ready to go. It's furnished.
Speaker: Welcome back to the Buying a House in Japan podcast. My name's Take. And I'm Joey. We're the founders of Akiya Marts and welcome to our podcast. We talk about all things buying property in Japan, starting small businesses in Japan, and just kind of like our adventure these past three years, doing both of those things.
Speaker: We've bought six Akiyas to date. We've helped about 150 people the past year So If you are interested, we have a purchasing program called Akimart Direct, but let's get into the podcast today. This is our Dear Diary series podcast. This is where we kind of have no real script. We just kind of shoot the shit.
Speaker: um And we're starting out today with a non-alcoholic beer by Asahi. We're going non-alcohol now. that ah Health is wealth trip. So Tuck and I both got some... ah health results back cholesterol came back not so great uh blood pressure for me so yeah trying to take a little bit of a a healthier trip this time because i do feel like when you're traveling japan it's so like it's fried food everywhere on every trip before this we go lot of tonkatsu a lot of ramen lot of like bakery sweets lot of alcohol so health is wealth we're trying something little bit healthier
Speaker: If you're new to this podcast, this is just we're two regular dudes here just kind of adventuring through Japan. And today's episode, we have no real agenda, but I think we talk about and maybe the house, maybe landing in Tokyo. Joey's been here for a little bit.
Speaker: We're actually, by the way, recording this live from our Tama Basecamp house. We got like these new lights and stuff. So this is a test run. We're going with like the not sure mics too. So let us know how you think about it. Let us know if you have any advice also on this better setup. All right. Welcome back to Tokyo, Take. I've been here for about a month. I was down in Okinawa this past month and Take just got into the country.
Speaker: Our plan from here, ah we're meeting a bunch of we're doing a bunch of business stuff in Tokyo this next week, meeting with our agents. We're throwing a party, a bunch of other kind of business related stuff here in Tokyo. Then we're off to Hokkaido after that, Fukuoka for a bit, then Beppu, and then back to Tokyo.
Speaker: Yeah, this is probably our, I'd say our seven, six or seven sprint through Japan, where it's kind of crazy. We spend like three weeks at a time. We spend about maybe like 30% of the year here. You're going to be here more, and we'll talk about that soon.
Speaker: Along these sprints, we really learn on like how to maximize energy or like Yeah, like I feel like we burnt ourselves out on every single trip before this. We're like trying to do 5% better every time I feel like in terms of the trip. So I think the big unlock this time around was the Dormy Inn. When you get off the airport at Narita,
Speaker: This house here in Tama is on Western Tokyo. and When I tried to get to the airport last time from Tama to Narita, it was a four hour trip to get from this house to Narita.
Speaker: And so if you're doing a, you know, I came from Montreal. So if you're doing like a 15 hour flight from Montreal, you land, I think it was like four or 5 PM when I landed peak rush hour traffic. If you're trying to get across the city from the East, from Chiba in the East, all the way to Tama in the West, you're going to be fighting rush hour traffic after a 15-hour trip. So we're thinking about that aspect of a journey. And since we're doing it more and more often, you know at least you know four or five times a year, how do we make that easier? So from Narita, there's the Kese Skyliner. There's two like pretty good trains from Narita. It's the Kese Skyliner or the Narita Express, which goes to different train stations. For us, we've been taking the Kese Skyliner to Ueno or Nipori, Nipori.
Speaker: stations and then we would battle traffic but this time around we stayed at the dormy inn in wino take a break you know a breather a one night at the hotel and then today is the following day where we chose to come over here at a non rush hour time and that was so much better Pro tip, yeah, if you're coming to Japan a lot, I feel like the instinct is like land and go, go, go, go. Let's try to like go as fast as we can. I think we are now forcibly putting brakes on in the beginning and it's just like such a nice difference. I flew in from California, like being able to take this Keisei Skyliner in directly to Dormia and it has like a nice sauna, nice onsen that we got to use at night and the morning. Yeah.
Speaker: We're trying to like figure it out. So we've got a car here too. And we're trying to like max, like do we rent a parking spot, say, in Ueno or Nipori? And then so then the next day, we're not taking the train to Tama. We're not taking a taxi to Tama, but we've got the car there. So it could be a little bit expensive. So we're trying to run, like you know is it is it really worth it? But that would be a nicer step, and especially when you're jet lagged. like Coming into the country, I remember when I first got here, I was waking up at 3.30. I think you woke up at 3.30 this morning too.
Speaker: And Then you can cross the city at 3.30 in the morning when you wake up or 4.30 and you're not fighting ah rush hour traffic. So that might be an optimal situation. Use the jet lag to your advantage. For some of you who are in the purchase process of an Akio or already have bought one or thinking about it, most of you guys are probably not thinking like Central Tokyo is just way too expensive. So...
Speaker: I think this is a common tip that we would give anyone who is coming into Japan. Like, don't rush it to your Akiyo. Like, what do you think Eric does? So, our friend Eric lives in Iigata.
Speaker: I think he stays in Tokyo. He guns it or he stays in Tokyo. Yeah. So, i don't know. I think this has been the right right pace. Timing traffic again. Taking your time once you land. It's just been such a way more comfortable experience thus far. But,
Speaker: Yeah. Any tips? Any other tips in Tokyo on the transit here now that we've done it like 10 times? No, at least getting to Western Tokyo, it's tough, I would say. Maybe like if we would start again, i would say let's buy on the eastern side of Tokyo.
Speaker: Because I mean, we're in the suburbs of Tokyo. Maybe had we bought an eastern side just on the Chiba border there, might be easier entry. But now that we're at our house, and like Joey said, something really interesting that it's just like way more anonymous out here. It's like way more space, way more peaceful. It's just like, i don't know, maybe less foreigners out here too.
Speaker: But ah now that we're, every time we get to our Tokyo property, again, just to give it context about thousand five hundred square foot building on a two thousand five hundred square foot lot i'd say so we have a lot of space for tokyo but it's just so nice coming back to our house like everything is nice everything is ours we've done a lot of decorating a lot like it yeah it just is it's totally worth it i think you got good hit for the numbers i never remember the square footage or anything like that since also the last time we've been here a couple upgrades joey what's uh what are some of the upgrades that you noticed
Speaker: I feel like I've been coming so frequently I'm not even sure what an upgrade is for you. Sakura tree. Oh, the Sakura tree. We just got that. yep we're on the We're on the cusp of Sakura season so fingers crossed it it hopefully blooms. It's big. It was bigger than I i thought it was going to be.
Speaker: This was like a real tree that we got dropped in there. We'll have Linda on the podcast at some point but it cost us maybe what, like $2,000 start to finish to get that in there? It's got to be like a I can't see it up from here, but like a 10-foot tree? It's quite high, maybe bigger than 10. Yeah. So excited. we'll We'll talk about that more later. But overall, I think the biggest thing that every time we come back here and realize it's so important to have a property manager or someone nearby, like this house, we Linda helps clean it before we get here. like
Speaker: The mail's organized. like She's been such a big help. And I think We'll have her again on the podcast, but if you're thinking about buying in that, you definitely should have someone nearby to take care of your place because it just makes it way better.
Speaker: Yeah. bigger Biggest factor contributing to the success of this property, I would say, is that... um But it's like, we also have help, you know, our friend Fumi is helping us in Batbu, but Linda has just gone so above and beyond yeah that it it really does make a difference. Fumi is an amazing help down there too. And it, you know, it's keeping the property in line, but really it's it's so important. so The longer we're like in this game, it just, like we realize how important it is. And to so we were, i don't know, half joking the other day. We're like, all right, if Linda moves, like we're selling the house. so It's just like, she's, she's that mission critical. This time of house though is, I think, quite well taken care of. it's I think we we put a lot of effort every time we come back, we try to upgrade a little bit.
Speaker: This time we're gonna upgrade the the art behind here. We obviously have nothing here. We're trying to make this into a studio. um Other things Joey noticed when he first got in here, I came in the afternoon, was so cold, the insulation's still lacking. We are probably gonna be double painting or double windowing and insulating the floor.
Speaker: It's cold in the mornings like getting up in the morning like have you know You keep the heater on a little bit at night so it doesn't get freezing in there But then once you wake up and you come downstairs, it's quite cold and it's based I would say it's ah a few degrees, you know one two degrees warmer than the outside air temperature You've heard us say this like a thousand times, but if you are looking at buying one of these Akias, they just don't have insulation. It wasn't thought of, especially in the 1980s, 1990s.
Speaker: um So you're going to be fighting the heat and the cold. Tokyo right now at least is warming up, so it's not freezing, but it's still pretty cold. It's crazy, the insulation thing. I feel like i feel like maybe pre-1960s, again, I could be totally wrong here, but I feel like probably a long time ago, maybe pre-war when they're building those Kwaminkas, it probably put some effort in into insulate.
Speaker: And it must have just been like kind of like the rapid growth period of like the 60s, 70s, which is you know all the cheap properties seem to have been built in that era where maybe they're just building it so fast. like There's no way they didn't know about insulation. I think it's got to be a cost cost saving. Yeah.
Speaker: All right. So Tama Basecamp is a a thumbs up. I think we have discussed maybe renting it out to folks. If you're listening or watching this, we're going get better photos and and put them up. yeah We've been really just renting it out to friends and family, but might be time, Joey. I think it's it's good to get more people in here. And I'm personally pretty proud. I think we've done a really good job and with the place so far.
Speaker: All right, moving on with the trip. We're heading to Hokkaido. Let's rewind actually. Joey just moved to Ishigaki. Joey, give us give us the the high level here. We're going to take a deeper dive a little bit later, but give us the high level.
Speaker: What's happening with you? Okay. Rewinding the clock. So I got here about a month ago and went down to Ishigaki, which is part of Okinawa Prefecture. So down kind of at the southern point, one of those southern islands of Okinawa and I've kind of had this goal in my head for a few years now while living in Canada that it would be nice to live somewhere warm.
Speaker: And we started this business, which is Japan Facing. So Japan's got some warm islands down in the south there. So that's kind of been the goal. I've been playing around in my head a little bit.
Speaker: And so I went down there again this month and yeah, we'll do a deeper dive specifically on me getting ah the work visa. So I was able to get a work visa when I entered Japan this time about a month ago. I entered as a an employee um of our Takamori company. And so we can we'll do a much deeper dive into that on a future episode.
Speaker: But went down to Ishigaki and through the business was also able to rent an apartment. So I'm hoping to spend more of the year ah down there going forward. And i had a great time. I think Ishigaki is great. it's ah We did a ah smaller podcast on it last November when I just went down there to check it out for the first time. Yeah.
Speaker: But I think going down there, when I was there as a tourist, I was there as a tourist again this time as well. But last November, it was more of me kind of checking out the town. I didn't really meet anybody down there. But this time I put more effort in because sometimes people ask, oh, do you live in Ishigaki? Are you just visiting? You're just visiting kind of thing. And this time was able to say like, oh, well, they can move in here, trying to rent an apartment. So I was able to, think, meet more people. And that was one thing.
Speaker: that I noticed was that there is like an international community down there and i was able to meet a lot of people ah in that community and it was a lot of fun I feel like ah yeah had ah had a pretty packed social calendar I would say this past month and then ah yeah had a great time coming back to Tokyo here in Tama all of a sudden i was like wow i feel anonymous I think you mentioned it earlier you know in the time but like Ishigaki is a smaller town, you know, it's one of these sub sub tropical islands that Japan has I think the town is maybe about but the same size as Beppu if I had to guess let's say 150,000 people maybe a little bit smaller than that um but there's like a main kind of downtown core
Speaker: and some cool cafes and restaurants down there. And then that's where I was meeting people. And then you would run into those same people all the time. And so I think that was a great way to start making friends. But coming back to a place like Tama, where that doesn't really happen. Tama, you know, it's part of Tokyo. there's so many more people here. um And, ah you know, it just feels much more anonymous, whereas Ishigaki felt a lot more like local small town kind of vibes. Tanpai, moved out of mom's basement here.
Speaker: heading back to Canada again soon. But big moves for Jerry Ishigaki. I haven't been, but I definitely want to visit. Very close to Taiwan. It's like so freaking close to Taiwan. Are you worried about Taiwan, China, Ishigaki? is that Is that a worry of people in Ishigaki at this point?
Speaker: I don't think anyone mentioned it when I was down there, but it is quite close to Taiwan. So it's, I don't know what it is, 75 kilometers from Taiwan. there's a closer there's There's closer islands to Taiwan. It's not the closest island, um but it's the biggest town close Taiwan. And so there's a lot of Coast Guard presence down there. There were many, many large ah Coast Guard ships down there. And then even docked off the coast, I could see more like that gray kind of battleship ah colored ship. So I think there is like a Japan Defense Force Base there and clearly a big Coast Guard and and likely Navy presence down there too.
Speaker: At the time of recording, i think Japan has like 26 days of fuel left with the whole Iran conflict. like I think the Strait of Hormuz is closed right now. so That's the other thing I learned about those. They're called the Yaeyama Islands. where Ishigaki is one island in that Yaeyama chain of islands.
Speaker: And all the energy down there, it's it's diesel. They bring in diesel on big ships and then they just burn it to power these generators. It's basically a diesel generator island. So um that's what I was thinking too. Like, okay, so electricity bill must track very closely the price of gasoline yeah and Strait of Hormuz closing.
Speaker: I did notice gas, when I first started thinking about gas, I went to go check the pumps and it was 177 yen per liter. And then two days later, When I went to actually go fill up and return the car was 186 yen per liter. So, you know, a 10 yen, 9 yen jump in price over two days.
Speaker: Let's see. Yeah, it's mid-March at this point, so a lot lot can happen. Hopefully everything resolves itself and we're definitely not experts on the whole world conflict going in.
Speaker: I think more people should check out Okinawa. I feel like out of everyone that we've helped purchase a house in Japan, zero. not Not a single one has, I think, even the been interested in a property down in Okinawa, let alone purchase one. But I think Okinawa is great. People should... Again, I get it. Like, Japao.
Speaker: Yeah, Okinawa is more expensive. you know it is It's where Japanese people go on vacation, so it's tourist destination. um But yeah, and I get it. Japao, people like. You don't have the same kind of Japanese-looking houses down there. They have a different style of kominka down there. it was like a different kind It was very similar time as Hawaii. that it yeah It was a different country up until 1890s or something like that. so and Different culture down there, but I think it's really cool. More people should check it out.
Speaker: All right, times are changing. Joey's moved to Okinawa. We've traded in the snow for the tropical, so congratulations. But um yeah, going back to it, this trip is going to be a whirlwind. So we're in Tama right now. We're going to be gathering a lot of our team. We're to be filming a lot of content, speaking with a lot of folks.
Speaker: It's interesting. We like hold in all the in-person meetings until these trips, and then we just go back to back to back. So it'll be cool to see friends that we've met online now in person.
Speaker: What are we doing after Tama? Hokkaido. Hokkaido. So we own a house up in Otaru along with our one of our agents, Neo. So we're going filming some content there. I've never been Otaru. Joey went last year. So are you excited for that?
Speaker: I think after the whole Ishigaki discussion it's clear the places in Japan that I would like to spend time but Otaro is great I would say despite being a very cold um place although it's probably fantastic in the summer yeah actually I was talking to to someone about that and they're like, no, no, no.
Speaker: You want to go to the mountains, like Nagano kind of in the summer, like Hokkaido still gets hot. Anyways, probably you know cooler than at least downtown concrete jungle Tokyo. Otaro was great. I think the food scene was really cool. And I thought the the stone warehouse style buildings were also really cool. So some good stuff in Otaro, in my opinion, if you're a skier, obviously there's going to ton more great stuff there. One of the most popular regions on Acumart. We've helped a lot of folks buy in Otaru. I think for the price point to Japau kind of ratio, it it seems to hit a lot of boxes. So excited to check it out. We are filming a couple of videos of our house up there. We're going be doing a couple more interviews.
Speaker: And I'm pumped for the uni. Let's see if we're supposed to read Bama. So they told me when I was there in May, they were like, it's uni season. But I don't know if it's true or not. I didn't bother to fact check that. Maybe it's uni season. But there there is like a uni, sanmon ten like a uni specialty restaurant. um And they probably do uni all year round. like You can buy uni at the grocery store, I think. You went there last May. That was in May, yeah. Right after Indonesia. and We've had this house for a year almost.
Speaker: More than a year. Two years. Okay. We got this in 2024. The Otaru house? Oh, the Otaru house. Yeah, about a year. Oh, weird. Okay. So we are planning to sell this house. There's a couple, know, we've got the Yolkan licenses, two units on top of each other. We've had a couple of people actually check it out and are interested. We're we're trying, we're going to figure out maybe doing an auction, maybe doing just a regular sale, but we're going have fun with it.
Speaker: It's nearby. There's one... So I was looking for coffee the whole time I was in Hotaru. There's one cafe I found that has an espresso machine. Everything else was more like Kisa 10 style.
Speaker: um And this house is close by a cafe. b three Cafe, I believe it's called. B3 Cafe. Yeah, it was run by like an Australian couple. They're really cool. um They...
Speaker: ah we like ah i was I told them the story about why I was there. you know I'm checking out a property that we were purchasing at that time and they were kind of like, wow, you have no idea what you're getting into. It snows a lot here. like you know You've probably heard it snows a lot, but like you don't know what you're getting into kind of thing. We got a partner in Rio who's handling it for us. and i I think actually, quick plug, we have a program called Acumart Care where we can help property manage your property, ah run it as an Airbnb, do the utilities, everything from A to Z. So contact us if you are interested in that.
Speaker: Something we're still figuring out. I think we'll go to the plane as we're flying it for that one. Highly recommend because they get a lot ton of snow there. Okay. After Otaru, where are we headed, Joey? We're going straight to Fukuoka, I believe, not coming back to Tokyo first. So purpose of going to Kyushu is to get to our bedroom property, but we're gonna to spend a few days in Fukuoka meeting some friends of ours.
Speaker: After which we are picking up a van, we're going to Ikea and we're finishing 100% our original Ikea down in Beppu, which we call Gisou G-Lux. Beppu is located in a hot spring town. So I am actually really excited to go check out some more hot springs and kind of chill out. But this will be a mission. We're going to be like packing the van full of Ikea stuff.
Speaker: putting the final touches because we are planning to sell our bet booth house to it. Yeah, big, big news. This is the first property that we purchased in Japan, October, 2023. started this journey, April, 2023 keys in hand, October, 2023.
Speaker: keys in hand october twenty twenty three ah The Jisooji Lux property has been the one probably where you where if you have listened to the earlier podcast episodes, most of that was dedicated to um the renovations of Jisooji Lux and kind of getting the car down there and the trials and tribulations of Sato-san, our contractor. So a lot of content on Jisooji Lux.
Speaker: Jisooji's dream... Jisooji Lux has been great. It's again, like we said, in this hot spring town, there's a community hot spring nearby the house. There's a Michelin star hot spring nearby the house. There's wild hot springs up in the mountains. There's like wild hot springs that have then been converted to um ah like a more commercial hot spring where you get kind of, you know, good mix of not fully wild, but not fully like built into a building. There's the whole range of hot springs. and be There's Kanawha, which is incredible. It's like where all the steam is literally coming out of the cracks of the sidewalk. Really cool town. And yeah, good time. We got us started on this journey. Yeah, sad to sell it, but I think it is time. Like, I think I related to like, and nothing's wrong with the house. I think it's awesome, but the project is done.
Speaker: I think it's time for us to move on to something else. I personally would love to do like a concrete building. We're not leaving Beppu forever. I do. We want to buy again in Beppu, specifically a concrete house. I think with Onsen water directly into it. Maybe little bit better parking spot, but this is a great starter kit house, I think, for someone who's just getting into the game.
Speaker: Honestly, pretty easy mode. It's ready to go. It's furnished. We haven't figured out how much we're gonna sell it for. um Yeah, and I think we want to stay in Batboot. So we are going to film a video down there. We're going to show you some of the Onsen. going to show you some of our favorite stuff down there. But a lot of content at this trip, huh?
Speaker: Yeah, a lot of content. I feel like we've learned from the Beppu property and this property and and the other properties purchased a little bit more like what we're looking for in a property. And I believe what really makes Beppu unique is the hot spring water.
Speaker: And you can get that in Beppu. Jisoojilux does not have that, but it's got the community hot spring right right next door yeah about a block away. So it's ah fantastic. I don't believe Jisoojilux needs that. But I think for us, the next sort of, ah you know, adventure is tapping into what makes each area unique and trying to really ah dive deeper into that. So that's our plan. Okay, after Bepu, we are coming back to Tokyo for a couple days. I think we're going meet a couple folks, maybe record a couple podcasts with a couple content folks that we're really interested in in chatting with.
Speaker: But other than that, I mean... Theme of this trip, health is equal to wealth, Joey. I think we got to we got to try to do this Japan trip and not feel like shit at the end of the day.
Speaker: what So yesterday we didn't do such a good job. i had a slice of cheesecake, takahit ramen for breakfast. So that was kind of like ah a write-off day. Past day, past day. But today we went. Seen a lot alcohol? yeah we're doing We're doing good today.
Speaker: um Actually, our dinner last night was good. Yeah, but we went to so if you go to this is is that this is at our train station Here they have like a lot of kind of food. It's not quite a food court But lots of people selling like pre-made, you know, you can get there's like fried chicken kind of stuff and like salads and there's like a pickle person and there's people selling dumplings It's kind of more like a food court, but you don't eat it there you buy it and you take it home and So we got some good looking bentos there. And we also got some Hainanese chicken, which the key part is not fried. It's steamed.
Speaker: Doing good so far. Doing good so far. Day two. also bought like 16 brands of natto. I went to the supermarket and bought every single natto. I'm a big natto fan. How many natto do eat in the morning? Is it two packers? Two, maybe three in a day sometimes as a snack. So let's see. you know i I think natto is good for your health, right?
Speaker: Yeah. Kimchi. Although I looked into natto. So I was making natto at home in Canada because I wanted to eat it. And I was looking getting into it it. I can't remember. it's something like vitamin K or something related. It's supposed to be really... And then i like people will talk about natto they're like, oh, it has so much of this one thing in it. I think it was vitamin K, but I could be wrong. not so keenny say But that one thing, i is i looked into that. Let's just call it vitamin K for now. And like the research on vitamin K, people were like, ah, it doesn't really do anything. So I was like, hmm, is there like...
Speaker: I don't love the taste of natto. I was eating it because I thought it was healthy. And now after my research, I could be wrong, but after my research, it said, okay, well, that vitamin K isn't really like, you know, too healthy. It's not bad, but it's not super healthy. I kind of thought, I kind of moved on from making my own natto at home, but you know, you know, I said, whatever, whatever beans are always a good thing to eat.
Speaker: All right, we are here. It's kind of surreal being back and I feel like we've gotten so used to these trips, but Japan's awesome. you know I feel like every time we land, you just immediately see that convenience, the efficiency, the food is so good.
Speaker: is Shabu Shabu healthy? What do you think of Shabu Shabu? Shabu Shabu is healthy. They should have Shabu Shabu for dinner. Something like Nabe, the meal for you, Nabe. Yeah. something scar yeah All right, Joey. Well, excited for this trip. This is the first day recording. You will be recording a lot of content that will be spread out over the next couple of months, honestly. Trying to do a podcast a day with different people and different topics.
Speaker: But um yeah, if per usual, if you have any questions, you have any comments, you have any questions for us, please contact us at podcast at akia-mart.com. Also, we are running a free consultations for anyone who is listening.
Speaker: So if you book a consultation on our website, use coupon code consult, and that will give you a free consultation to speak with someone on our team. Any final words, Joey, for this Dear Diary series?
Speaker: We're trying to record podcasts a day, right? So lot more coming on this trip. lot more coming. And we got all this equipment. going see the background change, but this is a test run. um Yeah. Dear Diary series, Japan trip, 2026, winter Japan trip, are we calling this? Well, I kind of felt like spring today. Spring, Japan, 2026 trip. Although Hokkaido is going be winter. so Episode one in the books. Kampai.
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