Episode #2
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00:00 Intro
01:05 What’s it like living in Japanese countryside?
02:13 What’s the difference between living in countryside and city?
02:50 What’s the most difficult challenge?
03:13 What makes you feel that you’re a minority?
04:00 His Akiya (Vacant house) renovation project
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21 Comments
Continuing the gaslighting game they did 22 years – they don’t know that more than enough people know everything now – ohh I will stop wearing black 🙈🙈😂😂😂
Yeah that’s good 😊
This is so pro done! What kind of camera do you use?
I want to go to countryside, but i have no money.
It's easy to move to Japan as a foreigner when you are married to a Japanese national. You can't just pick up and move to Japan.
100% The Countryside in Japan is so awesome. My Wife is from a little town in Niigata and everytime I go there I feel so relaxed and peaceful. There has to be a way to get the younger people back home to rural Japan. Thx for sharing 🔔🫶
Yamaguchi is really nice and beautiful place, my grandmother is from Yamaguchi. The climates are so nice and mild, beautiful sea, and so many moutains and there are many places to swim in the river during the Summer.
Aaah, my dream, an old folks house in the country preferably surrounded by mountains!!!
Tokyo is paying families to move back out into country
What's the difference between the city and rural areas? Space, you'll have space in rural areas and none in the city.
I wonder how practical it would be to build a home in the traditional style but with allowances for modern amenities so it's the best of both worlds?
What you have accomplished is what I want to wish for myself, buying a kominka in the countryside as you did, renovating it respecting the Japanese construction rules of the past. I think I would be more tyrannically strict than you about the restoration process, no modern amenities at all XD So thank you, your experience is so motivating and one day, if I will lucky enough, my dream will come true.
Thank you for sharing this story, and video! My husband and I are on a similar journey in the Japanese countryside, so I love seeing stories of other folks seeking the same kind of lifestyle.
For an introvert this is a dream
"The city is concrete – there's nothing attractive about that" – I relate wholeheartedly. I hope to experience the calm beauty of the Japanese countryside myself one day
Tokyo has it's charm and beauty, for sure, but it should be viewed through a neutral lens by Western countries as how the idea of central mega-cities can go wrong.
It's pristine and clean and cultured, but it's also soulless and corrupt to the core. Like he says, you don't MEET people in Japan. The culture is to ignore everything around you, even young girls being raped or harassed on public transportation. They also have the highest suicide rate in the entire world. Same goes for Seoul, though at least South Korea embraces tourism.
You'll never catch me living in a megacity.
Looks like a Studio Ghibli scene.
I moved to Thailand from the USA and I picked a very rural area. I, too, do not enjoy extended city life, especially cities of any real size. Like Bangkok for example for about two days I love it, the people, the shops the different coffees and nationalities then I need to be home… not want mind you need to be home. I am slightly 嫉妬 of your ability to retire to Japan. 🙂 I obviously picked wrong in my professional direction not allowing me to do what you did. I did really do what you did but on a very smaller scale. Thanks for the video!
You are living the dream
Do roaming Ronin ever drop by for the night?😂
@3:05 Gamera!!🐢🐢
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