Japan Spring-water House for sale
Here’s another old Japan house with a story…. About fifteen years ago, I was walking through the Village of the Long Bear in the Japan...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Geisha Guest House
Yumiko found a house today with perhaps the best story yet. It’s a geisha dormitory in Atami which once served the high-class...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Japan Container-Garden House - $42,000 USD
This house has a story within a story… Yumiko found the listing and then passed it over to me to discover the location of the house on...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Japan Shimoda fixer-upper house - $56,000 USD
This house doesn’t have a story (that I know of at least) though Yumiko and I have taken a strong liking due to its humble amenities and...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Old Japan Daimyo House for Sale - $254,000 USD
This 200-year old house in Wakayama Japan has quite a story! Located along the ancient Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, the current owner...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 28
- 1 min
Vast Forest Farm in Japan for Sale
Here’s another interesting place, which includes a forest! Located in Okayama, near the Japan inland sea, this 100+ year old house, built...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 26
- 1 min
Free farm in Japan
Here’s an interesting place. It’s an older farm in Oyabe, Japan being offered for free. The current owner is actually hoping a foreigner...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 26
- 1 min
Thoughts after surgery
Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Going Alone to Scotland
This copy of Going Alone has an interesting journey ahead. It’s going to a twenty-something young man who chose to go alone to one of...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Japan Aristocrat House - $119.000 USD
A long time ago, when I was rich and before I lost everything (easy come, easy go, right?), my friend John Souchak used to tease me about...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 21
- 1 min
Japan Totoro Dream House - $11,000 USD
This house may be my favorite yet. The current owner purchased and renovated the place for his parent’s retirement, and with their...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 13
- 3 min
Old Style Japan Apartment Airbnb - $43,000 USD
Imagine owning and operating a small Showa-era Japanese apartment building in the hot-spring resort community of Atami, roughly an hour...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Are the Japanese coming home?
Following World War Two, and especially after the start of the great Economic Miracle, an exodus of young people left the Japanese...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Fisherman Farmer Life - $191,000 USD
Would you like to become a farmer in Japan? Or maybe a fisherman? How about both?? This listing on the beautiful island of Shikoku is for...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Triangle House - $115,000 USD
Yumiko and I spent the day together daydreaming about life when we go back to Japan, where we hope to buy a small place to live...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 17
- 4 min
Old Japan House for Rent - $117.00 / Month USD
Some of you may remember me telling the story of a Japanese farmer in the village of the Long Bear who offered to sell me his entire farm...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Japan Wasabi Village House for sale - $53,000 USD
I found another house for sale in Japan which I know is featured in one of my old Walking in Japan videos, though I haven't yet found...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Japan Mountaintop village house for sale - $50,000 USD
After visiting the supermarket today, and fussing over our vegetable purchases, Yumiko suggested that perhaps we should buy a house in...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Toyama Japan Farm for sale - $7,300 USD
The current owner of this 96-year old traditional style Japanese farmhouse is ready to "hand over all the home and all of the rice fields...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death
Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...
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