What A US$23,000 House Looks Like in Rural Wakayama, Japan

So okay and this

house

here costs 23,000 US dollars. A friend bought it with my help. That's why I'm here and he's 30 years old. It used to belong to the village chief. The boss of this area is called Ryu in Ryujimura. He is very close. because of the onsen town, the hot springs, and it's really nice inside, so the previous

house

that I helped another friend buy for $10,000 requires some work, huh, but it's much older, it's 100 years old, and it has A tattoo. It has historical value, this building here is much newer, I wouldn't say it has historical value, but it is a very, very nice house, a second home to be in, so this friend in Singapore loves to ride his bike and he loves to go out outdoors, so this is the perfect place. location for him and his friends and anyone who wants to come once, so I'm going to help clean up all the grasses and everything here, let me turn around all these things that need to be cleaned because well, not the trees, uh, he can. decide if you want to keep it, I think it's the sakura tree, the crochet is pretty good, but it's kind of in the shape, I'm not sure, but the rest, like the grasses, need to be removed, otherwise they will start slowly. crawling into the foundation and you ruin the foundation and you ruin the fence too, so first I'll remove everything I can and clean it up.

I will do a very simple cleaning of the interior. uh, I'll show you

what

's inside. This is the overgrown entrance. weeds I have a broom that I bought from a street vendor the other day, uh, and I'm going to clean this up first, let's go in, okay, so this is the tour of the house that you would enter with the gang gun, the main one . entrance you put your shoes down here uh there's even a ledge for you to take your shoes off and once you walk in this is the view that greets you you get the kitchen in the front just to turn on the light so now it's all bright.

Let me start with the kitchen, it is a very big space where you can even have a kitchen counter in the center, a kitchen island because there is a gas plant on the floor, in the middle a sea is created and a power plant too , so this is the kitchen. It comes with a refrigerator which I assume is working. I'm not sure I didn't turn it on. I'll try it later and there is a gas stove with propane that leads to this area that I assume it used to be. where the family here used to eat uh there's a big space here I guess for cupboards uh maybe uh maybe some cupboards for dishes and all that.

It has a balcony that I can't show you outside because it's too light right now, but I'll show you the outside later. This house has great views. The TV there I'm not sure if it works or not but then if you go out to the left you get the two main rooms with the anger on the side. Anger was a space. that liked the balcony, this was the main room because the guests would enter through the main entrance and they would be welcomed here so everyone could sit here and this would be for the guests, uh, you hang a painting in al kofia tokonoma, um, there is lots of cabinets everywhere. but let me turn around so you can see the entrance right there in some slippers uh I'll show you the view in a moment and I'll stop the camera and put it down, then you can see there's a really nice tree outside, but let's go.

Up first, so let's go to the bathrooms. It's a little dark in here, darker than the rest of the house, but there is a very nice bathroom. The bathroom has kerosene and also wood heating. You can use any sauce and that's the garage. enough for about a car and a half, a big car and maybe half, so good for bikes and all that, let me turn around again. Oops, and here you have the urinal, the urinal and some oil, and this is the sink, uh, no toilet. uh, with a washlet, so it's quite nice, so let's go up, go through the kitchen and go upstairs, the only part of this house that needs a lot of repair is this, the floor here has become soft and I guess it's For the water. who came in through this door, they may have left it open and over time the floor got softer, so it's a crack here, but Norissa and the carpenter will be coming to fix the house very soon.

We expect it to cost a couple hundred dollars. so it's not too expensive, it's about 2 meters by 90 centimeters so it's not that bad, but right now it's very very soft and there you can see that the bathroom has a wood stove, which I really envy because that keeps the low costs especially if I have some firewood and this is the big boiler uh oh wait it's not like that it

looks

like it's electric I'm not sure it could be kerosene but I have to check it's to takara standard a very good manufacturer so let's go up then it says here and again I can't show you the view because I have to adjust the camera settings, but this is the room and this is

what

really sold me on the house.

This is the bedroom and the views are great. I'll show you that there is a bouquet on both sides this is a very good studio and since the view is great from here I'm going to lower the camera and show you the views so this actually has typhoon shutters aluminum typhoon shutters very sturdy, uh, my house doesn't have them because it's very old, this one is much newer from the 80's, late 80's and 90's, so it has typhoon shutters and sliding windows that don't creep, not like mine and, uh, this view here, I think it was the view that sold it to my friend, I would love to live here, this is a great place for a desk and the view you get is just fantastic.

It also faces east, so you get the rising sun from this room, but not the very hot setting sun in the summer. It's on the other side and, uh, at night, I bet you get great views here because the sun sets on all of these, so you don't see the sunset, it's behind you, but you see a golden glow here . There is also a secretary that you can see down there, which is a neighboring plot of Terrain with a field below, I think the rice plant there has been prepared to be rice. You can see our rice growing from this window and this window will give you views of winter.

Perfect winter views. I came here first in winter. It was fantastic. it was all white you used a spring the circular tree has gone out of here but you have a sakura tree here and one down there the weeping sakura blooms later in the summer we will have the sound of crickets and there is a river down below so Yes You are lucky, you can see fireflies from here, a very faint glow and, you can, you can hardly see neighbors, from this view, except one who is on the other side of the street, very far away, here is the person in charge of the gasoline kiosk , the gas station.

Yes, this is a very good view to say and it is the same window. I just wanted to show you what it

looks

like from inside the room if you put bait right there somewhere and you wake up and stand up and you get this view, oh. Move over there so you can see, this is what it looks like here, like this, can you hear the frogs? Yeah, so there are frogs outside right now. It's the middle of spring, so they're here and, uh, yeah, I really like this view, I hope. be invited here to do my job so yeah put a table here actually you could put two or three tables and my friend runs a business so I think the employees of that business could come here and work so you know who you are in this room.

It is enough for at least 10 employees to work and if you turn on the second floor to this side you get a balcony or wash your clothes well. No, you can't have a washing machine up here because there is no plumbing, but you can bring it. upstairs if you want, yes there are no water pipes here, there is a lot of pt, but you can bring a pipe from there, it doesn't cost too much and you can put a washing machine here or you also need electricity, so electricity. and powerpoint uh you could have a little washing machine here you could wash your clothes here uh and if you really wanted to even put chairs in here and the view is great let's see let me show you what's outside and welcome outside. purple tree here is the part of the chinese raid uh cersei's sinensis has a bumblebee buzzing around collecting pollen right now and nectar of course nectar not pollen but nectar and uh it's a very beautiful tree but in front of it is this tsugi tree this krypto tree look at two of them , which I will cut down because they are not big enough to be dangerous so far, if they grow any more, they will endanger the house here because, uh, they grow into huge trees, they probably just emerged as saplings from the trees over there .

There, in the distance, although you can see a huge structure, let me get closer. Just across the street is a structure that has been around for 370 years. It is the home of a jizo sun, a bodhisattva, and the bodhisattva there takes care of the children, so the people. From all over the town and from all over the region they come here with bibs that they put on the bodhisattva and then they put them on the children who are born. Also the women who have those things wrapped around their bellies put them there to be blessed and honored. to help with a safe and smooth delivery uh before we go all the way in and have you and on the balcony again uh you're looking inside and this is another tokonoma for decorations for a scroll and flowers, but there's also this weird hole here with quite a sturdy floor, I think it used to hold a TV because there's a TV stand there, but it's also a really good place to store books.

I'm not sure you can store things here. I think it needs a curtain to make it look less weird, it's a ninja hole so you might as well have cat stuff and finally a view of uh well a view from the staircase, the top of the stairs, um , those are rapeseed flowers and the person who grows this actually owns the plot of land. here, uh, uh, the close neighbor, I think the person who wants this is a teacher from the local elementary school, so I'll have to say hello and say hello. It is a custom here to greet whoever is nearby and when the friend comes.

I have reminded him that he needs to bring gifts for everyone, so we will do a complete tour of the nearby town or village or visit all the neighbors, up there, down there, on the other side, to also greet the village cheese with the village chief. for now, the new portable boss who now lives on the other side, but I just wanted to show you the view here because, this house here, if I lived here I would never work, it's just panoramic views, this is a perfect point of view I've ever had . I took you down to the first floor and promised you the view of the outside from here.

The angawa land tower is a space where you can sit and entertain the people of the past. We open them and my house doesn't have windows here, it just has. wood The wooden rain shutters for this house are aluminum shutters that have been removed, of course move them all to one side, but during a typhoon you can close all this on all the shutters to protect the window. If you open this up though there's a lot of weeds and everything growing outside so that has to go first because they attract bugs and all they want is for them to fly into your house and it's not a good sight so today I'm just going to help remove all this cut stuff. the grass down, weed a little bit and that's it for now, so the other thing is to sweep this room.

I forgot my vacuum so that can't be done today. uh, today outside, inside, maybe tomorrow it will be raining next. a few days, so I have time to clean up, okay, so three hours later, most of the trackers were done. I'm going to finish smoothing this out and call it a day. All these beads in front of the house have to dry first before. I may throw them away or burn them, so let them dry a little more after a week and I'll come back to see what I can do. For now I'm all dirty, so I'll end here. and go to the onsen, the hot springs, just three minutes down the road, so that's it for today's episode, bye.