When people email me about buying a house in Kyushu, the first question is almost always the same. "Where are the cheapest houses?" It's a fair question. After all, one of the biggest reasons people look at Kyushu is affordability. But after spending years living here and helping foreign buyers navigate the market, I've started asking a different question. How often do you want to leave your town? Because the answer usually changes where you should buy. Buying a house in Kyus

Owning property in Japan does not come with a visa. You can buy as a foreigner without restriction, but the house gives you no right to live there. For most overseas buyers, that settles the question of how much time they will actually spend in it, which is not much. You will be somewhere else for most of the year. So, can you still Airbnb a house in Japan you are rarely in? Yes. Just not the way the short videos suggest. What follows is the short version. The full process, i

To buy an akiya in Japan as a foreign buyer, you deal with a process that does not match how property works in most Western countries. The legal steps, the tax math, and the physical condition of the houses are all different, and the gaps between what you expect and what is true are where money quietly disappears. This guide lays out the real numbers, the offices you actually file with, and the order things happen in, so you can run the purchase yourself instead of paying som