About Japan Houses

Japan Houses is an independent website that lists houses for sale in Japan in English. We track 5,713 houses across 47 prefectures and add what Japanese listings leave out for foreign buyers: the price in your currency, the real total cost, natural-hazard risk and a foreign-buyer check.

What we do

Japanese real-estate agencies publish thousands of houses every week, almost always in Japanese only. We gather these public listings, translate them, and rewrite each one in plain English. Then we add our own checks: land rights, the 1981 earthquake code, road access and rebuild rights, flood, tsunami and landslide zones, and an estimate of taxes and fees.

What we are not

Japan Houses is not a real-estate agent and does not sell houses. We do not take money from sellers to rank a house higher: the order of our lists comes from our own rules. When you want to buy, you deal with a licensed Japanese agency and a judicial scrivener; Pro members get the original listing and the agency's name.

Where our information comes from

The exact rules behind each check are explained on How we check a house.

How often it is updated

New houses are added every week and prices are refreshed when we re-check a listing. Each house page shows the date it was first listed and last checked. When a house leaves the market, its page stays online with a clear notice, so links do not break.

Contact

Questions, corrections or press: hello@japan-houses.com. We answer in English, French or Japanese.

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