Japan has an estimated 75,000 temples, and a third of them are abandoned, she said. Many onsens, traditional inns built around hot springs for bathing, have been deserted too. Do you have ...

In Kyoto, you can buy a house in walking distance from historic temples for $80,000 ... “empty houses”) that have been abandoned. Across Japan, there are millions of similar homes, mostly ...

With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties ... because it had been built by a temple architect in 1989. Mr. Thursfield and his Japanese-born wife, Chihiro, had ...

Ned Watson bought a home in Japan that had been abandoned for two years for less ... or gang violence or anything like that. I have a temple that I walk by every time I go to the convenience ...

Anton Wormann, 31, who is originally from Sweden, relocated to Japan in 2018 after living in New York. He recently purchased an abandoned farm for $15,000 "right by the beach" in Kujukuri ...

The temple had been abandoned, like thousands of others across Japan, its elegant curved roof in danger of collapse from water damage. The temple has been restored and equipped with air ...

The 36-year-old furniture designer from Sydney found fertile hunting grounds in the abandoned villages just an hour’s drive from his home near the ski fields in the Japanese Alps. Australian ...

Start-up PlanetDao is seeking 34 million yen (US$212,134) from investors around the world to fund its first real estate project, which aims to turn an abandoned temple in Japan’s western ...