Find Japanese Akiya
by city, village, or municipality:
で日本の空き家バンクを見つける
市、村、または市町村別
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Akiya Banks is the leading platform offering a comprehensive, centralized directory of every municipal akiya bank in Japan.
It was the first resource of its kind and has gone on to become an invaluable bilingual solution that has helped countless users, inside and outside of Japan, explore the unique real estate landscape of the country.
Our platform operates on two levels:
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The Free Akiya Directory, which catalogs and provides links to every official local government akiya bank in the country, giving users direct access to all known regional property databases across all prefectures. This directory is free to all users, forever.
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The Akiya Banks Property Portal, a premium section updated daily with hand-curated, editor-selected vacant houses from across Japan, all with original descriptions, translated purchase details, and direct links to the source.
Whether you're looking to buy abandoned homes in Japan, research cheap houses in Japanese and English, or browse traditional Japanese minka (民家) farmhouses in rural regions, Machiya (町家) townhouses in urban environments, and anything in between, Akiya Banks offers the most trusted and human-curated akiya listings online.
Unlike automated aggregator sites or content scrapers that pull and recycle listings from general Japanese real estate platforms, we emphasize a human approach and personally review and translate each featured listing in our portal, ensuring clarity, context, and quality. Homes must follow a strict criteria to be considered a true "akiya" and we never compromise on this basic principle.
Akiya Banks is seeking real estate partners
NEW!
We're building a network of bilingual real estate professionals and agencies based in Japan to be a part of a new buyer support initiative designed to help international clients navigate the akiya purchase process from start to finish. The Akiya Banks Shiroi Tebukuro program is still in development and will serve as a multi-tiered, all-in-one solution for those seeking to purchase and maintain available akiya properties.
We are trying to establish long-term working relationships and to provide ongoing opportunities for new referrals of motivated potential clients who are serious about purchasing homes.
For more information about what we are looking for, requirements, and our proposed payment structure for qualified realtors, please click the "Inquire Here" button below.
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