@Omni_Hug Yumiko and I love #antiquing too—especially in #Japan! 🇯🇵✨ @Omni_Hug. This might be more about priming the pump—filling an empty three-bedroom #akiya home for two newly arrived empty nesters who came to Japan with little more than two suitcases each. At age 60, we don’t have

#AMPTAKxCOLORS.#AKIYA.#楓弥.#はじまりの物語.楓弥さんが居たから知るきっかけになったんです。.何処で繋がるか分からないwww

🇯🇵 Retiring in Japan: Day 69 – The Best Part of Spring? Planning for New Beginnings. The soil around our #Akiya home in #Japan is finally tamed—loose, dark, and ready for planting. And with #Spring just a few weeks away, it’s time to decide what to do with it. Owning a small

🍂 The Corner-Lot Akiya – A Forgotten Home in Shizuoka City. A beautiful yet empty home stands quietly on a spacious corner lot in #ShizuokaCity, its past lingering in the well-planned ornamental trees and the once-maintained grounds. This #Akiya (空き家), a two-story house with

🇯🇵 The Deed is Done – Now, the Real Work Begins! – Retiring in Japan. Today, we officially received the deed to our new (old) home in Shizuoka, Japan, twenty days after signing the purchase paperwork. The #Akiya is now ours—warts and all. 🏡✨. After just 24 hours of living here,

🇯🇵 The Best Part of Retirement: Time to Read, Time to Be – Retiring in Japan. 📖 This morning, I experienced something new—the quiet luxury of time. Our first morning in our new (old) #akiya home in #Shizuoka. The bags are barely unpacked, there’s not even a chair to sit on yet,

🇯🇵 Our First Night in Our Akiya – Retiring in Japan. After nearly ten months of preparation, planning, and moving between two countries, tonight, Yumiko and I will sleep under the roof of our new (old) #akiya home for the first time. 🏡✨ It’s been a long road—exciting at times,

A Japanese House Tour Near Tokyo 🏠 #japanlife #akiya via @YouTube.

🇯🇵 The Unexpected Joy of Owning Land – Retiring in Japan. Of all the things I expected when buying an #akiya home 🏡 in #Japan, I never thought the land itself would affect me the most. There’s something about putting on heavy boots 👢, stepping outside, and feeling the earth

🇯🇵 Buried Charcoal in the Garden – Retiring in Japan. While turning the soil in the garden of our #akiya home 🏡, I kept coming across small bits of #charcoal. At first, I didn’t think much of it, but after finding handfuls of the stuff, I got curious. I showed a sample to my

Do Japanese People Want an Abandoned Home? .日本の空き家問題について日本人に聞いてみた.#akiya .#空き家 .#空き家問題　.#移住

🏡 The Final Clean Before Move-In – Retiring in Japan. After seventeen days of hard work, Yumiko and her sister Yoko (who is now our new neighbor) have finished cleaning the inside of our new (old) #akiya home in #Shizuoka, Japan. 🏠✨. This process was more than just dusting and

The dark chapter in the history of the Orang Asli in Perak is often left out of history books, but is told in this translation of Akiya's groundbreaking novel Hamba.#khp #Akiya #Slave #sasteramalaysia .

🚶‍♂️ The Hidden Life of Old Homes in Japan – Walking in Japan. By day, this house could easily be mistaken for an #akiya, one of Japan’s many #abandonedhomes. The peeling paint, rusted roof, and weathered walls give the impression of a place long forgotten. But as night falls, a

Do you see the legs of the spider lurking in the binding of these skis? 🕷️ Found this surprise guest while cleaning out the shed in our new (old) #Akiya home in #Japan! Guess it had settled in for a long stay… 😅 #RetiringInJapan 🇯🇵 #JapanDIY 🔨

🔨 Found Gardening Tools in Our Akiya! Restoring and Reusing – DIY Japan. One person’s forgotten tools, another’s DIY treasure!. While clearing out our #akiya in #Shizuoka, I stumbled upon a collection of old gardening tools—left behind, forgotten, and slowly rusting away. A

🔨 A Close Call in the Garden – Learning My Limits – DIY Japan. A few days into working the land around our #akiya in #Shizuoka, I had a moment that stopped me in my tracks—literally. I was pulling up a stubborn root when it suddenly gave way, hurling me backward into a field of

🇯🇵 Retiring in Japan: Day 62 – The Weight of What’s Left Behind. Seventeen trips to the #citydump. Fifteen days of sorting through the remnants of a life once lived. That’s how long it took to clear out the belongings left behind in our #akiya in #ShizuokaCity—a home that once