Akiya & Inaka is a resource and service for global citizens looking to stake their claim to a piece of rural Japan. The Japanese countryside has become a global myth of sorts. Frequently, news articles and blogs tell tales of free houses in Japan. Occasionally, a headline comes along ...
or “empty houses”) that constantly gets thrown around—which I can’t verify. Akiya & Inaka started when all the articles first started appearing online about free houses in Japan