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Sure, it looks cheap. It's cheap for a reason. Buying abandoned property in a remote place is often the most expensive way to find out why.
Japanese houses in particular are basically a consumable. They are designed for a very short lifetime compared to pretty much any other developed country.
The average wooden house there lasts 21 years.
Lol, I'll have to trust you on the source.
Lol, yeah, I was trying to find a source for the average home age, and an article in English cited this as the official government statistics, which i thought would be more responsible to cite, even if I couldn't understand it. I did auto-translate it to double check, though.
I watched a video on this and while it does vary widely by prefecture one of the big reasons is their waste management/recycling rules.
Often, to demolish a house, theres usually a flat fee and its just bulldozed, put into a truck and dumped. To renovate, you have to dispose of every type of waste according to the class of that waste. Which is labour intensive and time consuming.
Japan is in the middle of a population crisis. These houses are empty because there's not enough people. They're desperate for people to immigrate.
They're an isolationist society... they're not looking for people to immigrate at all, they're trying to get their own citizens to have kids. They're also quite xenophobic and racist as well.
Japan is cool as hell, but people put way to much of their knowledge from animes... being a tourist is gonna give you a completely different perspective than actively living there would.