City planning tax (都市計画税) – 0.3% of purchase price.
Fixed asset tax (固定資産税) – 1.4% of purchase price. Property acquisition tax (不動産取得税) – 3% of purchase price. Registration tax (登録免許税) – 2% of estimated value. From most expensive to least expensive, they are: When buying any existing house and land in Japan, there are five different taxes to be paid. The other thing to be aware of with free or very cheap houses are the taxes that you have to pay in addition to the purchase price. The preference for those is young families. One condition could be that you agree to live in the town for a certain number of years before you obtain the title to your house. But in both cases they come with strict conditions attached. Recently some municipalities have started to get more creative with their approaches to dealing with akiya, even offering to help cover some of the extra costs involved, and a small number of municipalities in rural areas do offer free houses. The kitchens in particular can most generously be described as rudimentary. 
An examination of the floor plans shows that most rooms (as you would expect with old Japanese houses) conform to the 4 1/2 to 6 tatami mat standard, usually with one larger room of 8 to 10 mats. Looking for a nine-bedroom house? They got you covered. For example, most of the houses on the akiya bank for Usuki City in Oita Prefecture in Kyushu are enormous compared to modern Japanese homes. With the “population problem”, as it is referred to within Japan, the number of vacant homes is set to explode with projections of a fall of Japan’s population from the current 126 million to 88 million by 2065.Īkiya are often quite large. Ahh… the countryside. | Photo by /heloviĪccording to an article on Japanese real estate information site Lifull Homes, in 2013 there were an estimated 7.57 million akiya, making up 13.1% of Japan’s total housing stock.
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