Every entry below sits on a municipal akiya bank right now, verified on 2026-07-08. We translate the bank’s own facts and attach the original source — fields the bank doesn’t publish stay blank, because we don’t guess.
Kutchan, Rankoshi, Niki and Niseko share the joint Shiribeshi bank — currently just three active listings region-wide, none in Rankoshi or Niki. Otofuke runs its own two-house list with proper PDF cards; Furano's bank holds rentals only right now. Ski-belt property this cheap moves off-bank through agents.
Building inspection completed; seller vacates around September 2026.
Category-1 residential zone where minpaku (short-term rental) use is prohibited — a home, not an Airbnb play. Handled by NISEKO PROPERTY; posted July 2026.
'Some repairs required' per the town's PDF card.
1F living-DK, tatami and western rooms, bath; 2F tatami + western room with veranda. Propane, heating equipment included, no water heater. Category-1 low-rise zone. Broker: Takahashi-gumi.
'Some repairs required' despite its relative youth.
1F living, kitchen, tatami room, bath; 2F bedroom plus two western rooms. Water heater and heating included; the town's card notes it's a good spot for the Tokachigawa fireworks. Broker: Sumai Consulting.
Inspection completed — but the building itself is unregistered (mitouki).
About 205 tsubo of land. Registration must be sorted at purchase; the judicial scrivener earns their fee here. Via Niseko Tochi-Tatemono.
Inspection completed; the missing parking space matters more in Hokkaido than anywhere.
Floor plans for both storeys published on the bank page. Via Niseko Tochi-Tatemono.
Wallpaper renewal planned for August; viewings from September.
Deposit ¥60,000, no key money; guarantor company mandatory; ¥55,000 cleaning/FF-heater fee at move-out; air-conditioned, no pets. Agent: Hokkai Biken.
Immediate handover; separate bath and toilet, balcony, good sunlight.
The cheap foothold while house-hunting in the valley. Agent: Taft Co.
Iiyama has the deepest verifiable stock (~40 items) via the prefectural Rakuen Shinshu bank, with honest agent repair estimates on each card. Yamanouchi links to the same system; Otari's bank carries a single house. Omachi's bank page broke in the city's 2026 site rebuild — its listings come back when the city fixes the page.
Water-supply defects and the south 12-mat room's floor/tatami are fixed by the seller pre-handover.
Zinc-roofed kominka-style house with two adjoining residential lots (238 m²) negotiable, and a 13-hp gasoline snowblower included (needs repair — of course it does). Subsidy-eligible.
Sound bank listing; a household snowblower is included.
Comes with three parcels of farmland totalling 1,067 m² — buying them needs Agricultural Land Act Article 3 permission, the classic snow-country strings-attached deal.
The roof has its own snow-melting system and the street is a melt line — rare double.
Category-1 residential, semi-fire-prevention district. One attached 266 m² field (Agricultural Land Act permission required).
Build year unknown; hamlet association fee ¥13,000/year.
Marketed as a quiet green summer-retreat hamlet with low traffic; system kitchen, two-household suitable. Brokered via the village, fee applies.
No indoor bath: the communal Amagawa-no-yu is 20 m away — ¥180,000 to join, ¥2,500/month, plus association duties.
Wallpaper and IH kitchen renewed but the interior is worn; agent estimates ¥100,000–500,000 minimum servicing. A 12.9 m² basement has no stairs and accumulates damp. Community obligations include June grass-cutting. The most instructive leasehold in our index — read every line before falling for the price.
Town calls it relatively good for a bank property; farmland attached with a genuine-farming-plan requirement.
Agent's honest minimums: water heater from ¥300,000, bathroom from ¥2,500,000. Fixed-asset tax ¥31,800/year; outside landslide and flood zones. Agricultural Land Act permission takes 1–2 months.
Snow-load damage and building lean; the agent's full-renovation view runs to ¥20–30M. Priced accordingly.
One of the snowier hamlets of the town (typically 0.5–1 m standing, up to 2 m); the road is ploughed nightly but the site needs an owner's snowblower — none included, though the wood stove and firewood can transfer.
Tokamachi runs the best bank in our index — full utility data, VR viewings, farmland disclosures. Myoko publishes per-property PDF sheets; Murakami reserves new listings for non-resident registrants for the first three months. Yuzawa-machi currently shows zero for-sale houses.
Natural snow-shedding roof — no roof clearing. Known leak at the bathroom shower; garage unregistered.
Marketed as a quiet retreat away from the town centre, 3.5 km from the Nasteview Yunoyama onsen. VR viewing available — Tokamachi's bank is the most modern in our index.
Natural snow-shedding roof (veranda and garage still need clearing); 108 m² of farmland attached.
Elevated ground floor built for four-metre winters — usable as storage for large tools; 10-mat tatami rooms on the 2nd and 3rd levels; faces rice paddies by the hamlet's skunk-cabbage park. VR viewing available.
The bank photo is captioned 商談中 — under negotiation. Sold as-is; washbasin leak noted.
Snow-load-resistant roof rated to three metres of standing snow; the 3F warehouse could convert to a second household. Former shopfront on the ground floor, 1.1 km from the MonET museum.
Half the roof is melting-type; the other half needs clearing.
Fields of 84 m² and 1,543 m² included — a genuine smallholding starter. VR viewing available.
Wood/steel frame with doma and engawa; only recently vacated.
The bank's PDF sheet shows tatami rooms, an earthen-floor doma and verandas across three storeys — unusual volume for the price. Sale only.
Self-shedding snow roof — fallen snow can simply be left where it lands.
Vacant since 2009, but the owner has aired and cleaned it every month or two — the difference between a sixteen-year vacancy and a ruin. Price cut in 2026.
Roof and part of the interior repaired in 2025; some surveyed termite damage to flooring.
Keyaki (zelkova) throughout — pillars, beams, floorboards. Barn and storehouse included; vegetable garden possible. The city explicitly asks for a buyer who can manage the property in winter.
Web price and PDF card disagree (¥1.2M vs ¥1.0M) — confirm with the bank. Viewings reserved for non-resident registrants until 14 Sep 2026.
Lightweight-steel construction with plated roof; seller conducts a boundary survey before handover. Neighbourhood fee about ¥9,600/year.
Some repair likely; unregistered portions registered and boundaries surveyed at the seller's expense.
Cement-tile roof, spacious open entrance hall; furniture disposed of by the seller (or given to the buyer on request). Hamlet fee about ¥18,000/year in a sunny twelve-household community.
Yamagata City's bank showed 19 active listings (90 already contracted) at last check, with PDF cards and named realtors. Yonezawa lists ~35 mostly very cheap houses the city itself flags as hard to sell — with unusually frank defect disclosure. Tsuruoka's public stock is thin.
Minor repairs at the occupant's expense; seismic diagnosis not done.
Urbanization-control area. Garden, storage shed and vegetable-garden space marked on the card. Agent RoomruBe (email contact preferred).
Sale conditional on taking 13 additional forest/farmland parcels (Farmland Act Art. 3 at buyer's cost); sold as-is with contents.
Includes an unregistered 39.66 m² thatched outbuilding; boundary demarcation and defect liability waived. Card marks 'no repairs needed'; kerosene bath, garden, vegetable garden and snow-dump space.
Major repairs required at the buyer's expense; site is in a 0.5–3 m flood-inundation assumption zone.
1F: 8-mat kitchen plus 8/6/6 tatami rooms; 2F: western 5 + tatami 6. Prefectural central hospital 1.3 km. Agent Nissin Co.
NOT rebuildable (再建築不可); minor repairs at occupant's expense; seismic diagnosis not done.
Elementary school 100 m, hospital 300 m, nursery 200 m — location is the whole pitch. City-gas kitchen. Agent First Kosan.
The city lists specific defects: ceiling stain, one cracked sash pane, soft kitchen floor, a leaking outdoor tap shut at the stopcock.
Within the Daizaka ruins buried-cultural-property zone — excavation requires Board of Education procedures. An unregistered storehouse and a small shrine (spirit ritually removed) stand on site; all six boundary markers confirmed.
Only part of the building currently usable; minor repairs at buyer's expense.
Includes a share of common land; owner removes household items before handover. Kerosene bath, gas kitchen.
North roof damage needs repair; flood-assumption zone under 0.5 m.
Seller removes remaining items before handover. Kerosene bath, gas kitchen; no zoning designation.
Sold as-is with contents; building and equipment aged; boiler condition unknown; boundaries unmarked.
Outside the city-planning area entirely; a registered storehouse stands on site. Survey at buyer's cost.
Sold via the Tohoku Local Finance Bureau; application window 13 Jul – 16 Oct 2026.
Category-2 mid/high-rise residential zone, BCR 60% / FAR 200%. General brokerage by licensed agents accepted; inquiries to the Yamagata Finance Office.
Same Finance Bureau 'buy-now' program; applications 13 Jul – 16 Oct 2026.
Commercial zone, BCR 80% / FAR 400% — the only entry in our index you could build a small hotel on.
Senboku runs per-district pages with PDF cards — three live citywide, and registration with the city is required for viewings. Yokote and Yuzawa-shi run browsable At Home-powered bank sites with genuinely cheap stock.
Under repair as of May 2026; the newest house in our index.
Wood with galvanized-steel roof; IH kitchen, electric water heater, floor heating. 1F: LDK, bath, 6-mat tatami room; 2F: 15- and 13.5-mat western rooms plus attic storage. Unregistered garage. Broker: Haga Home.
Card marks 'no repairs needed' — remarkable for a compound this age.
Dwelling of 270 m² plus storehouses and garage on the ground level, 80 m² above; sold as a set with the adjoining 2,012 m² field. LP gas, kerosene bath, garden. Broker: Terasawa Komuten.
Major repairs at the buyer's expense; the bank also suggests demolition for land reuse.
1F 114 m² + 2F 31 m²; LP gas, kerosene bath, storehouse and garden. No brokering agent listed — this one is negotiated with the town in the room.
Listed March 2026; handover negotiable; no condition detail published.
Two-storey wood construction. Inquiries via Handa Komuten.
Fully serviced — separate bath/toilet, propane; handover negotiable.
Listed March 2026 via Handa Komuten.
'Some repairs needed, at occupant's expense.'
Separate bath/toilet, propane. Agent Ohyo Fudosan; listed May 2025.
The only Akita listing that states its land rights outright.
Residential land, BCR 70% / FAR 200%; the bank pitches it as an easy place to live, near the Ogachi roadside station and the IC. LP gas. Listed June 2026.
Remaining household items to be disposed of; plumbing-area renovation referenced.
The land is five parcels including three of paddy — the Farmland Act appears again. LP gas. Listed April 2026.
Handover after furniture removal; well water and pump-out — budget accordingly.
No zoning designation at all; indoor laundry space; the bank sells it on paddy scenery and mountain views. Listed September 2023 — the longest-listed entry in our index.
Takayama (51 listings) and Hida City (43) both have deep, actively updated banks. Gero publishes live status flags and unusually candid city comments per property. One Takayama entry was delisted during our last check — stock here moves.
Lightweight steel construction — unusual in the timber-proud Hida region.
Category-2 mid/high-rise zone; the city notes the Hida-Takayama relocation support menu applies. Handover negotiable; broker via Rabbynet.
Tagged 'life surrounded by nature'; the sanitation line explains the price.
BCR 60% / FAR 200%; handover negotiable; broker via the Hatomark site.
A 604 m² field lies within the grounds — agricultural-committee permission required.
One hundred and three years old and the largest floor area in our index. Private garden, indoor laundry. Broker: Shouwagumi, Furukawa.
The bank card explicitly states repairs are not required (補修要否：不要).
Private garden, indoor laundry, motorbike and bicycle space. Broker: Shouwagumi.
Some repairs needed at the occupant's expense; annual fixed-asset tax about ¥10,600.
The listing itself notes the many rooms suit minpaku (guesthouse) conversion — 200 m from the Kamioka branch office. Broker: Shin-ei Jisho.
Landslide warning zone; the city says the kitchen 'would be best renovated'.
The city's own comment: no surplus land, just the house and its lot, so upkeep is easy; full of Showa-retro character. The closest part of Gero to Nakatsugawa.
Landslide warning zone; kitchen-sink grime and wallpaper need partial repair.
The city's comment: right-sized for singles or couples relocating for work, in a quiet residential pocket by municipal housing — not one for the nature-and-garden crowd.
Listings are re-verified every Saturday; between checks a bank can remove an entry without notice, and several banks require buyer registration before viewings. Prices shown are the banks’ own; agent fees, taxes and renovation come on top — the buyer’s guide walks through the whole cost stack.