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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.
Solid dot = bank publishes the address. Dashed circle = district only — we show locations at the precision the bank does, nothing finer. ⌖ on a card flies here.
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.