Japan’s countryside offers a serene escape from the fast-paced city life. With its peaceful landscapes, traditional villages, ...

A property in the countryside of Japan is on the market ... The listing, posted on the Houses of Japan Instagram account, teases that the home is the price of a month-long trip to the popular ...

There are few countries as dedicated to embedding philosophies of beauty into all aspects of culture as Japan, where the influential ... the new Shishi-Iwa House complex is made up of three ...

Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses, which are more than two centuries old. These thatched-roof houses are built to endure heavy snowfall, making them architectural marvels. The ...

More than a century ago, visitors to the countryside of what was a largely agrarian Japan remarked upon what we remark upon now: Its small, elegantly proportioned, sparsely furnished homes.

The number of vacant houses in Japan has topped nine million. Government figures released on Tuesday show the number of empty houses, as of October 2023, was up by more than half a million since ...