Japanese Abandoned House into Traditional Hotel | Story
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2020
- We’ll visit an abandoned house turned into a Ryokan, Japanese Traditional Inn. This is on Sado Island, Niigata (Aikawa Town) MAP: goo.gl/maps/uZCNhj3arqqftdpMA
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If we all donate $5, we can be the operators of an Only in Japan themed hotel.
Hi! Hana here ;) Here’s what you’ll see in this episode:
*TABLE of CONTENTS*
3:03 - Intro
4:28 - How YOU can operate an akiya!
5:40 - Inside look
7:44 - Restroom
8:13 - RETRO karaoke machine
8:39 - Shower and bath
10:29 - Bar
12:05 - Lounge
15:19 - Irori fireplace
16:20 - Kitchen
19:25 - First floor room
21:48 - Exploring the guest rooms on the 2nd floor
26:02 - Best way to run the akiya
27:25 - RETRO vending machine
29:20 - Get to know your community
30:44 - Last round of rooms
32:08 - How much time would it take to renovate?
36:52 - Final thoughts and comments
Have watched all of Jaya’s videos and they’ve been very inspiring to me....on his Ibaraki house
Wow, if I was younger it’s certainly something I would consider doing. I would do it very traditional, like a Tea room and have Geishas come and entertain.
Thanks John
I am in the hotel business. A hotel needs guests Where is the nearest hotel ? How is it doing? It is very hard to create your own demand. A hotel must be built in response to demand. By the looks of the town. There is a good reason that it is abandoned
Yes the greatest opportunity is to create demand! This island could be transformed into one big island beach and entertainment park. But the 50k residents has to decide if they want to change the their way of life... and reenergize this island...
@@otakumanga5677 I suspect one reason the town is so behind that old ryokan being fixed up has a lot to do *with* reenergiing that part of town, ....bringing in customers for other businesses around, etc. COuld be a chicken and egg thing though.
OllamhDrab that is true. I have seen that happen too. No matter how cool hotels are I rarely see them become the focus of the vacation
Otaku Manga when I saw that big room in the middle I though. Cool it could be a martial arts studio or yoga studio. The rooms could be sold on Airbnb for those coming to the location. The restaurant could focus on healthy eats. Market to martial arts clubs or yoga groups around the world. Just a thought. Make the rooms a side business.
@@Chrisb8s Maybe, ...I suppose an advantage of the size there is that you could have a whole bunch of people simultaneously fix the place up and colonize it, and still have room for whatever paying enterprises they could perform or attract, counting on a pretty cheap cost of living, (one hopes) and then see what might develop from there. Could morph into a hotel or a bunch of artisans or seminar studios or some combination of all of them.
That's the best looking abandoned house/building I've ever seen. Where else but Japan?
Sometimes all it takes is for that first person to 'jump into the pool' to start revitalizing an area and bring it back to life! I hope that happens! Love both of your channels and hope to see more!
This is one of the best stream video john with his comments about the house are hilarious 😂😂🤣 so funny
Bed & Breakfast! I wouldn’t rid much of anything. Really like the furniture. The tree wall the best! Oh definitely the squat toilets need changing. Bamboo floors? Bamboo counter? What a dream for someone.
Thanks for the tour!!!!!
Great tour!
thanks for the room tour, interesting architecture
This is pretty cool to see. That place was quite a bit bigger than it looked from the outside. Really love the look of it.
Just amazing !
Awesome tour and information on Akita’s.
Whoever ends up buying the place will have a lot of work to do. The place looks pristine for having been abandoned for 5yrs. Too bad you couldn't get more time to explore a little more.
Matthew Allin I wanted another 15 minutes.
Thanks for sharing
I think the trick about it is *customers,* and what they might want. Given the remote location and all I could see like an artists' community/hostel with... a bar for fundraising or something like that. (I actually like a lot of the fittings and furnishings, even that weird carpet.) It'd really have to be about what the community needs and can support as a business. ) Project-wise, it's pretty big and who knows about structure and infrastructure, but scaling up and refurbishing or downsizing as the market can support could be viable with a group working on it and resources.
Also, honestly, I really like that town but ...I think that island would just be too confined for me personally, ...and I kind of guess by everyone just running late-model kei cars there that there'd be only so much work for a mechanic, there. Parts supply must be a pain, hence probably why it's mostly the same brand stuff there. It reminds me a lot of the Cape in the off-season, though, or what my sister says about Kawai or Nantucket. You'd have to know what you're getting into, and if you really want to be there, I figure, but it does look like a great little place if you don't mind isolation... and provided there's an 'on' season for income.
.... As an artists' retreat/colony it would be great. Lovely large tables for large sheets of paper!!!!!! Or for writers/novelists, nicely remote and quiet. One could be running various art courses, or with sound-proofing even music events!!! Some of the objects like the retro fan, rattan/bamboo armchair and vending machines should be kept, but not too many or it would become kitsch. Frame some of that blue carpet and put on wall as psychedelic artifact. In the largish room, one could hold life-drawing classes. Lots of artistc possibilities but doubtful as to solely running it as a ryokan......... Thanks fot showing us around. Very interesting. If it were in OGASAWARA, I'd do my utmost to get involved!!!!!!!
@@wewerecamerashy5190 Hee, well, I figure there's so much to do there that you'd have to pick your battles about what your priorities are, a change in decor or ...fixing the broken and breaking-down stuff, getting rooms habitable, etc. A kinda-retro looking bar, for instance, might even be familiar enough to the locals that they'd help promote the place or at least be customers, maybe.
You crack me up!!!😊
Maybe a Bed & Breakfast for people that want to get away for a weekend
This was quite interesting and fun.
It would help a lot if the old furniture and broken fittings were first removed.....or placed in warehouse ready for disposal if the owner did not want them. The cost of disposal in Japan (for so much stuff) especially on an island may cost more than the renovations (maybe except for fixing all the water damage).
yey love your vids. :)
Pretty nice abandoned Hotel, a lot of potentials! If have a team of workers, definitely will turn this place into a wonderful place AGAIN! Location in remote Island could be a problem though. Haha...become a vocational resort?! : ~) Anyway, it was an interesting house tour, not too scary! Thanks.
Hi John thank you for showing the ruyokon. I think a house would be more than enough work for me to renovate :) Sado looks like an interesting place to visit, specially with the gold mine
Remember this is an island!
I agree....and its facing Korea & China....so not much view as compared to eastern side of Japan, but kinda protected from direct typhoons from the pacific. I was looking at a few houses south of Yokohama and also near Ibaraki, but the typhoon in late 2019 made me hesitated and re-considered. But looking at the island, staying there maybe (summer home)....but hotel ....hmmm ....maybe not...
This would be a great communal living for seniors!
I want that retro vending machine! Neat
Lived in japan since 2013 so about 7 years and I been in a new of abandon houses with friends
I would renovate it as a ryokan, turn it into a community centre (with rooms for classes or meetings), or turn it into a karaoke box.
Ang ganda talaga ng Japan. Yung mga asphalts nila sa mga kalsada ang perfect.
It's sad seeing small towns like this and it's history disappear. The house if it had a better location could've been a nice dorm maybe even a cafe/ small business rental space. Maybe it could even be restored as a small theme park/ museum of the area's history where they could sell the local crafts and ware?
Oh wow this abandoned ryokan has some serious Showa-era vibes, only thing missing are the beer and tobacco posters. I bet those bottles of whisky on the table dates back to the 80's too.
..... ha ha, wasn't that yellow haizara great!!......
I like the picture on the bar.
Traditional paulownia dance in Japan is a luxury item. The paulownia chest is made of very light material and breathes all year round. Tatami has soundproofing and heat insulation effects.
Interesting place. I think restaurant may or may not work.
Guest house won’t work either because there was already one failed guest house. I think it would be better to have super market there. Nice streaming. ✌️
Carlos Ghosn could have used those speaker cabinets behind the bar🤣
I would refurbish this property with both traditional and modern room options. Guests could experience a stay in a tatami room with squat toilet or a modern room with washlet. I dream of retiring in Japan doing something like this.
Nice tour thanks. Not sure if I would buy something like that, my friend bought house on outskirts of Matsue so I would go for something like that probably.
Thanks John can hear Jaya this time
Thanks 🙏 tried hard to make it better
If only I was not so poor I would buy the place.
I could however recreate the place if I had more photos and video of it.
You and rambalac are my go-to channels when im in the mood for watching adventure JP vlogs, love it.
A shout out to Rambalac!!! That dude puts in the work and his channel is great.
OMG Jaya opened the refrigerators!! 🤯 In the house 🏡 flipping programmes their rule is don't open them because if there was any food 🍲 or drink left in them it would stink!! Levi 😊 🐀
Dude i wanna live there alone god...great place
Jazz live house, event space with a really huge Yamaha C7 grand piano.
Actually this is what I want to do in the next few years....be a owner operator in a place like this...ryokan or guest house/hostel/bar event space art gallery....as you said the possibilities are really endless.
But maybe in Atami or somewhere like Enoshima or elsewhere along the Shonan coast.....somewhere not quite as remote and underpopulated as Sado Island.
This whole island can be a retirement home/resort.....🏝🏯🏖
I would make it a hotel and turn the bar into a ramen bar, that room with the chairs would be a massage room. I would change the rug for dark oakwood floors and remodel the heck out of the bathrooms maybe make it look like theres stones on the ground and in the ramen section o would be playing anime! Lll3
If I took it on I would just have downstairs for a Izakaya and serve seasonal dishes and I would turn upstairs into an art residency program 🎨🍺😊
If it was a hospital, it may have had a morgue at one point in time ....................hmmmmm
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Why 1meter from the main road? Can one buy a house more in the back alleys, or on the slope of that hill , with a garden?
Looks like a lot of water damage from the roof and some of the windows. :( I think there is a lot of water damage lurking behind those walls and under the floors.
Wish I had the money to buy this place
I have some questions, I already have a Japanese Visa and may be interested in this. I am wondering how to get in touch with you about this. Thank you
I'd be willing to help here and there as my family lives local near Maze Beach 👍
Can make the vending machine into a little closet dustpan broom vacuum
So if you buy/operate one, can you demolish any area of the building? Are there rules pertaining to what you should retain/renovate?
I think that area has a lot of potential. Are they looking at making it into a sort of retreat community? Like a place where stressed out folks from the city could find solace even for just a weekend, or a wellness center/retreat or even a detox weekend activity of sorts. There can be a package deal. I think a certain 'branding' of the area is needed as early as possible because it does take time to come into fruition. Do they want it to be geared toward tourists or locals?
Is that Laserdisc machine for sale? How much? Would they ship to the U.S? Just curious 😄
Wis it still available? I want it!
10:16 wow, I see something strange, like there is a movement of white creatures behind that traditional door, you can see through the hole or is it just an optical reflection of light? It happened when you said zombie afterwards
How tall is Jaya? or he is like 2 meters tall or those doors are pretty short
Backpackers hostel if I was doing it.
Nice tour, but how much would it cost tho?
Shinji Ikari yes I’m really curious about the ¥ price
So many Ideas and not enough Money😭😭😭😭🥺
I would love to renovate and open a Bed and Breakfast Hotel.
You can do a Starbucks kaffee.👍🤗
That could become a Base for DIY workstation. Where anyone can use rental tools. As hotel, for quest-workers, perfekt. Johny San, what i missed from this videos you upload there is no advice about Onsen?? Even cold water springs. It seems like the greeck island Rodos, no water, worster than Desert. Is there a possibility of giving tourists the japanese Flair, or somekind of Alkatraz feeling?
I can only dream...
That would take a lot of money to fix up, I would not do it even if i had the money. Hard to see how this ryokan could be profitable.
It appears that the ceilings are too low.
Spend the night there and try record supernatural phenomena.
whats the tax on this and procedures to get this?
Please tell me how to connect with this owner/opportunity. How do I contact you?
Hi John I've been watching your videos and now I'm a member of your first order first come I'm still trying to get see if you could make it I'm very interested in these abandoned house especially where you're at in the two-year-old video on how to obtain one of these out but I never see you make a video on how a foreigner guy Gene from the United States can get in contact with these people in this Ikea abandoned houses Banks all you ever do is just talk about what you have what they are how do you know they're not over 3 how much work they are but you never step-by-step how a purse in like myself can obtain one of these
i would renovate it into a Cuban Theme fun barr, people go to play games drinks and dance kinda lik Dave & Busters kind of thing
the hospital part is kind of scary...
it's haunted. go ask the locals.
佐渡温泉 おぎの湯. The only onsen tha i Found. Some rivers and so. For a hotel i'd need a Bus to send the Guests to Onsen and Back. And its Sado Shima. Not Sadoka shima. Sorry for that.
I think there is a lot of possibilities u can do to that building. The bar u can make it into a big living room. The cielings are too low. Big amount of 💰 to renovate it.
Jaya is married to a Japanese who's family has helped him out. For a foreigner to just arrive and expect to purchase and renovate a place like this without knowing the location, laws, visa regulations, the language, the risks or the history, well I wouldn't even consider it. And I lived in Japan for 10 years. If you are married to Japanese national and you are there for the long haul, maybe a home in the country that needs a little work might be tempting. But John and Ruth, bless them, are leading us on the believe that owning this could be a viable business. And if this place were in Vancouver bc, I would think of living in the structure. I am all about a modernist minimalist Japaonais aesthetic. But it aint. And this location is so remote that it was used as a prison , an island in the middle of the ocean, like where would you even find an English speaking dentist?
modtomodern that’s not what I said - I said it’s a blank slate and available for anything. Get creative! If research is that a hotel won’t work, perhaps the building which was once a hospital can have a totally different purpose or even be torn down and a new building put up for a special purpose.
Sfizy Veg ?? I don’t know if this is a joke or you trying to insult me 😂 obviously a joke.
@@onlyinjapanGO What John, you aren't a millionaire presenter? That's ok we will still be your entourage. Love these uploads.
You should have hired a car and went around Sado Island looking on Google maps the island has a lot of villages and towns that might have abandon houses
I was focusing on Aikawa this time. That’s a good idea, I’m sure to be back on Sado soon.
What is the company name of the women? i always understand Germany International? o
Five bucks to do a livestream at night from that closet upstairs! 😁 💴 I guess there are lots of possibilities for what you could do with the place. Would need a good network of people set up to tackle a project that big. The strict building and fire codes could put limits on what someone may have planned. Thanks for the tour. 👍
lol... I agree.... still don't understand how anyone currently not living in Japan could do it. Residency is so hard to get even for people currently living their with a work visa & don't think you'd want to invest in property no matter how cheap unless you're guaranteed you can live there even if you lose your job. So that probably means a Japanese spouse & even then if that marriage goes south ..... So many questions....! But, from this stream I want to know about Japanese 2nd hand stores, junk or antique, I want one of those blue retro fans.... LOL!
@@MartyDittmar Lol yes John could put that light underneath his chin for a scary look! Yeah I liked that fan. Wonder what it would be like being a picker in Japan, lots of historical items that's for sure! I guess Ruth was right, that you wouldn't buy it but manage it instead. Sounds like Jaya had a good network through his mother in law. It raised more questions than answers but that is a good thing. Lol
@@jason_from_canada I agree, definitely more q's than asnwers! LOL... A picker would be awesome... I know Japan has a bad habit of just destroying everything. A large part of the population want everything new so old stuff is just discarded, but surely some of it would be rescued from the dump. On the other hand there are so many oldies in Japan that would be hanging onto old gems, everything from lamps to furniture to electronics... Picking in your kei-truck traveling the countryside.... must. learn. japanese. ! :D
@@MartyDittmar Yes our new show on NHK, Marty and Jay Pick Japan! LOL 🇯🇵📹📺🎙🏮😜
Seems to be a little on youtube searching "japanese pickers"... I know what I'm wasting tonight doing... lol
This has been very inspirational my wife wants to renovate one of these houses, but can an Australian do it? Roger D & Alice H
Anyone with $ is welcome to buy in Japan. They have no law against it. :)
With enough money anything s posible
More important question is
why did the biz FAIL in the first place.
How many tourists visit such SECLUDED place to make Hotel success?
To make it atractive there should be complete bathroom in each room imo
Onsen would be good too
The glasses guy who came with him is australian and currently renovating an abandoned house. Search him up his channel is Tokyo Llama
Don't forget to buy earthquake insurance.
modtomodern earthquake insurance is relatively cheap in Japan...as everyone has some form of it
Make it into a private school for kids with special needs. Or make it into a restaurant bar and grill
what if There is going to be a Ghost Abandoned house
Great idea but way too cold and nothing to offer customers to do during the winter. imho
My dear friend have you seen at least 7 people in the town while you touring ???
If no one lives there or very few why would one make this investment?
Open Casinos in the island
@UCDsvL48jluG3tvlyurB4K3gThanks for the reply John. Can non- Japanese now own property outright? That is without a Japanese spouse or family? What type of visa would that require?
There are places owned by non-Japanese so yes, it’s possible to own land and not be Japanese. Enterprises are often partnerships with Japanese companies that decreases risk but also has the benefits of an established infrastructure which can also get you a proper work visa. You shouldn’t work here without one. There isn’t a lot set up to help foreigners with Akiya but by mid-2020, there will be more resources in English and by the end of the year, I expect to see more people selling the land. It can’t just sit there doing nothing for all plots of land. There are too many! Each community can create their own way to deal with it as well. Some Communities are more welcoming than others which is why anyone thinking about this shops visit the community before deciding to move. That is a huge consideration, an outsider moving into a new community. Around urban areas, it’s usually okay and rural areas may be more accommodating - it’s an issue even for Japanese moving into a new area too so it’s not just a non-Japanese thing. To own land, being a permeant resident helps a lot or the spouse of a national - of course! But there are management companies that can get around requirements like that so that can just do something with the house.
I think the level of desperate-ness will increase over the next few years as the last generation leaves behind more homes without anyone to take over. I think these episodes are at the front of a big wave coming actually. I’ll keep you up to date with this and ask more questions for you. Feel free to write any Followup,
What is Ruth’s company name?
SHAH JAFFAR™ Jarmen International
@16:12 You might not be able to trash that weird thing. 御神体 object of worship
Maybe an Internet Cafe
Well just turn it into your own private home
The only problem is that,u need to spend alot of money for the build,the main problem is that it's kind of far place to spend money on
THERE WAS A GHOST 👻 TEXTING ON HIS PHONE 📱 AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS!!!! 😱 🤯 🐀
Anyone watched The Grudge?!?! 😱 🐀
No doctor!!
How much in USD$?
It’s negotiable! Not much but the fox up will be hard. This is one of 50 properties in the area we walked around during the last 48 hours! And there are hundreds more on the island!
@@onlyinjapanGO Percentage wise, just how bad is it on the island there right now, and does it show any slow-down or turn-around coming in the near future? Its really distressing to see so many fine towns and villages like this seemingly sliding toward oblivion like this. :-(
Would a conversion to a Love Hotel be totally out of the question? 😂😂😂
Since people have their own houses which are quite large and there’s not a big population and much of it is over 50, I’d say it would not stay in business long 😂
Looks like a nice place to retire but need to know population data, to know what business can be made there.
I can hear you now!