Inside a Mansion in Japan’s RICHEST Neighborhood | Japanese House Tour 

Yes, the window is an octagon, I know...

As a Japanese living in Yokohoma, it makes me happy to know that so many people from abroad are interested in this video. 😊😊 Don't forget to include the bay area when you visit Japan.

The challenge for the next owner is to refresh without completely eliminating all of the handcrafted aspects to it. Especially the floors.

While the house is extremely dated, I appreciate the charm that it gives and the care the owners have given it. Reminds me of my childhood home in Toronto, where the house was built around the 1970s as well with its wood floorings. And the garden is absolutely gorgeous, I can only imagine it being used for garden parties or something of the sort. Overall, a fantastic find! Appreciate the work you do!

As a Canadian, I would still have taken off my shoes, because that's what we always do. Also, I have that same parquet flooring in my home as well. I find that floor pattern very warm, homey and relaxing. Thanks for showing this.

As a non Japanese Florida man, we take our shoes off when we come inside. I grew up doing it, didn't even know it was also a Japanese thing till I was 10.

I feel like your house presentation style has gotten so good and comes across really well in this video, great job!

This is probably the closest feeling of 'yea I could live there forever' I've experienced while looking at a property. The price isn't even that bad (cries in canadian) for that same amount you can get much smaller/crappier places here. I think my fav part is how the wood floors in the bedrooms are identical to the wood floors in my apartment LOL so it feels very familiar. The privacy/size of the garden is my favourite!! BTW when you mentioned that you rarely see grass lawns, I thought of the youtuber Tokyo Llama! He's Japanese/Australian and has renovated a classic Japanese house with modern/western touches (has a fabled grass lawn!) Idk if you take suggestions, but I would love to see you interview him & look at his property for a video. He's done a STUNNING job and I like how it shows that anyone can do anything with enough passion and the will to do it. It's a little more relatable for average viewers rather than looking at super expensive places. (I do enjoy these videos when it comes to maladaptive daydreaming LOL)

I like how Alex will always be so enthusiastic abt every property he shows and he sells them very well....to his bellow 1000 dollars/month salary watchers

This house has a very summer house/vacation house type feeling where I’m from (Denmark). Except it’s well, gigantic. But everything else.

Such a beautiful house and a great location too. Very nice.

I never get tired of seeing these beautiful homes! I can't believe they found the grandson of the original woodworker who did the floors! The real selling point to me is the garden.

$3.2M seems very reasonable for this place. Here in Canberra (Capital City of Australia) you can get similar properties (similar size house and land from 1920 eras). Most are also in very nice areas of the city and would be well over the asking price of this place! Many of them are leased out to other countries to use as Embassies, or residences for Ambassadors and their families.

CHRIS introduced me to your channel. Love the properties that you showcase :)

What I love about this house is how every room has its own "flavor". So many modern houses every room feels the same, just bland, rectangular rooms that just feel so sterile and devoid of uniqueness. I would adore this house if I lived in Japan.

Honestly that's a fantastic price for the size, style, and location. Feels like New England but in Japan, crazy.

That wine cellar looks like a dungeon.

Very very cool video!!! It’s so uncanny that you posted this! My husband and I just got home from a 2 week stay in Tokyo yesterday, and we also stayed in Yokohama for 5 days. It was our first time in Yokohama and we loved it! It felt like such a water-oriented city (I don’t know best to say it). The breeze coming off the water at night was so nice! We loved doing a late night walk to get ramen or get snacks from Lawson with that amazing breeze. We’re really excited about seriously looking for a vacation home in Japan soon (I think we will do a short term rental first, to test run how working will be with the time difference between Japan and Tennessee lol). We assume it will be in Tokyo, but we want to consider other areas. We have never heard of this area! I’m sure there’s so many places that would be so nice to live in that we don’t know about! During our trip we kept walking around and saying to each other “I can’t wait to have a place here. We’ll have to hire Alex to help us!” Haha ☺️

Having studied at YNU and spending a lot of time in Motomachi. I really appreciated this. It was my favourite area. At that price it’s tempting to buy.

As a non-japanese scandinavian person it feels so wrong not taking off your shoes when going inside. Nice house!

I’d keep the older wood floor but I’d be doing a LOT of remodeling and updating.

Feels like a time capsule, absolutely everything is from the 70s and not changed! I can't believe they lived there so long and didn't even change like the wardrobe door or something 😆. Love the house though but absolutely everything needs redecorating and redesigning except the floors. If I had the money it would be such an exciting project and that garden is absolutely phenomenal. Would love to see a recap in some years time if that would ever be possible!

Very 70's decor with the wood panelling and certainly appears tired in places. It looks like a set from Man In The High Castle. Once refurbished and modernised, it'll easily add 50% value to it. Gorgeous property and grounds. Made a great change from the usual Tokyo setting.

Absolutely crazy floors in this house. In a good way. It's unbelievable. Not only the part he told a story about, but the entrance hall and dining hall especially, and the master bedroom as well. It'd be many, many thousands of dollars anywhere to have it installed. Wouldn't be surprised to have a 100.000+ dollar price thrown at me, if I were to ask for it.

This is really a mixture of really 1970's paneling, 90's kitchen design with the light wood, the openness of a back yard. It is a good mixture of everything.

The flooring in the Master and 4th bedroom looks like regular “parquetry” found in most Quebec homes built in the ‘70s 😉 Inexpensive alternative to hardwood……Would LOVE to see how this wonderful home will be renovated/updated by the new owner

A lawn? In Japan? MADNESS!

The Annex is definitely my favorite. If I were a teen on summer vacation, I would spend my time reading books, doing homework, and playing games there. Enjoying the breezing wind while spending the day lazily

welcome back hope you and your family are well, keep up the good work.

Stunning. Thank you for the tour, Alex.

Absolutely love this house; working in real estate throughout SLO and LA County, California this house gets you a lot of bang for the buck...especially for that location! People often overlook good bones and sweat equity. It has beautiful craftsmanship.

I love all of the use of natural wood tones in Japanese architecture/interior design. Something about it is so cozy. One day I hope I can live in a house as pretty as this one (although maybe smaller for maintenance/utility reasons).

I want this house so much. I've already decided to use the annex as my hobby room 😂

7:17 Honestly, this is such a nice hallway. There is something cozy about the lighting, the wood reflecting it, the plush carpet and the creme curtains. It is giving Japanese overnight train and vintage cruise ship hallway and such a contrast from the usually wider, brighter and more decorated hallways seen nowadays. 11:45 Also the upper level of the garden and the pieces right outside the house, although painted black for strange reasons (instead of Swedish red, sky blue, yellow or wood), looks pleasant and hygge. I think it's because there are bushes, small trees and flowers in narrow distance to the house giving shade and a direct connection to nature instead of empty, open spaces. I wish the garden (12:20) was more than just a squared grass area with a swing. Perhaps a little pond, fountain, some stones, flower pots, bushes or a big tree in the middle with a wooden bench could be a nice addition.

Absolutely love this place! Also, I must be a bit jaded with Lexington (Kentucky) housing costs because $3.2 million sounds like a steal. 😳😢

Oooooo, I was looking forward to this video! I caught that little livestream you did while you were there!

your finally back!!!! let's gooo

Interesting video as always. Thanks for sharing.

Not a single high tech JPN toilet in sight! I bought a house in JPN, but couldn’t afford to buy enough land to include a lawn, so I put a real one on my flat roof. The house maker, with roughly 30yrs experience in sales said I was one of three homeowners that he sold a house with a roof lawn. Great for bbqs and star gazing

Just wanted to say that I love your videos and also that wine cellar is terrifying.

Love it so much, I would not even update it. Renovations are over-rated. Thanks for showing us this treasure

Definitely needs some updating. I'd probably try to emulate the 1920s as much as possible, but with a few touches from the 2020s.

If I'm a millionaire, I'll just buy a house in Japan and spend all day playing games and visiting arcades. I love JAPAN so much.

Excellent video & channel. Please keep up the good work.

Yamate! I remember the livestream here :) thanks for the edited video!

Much to like. Much to be updated, but it seems well kept. The lawn is spectacular.

I love how the Japanese utilize wood paneling. This place is amazing.

i love how the hallway on the second floor resembles the hallway of a ship

Great video, Alex! The closest I’ll ever get to wealthy housing. Your insights are very informative 🙇‍♂️

Always intrigued how these houses looks like from the inside 😊 Thank you very much for making a video on this. I hope you can also do in one of the houses in One Hundred Hills Asumigaoka in Chiba 😊😊

Super interesting. Thank you!

Love this video and your presentation style in general as usual B) I think the audio on this might be a little low however? Just in case pointing it out helps!

Love your videos. Greetings from Tampa Florida

Love all the woodworking in this home.

Stunning!

This area is GORGEOUS wow😮

Such a cool retro vibe 😊😊

Man, Yokohama may be my favorite japanese city. Highly underrated! And I love that house and neighborhood.

Lovely. Thank you.

Damn, I was expecting it to cost more. I'm from Orange County CA where 3.2 million for something that size is a steal. Especially with it being so close to the biggest city in the world.

thank you for the tour

Beautiful and yes, unusually spacious in Japan. You did a good job explaining. Thanks

Meiji /taisho architecture is the best imo. THAT GARDEN Is everything. The downstairs floors are nice but they touched it a bit too much in the 70s but I hope this house survives and doesn’t get demolished 😢

Wow what a house! I'm recently home from Japan, really wish I went to explore this area. Next time!

After living in Japan, I will NEVER wear shoes in a house. Wearing shoes in the house is like taking a dump in the living room.

Really reminds me of older homes in San Fransisco. Cool vibe.

Man love your videos, you show us many different places. The story about the installation of the floor was kinda unique, i dont think you can have the opportunity to know about those kind of cases that often. One last thing, i usually cant hear your videos, i need to put the volume at 100% and stop anything else that i'm running in the background to be able to listen, is just a comment of a techinal issue that you might have on the output of the audio when you finish your video. Good videos bro, keep it going.

I love your videos. You, showing us all the cool properties in good quality. But there is one thing that I find could be really nice: Maybe put another minute max into showing more of the neighbourhoods these properties are situated

What a wonderful video and a gorgeous house. Might have to add Yokohama to my dream Japan trip because it looks so fascinating 😁

As big as it is, the Kaminka I'm going to renovate will be on another level. They are missing some basic things, like incorporating nature inside the house, and also the simplicity of Tatami rooms, floor to roof glass windows. I grew in houses like this, the only thing interesting is that they brought a very regular western styled home to Japan. Thanks for the videos though. Would love to see more about renovated Akiya, along with cost breakdown and purpose, as Akiya are not only homes, can be property, business, schools, etc.

This home is very beautiful and unique, it is a lot more spacious than the average home in Japan, it was very interesting you talking about the history of this home, great video.

Wow. The wood work of the floor is amazing! Love the exposed beams on the ceiling too. It's even a big home in the standard of California! This is def a very interesting home

Beautiful copper fireplace, to die for. This house has a lot of design collectables.

just half an hour ago thinking when a new video is coming... lo and behold 👍

This house is incredible

Stunning back yard.

Best property ever on this channel

i love it whenever you show us a new property in Japan haha. maybe someday i could get one for myself ;v; more power to you :3

Yokohama, definitely visit again...that home was huge, definitely a baby making home, I'd clear out the lawn, probably turn it into a green-house, but keep the garden.

Amazing place, garden is wonderful, feels so peacefull. In Europe, there is no genkan, but we usually shoes change into slippers

The style of this house makes me think of those Art Deco / 1920 properties that you can find around Belgium in Brussels and Waterloo. The kitchen and bathrooms give 70s vibes indeed and could do with a revamp. Overall the house is lovely, charming, unique and definitely worth its price for Tokyo.

I just watched you in Abroad in japans tiny apartment vid, the last one you showed at a few Meters square is smaller then this house’s entrance at the front door

I love his style of outfits ❤ It's like 1950's meets modern

Me the Midwesterner from Wisconsin is screaming at my screen for you to take off your shoes. It's a thing we do here too.

Man what a beautiful property

I like the light features 😁

Were I a rich man, I'd be totally sold. I could see myself enjoying naps in the wine cellar. All of that wood flooring looks to be made from gem-level selected woods with curl everywhere. Thank you for sharing this place with us. I could see this place fetching a far higher price in certain places within the USA.

Love The 70's Bathroom, Quite Beautiful. I Personally Wouldn't Change The Kitchen Either Just Due To How Utilitarian It Is. Happy To Keep That Wonderful Chinese Drum As Well.

Although the house is quite dated, I can't help but admire the charm it exudes and the evident care the owners have put into it. It brings back memories of my childhood home in Toronto, also built around the 1970s, with its lovely wood floorings. And that garden - it's absolutely stunning! I can only imagine it being perfect for garden parties or similar events. All in all, this is a remarkable discovery! 🏡🌼🍃 Thanks for your excellent work! 👏😊

Nice property! I like the lot size!

You really could forget you're in Japan in this house. Looks like quite a few homes I've been in from the 70s.

I have soooo many ideas to renovate this place without ruining the charm

Lovely to see a house with a real garden! I have barely seen any Japanese houses with one. The price of the house feels worth it to me, but it might need a little renovation.

Although the inside is very outdated, it has lots of potential to be beautiful on the inside.

Loving the recent bump in the video quality. Keep it up! Also, is Alex related to Ben Shapiro?

Very cool

Growing up in country Australia we always took our shoes off before stepping side the house …no sense in tracking mud, dirt and cow plops into it. It’s a habit my brother and I kept even when I moved to the city…it just makes sense.

Literally, when you went into the master bathroom, I thought 1970's vibe before you mentioned it. I am showing my age now! I am not ever that old! 😂😂😂

Will this house survive and be renovated or is it more likely they new owners will knock it down and build something else? I know renovations aren't that common in Japan and that area seems a little bit like Hollywood Hills (where a house like that definitely would be replaced) I assume you are only paying for land value?

Love this place and would just give a little updating.