He fell in love with the Japanese traditional homes during the high school trip. On 24, he bought one in the countryside.

• Coline Aguirre bought a traditional house in the Japanese rural where he was 24.

• He left France and moved to Japan only to refund the property and started the real property.

• “It’s been three years now, but it still feels like a dream,” says Aguirre.

Coline Aguirre began to think about the future during the Japanese high school exchange ten years ago.

Aguirre, who was born in Paris but was very young, spent a year at Learning in Kanagawa, 40 miles[40 km]outside Tokyo.

At the time of her grandmother’s grandmother, she finds that they live in a Japanese house built in ’70s, with beautiful wood and beautiful Tatami rooms.

“It was the first time I slept in the Tatami room. Before there, I was in modern-day households in Japan,” Aguirre told business. “I fell in love, and in that moment, I knew I wanted to have a traditional house in Japan.”

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Fast-forward in 2021: Aguirre was back in France and worked as an independent picture photographer. Over the years, he and his mother have raised a shared method of investigating trades and shopping in homes.

“At the time, I was receiving the property market in Japan and saw the most low price,” said Aguirre.

In France, a rural home was easily drawn to 200,000 euros. On the contrary, some houses in rural Japan can go down as $ 500.

The difference is of glorious, and thought of her.

“France, if I wanted to buy something new about the money I have then, either a car or garage. I don’t want to stay in the car or garage,” he said.

‘100 Years of age, a minimum’

So he began his hunting “kominka,” or dwelling on the farm, in the Japanese rural.

Aguirre was looking for big property, with enough room for photo studio. He also sought the old house because he felt that materials were designed to stay in the end.

“My paths were like the time, they were a hundred years,” AGUIRRE.

When he joke about 3,200-footprints in Da, some 50 miles[50 km]southot, knew that he found him.

“Likened by all expectations. It was great, perhaps too great, but there was a large field, two toilets, two kitchens, and many bedrooms,” said Aguirre.

It was also a 15-minute driver at the train station, and about an hour and a half from the sea.

With the help of the Real Site of Buildings – Who sent you a 20 minute video poverty minute to the list – Aguirre bought that two-story house far away, without seeing it in person.

Aguirre says he pays about 4.9 million yen for 2022 million, and 24, and he achieved his dream of buying a traditional house in the Japanese rural.

Her husband, in the French army, knew that this was his plan soon after meeting.

“From the time we first dated eight years ago, I told him I would be a house in Japan the other day. And I was finally happening,” Aguirre said.

He has formally moved to Japan only in that year. “I didn’t have a plan. I trusted in the universe,” said Aguirre now.

His parents also sustained his movement. It helped them to be familiar with Japan: His father had spent the year working in Tokyo, and his mother was often on vacation.

Growth, he was accustomed to his parents to buy and repair the old houses in France.

“I didn’t see what was shocked or,” said Aguirre. “We’ve been doing so many times, just about me to buy a house.”

To restore the house

The house of Aguirre remains on the street where the old market was located.

The road reminds Hyoto, and their shops, and in the oldest houses. “The post is in front of me, while there is a bank at the end of the road,” he said.

When his house began was built in the 1920s, the front phase on the road worked as a soy sauce shop. Before he had purchased, owners who previously used it as a summer home whenever they visited the city during the holiday season.

According to the Renew Routise Terms, Aguirre, now performing a real consult agreement, said you have tried to keep a few more composition.

The key thing has not changed until now eliminates the septic tank and connecting the property to the wild system.

“I have never spent too many things without all more of the mid-70s,” she said.

There is a lot to do, including renovate the kitchen and removing false roofs on the second floor. If you think of the size of the Propassion, it was a slow routine.

“I try to make every DIY I can’t,” said Auguire.

Local contractors often used to work in new homes with modern objects such as plastic installation, which is not what he does for his space.

“I started reading a lot of diy things, as tiling and watering in the water. But it is fun. I really enjoy.

These days, between managing his business and working in the house, Aguirre is still running on the online boutique using Vintage kimonos and accessories. On the side, and gives kimono photography ssession, too.

Living the Dream

Aguirre is part of the growing foreign wave moved to Japan.

The number of foreign residents in Japanese reached a higher 3,768,977 record by the end of 2024 – 7.5% from the previous year, with data from the National Services Organization.

Four Americans Speaking to Bi in 2023 were written in Japan List Security levels and related ability as reasons for their departure. Some say they were drawn to the idea of renewing one of the eight million country Homes left.

Although most of the information has been rewarding, Aguirre says the hardest part of his travel was always focused on his goals.

“It is a great challenge to have a kind of large housing that needs regular attention, while first business from Zero in the new world,” he said.

He hopes to develop his Japanese language skills, but he found no time to take courses.

“In the meantime, my language classes are talking to my neighbors,” said Aguirre.

Most of her neighbor are between 50 and 90 years old and live in the area for decades. Many of them have attended the local starters school, which has been converted into the Maplist.

That means, meeting young people was not difficult. The large group of foreigners – especially in the US and the UK – live in Da, said.

“When you will buy shops and see someone else another nation, you basically go and talk to them because it is rarely,” says Aguirre.

Over the years, he was introduced to young people, sometimes even on the street.

Aguirre lives in his house in Japan in full, and his husband comes to visit him whenever he can. In relation to the most common relationships, Aguirre said, “it is a challenge, but I mean yes over the past eight years.”

Looking back on his trip, Aguirre said it sounds like he only started to rip the surface.

“Three years just a test,” he said. Sometimes, add, you will have to wait to enjoy movement to die down before you know that’s the case.

That means, Aguir knows that you make the right decision. He hopes to continue to grow his local business, now a group of three, and finally connect traditional Japanese homes and their old projects.

“It sounds like a dream,” says Aguirre. “I just included a lot of layers in my dream.”

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