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$70,000 to Buy Japanese Castle in Hokkaido !!!



$70,000 to Buy Japanese Castle in Hokkaido !!!

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24 Comments

  2. @Richmon122

    The problems with this place is: 6+ months of heavy snow. I can't imagine shovelling snow for 40 cars.

  4. @NazeNoNeko

    If in the position to buy it, I would be verily tempted, especially since my longterm goal is to live in Hokkaido or at least Aomori

  6. @INeverAtePlayDough

    Lovely edifice, isn’t it? But, the dreadful Winter weather in northern Japan would deter me from wanting to buy any abode in Hokkaido!

  7. @LogiForce86

    Yeah, I saw that post on TikTok as well. Told my mother and she was immediately saying "is the staff included? cause I wouldn't want to clean it as a home" 🤣

  10. @GlasbanGorm

    I was there when it was blowing up on X. All jokes aside its crazy that this is even a good deal, when compared to house prices in Australia. Though likely the prior buisness was losing money

  14. @itachisenpaix3

    This would be an amazing house. Parking for 40 cars, it would bd a dream come true. I heard having enough parking spaces for your house is hard to find.

  16. @TheBoredPhysicist

    As someone that lives in a Japanese house in Tokyo, I'll say: No thanks. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to heat that damn thing? You'd basically spend winter in one room with the aircon on full heat.

  21. @MrToubrouk

    I saw some pictures of the inside and it looks like a dreadful '90 office building filled with boxes.
    If we add a leaky roof and an elevator, there's a lot of work needed to be done.

  22. @aw2031zap

    it's a "deal", but you need $70,000 to buy it, $50,000 to fix the roof (probably even more than that if you're a foreigner and have no idea how to manage the contractors), $8000 a year in taxes, and you're in Hokkaido – a place that is infrequently visited by foreigners, though may attract domestic tourists (who don't care it's a castle?)
    I think there is a business opportunity if you can market it to tourists, but you need to find a way to market your restaurant idea to Chinese tourists more than Western ones. I was lucky enough to visit Hokkaido last year during the summer – it was great – but during the winter, which is when I think most EU tourists come (for skiing and snowboarding) they may be less likely to visit because the snow inhibits foot traffic?
    My favorite castle to visit outside of Himeji was Atami's castle – it is a coastal castle high up on a hill and you see so much from the roof. I think there's a selling point for putting seating up on the balcony somehow, but a real castle balcony has almost no room for eating and Japanese law likely requires you to put a cage around the roof to prevent jumping, which would kill the the ambiance.
    Castles have pretty limited space, especially since the elevator is probably 50% space on the top floor. And if you have to refurbish the kitchen, hire chefs, handle global currency (yuan, euro, usd, yen) then there's just so many things eating into your income… I don't see it.