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Magic As Ever
We’ve been big fans of the Fujino and Uenohara areas around Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture for a few years now. This is in large part due to Byron and Kaori Nagy, who are perhaps the most accomplished DIY Masters of Inaka we know.
Hi praise? Yeah, it is. We recently went out to their homestead project in the hills and by the river to see what sort of progress they’d made since we last visited, and my oh my have they ever moved the ball forward.
Looking Good
A lot of the use case for akiya that we come across is relatively outlandish. Mountaineering retreats. DIY homesteading projects. Decentralized autonomous organizations. We say that there’s no limit to what you can do with akiya because we’ve yet to find where the adventure stops.
But one thing that maybe we don’t highlight as much as we could is the not-so-wacky things people are doing with akiya. And YS in Ueno is a barber shop in Asakusa that serves as an excellent example of a big success in more standard industries.
So yeah, buying akiya doesn’t necessarily mean going off the deep end; it means having a good understanding of your own desires and resources, and how to best approach activating them.
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