Engawa Research · 2026
Japan Akiya Market Report 2026
A live snapshot of the akiya and kominka homes indexed by Engawa: where asking inventory is concentrated, what sellers are asking, and how much of the known-age stock predates 1981.
Indexed homes
1,036
Akiya + kominka records with a public Engawa listing page.
Prefectures represented
32 / 47
Coverage reflects the current Engawa catalogue, not a national census sample.
Median asking price
¥5.0M
991 listings currently carry a positive asking price.
Built by 1980
59.5%
Share among 834 records with a known build year.
Read this first
This is asking inventory, not Japan's vacancy census.
Japan's Statistics Bureau counted 9.002 million vacant dwellings in the 2023 Housing and Land Survey, equal to 13.8% of all dwellings. Engawa does not claim that all of those homes are for sale or represented here. This report measures only public akiya and kominka asking inventory that Engawa has indexed and exposed as a listing page.
Statistics Bureau of Japan — 2023 Housing and Land Survey results →Asking prices
Most indexed homes sit below the luxury market.
Price bands use the current seller asking price. Records without a positive published price are kept visible as "Price unavailable" rather than silently dropped from the catalogue count.
25th percentile
¥2.9M
Median
¥5.0M
75th percentile
¥9.8M
Building age
Age is a screening signal, not a structural verdict.
Engawa stores build year where the source publishes it. "Built by 1980" is deliberately conservative: a year-only field cannot establish whether a 1981 building falls before or after Japan's June 1981 seismic-code change.
A build year never substitutes for a survey, structural inspection, defect disclosure, or verification of later strengthening work.
Where the supply is
Prefectures with the most indexed akiya inventory
These counts measure Engawa's current indexed supply. High counts can reflect both underlying market activity and differences in source coverage, so they should not be read as a prefecture's vacancy rate.
Asking-price comparison
Lowest median asking prices in adequately sampled prefectures
To avoid ranking a prefecture on one or two unusual listings, this table requires at least five priced akiya or kominka records in the current Engawa catalogue.
| Prefecture | Indexed | Priced | 25th pct. | Median | 75th pct. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagano | 23 | 23 | ¥900K | ¥2.0M | ¥6.8M |
| Niigata | 47 | 47 | ¥1.0M | ¥2.8M | ¥4.5M |
| Akita | 86 | 83 | ¥1.6M | ¥3.0M | ¥5.0M |
| Aomori | 75 | 75 | ¥1.4M | ¥3.0M | ¥7.3M |
| Kagoshima | 10 | 10 | ¥1.6M | ¥3.4M | ¥4.8M |
| Kumamoto | 10 | 10 | ¥2.6M | ¥3.4M | ¥6.1M |
| Tokyo | 11 | 11 | ¥2.4M | ¥3.5M | ¥4.5M |
| Hiroshima | 8 | 8 | ¥875K | ¥3.5M | ¥5.8M |
| Wakayama | 10 | 10 | ¥3.1M | ¥3.8M | ¥4.5M |
| Yamagata | 89 | 81 | ¥1.5M | ¥3.8M | ¥6.0M |
| Miyagi | 82 | 75 | ¥2.0M | ¥4.0M | ¥6.8M |
| Nara | 10 | 10 | ¥3.0M | ¥4.8M | ¥7.8M |
What is in the sample
Akiya and kominka are kept distinct.
Akiya
1,007
Median asking price ¥5.0M
Kominka
29
Median asking price ¥3.5M
Median land area
325 m²
Median building area
122 m²
Source mix
Top listing sources in this snapshot
Source concentration matters: the catalogue is an aggregation product, and coverage changes as public portals add, remove, or update inventory.
- 1.At Home akiya bank1,027
- 2.Etajima City akiya bank8
- 3.akiyabank.okinawa1
For journalists, researchers & bloggers
Use the data. Please cite Engawa.
You may quote the aggregate figures on this page and use the prefecture CSV in editorial analysis. Link to this report so readers can see the live methodology and latest catalogue date.
Methodology
How the report is calculated
Universe. Public Engawa listing pages classified as akiya or kominka. Apartments, vacant land, and new-build homes are excluded from this report even though they appear elsewhere on Engawa.
Prices. All price statistics use the source's current asking price in Japanese yen. Zero, missing, or unavailable prices are excluded from percentiles but retained in the overall inventory count. Medians are preferred to averages because a small number of expensive homes can distort an arithmetic mean.
Building year. Age-band statistics use the published build year only. Unknown years remain unknown. The pre-1981 figure uses buildings dated 1980 or earlier because year-level data cannot resolve which side of the June 1981 code change a 1981 building falls on.
Coverage. This is not a probability sample and should not be used to estimate Japan's total number of vacant houses, vacancy rates, completed sale prices, or price appreciation. It is a transparent description of the public asking inventory Engawa has indexed at the catalogue date shown above.
Updates. The page recalculates from Engawa's production catalogue as records are refreshed. Downloaded CSV values may therefore change between visits. For reproducible reporting, record the catalogue update date alongside any figure you publish.
Questions about the dataset or using Engawa in an article? The most useful reference URL is this report itself:https://engawahomes.com/reports/japan-akiya-market-report-2026.
Listing facts remain sourced claims. Engawa is not a licensed real-estate broker, and nothing in this report is legal, structural, tax, or investment advice. Asking prices are not completed transaction prices.