21 Jun 2025
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We are building a house in Tokyo. The house design is finalized, and the constructions is ongoing, so we are finalizing the garden design. One common thing to put into the garden is some sort of roof over either a car or bicycles, often referred to as カーポート(carport) and サイクルポート (cycleport). We just learned that there are rules about these.
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26 May 2025
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We recently wrapped up the design of our house. I will share how it went in this post.
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24 May 2025
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Ichijo, as most major house makers, offer a friend referral system.
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20 May 2025
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Back in January 2023 I wrote a post on the renting vs buying decision in Tokyo concluding that the two options have comparable financial outcomes (assuming the renter invests the additional money into a diversified portfolio). Yet we decided to build our house. In this post I’ll share the reasons that contributed to this decision.
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04 May 2025
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We are building a house in Tokyo with Ichijo 一条工務店. In a previous post I covered the costs associated with buying the land, and in this post I’ll talk about the cost of our house built by Ichijo. There will be additional fees (e.g. garden, registration, etc.) that I will write about in a separate post once we move in. This post is only about the money we pay to Ichijo for the building itself.
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