Start Here
New here? Begin with one question.
Do you want to visit Japan — or belong to it? Your honest answer decides everything that follows.
Who this is for
Not tourists. Not pure investors. Belongers.
If you want two perfect weeks and a stamp in your passport, there are better sites than this one. Homecoming Japan is for people who feel the pull to stay — who'd rather know one neighbourhood deeply than photograph ten. Some of you are remote workers wondering how to stretch a trip into a life. Some already know you want a home here one day. You're all welcome at the same starting line.
The path
Experience Japan deeper. Stay longer. Then, maybe, stay for good.
1 · Go beyond Tokyo
The Japan worth belonging to mostly isn't on the tourist trail. We start with regional life — quieter, cheaper, and far more open to you than you've been told.
2 · Make staying real
Visas, money, health insurance, daily logistics. The unglamorous decisions that turn "I wish" into "I live here" — explained from someone who made them.
3 · A home of your own
For those who go all the way: akiya and kominka, the real costs and risks, and what it actually takes to hold the keys. The aspirational deep end — at your pace.
The easiest first step
Let me send you the way in.
Tell me where you are on the path and I'll send the next steps by email — the guides worth reading first, and what to do before you book another flight. No noise, no pressure. Just the route I wish someone had handed me.