Spacious Countryside Home with Gardens, Ponds, and Farmland in Chikuma's Apricot Village
This unique property in the "Apricot Village" of Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture, offers a rare combination of a spacious 7DK residence, extensive gardens, and multiple agricultural plots. The main house, built in 1971, is a two-story wooden structure with a generous 154.85㎡ of living space. The layout features seven Japanese-style rooms (washitsu), including an 8-tatami mat room, another 8-tatami mat room, four 6-tatami mat rooms, and a 4.5-tatami mat room, alongside a large 10.3-tatami mat dining kitchen. The property is situated on a corner lot with good sunlight and ventilation, and is noted for being near mountains in a green, quiet residential area suitable for an agricultural lifestyle.
Key equipment and features include a separate bath and toilet, a bath with a window and reheating function, a washlet toilet, a washbasin area, storage space, underfloor storage, an indoor laundry area, a bay window, lighting fixtures, propane gas, electricity, water supply, well water, hot water supply, and an oil-fired boiler and oil tank (usage status unknown). Special notes highlight the proximity to mountains, the lush green residential area, the quiet neighborhood, the suitability for farm life, the corner lot location, no buildings directly in front, two-sided lighting, good sunlight, good ventilation, Japanese-style rooms, and adjacent buildings being over 2 meters away.
Remarks detail significant additional assets: the main plot includes a carport for two vehicles, a lightweight steel agricultural warehouse of 11.34㎡, a prefabricated storage shed, and a garden with a gate, fence, and a pond fed by a private outdoor water source. Crucially, the property comes with three separate farmland plots totaling 816㎡, 307㎡, and 115㎡, one of which contains another lightweight steel agricultural warehouse of 53.58㎡. An important note is that there is an additional 161.42㎡ residential plot, separated by a city-owned drainage channel. The main house building currently extends over this channel, meaning any future rebuilding, large-scale renovations, or extensions would need to be contained within the boundaries of the main plot.
The area is famously known as "Chikuma City's Apricot Village," renowned for its beautiful apricot blossoms in spring. A short drive away is the historic and scenic Zenkō-ji Temple, one of Japan's most important and visited Buddhist temples, located in nearby Nagano City.
