A Newly Built, Unoccupied Model Home with Resilience Features in Yokohama
This property is a newly constructed, never-occupied model home built by Kobayashi Jutaku Kogyo, located on a quiet, established residential plot in Yokohama's Izumi Ward. The house is situated on a southwest-facing corner lot with excellent sunlight and faces a 6.5-meter wide public road. It is a single-story wooden structure built in June 2024, featuring natural and domestic solid wood materials throughout.
The home is equipped with a next-generation radiant panel air conditioning system that provides comfortable heating and cooling without drafts or noise. It boasts comprehensive resilience features including a whole-house water purifier, a 140-liter rainwater tank, solar panels, a storage battery, a hybrid water heater, and a water supply tank. The living spaces are designed to showcase the beauty of wood, with the LDK flooring using bright-toned, gently grained Iwate Prefecture-sourced Nambu Akamatsu (red pine). The bedroom flooring uses Yakusugi cedar from Yakushima, known for its high content of α-cedrol, which is said to have a relaxing effect. A distinctive feature is a workspace with a hinoki cypress countertop featuring a large knot in one corner of the bedroom. The spare room uses weighty and beautifully red-toned Tochigi Prefecture-sourced Yabuso cedar. The washroom uses Noto Hiba wood for its pleasant aroma, and the bathtub is made of hinoki cypress to soothe daily fatigue. An aesthetically pleasing central courtyard can be viewed from various points inside the house. Other features include wallpaper made of wood and paper, domestic solid wood entrance doors and fittings, termite-resistant fired foundation sills, cellulose fiber insulation, and a crystal counter island kitchen with a cupboard.
The property is certified as a Long-term Excellent Housing unit with a seismic grade of 3. The layout is a 2LDK, comprising a 17.7-tatami mat LDK, a 9-tatami mat Western-style room, and a 5.6-tatami mat Western-style room. It includes one free parking space. The land area is 171.11 sqm (approx. 51.76 tsubo) with a building coverage ratio of 50% and a floor area ratio of 80%. The building area is 81.86 sqm (approx. 24.76 tsubo).
The Izumi Ward area of Yokohama offers a blend of residential tranquility and accessibility. An interesting local fact is that the nearby Izumino Line, a Sagami Railway service, was the first railway line in Japan to be constructed and operated by a third-sector company following railway privatization in the 1980s. The closest major landmark is the historic Sankeien Garden, a spacious Japanese garden in southern Yokohama featuring historic buildings relocated from across Japan, located approximately a 30-minute drive from the property.
