Spacious Single-Story Home with Detached Guest House and Traditional Japanese Garden in Obihiro

This unique property offers a rare opportunity to own a substantial single-story home with a detached guest house and a professionally landscaped traditional Japanese garden on a generous plot of approximately 188.5 tsubo (623.25 sqm). Located in a quiet residential area of Obihiro, Hokkaido, the main house was built in October 1984 and features a classic 4LDK layout. The interior includes a mix of Japanese-style rooms (6-jo and 11-jo) and Western-style rooms (6-jo and 10.7-jo), centered around a spacious 18.7-jo living-dining-kitchen area.

Key equipment and features translated from the agent's notes include a heated toilet seat, a bathroom over 1 tsubo in size, storage in all rooms, closets, FF heater (forced fan heater), city gas, electricity, running water, and sewerage. The property is noted for its quiet residential neighborhood and barrier-free accessibility. Special remarks indicate the sale includes multiple land plots (Lot 3-116, 117, 131, 151, 152). There is an unregistered building on Lot 3-116, a wooden single-story structure built in 1979 with an area of 39.50 sqm (16.17 tsubo).

The area of Obihiro is the central city of the Tokachi Plains, Hokkaido's major agricultural region, famous for its high-quality dairy products and horse racing culture. An interesting local fact is that Obihiro is the birthplace of the 'Banei' horse race, a unique winter sport where draft horses pull heavy sleds over snow-covered tracks, a tradition dating back over a century. The closest major landmark is the expansive Tokachi Millennium Forest, a vast nature park and garden designed to showcase the region's ecology across a thousand-year vision.