About AkiyaScope

Our Mission

Japan has an estimated 8.5 million vacant houses (akiya), and that number is growing every year. Many of these properties are available at remarkably low prices — sometimes under $10,000 — but finding them is nearly impossible for international buyers.

AkiyaScope bridges this gap. We aggregate listings from multiple Japanese real estate portals, translate them to English, add hazard assessments and investment scores, and present everything on an intuitive, map-based interface.

What Makes Us Different

• 1.
  Multi-source aggregation — We scrape 5+ Japanese property portals daily, deduplicating listings and showing you which sites each property appears on.
• 2.
  6-dimension scoring — Our proprietary algorithm evaluates rebuild potential, hazard safety, infrastructure, demographics, value, and condition to give each property a composite score from 0-100.
• 3.
  Hazard transparency — Every property includes seismic, flood, tsunami, and landslide risk data sourced from Japanese government hazard maps.
• 4.
  Full investment pipeline — From discovery to purchase, track deals, calculate renovation costs, and manage due diligence checklists.

Our Technology

Built with modern web technologies: Next.js for a fast, SEO-friendly frontend; MapLibre GL JS with OpenStreetMap for free, high-quality mapping; PostgreSQL with PostGIS for geospatial queries; and Python-based scrapers running automated daily collection from Japanese real estate portals.