I'm curious, how rural is the area in Japan you're moving to? I read an article a while back saying that a lot of countryside areas are offering houses to citizens for suuuuper cheap (like ~$500USD cheap?) because of a bunch of different reasons
It's a good hour and a half by train to the nearest big city. It's not a big agricultural area, and there is definitely some modernization, but yes it's definitely one of those situations where they want people to move in, hence the outrageously low prices.
SOO CUTE