Never Too Small walks Yoshinani House, the Musashi-Kosugi rental that video producer Takashi ‘Ryu’ Harada and graphic designer Nodoka ‘Kamado’ Miyamoto named after an old word that means, roughly, “whatever works.” The listing title is 55 m² / 592 sq ft — not a tape-measure — in Kanagawa Prefecture, between Tokyo and Yokohama.
Finding a tiny house is the easy part. Finding somewhere legal to put it is what stops most people. Zoning rules rarely have a box for a home on wheels, and the spots that do exist are usually word-of-mouth — a lot in a small community, an acre on someone’s farm, a site in a converted RV park.
This is a working directory of places that actually rent or sell tiny home sites, with links straight to the people who run them. Where a community keeps a waitlist, we’ve said so, because most of the good ones are full more often than not.
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Images courtesy of Paradise Tiny Homes and the communities listed below
This is a tiny luxury apartment in Tokyo, Japan shown by Tokyo Lens/YouTube.
It’s a video tour of what is possibly Tokyo’s smallest luxury apartment. According to the video, it’s part of an initiative to develop more affordable housing in the area. What do you think?
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Images via Tokyo Lens/YouTube
This is a look at the tiny house festival in Tokyo thanks to Leonardo Di Chiara.
Ten small houses where parked just next to a jungle of skyscrapers. It reminded me so much when I was showing and living my tiny house at Bauhaus Campus in Berlin. Same attitude, same dreams but completely different culture. Very interesting.
The inspiration is always the American Tiny House Movement but some aspects are very different: smaller dimensions, lighter structures and very strange trailers. A lot to learn!1
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This is the story of a concrete hut tiny house in Tokyo, Japan. The home, nicknamed the Love2 House, was designed by Takeshi Hosaka for a couple. And has just 18-square-meters of space inside, which is approximately 200-square-feet.
One of the first things you’ll notice about it is just how far up the peak of the home goes up – and yes, inside you get to enjoy that vaulted ceilings which make you feel sort of like you’re in a cathedral even though you’re only in a 200-square-foot tiny house. Amazing, right? At the tip-top of the ceiling, yes, you have skylights.
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This is Aiko’s 260 sq. ft. apartment in Japan.
She used a multifunctional coffee table to create a living room that easily transforms into a dining room.
Since the apartment has 11.5ft ceilings, Aiko was able to take advantage of the vertical space too. So the bedroom hovers over the kitchen, and the bathroom is slightly elevated with storage underneath.
Images © IKEA
It’s just a fact that Japanese design is almost always better suited for tiny spaces than our “bigger is better” American style and that couldn’t be more true in this Japanese Tiny Home on Wheels!
Living Big in a Tiny House took a tour of the home with it’s now-owners who purchased it from a brilliant designer. The itty bitty home can easily fit in a parking space and yet includes a kitchen, sleeping space and seating for up to six people. All in all, it weighs no more than 600 kgs (around 1,200 lbs). Be sure to watch the whole video tour and see the space transform before your eyes.
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Images via YouTube/Living Big in a Tiny House
This is a micro teepee cabin village in Japan.
It was originally shared on Reddit by a user named HelpfulJap.
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This is a 409 sq. ft. modern tiny house by Studio NOA.
It was designed and built for a couple with no children who needed a home on a small lot in a neighborhood called Sanno in Tokyo, Japan.
From the outside, you’ll see it has a very modern look. When you go inside, you’ll find three levels with a bedroom, basement/storage, loft space, kitchen, bathroom, and more. Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share below. Thank you!
Images © Studio NOA
