About

Born in Nozawa. Built for buyers who care.

We are a small team of three. We grew up in these valleys, learned construction here, and now help overseas buyers join the place we never quite left.

How we started

In 2019 a couple from Singapore asked us, in halting Japanese, whether the boarded-up house at the end of our lane was for sale. It wasn't. Two months later it was. We rebuilt it together. That winter we opened Nagano Estate.

We've been busy since. Northern Nagano has changed rapidly — JAPOW, the shinkansen extension, the post-Niseko ripple of overseas interest. Our role is to make sure the change stays graceful.

What we don't do

We don't list properties we don't represent. We don't scrape third-party portals. We don't accept fees from both sides of a transaction. Every listing on this site is sourced through a signed source-contract held in our office in Iiyama.

What we stand for

Four small promises.

01

We tell you what we don't know.

If the heated-floor system is older than our memory, we say so before you ask. Surprises during contracts are the most expensive kind.

02

Reply within one business day.

Always. In English by default; Japanese if you prefer. We don't sell to inboxes that have already gone cold.

03

Walk the property with you.

By Zoom or in person, before the offer. We bring the due-diligence pack — title type, road frontage, BCR/FAR — printed on paper.

04

Stay reachable after the keys.

Tax-agent introductions, snow removal contacts, the contractor who knows the back wall. The hand-off is the thing.

The team

Three people. One valley.

Kaneko (Sales lead)

Kaneko (Sales lead)

Bilingual sales lead, ten years in luxury hospitality across Hong Kong and Niseko. First call you'll get after submitting the form.

Yanagawa (Real-estate practitioner)

Yanagawa (Real-estate practitioner)

Licensed Takken practitioner, J-REC certified. Walks every property before listing, writes the disclosure brief.

Kondo (Construction & build-out)

Kondo (Construction & build-out)

Construction manager who has run kominka renovations in Togari and Iiyama for fifteen winters. The one who tells you what is and isn't possible.

Milestones

A short timeline.

  1. 2019
    First closing

    A Singaporean couple buys a kominka in Togari. The seed of Nagano Estate.

  2. 2021
    Takken license

    Yanagawa becomes the in-house licensed real-estate practitioner.

  3. 2023
    Nozawa office

    We open a second base in the village centre of Nozawa Onsen.

  4. 2026
    Online relaunch

    This site goes live with end-to-end English support and ten featured listings.

If our approach sounds like a fit — write to us.

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