Renovating Akiya to Guest House along Shimanami Kaido Cycle Route - Dani Benton

Sustainable Travel Japan

Originally from the US, Dani & Evan Benton have bought properties and land to live and run a guest house and to do natural farming in rural Japan.

The Bentons have been so generous in sharing their knowledge on YouTube by documenting and sharing a variety of useful information about how to get a Japan business and startup visa, buy a house, renovate old houses, get rid of junk, reuse things, and repair and reuse as well as honor the memory of the original owners as much as possible.

Dani and Evan are doing a great service to their local community as well as all of their interested fans around the world with their informative posts and videos. Apparently they decided to settle in the area of OMISHIMA because it is a beautiful area that has a lot of AKIYA abandoned properties.

They now run a guesthouse on AirBnb and aim is to run a farm stand to sell their fresh farm produce and honey.

There will be a lot of great insights in this talk for anyone interested in Japan, Japanese culture, life in rural Japan, starting a business, natural farming, and renovating old houses in Japan.

See the LIVE walkthru of their beautiful guest house I did with Dani and Evan: https://www.youtube.com/live/YJ7GZtJ30NY?si=9SZxQ75ecI-dyifI

Dani Benton Links

https://bentonhomestead.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@bentonhomestead

https://www.instagram.com/bentonhomestead/

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