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Kyoto, Japan

Carmen Roberts presents the show from Kyoto, where a growing number of overseas holiday home buyers are purchasing and helping to preserve traditional 'machiya' wooden houses.

Carmen Roberts presents the show from Kyoto, where a growing number of overseas holiday home buyers are purchasing and helping to preserve traditional 'machiya' wooden houses. Locals find these houses hard to run and uncomfortable, but foreigners love them and are helping to save an important part of Japan's heritage.

30 minutes

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Wed 9 Dec 2015 03:30

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