{"id":207,"date":"2020-02-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:16:34","slug":"where-to-stay-with-your-rv-and-vans-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/2020\/02\/16\/where-to-stay-with-your-rv-and-vans-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"3 houses in front of a house?! Where to Stay for the Long Term with Your RVs and VANs in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vans become their owners’ rooms, parking spaces and a house behind vans is shared. This is a livable RV station “VANLIFE Station.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVANLIFE Station\u201d is for VANLIFERS who spend their \u201clife\u201dstyles living, working and traveling in box-type cars such as camper\u201dvan\u201ds. VANLIFERS can park and dock their vans to serve as their room for the \u201cINAKA Backpacker House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Japan’s first VANLIFE station opened in Anamizu Town*, Ishikawa Prefecture on Noto Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As people live in movable houses, such platform will be necessary. What if your house base is movable? A house with mobility function?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is so nice to sleep, and wake up to beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nowadays, because of abundance technology, we can work and live anywhere. Specially in Japan, everywhere you go and travel to, it has enough and clean infrastructure that a new lifestyle VANLIFE is possible lifestyle to pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, physically and mentally moving all the time and using public spaces could be tiring sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nomadic lifestyle such as VANLIFE needs a temporary base to rest without thinking and worrying about where to travel, work, shower, and sleep today. You cannot spend your time freely, comfortably, and unlimitedly at public locations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, once in awhile, you simply need a space to relax, work and ease your mind freely, instead of moving all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can rest yourself at \u201cVANLIFE Station.\u201d \u201cVANLIFE Station\u201d offers a parking space where you can stay and live for the mid to long term periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In January 2020, for 1 month, two couples stayed at \u201cVANLIFE Station.\u201d Total of 4 people stayed and concentrated on their work in collaborative workspace at \u201cINAKA Backpacker House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the day, they stayed inside of the house and worked, cooked, used a toilet, took a shower, etc. At night, they returned their own houses VANS where their bedrooms or private rooms are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once in a while, they interacted with locals and enjoyed local cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently saw a news article on NBC Bay Area below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> Students Build Tiny Homes in Vans and Trucks While SF Rent Soars<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this case, a college parking space may be \u201cVANLIFE Station.\u201d However, it seems that it would take some time for college officials to permit VALIFERS to live at a college’s parking space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u201cVANLIFE Station\u201d could be one of the solutions to it. \u201cVANLIFE Station\u201d is necessary or should be an alternative options for college<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locals can open up their parking spaces for VANLIFER college students. Instead of HOME STAY, it could be PARKING STAY program for colleges students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\"vanlife<\/a>\n<\/td>\nCarstay and INAKA Backpacker opens the first \u201clivable\u201d parking space VANLIFE Station in Noto Japan<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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*Anamizu is a town by the Gulf of Nanao and on Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture which is located on Sea of Japan coast and its prefecture\u2019s most of northern part is Noto Peninsula. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anamizu is the \u201centrance\u201d of peninsula\u2019s tip. Ishikawa is part of the Hokuriku region. Hokuriku is located in the northwestern region on Honshu (the main island of Japan) and lies along the Sea of Japan. Hokuriku region covers four prefectures, Ishikawa, Fukui, Niigata, and Toyama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#vanlife #vanlifer #vanlifestation #anamizu #ishikawa #vanlifejapan\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vans become their owners’ rooms, parking spaces and a house behind vans is shared. This is a livable RV […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,56],"tags":[58,75,53,108,107],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan-ishikawa","category-van-life","tag-anamizu","tag-ishikawa","tag-vanlife","tag-vanlifejapan","tag-vanlifestation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC05223.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inaka-backpacker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}