A COASTAL VILLA AND GUESTHOUSE IN JAPAN

380 MILLION YEN ($3,192,000)

This two-story, two-bedroom, 1,727-square-foot villa, completed in 2011, is set on about 1.7 forested acres overlooking Sagami Bay in Hayama, a town about 90 minutes’ drive south of Tokyo. The property also has a two-story guesthouse built in 1963 on a bluff that is reached by a fairly strenuous footpath. The guesthouse, about 1,323 square feet, was inspired by Scandinavian and American minimalist architecture, and the current owners had it renovated in 2009.

The main villa has a basement of reinforced concrete and two stories above it made of wood; the entrance is on the second floor. There a hallway leads past two bedrooms and the bathrooms. The main interior bath has a Jacuzzi tub, a rain shower head and two conventional shower heads; an adjacent powder room has two sinks, with a separate toilet room next to that. Another Jacuzzi tub can be reached from the outdoors, as can a rain-head shower.

Beyond the bathrooms, a spiral staircase leads to what is often referred to in Japan as the “LDK,” or living, dining and kitchen area; in this case, a “2” before the LDK indicates two bedrooms. The living area is furnished, and while furnishings are not included in the asking price, they are negotiable. The top floor of the villa has views of Sagami Bay — there are five beaches in Hayama — as well as the lush waterside hills of Hayama. The top floor also has a 650-square-foot deck, and the white, clean-lined kitchen has a dishwasher and an oven by Miele.

The guesthouse atop the cliff has generated a lot of questions about earthquakes, flooding, landslides and the like, according to Chiaki Yamada of Housing Japan, the agency that has the listing.