The Akiya Trilogy — Psychological Thrillers Set in Real Japan
The abandoned homes are real.
What happens inside them is not.
Across Japan, tens of thousands of empty houses wait in silence. In The Akiya Trilogy, every door opens onto a different nightmare — a missing child in Fukuoka, a mountain house in Hokkaido, and a surveillance-wired love hotel in Nagano.
Enter The Akiya → No spoilers. See what's inside first.Written from Fukuoka, Japan
I live in Fukuoka. I've driven past the akiya — the empty houses left behind all over rural Japan — and wondered who used to live there, and why no one came back.
If you love thrillers but you're tired of the same haunted-mansion clichés and settings clearly invented at a desk, we want the same thing: a story set in a place real enough that the fear follows you after you close the book. That's the only kind I write.
Japan's abandoned houses are called akiya. They're real — and they're everywhere.
Most people see a quiet country home and picture a peaceful escape. The Akiya asks what happens when the place you ran to has been waiting for someone exactly like you. You don't need a haunted castle for dread. You need a real address.
The Real-Akiya Method
Every book starts with one real prefecture, one real kind of abandoned home, and one family who came to Japan to start over. Then the escape becomes the trap.
Real place
A genuine akiya in a real prefecture, scouted from Fukuoka.
Ordinary people
An expat, a family, a couple chasing a fresh start in Japan.
The trap
The escape quietly becomes the thing they can't leave.
Three doors. Three nightmares.
Akiya Fukuoka The escape becomes a trap.
A man moves to Japan to leave his pain behind. Then his daughter disappears, his wife goes silent, and the town's most powerful man starts closing in.
Akiya Hokkaido The house will not let her leave.
A Christmas trip to a centuries-old mountain home turns to horror when an ancient force chooses its next vessel.
Akiya Nagano Someone has been watching.
An influencer couple buys a crumbling rural love hotel for a fresh start. The previous owner's IT man never left — and every camera is still live.
Real settings. Real support.
Start with all three stories.
The Akiya Trilogy — available as eBook, paperback, and hardcover.
See What's Inside The Akiya Trilogy →Before you enter
Are these supernatural?
Each book sits at a different point on the scale — from grounded psychological dread to something older and stranger. You can read the openings before deciding.
Do I have to read them in order?
No. Each akiya is a standalone nightmare. The trilogy just gives you all three.
How do the ebooks arrive?
Instantly, via BookFunnel — read in the free app or send them to your e-reader.
Do you ship print internationally?
Yes — see formats and shipping on the trilogy page.