[Assessed 162.2%] Detached house in Hachioji, Tokyo — 15 min from Nishi-Hachioji Sta.

The listing carries a single image, and that image is a route map of the Chuo Main Line (Takao to Tachikawa). It is not a photograph of the property. To confirm this was not a retrieval failure, we hit the sequential image URLs directly and confirmed they do not exist (all return 302). Other sites could not fill the gap either. LIFULL HOME'S has only one listing in Yokokawa-cho, Hachioji, and it is a different property built in May 2024; athome returned a bot-check page and could not be retrieved; Rakumachi's area search did not function; and SUUMO has nothing matching. As a tenanted owner-change investment property, it appears not to be listed on the general portals. As a result, the presence and height of any retaining wall, a step down from the frontage road, stepped access, and whether the structure is a party-wall building are all undetermined.

In place of photographs we examined the terrain. Measuring a 300 m square around the centre of Yokokawa-cho at 50 m intervals with the Geospatial Information Authority's 1 m laser survey data gave elevations of 134.6 to 137.9 m — a relief of just 3.3 m, a gradient of about 1% falling west. It is not terrain where a metre-class step arises. That said, this is not a substitute for photographs. Artificial steps created by grading, and block work along a boundary, do not appear in elevation data.

Yokokawa-cho is a town name without chome, and its roadside price maps span ten sheets. The residential core is sheet 55042 (containing Yokokawa Elementary School, Yokokawa Junior High and Yokokawa Park), and we took the modal access-road value on that sheet, 100D, as the representative value. For the three-year series we tracked the same roads on the same sheet — the north-south road to the right of the Yokokawa-cho label, and the road running past Yokokawa Park to its south — matching 95,000 yen in 2024, 97,000 yen in 2025 and 100,000 yen in 2026.

We checked the sensitivity. The band across the town runs 54D to 98D on the north-western edge of sheet 55041, 84D to 125D in the residential core of sheet 55042, and 78D to 130D on the southern edge of sheet 55052. Even the lowest value in the town, 54D, gives 87.6%, above 80%. The roadside price needed to reach 80% is 49,315 yen/sqm, well below every road in the town, so an error in locating the property would not change the conclusion. Hachioji does contain areas where no roadside price is set. Sheet 55040 is entirely a multiplier area (Motohachioji-cho and Nibukata-cho), as is the southern half of sheet 55052 (Nagafusa-cho), but neither covers Yokokawa-cho, which carries roadside prices throughout. The leasehold ratio symbol is D (60%).

We used the listed 175.2 sqm as the effective residential area. Kenbiya's disclosure rules state that the land area shown excludes private roads, and that where a separate private road exists its burden area is shown. Neither the private road burden field nor the remarks carry any entry here, so 175.2 sqm reads as the figure after any private road has been deducted. However, no plot plan (survey drawing) is included, so the presence of an alley strip could not be confirmed.

The road-frontage field is blank: the direction, width and type of the frontage road are all absent from the listing. Whether the property can be rebuilt cannot be confirmed from the listing. Zoning is Category I exclusively low-rise residential with 40% building coverage and 80% floor area ratio, the land is freehold, and it lies in an urbanisation promotion area. There was no mention of a no-rebuild restriction, proviso road, cliff ordinance, leasehold or private road burden. It is a two-storey wooden 6DK built in December 1984 with 128.44 sqm of floor area and no parking. It is currently tenanted as an owner-change, and the full-occupancy yield and income are not disclosed. For transport, besides Nishi-Hachioji Station on the JR Chuo Main Line at 15 minutes' walk, Hachioji Station on the JR Yokohama Line is 17 minutes by bus plus 4 minutes' walk, and Keio-Hachioji Station 22 minutes by bus plus 4 minutes' walk.