[Assessed 122.2%] Detached house in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa — 14 min from Yamate Sta.

We traced the residential streets of Yamamoto-cho 2-chome one by one on the fiscal 2026 roadside land price map (sheet 64072). The arterial bands of 280,000 and 265,000 yen belong to the road running below the hill and were not used. Among the residential streets we found three at 190,000 yen, one at 185,000, three at 180,000 and one at 175,000; with 180,000 and 190,000 tied on count we took the lower of the two. The 245,000 to 260,000 bands to the east lie across the boundary in Nishitakenomaru and Yamate-cho, and the 165,000 band to the south-west is in Ohira-cho, so neither was used.

The 46.15 square metres is the registry figure, and both the private-road burden and setback fields are blank in the listing. With nothing to deduct on the record we used the full area. The exterior photograph nevertheless suggests access along a narrow passage between neighbouring houses, and the listing records no parking space, so a flag-shaped lot remains possible. Deducting a 10-square-metre path would give 95.7 per cent and 15 square metres would give 82.5 per cent.

We opened all seven photographs in the listing. Only one shows the site itself, an exterior view; the other six are interior, bathroom and toilet shots. The street in front never appears. Within the visible range, the neighbouring houses on both sides sit at the same ground level as this building, no retaining wall is present, the entrance step is a single 15 to 20 centimetre rise and the side passage is flat. The images cap out at 640 by 480 pixels and requesting a larger width returned the same size.

Using the Geospatial Information Authority's 1-metre lidar data we sampled elevations at 45 points across a 160-metre square and found a range of 22.8 to 46.8 metres. That confirms the Yamate hill setting, but because the street number in the listing duplicates the agent's own office address we could not fix the parcel and therefore could not measure the level difference at the site itself. Zoning is Category 1 low-rise exclusive residential, 60 per cent building coverage and 100 per cent floor area ratio, with freehold title.

The two-storey wooden house of 33.60 square metres was completed in January 1964 and is 62 years old at the time of our calculation. That is more than forty years beyond the 22-year statutory service life for wooden construction, so we record the building value as zero. The assessed value ratio therefore rests entirely on the land.

The listing was published on 10 September 2026 with a next update scheduled for 24 September. The transaction is direct from the seller with no brokerage fee. The house is vacant, and the 14.11 per cent yield quoted is based on an assumed annual rent of 960,000 yen rather than an actual tenancy. We looked for the same property on other portals to supplement the photographs but found nothing on SUUMO's Naka Ward second-hand house listing or on Yahoo! Real Estate.