You heard right folks! You can now bid for your very own uninhabited Japanese island, courtesy of the Chugoku Local Finance Bureau. They want to auction off Mitsuko Island, situated in the Seto Inland Sea, 0.6 miles from the coast of the Hiroshima Prefecture.
The island is actually made up of two separate islands, and it’s the Northern one, which measures 7,600 square meters (or 1.9 acres), that is up for sale. Back in the day before World War II, the island actually housed a naval hospital but now it’s just overgrown with weeds and trees.
Mainichi reports that “the sale is part of an overall program to sell off unused assets, and the finance bureau is scheduled to hold a tender for the island in February.”
So get your bidding markers up, because according to Mainichi, this auction is the first of its kind in Japan!
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ZOMG! I totally want my own island!