<figure id="attachment_468116" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-468116" style="width: 1452px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a6330bd8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/05/4b58be3a50f144a2752fa62b8447b49a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-468116" class="wp-caption-text">Hiroshi Inaba of B&#8217;z (right), who reportedly built a villa larger than the Tokyo Dome, and Takuya Kimura, a regular &#8220;mansion legend.</figcaption></figure>
<h2> Reinforced concrete would cost more than 1 billion yen.</h2>
 It was reported that the villa that Hiroshi Inaba (61) of B&#8217;z is building in Karuizawa is so luxurious that local residents have complained about it.
 According to a report in &#8220;Shukan Shincho,&#8221; the villa&#8217;s site is 5,000 square meters, an area slightly larger than the Tokyo Dome. The local residents must have been surprised. According to the article, the property includes a log cabin, an outdoor bath, a gym, and a studio, in addition to the residence.
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 According to the local real estate agent in the article, the land is worth just under 400 million yen. The total cost of all the buildings together would be between 500-800 million yen for a wooden structure and over 1 billion yen for a reinforced concrete structure. It is certainly luxurious.
 The article suggests that there are no particular problems with the residents, but there is a fear that the project may violate the &#8220;Nature Conservation Guidelines&#8221; of the town of Karuizawa.
 In the days when social networking services did not exist, celebrities themselves were often interviewed by weekly magazines or publicized their homes on TV programs. They must have been proud of it.
 Weekly magazines and other media carried popular articles featuring aerial shots of the mansions of foreign celebrities and the mansions of famous actors in the upscale residential areas of Denenchofu and Seijo in Tokyo, and TV programs introducing the homes of celebrities also garnered viewer ratings.
 In every era, mansions have always been intriguing to ordinary people, and when we featured them on our programs, we received a lot of feedback. But these days we don&#8217;t show the exterior. This is because anonymous and mobile crime groups have become more frequent, and the risk of being targeted by burglars has increased. Even if it is not a mansion, people are interested in the houses where celebrities live, and even content that introduces the interior of the house is popular,&#8221; said a director of a commercial variety show.
 Popular celebrities are also accompanied by &#8220;legends of mansions,&#8221; which may or may not be true.
 Inaba, in particular, is often heard to have a story about his mansion. In addition to his villa, he is said to have a mansion in a high-class residential area.
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 About 15 years ago, he lived in a house called &#8220;Denenchofu&#8221; in the west of Tokyo. About 15 years ago, the media reported that Inaba was building a mansion in Rokuroku-so, a super-luxury residential area in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, which is known as the Denenchofu of the west, or perhaps even more so.
 I once went to see the villa, which was being built for tax purposes. The house was surrounded by a high wall, so I could not see the whole picture, but what I could see through the open gate was a tennis court and a swimming pool.
 However, it was later discovered that the house was not owned by Inaba, but by someone associated with Bz&#8217;s office.
 Inaba was not alone. The story about his partner Takahiro Matsumoto (65) goes even further.
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<h2>A sighting on the shores of Lake Biwa.</h2>
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 When Osaka&#8217;s Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) moved its headquarters in &#8217;08, word got around that Matsumoto had purchased the site and the adjacent hotel.
 Matsumoto was supposed to build a studio there, but a tower condominium was eventually built. The story was not true.
 Of all the celebrities whose mansions have been the subject of such legends, Takuya Kimura (53) has by far the largest number of such mansions.
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 It is well known that he lived with his wife Shizuka Kudo (56) and her parents when they married, but at the time there were whispers that he was building a new house.
 According to information circulated among the media, the new house is located in Chiba Prefecture. It was a town by the sea, close to Kimura&#8217;s hometown.
 When we went to the site, we found a Provencal-style house with orange exterior walls and a blue roof. There was a golf course nearby, and the beach was only a few minutes&#8217; walk away. It was a perfect location for Kimutaku, who enjoys golf and surfing, and I thought to myself that it would be the kind of house Shizuka would like. &#8230;&#8230;
 I found out that the owner was a well-known computer software company in western Japan. I staked out the place for several days at the time, but of course neither Kimura nor Shizuka showed up.
 Another famous story is that he bought the top floor of a resort condominium that was built on the shore of Lake Biwa.
 Another story often whispered in the media is that Kimura is an expert black bass fisherman. Lake Biwa is home to black bass, and it was rumored that Kimura often went there. In fact, there was even a theory of a sighting.
 There was a twist to this story: there was a person who looked exactly like Kimura who lived in the Kansai region and who often went to Lake Biwa to fish for black bass. The acquaintance showed me a picture of this person, who, from a distance, certainly looked like Kimura, but he was much older than Kimura. It later turned out that the top floor of the apartment was owned by the chairman of a well-known company.
 Another Kansai comedian,
 &#8220;It looks like Kimura lives in Minoh,&#8221; a comedian from the Kansai region once said to me.
 Kimura is a very famous Japanese comedian. According to the comedian, Kimura was originally from Minoh and had relatives there.
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 I had never heard of such a story before, and it was completely without foundation. This was probably another story that grew out of the Sokki-San sightings. According to the comedian,
 As the comedian said, &#8220;I guess when idols get old, they want to go back to their hometowns.
 How very strange.
 The ultimate example is Okinawa.
 One day, while driving around the prefecture in a cab, the driver pointed to an elegant resort apartment and said, &#8220;This is Kimura&#8217;s house.
 This is Kimura&#8217;s house,&#8221; he said.
 I&#8217;ve seen him before.
 Have you ever seen him in person?
 I asked him.
 He said, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t, but my friends say they see him a lot.
 Another day, while riding in a cab, the driver pointed to a spacious but not so new apartment building and said, &#8220;Do you know it?
 He said, &#8220;Do you know this is Kimura&#8217;s house?　This is Kimura&#8217;s house.
 He said, &#8220;Do you know this is Kimura&#8217;s house?
 The driver also said that he had bought another apartment in the northern part of the city. None of this is credible, and it is just a rumor of unknown authenticity circulating in the local area.
 The fact that such &#8220;legends&#8221; keep popping up is the very sign of a big star&#8230;

 Hiroyuki Sasaki (entertainment journalist)

 Keisuke Nishi (Inaba), Yusuke Kondo (Kimura)

 Hiroshi Inaba of B'z is reportedly building a villa in Karuizawa on an expanse of land larger than the Tokyo Dome, which is said to be worth more than 1 billion yen. Entertainment journalists have heard various "legends" about the mansion, and we explore the truth behind it in this article. ......

B‛z Inaba has a villa in Karuizawa larger than the Tokyo Dome&#8230; The truth about the &#8220;legend of mansions&#8221; that haunt Takuya Kimura and other big-name celebrities.

B‛z Inaba has a villa in Karuizawa larger than the Tokyo Dome… The truth about the “legend of mansions” that haunt Takuya Kimura and other big-name celebrities.

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