▼ So we let the water flow for a while until it came out clean, and decided to test its safety with a water-testing kit. This was an unexpected perk we hadn’t been told about when we bought the property, and seeing as it was spring water, we figured it must’ve come out brown at first due to the pipes being dirty and unused for so long. The SoraHouse is located halfway up a mountain, and according to the previous owner, a factory at the bottom of the mountain sterilises the very same water and sells it as natural mineral water. Our boss, Yoshio, however, was able to speak to the former owner of the property, who told him that what they’d found wasn’t well water, but mountain spring water.Īpparently, this water is free to use, and the other houses nearby also have similar taps giving them access to the water source. It was clear to everyone that the tap wasn’t connected to the nearby river, so everyone’s next best guess was that it might be coming from some sort of well. ▼ The SoraHouse is yet to be connected to a water supply, so none of the other taps on the property work.įinding a source of running water on the property that might be fit for consumption was an exciting prospect for our ever-thirsty renovation team, but first they needed to solve the mystery of where the water was coming from. Our reporter Go Hatori had never seen anything like it before, and being the curious countryside explorer he is, he wasted no time in turning the faucet on, but what came out was brown, muddy looking water. “Tap posts”, as standalone outdoor taps are officially known, usually consist of a tap attached to a vertical wooden plank, not a weird pipe-looking protrusion like this one. Our latest discovery was a mysterious tap, which we found after clearing out some overgrown bushes next to the house. Last year, we bought a house in the Japanese countryside for US$9,100, and since then we’ve been making all sorts of unusual discoveries involving mountaintop views and visits from local raccoons.
Dare we drink the water from this strange source we discovered on our property?
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