Shigeru Kimura, a Tokyo real estate agent who specially in tiny homes, says, "Recently, more people, especially in their 30s and early 40s, want to live in central Tokyo. And more people are thinking of how to live on a small plot of land Architect Satoshi Kurosaki builds sleek, tiny, modern homes that answer this need. Kurosaki recalls that the first compact home he built was on a 2407 square-foot(23-square-meter) site. It was basically a large parking space in central Tokyo that a 27-year-old woman had inherited, and wanted to live on. Kurosaki somehow managed to design and fit a five-story home on the site.