Thread: Do rich/ upper class japanese have vacation homes on the beach in the Philippines? - Yahoo! Answers

Just visit davao city and Go to PEARL FARM, its amazing...

No. Main reason is no foreigners may own land in the Philippines. Now unless someone built townhouses or condos on the beach the chances are zero.

First of all, foreigners are not allowed to own land in the Philippines, so they're pretty much restricted to condos. Even with my wife being a Filipina, I still have no legal rights to her properties. We had to get our kids dual citizenship just so they can inherit them. Rich Japanese probably wouldn't vacation in the Philippines (they would go to Hawaii). This leaves Koreans and Chinese. We have a timeshare in Clark and its...

i also heard that,...they also buy private islands in the arki-pe lago

The Japanese people I see in the Philippines are the working-class Japanese. By local standards, they will be upper class. No, I haven't seen any concentration of Japanese people in Philippine beaches. They live mostly in high-rise condominiums in Makati. There are no "tourist towns" either. They tend to scatter themselves in different places. Although Baguio and Tagaytay, because of the generally cooler climate,...

Is there any rich tourist towns filled with many japanese koreans chinese that own many homes and its kinda upscale?

I don't think so