Travel deep into the forest in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, three hours west of Tokyo by train, and there beneath the Japanese red pine trees you’ll find the tiny home on wheels that tiny-house builder Yuichi Takeuchi uses as a mobile office and holiday home for himself, his wife and their two children.

Takeuchi, who started his tiny-home building company Tree Heads & Co in 2010, and produced the documentary Simplife in 2017, lives in another small house nearby and is a passionate advocate for living at what he calls “human scale”. By spreading the tiny home movement around Japan, he wants to help others simplify their lives and reconnect with the natural world.