Now that almost everything is available on the Internet, ranging from hard-to-buy tickets to popular rock concerts to one-night stands on murky Web sites for adult users, it takes something special to grab the attention of jaded Internet users.

But that is just what the town of Niikappu, southern Hokkaido, managed to do when it put four items up for sale recently on Yahoo! Japan's online auction site.

The items in question are four elementary school buildings ranging in price from ¥21.8 million to ¥67.4 million.