While the number of foreigners visiting Japan is increasing, accommodation service called "Minpaku" which individuals rent their vacant room personally with fixed charges per nigh has spread around Japan. While hotel rooms are not enough for foreign visitors, vacant guest rooms of private residence have increased due to an influence of aging instead. There are some people who earn more than 4million yen by means of this accommodation service and recently related services have been launched one after another. However most of the people who join this service haven't get an official concession which is regulated by Hotel and Ryokan Management Law from local authority so the government started fact-finding investigation.
"I can find luxury hotel around the world but only the room we wanted to stay for us visiting Japan all the way from France was the room laid tatami on its floor." This Spring, a french family stayed Machiya (tradesmen's houses) style house which is general residence in Kyoto. This family is as rich as always traveling around the world with first class seats of the airplane. A Japanese man who rent this house were surprised with unexpected visitor.
The service connecting both of their demand this time was the one provided by "Airbnb" founded in 2008 which is a famous website for people to list, find, and rent lodging. This service brings host(accommodation provider) and guest(visitor) together on the internet and has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries.
According to the company, the number of registrations of rooms in Japan has rapidly increased threefold this year. In this August, 13 thousand rooms are registered. This Japanese man who rent his house to a french family made a contract with a number of property owners who own rental apartments or houses for renting rooms temporarily for visitors and registered these rooms on the website. He told that he sometimes could earn more than 4 million yen a month. He surprised "I've never imagined such popularity. This is terribly unexpected big additional income."
He hasn't got an official concession which is regulated by Hotel and Ryokan Management Law. He said "this is voluntary contract between host and guest. Why do I need to get an official concession? "
Ventures that serve as an agent for services for host appear one after another. Their main service is to solve any problems which is supposed to happen while visitors stay in that room and make good environment that guest can have a relaxed and pleasant time as if staying hotel, which is difficult for amateur to imitate like sending interpreter and housekeeper. They make profit from a part of the sales of hosts' and handling charge on some pretext or other. A new host supporting venture developing in Tokyo which support around 30 hosts to provide knowhow of hospitality and agent service proposes a interesting plan that a host and a guest go to Izakaya for fun to make good friendship together. The venture said "We contract for not only agent service for host but also try to provide good experience for guest and host which never includes ordinary package tour which major travel agency is selling. "
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, percentage of vacant all over Japan is 13.5% , which has reached the highest-ever level in the background of aging and depopulation in 2013. A rental apartment owner said "there are a lot of owners who are suffering with vacant room. But this business is very good because foreigners are willing to stay at even such a room as Japanese people don't like."
The price of "Minpaku" is around 10,000yen. According to the profit list of service agency, if renting Mintpaku an apartment located in Shibuya which costs 127,000 yen per month in rent (30㎡) , the apartment owner expect sales of 360,000 yen per month. Handling charge for service agency is 140,000 yen so when subtracting handling charge from total sales, the profit host can receive is going to be 220,000 yen. This kind of rental apartment business for foreign visitor is gathering people's attention as one of investment because owner is able to expect high profit. Managing director of a service agency said "I was asked by an investor to increase his capital up to 100 million yen through Airbnb. I turned down his offer after all because of lack of sufficient staff but I have a confidence to make high profit if everything is ready for investing perfectly. "
There are business men who chip in money for Airbnb business to register as host and a property owner who cancel selling condominium apartment all of sudden and start joining AIrbnb business. A salesman working in real estate agent said "this is not the time to rent apartment to Japanese. If possible, I want to register a whole building."
"I can find luxury hotel around the world but only the room we wanted to stay for us visiting Japan all the way from France was the room laid tatami on its floor." This Spring, a french family stayed Machiya (tradesmen's houses) style house which is general residence in Kyoto. This family is as rich as always traveling around the world with first class seats of the airplane. A Japanese man who rent this house were surprised with unexpected visitor.
The service connecting both of their demand this time was the one provided by "Airbnb" founded in 2008 which is a famous website for people to list, find, and rent lodging. This service brings host(accommodation provider) and guest(visitor) together on the internet and has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries.
According to the company, the number of registrations of rooms in Japan has rapidly increased threefold this year. In this August, 13 thousand rooms are registered. This Japanese man who rent his house to a french family made a contract with a number of property owners who own rental apartments or houses for renting rooms temporarily for visitors and registered these rooms on the website. He told that he sometimes could earn more than 4 million yen a month. He surprised "I've never imagined such popularity. This is terribly unexpected big additional income."
He hasn't got an official concession which is regulated by Hotel and Ryokan Management Law. He said "this is voluntary contract between host and guest. Why do I need to get an official concession? "
Ventures that serve as an agent for services for host appear one after another. Their main service is to solve any problems which is supposed to happen while visitors stay in that room and make good environment that guest can have a relaxed and pleasant time as if staying hotel, which is difficult for amateur to imitate like sending interpreter and housekeeper. They make profit from a part of the sales of hosts' and handling charge on some pretext or other. A new host supporting venture developing in Tokyo which support around 30 hosts to provide knowhow of hospitality and agent service proposes a interesting plan that a host and a guest go to Izakaya for fun to make good friendship together. The venture said "We contract for not only agent service for host but also try to provide good experience for guest and host which never includes ordinary package tour which major travel agency is selling. "
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, percentage of vacant all over Japan is 13.5% , which has reached the highest-ever level in the background of aging and depopulation in 2013. A rental apartment owner said "there are a lot of owners who are suffering with vacant room. But this business is very good because foreigners are willing to stay at even such a room as Japanese people don't like."
The price of "Minpaku" is around 10,000yen. According to the profit list of service agency, if renting Mintpaku an apartment located in Shibuya which costs 127,000 yen per month in rent (30㎡) , the apartment owner expect sales of 360,000 yen per month. Handling charge for service agency is 140,000 yen so when subtracting handling charge from total sales, the profit host can receive is going to be 220,000 yen. This kind of rental apartment business for foreign visitor is gathering people's attention as one of investment because owner is able to expect high profit. Managing director of a service agency said "I was asked by an investor to increase his capital up to 100 million yen through Airbnb. I turned down his offer after all because of lack of sufficient staff but I have a confidence to make high profit if everything is ready for investing perfectly. "
There are business men who chip in money for Airbnb business to register as host and a property owner who cancel selling condominium apartment all of sudden and start joining AIrbnb business. A salesman working in real estate agent said "this is not the time to rent apartment to Japanese. If possible, I want to register a whole building."