Accommodation

Information about Renting Public Housing

Shizuoka – Renting Prefectural Housing

Prefectural Housing – Shizuoka-ken Jutaku Kyokyu Kousha (sjkk.or.jp)

Hamamatsu City – Renting Municipal Housing

Municipal Housing – Hamamatsu City Government (city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp)

Renting from UR (Urban Renaissance Agency)

Information about UR Rental Housing (in English)

Privately Rented Housing

Village House

List of All Rental Properties (villagehouse.jp)

Room 08

List of Properties in Shizuoka Prefecture (08group.com)

Alive

List of All Rental Properties in Western Shizuoka Prefecture (chintai-alive.jp)

We will continue to update the links to websites of organizations like Maruhachi Assets, Alive etc. that actively rent rooms to foreign residents, when they reach out to us.

Guidelines and Guidebooks by the Government / Applying for a Loan Guarantor in a Foreign Language

The Immigration Bureau of Japan has created a Foreign Resident Support Portal Website in which we have uploaded the following: Guidelines to smoothly rent from private bodies (one for the renter and intermediary and one for proprietary company); a guidebook for foreign residents (living in Japan) who are house hunting; and applying for a loan guarantor in a foreign language etc.

Guidebooks and Guideline from the Immigration Bureau (In Japanese) (moj.go.jp)