Resort areas dominate Japan’s apartment stock ratios
It might be easy to assume that central Tokyo would have the highest concentration of apartments in Japan. However, the capital is ranked 4th nationwide with the top 3 spots going to ageing resort towns.
Tokyo Kantei ranked the cities and towns in Japan that have the highest percentage of apartments as a share of total households.
In top spot is the ski town of Yuzawa in Niigata Prefecture, which has 4 times as many apartments as it does households. In 2015, the town had 14,369 apartments and 3,501 households. 92.1% of the town’s 14,000 apartments are resort-type apartments.Read more