Yuzawa

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.

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