Nakagin Capsule Tower could be spared from demolition
According to Jiji Press, the Nakagin Capsule Tower apartment building, a surviving icon of Japan’s metabolism movement in the 1970s, may soon have a savior in the form of a foreign corporation that is looking to acquire the land rights.
2.57 offers made per apartment in Harumi Flag
The first round of sales in the Harumi Flag (Olympic Village) project on Tokyo Bay wrapped up on August 4. A total of 1,543 purchase applications were made on the 600 apartments offered for sale, with the most popular apartment receiving 71 applications.
Shirokane The Sky to go on sale this October
Sales in Shirokane The Sky, a large-scale condo project located in central Tokyo, are scheduled to start this October. Construction has only just started, with apartments expected to be ready to move into from March 2023.
Tokyo hotel pricing heats up for 2020 Olympics
With less than a year to go until the 2020 Summer Olympics, accommodation options for visitors and volunteers are already extremely thin and price hikes have started.
The top stations in Tokyo with the best resale values
Tokyo Kantei has released their ranking of the top train stations across greater Tokyo that have provided the highest increase in the resale value of apartments in 2018.
Tokyo Apartment Sales in July 2019
The following is a selection of apartments that were reported to have sold in central Tokyo during the month of July 2019:
Kyoto hotel guests reach record high in 2018
US-based Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Kyoto as one of the top 10 World’s Best Cities for the past seven years, so it is no wonder that in 2018 the number of hotel guests in Kyoto reached the highest number in history. The historic city welcomed 15.82 million hotel guests, up 1.6% from 2017 and the second year in a row to exceed 15 million.