Homes, minshuku and small inns across Japan
Japan, one house at a time.
Stay with the people who keep Japan's houses. Take each house's seal, and go on to the next.Homes and inns, kept by the people who live with them.
For hosts
You welcome them. We run everything behind the booking.
For travellers
Not a better hotel. A different night.
For centuries, travellers in Japan have slept under someone's roof. A minpaku keeps that night going: a person, a real house, a neighbourhood, a season.
- A person, not a front desk. Someone who knows where to eat tonight.
- A house, not a room number. A kitchen, a tatami room, a tree in the garden.
- A neighbourhood, not a lobby. Your morning walk is someone's way to work.
- A season, as the house knows it. Plum in February, rice in September, snow on the eaves.
Choose by the kind of house
Seven kinds of house, from the coast to the snow country.
Houses on Minpaku X
We choose every house one by one.
Every house has its own seal. Stay, take it, and go on to the next. How the Minpaku Pass works
For hosts
One booking comes in. Everything after it is handled.
Minpaku X brings travellers to your door, then runs the work behind every stay: calendars, messages, the guest register, the cleaning, the money.
A booking arrives. That night closes on every calendar.
HostPro見本 · SAMPLE The cleaner gets the job on LINE, with the checklist.
HostPro見本 · SAMPLE The traveller is welcomed in their own language, and fills in the register online.
HostPro見本 · SAMPLE Check-out. The receipt, the books and the town's tax are done.
Pro見本 · SAMPLE
見本 · SAMPLE A sample house and sample times.
Earn.
More nights, better priced.
Travellers collecting seals go looking for their next house, and your own site takes bookings too.
Hand it over.
Hours back, every month.
Messages, the register, the two-monthly reports and the receipts run themselves.
Belong.
Never host alone.
Hosts across Japan meet every month online, and each season somewhere new.
plannedNext meeting: Thursday 17 December, 14:00 · Online
House No. 001, Atami Umihoshi, runs on Minpaku X every day.
Three plans: Listed, Host and Pro. Plans from ¥1,000 a month + tax.
An idea from 1804
In 1804, travellers looked for a sign at the door.
A clerk of an Osaka merchant house, who travelled Japan selling goods, set out to gather inns that anyone could stay at safely. Each member hung the same sign at its door, and printed books listed them along the highways. We're hanging that sign again.
Source: Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima LibraryRead the story of staying in Japan's homes
Travellers. Every house on Minpaku X has its own seal. Gather them in your Minpaku Pass.
Start your Pass, freeHosts. Hosts meet every month online, and each season somewhere new.
planned Next: Thursday 17 December, 14:00 · Online
Join the circleKeep alive Japan's custom of taking travellers into the home, in a way that pays the people who keep it. About Minpaku X