{"id":47243,"date":"2025-12-12T08:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/?p=47243"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:11:11","slug":"easy-guide-how-international-students-can-find-an-apartment-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/easy-guide-how-international-students-can-find-an-apartment-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"How International Students Can Find an Apartment in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding a place to live is one of the first problems international students face in Japan.<br>This guide explains the steps, costs, and documents in simple English.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 Check Your School\u2019s Dormitory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask your school if they have a dormitory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Good points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Simple process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Close to school<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students choose private rooms because they want more privacy and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47250\" style=\"width:647px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2.png 790w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u5b66\u751f\u5bee-2-496x301.png 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 Money You Need at the Start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you rent a room in Japan, you need to pay several fees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First month\u2019s rent<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deposit<\/strong> (usually 2 months of rent)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Key money<\/strong> (1\u20132 months of rent, not returned)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Agency fee<\/strong> (about 1 month of rent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25b6 Total cost can be <strong>up to 6 times the monthly rent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 Important Documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Residence Card<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Passport<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Airports where you can get your Residence Card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can receive your card at these airports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Chitose \/ Narita \/ Haneda \/ Chubu \/ Kansai \/ Hiroshima \/ Fukuoka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At other airports, you must go to a city office later, which is hard without a home address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u7a7a\u6e2f-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u7a7a\u6e2f-1.webp 474w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u7a7a\u6e2f-1-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/seahome.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u7a7a\u6e2f-1-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 Other Things You May Need<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal seal (inkan)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many places accept signatures now, but a seal is still useful.<br>Some real estate offices may ask for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Certificate of Enrollment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes landlords or agencies ask for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japanese Bank Account<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Needed for rent and utility payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 Choose a Good Real Estate Agency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the most important step.<br>A good agency makes renting much easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some landlords do not rent to foreigners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not all guarantee companies accept foreign students<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agencies know which rooms allow foreign tenants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They help with forms and communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 SeaHome Support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SeaHome<\/strong> has strong experience helping many international students,<br>especially students from <strong>Sri Lanka and other South Asian countries<\/strong>.<br>They support <strong>English, Sinhala, and Spanish<\/strong>,<br>so students can feel safe and comfortable during the whole process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a place to live is one of the first problems international students face in Japan.This guide explains the steps, costs, and documents in simple English. \u25a0 Check Your School\u2019s Dormitory Ask your school if they have a dormitory. Good points: Some students choose private rooms because they want more privacy and freedom. \u25a0 Money You Need at the Start When you rent a room in Japan, you need to pay several fees: \u25b6 Total cost can be up to 6 times the monthly rent. \u25a0 Important Documents You need: Airports where you can get your Residence Card You can receive your card at these airports: New Chitose \/ Narita [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[560,578,556,546,577,547,579,554,559,557,558],"class_list":["post-47243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cheap-houses-for-sale-in-yokohama","tag-foreignersinjapan","tag-furnished-apartments-yokohama","tag-legal-revision","tag-monthlyapartmentjapan","tag-non-rebuildable-property","tag-shorttermrentaljapan","tag-yokohama-apartments","tag-yokohama-apartments-for-sale","tag-yokohama-house-for-rent","tag-yokohama-real-estate-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47254,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47243\/revisions\/47254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seahome.jp\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}