Tokyo apartments register as ‘hotels’ to avoid vacation-rental clampdown
Travel & Leisure
Loophole leveraging loose definitions drives surge in new facilities, complaints
Sensoji Temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district is popular with tourists from overseas. (Photo by Sae Kamae)
TOKYO — As Japan steps up oversight of short-term private vacation rentals, operators in downtown Tokyo are capitalizing on a legal loophole that allows for individual apartments to be registered as hotels.
