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Important Information 1. Roommates are not allowed. If you live in a rental house or apartment with a person or persons not declared in the rental contract, or if you sublet, you have breached the contract. If you wish to have a roommate / roommates, or sublet a rental unit, you must obtain your landlord's permission. 2. Rooms cannot be remodeled or exchanged between tenants. You should not remodel the house or room without permission from the landlord. Also, you cannot exchange rooms with another tenant. 3. Garbage disposal Garbage is collected on a regular basis for environmental cleanliness and preservation. There are several rules (on the time and location of disposal etc.) you must observe when disposing of refuse. Burnable garbage, unburnable material, and oversize refuse are collected separately, on the on different days. You must put up garbage at the designated collection sites and the appropriate collection days. Otherwise, you will get into trouble with people in the neighborhood. Please ask your landlord or person/company who maintains about the garbage disposal rules. 4. Noise late at night Japanese people usually do not entertain guests at home. Inviting many friends to your house or room, and having parties till late at night, sometimes causes complaints from neighbors. Even if you ask your neighbors beforehand to tolerate the noise of your parties expected to last at night, you must remember that noise, loud voices or loud music at night is offensive to most people. You are advised to be particularly careful on this point. 5. Parking If you own a car and your house or apartment has no parking space, you must rent a parking place. Japanese police are very strict about violation of parking rules. Parking fines are expensive, and there is a system for towing away illegally parked car, with car owners required to pay the cost of towing. 6. Insurance The insurance is recommended for the tenants. In the case, the thief break in to your room, actually breaking the window glass, you have to fix it by yourself. Or in other case, by mistake if you broke the equipment in the room, or made the fire, burn down the apartment, you would be responsible fixing to the landlord or other tenants. The insurance helps you financially in those cases. |
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Housing Terminology 1. Rental contract. A document that states conditions to be observed by landlord and tenant. 2. Sublease An arrangement in which the tenant rents the house or room to a third party. You are required to obtain permission from your landlord if you sublease your house or room to another party. 3. Rent A stated amount of money to be paid every month for the use of the house or apartment rented from the landlord 4. Security deposit Money left with the landlord as security 5. Management fees These are fees you must pay in addition to rent, to cover maintenance and management (cleaning, repair, etc.) of communal facilities. 6. Commission fee This is the real estate agent's commission, usually the amount is one month's rent. 7. Redemption The landlord would deduct the cost of depreciation from the deposit, to recover the premises when the tenant vacate from the premise; cost of fixing normal wear and tear, some other damages. 8. Renewal Fee At the end of the term, to continue the lease agreement, the tenant pays it to landlords. In Nagoya city, we don't see it that often. 9. Guarantor A person who is held equally as financially responsible as the tenant. If the tenant fails to pay the rent, the guarantor will be required to pay it. 10. Abbreviations often used in real estate advertisement K: kitchenDK: dining room and kitchenLDK: living room, dining room and kitchenS: storage, study room, or closet space |
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Rough Indication of the Average cost for Rental Housing Each housing has also, dining room, kitchen, toilet, bath, and closet at least. Rent: Japanese Yen Area: Square Meter Utilities: electricity, gas, and water |
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