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New accommodation research reveals large differences in hotel supply around Japan’s ski areas. Alongside Okuibuki’s planned 54-room hotel, the findings raise questions about how destinations turn day visitors into overnight guests.
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Service apartments are expanding in Tokyo and Osaka as longer-stay visitors look for more space than a hotel and landlords look for returns above conventional residential rents.
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Alterra’s latest resort investment programme combines new terrain with the infrastructure needed to operate it. We examine the practical questions it raises for buyers assessing mountain property in Japan and further afield.
Uchi Insights combines real-world property activity, market data and local knowledge to examine what is actually happening across Japan’s resort and lifestyle property markets—and what the numbers can, and cannot, tell us.
Our complete Winter 2025/26 Resort Intelligence series brings together asking prices, recorded sales, ¥/sqm, liquidity, scarcity and Uchi’s analysis across Japan’s leading mountain property markets.
Recorded resort-property activity accelerated in Winter 2025/26, but the broader asking market moved much less dramatically than some sold-unit averages suggest. Uchi explains why product mix, ¥/sqm and liquidity now need to be read together.
Explore the latest Uchi Insights Premium reports covering Japan’s resort and lifestyle property markets, with data-led analysis, market commentary and subscriber access.
The yen’s recent rebound has already made Japanese property more expensive for overseas buyers, offering a timely reminder that exchange-rate discounts can disappear much faster than property prices change.
Japan's mountain property story is no longer simply Niseko versus everywhere else. The 2025 data points to sharply different markets, price structures and forms of value.
Free analysis, market data and new research from Uchi Insights, covering Japan’s leading resort and lifestyle property markets.
Hirafu apartment sales jumped from 13 to 53 and the median sold ticket fell to about ¥38 million, yet the median asking price stayed at ¥180 million and asking ¥/sqm edged higher.
Tremblant’s C$42.5 million expansion will devote 95% of its new terrain to beginners and intermediates. The plans offer a useful perspective on family holidays, accommodation design and the customers shaping the next phase of resort investment.
Daiwa House is reorganising its domestic housing business around two pillars — new construction and existing housing — as population decline and rising costs reshape where future demand will come from.
Public figures from Nippon Ski Resort Development show strong growth in estimated international visitors alongside broadly stable overall winter numbers. The differences between its mountains offer a more selective view of Japan’s ski market.
Niseko’s parent-level sold average fell sharply while active asking values were much steadier. The explanation sits inside Hirafu, Other Niseko, Kutchan and the other sub-markets.
Japan’s record July arrivals mask sharp changes in its visitor mix, while accommodation figures tell a more complicated story. We examine what the latest data can tell resort businesses and property owners about the demand behind the headline.
Shinjuku plans to ban many short-term rentals even where they are already operating legally, highlighting a risk property investors can easily underestimate: rental permissions can change after purchase.
Niseko apartment sold values fell sharply, yet the median asking price did not move. Hakuba apartment tickets fell while asking ¥/sqm surged. The active market changes the interpretation of the sales data.
Nearly every major condominium management company surveyed in Japan has proposed higher repair reserves over the past year, highlighting a growing ownership cost that buyers cannot afford to overlook.
Some resort averages moved dramatically in Winter 2025/26. The active asking market often moved far less. Uchi separates sales composition from broader pricing to identify the kind of momentum each resort actually has.
Thirteen Park Hyatt-branded villas of up to 1,000 sqm are about to test the very top of Niseko’s residential market, where scarcity, design and service are increasingly becoming as important as location.
Uchi Insights combines real-world property activity, market data and local knowledge to examine what is actually happening across Japan’s resort and lifestyle property markets—and what the numbers can, and cannot, tell us.
