Business

Shinjuku Moves to Ban Half Its Vacation Rentals

TL;DR

The Japan Times files Shinjuku planning to ban more than half its minpaku. A plan is not an ordinance. Print the move, not a lock on the door.

MSM Perspective

The Japan Times files the Monday plan. Public comment is still later. Monday does not invent a 2027 assembly vote as already passed.

X Perspective

Travel feeds treat a ward plan as already a citywide lockout.

Shinjuku Ward said it would move to ban vacation rentals in residential areas and near schools, a step that would hit more than half of its registered minpaku. [1] The Japan Times filed the plan on Monday. [1] A plan is not an ordinance. Print the move. Do not print a lock on the door.

Public comment is still later. An assembly vote is still later. Existing bookings are not cancelled tonight. Leave a named Taito follow to the edition that owns a named Taito follow. Print the ward. Print not a citywide ban.

Print the plan. Monday is not a locked Shinjuku. Half of the listings is still a target, not a padlock. Print the plan as Monday's named Tokyo hold. A zero-day cap is still a draft power, not tonight's rule. Print the move as still not an ordinance. Print more than half as still the named share. Print the plan as still the only honest Monday word.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo

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