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. Planned moves stay planned; Monday plans.

Draft powers draft; Monday drafts. Drafting is the update. Padlocks wait on ordinances.

Padlocks wait on ordinances; Monday's move is still a plan. Half of Shinjuku's listings is a target. Not a padlock tonight.

Vacation rentals near homes and schools are the target of Shinjuku's move, more than half the registered minpaku by The Japan Times. Public comment and an assembly vote have not happened. Tonight's bookings are not cancelled. The ward has a draft, not a padlock.
Tonight's bookings are not cancelled. More than half the registered minpaku are the target. No assembly vote has happened.

Tonight's bookings are not cancelled. No assembly vote has happened. Monday's Shinjuku file is a draft, not a padlock.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo

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