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J.League Autumn-Spring Winter: J1 to Dec 19, Feb 13 Restart, 20 Venues
Posted: 2026.11.05From the 2026/27 season the J.League has moved to an autumn-spring calendar. J1 plays through Matchweek 20 on Saturday, December 19, 2026, then breaks for about eight weeks before resuming with Matchweek 21 on Saturday, February 13, 2027. For J2 and J3 the last matchday of the year is Sunday, December 13, and play resumes on Saturday, February 20. Reading the official J.League fixtures matchweek by matchweek, December — a month that had only one J1 matchday in the 2025 season — now carries 32 J1 matches spread over seven days. This article extracts from the official fixtures the venue cities that host matches during this "first autumn-spring winter," and sets out as baselines the room stock within a 5km radius of each stadium and the estimated settled ADR for December and February (finalized months) in the host prefectures and municipalities. It is written for hotel operators and revenue managers in stadium cities, and for the tourism departments of local governments.
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Wakkanai Saphir 40-50-Room Annex by 2028: 629-Room Area, 2x Summer ADR
Posted: 2026.11.05The Hokkaido Shimbun reported on November 21, 2025 that Wakkanai Kanko Kaihatsu, the operator of Saphir Hotel Wakkanai (サフィールホテル稚内) next to JR Wakkanai Station, plans to build an annex with 40-50 guest rooms on the hotel's site. The aim is to open as early as 2028. Within a 2km radius of the station, 11 properties with 629 rooms are currently operating, so if the annex is built, room stock in the area would rise by 6.4-7.9%. Meanwhile, Wakkanai City's estimated settled ADR climbed to ¥13,900 in August 2026, up 21.9% YoY, but March stood at ¥6,800, only half the summer level. Using this seasonal gap and Hokkaido's construction cost levels as clues, this article estimates the conditions under which adding 40-50 rooms in front of Japan's northernmost station can work.
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In-Room Dining 584 Ryokan vs Private Dining 359: Only 8% Offer Both
Posted: 2026.11.05Ryokan dinners are usually discussed in terms of what is served: kaiseki courses, wagyu, crab, buffets. Comparisons built around the food itself are plentiful, but where it is served — carried to the guest room as in-room dining (heyashoku), or in a private dining room away from other guests — has never been organized in numbers. When the HotelBank Editorial Team analyzed 449,991 guest reviews from the past 24 months (874 properties, excluding business and city hotels), in-room dining was mentioned favorably at 584 inns and private dining rooms at 359, while only 69 inns (7.9%) drew mentions of both formats. This article organizes the dinner service format along three axes — prefecture, property size and price band — and reads it alongside the operational constraint of serving staff.
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Oita Lodging Tax Starts June 2027: ¥100-2,000 Tiers, 2.2-3.1% Burden
Posted: 2026.11.05Oita Prefecture's lodging tax will start on Tuesday, June 1, 2027. The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications consented to the new tax on September 30, 2026. Implementation had initially been scheduled for January 2027 or later, but Governor Ichiro Sato announced at his regular press conference on October 6 that the start would be pushed back five months. The tax is set in four tiers — ¥100, ¥200, ¥500 and ¥2,000 — according to the lodging charge per person per night (excluding meals, consumption tax, etc.). This article converts the estimated settled ADR of the prefecture's 18 municipalities into a per-person room-only equivalent, and estimates which tiers properties in each town are likely to fall into and what the effective burden is relative to the room rate.
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Hiroshima Office-to-Hotel: 34 + 20 Rooms, +3.1% on 10,857 Within 1km
Posted: 2026.11.05On September 30, 2026, Sogo Jutaku (a group company of Dai-ichi Life Marubeni Real Estate) announced a silent-partnership (TK) equity investment in an apartment-hotel development at 14-18 Kanayamacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima. The project combines 34 rooms in an existing five-storey RC office building converted to hotel use with a new 20-room, five-storey steel-frame wing on the adjacent former mechanical car park — 54 rooms and 3,366.74m² of gross floor area in total. In the same Kanayamacho district, on Aioi-dori, Marubeni Urban Development and Tokyu Land will break ground on a 20-storey, 286-room hotel in November 2026. This article breaks down the “conversion wing + new-build wing” structure on a single site in terms of construction cost and floor use, and reads how the market will absorb these two projects (340 rooms) from the room stock and opening pipeline within a 1km radius of the site, 24 months of estimated settled ADR in Naka Ward, and booking curves.
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Hotel Laundry Capex: ¥11K–23K per Room — 16,925 Reviews, 33 in Tokyo
Posted: 2026.11.05Installing or expanding coin laundry at a hotel costs about ¥1.51 million in equipment if a 200-room business hotel adds four commercial washers and four dryers, or roughly ¥11,000–23,000 per room once construction is included. Meanwhile, when the HotelBank Editorial Team analysed guest reviews from the most recent 24 months, the top 100 properties where laundry is described positively drew 16,925 mentions, and 33 of them are in Tokyo. This article examines how location, hotel type and multi-night demand relate to properties praised for laundry in reviews, and estimates the payback on installing or expanding laundry facilities.
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Shiga Hotel Investment 2026: Otsu ¥11.7K, Nagahama ¥9.3K, Hikone ¥9.1K
Posted: 2026.11.05Ranking Shiga's municipalities by MetroEngines Research's estimated settled ADR, Otsu City is highest in September 2026 at ¥11,700 (N=32 properties), followed by Nagahama at ¥9,300 (N=23) and Hikone at ¥9,100 (N=21). The prefecture-wide level of ¥8,300 is 58% of Kyoto Prefecture (¥14,200), and the gap is widest in November, when Kyoto peaks for autumn foliage. This article divides Shiga's municipalities into three tiers — Lakeshore Resort, Castle Town & Heritage, and Southern Business & Industrial — overlays seasonality, estimated occupancy, surrounding population and employment, land prices and flood risk, and then estimates the required ADR for new builds in front of the three main stations.
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Kyushu Basho Hakata Hotels: Nov 21 98.1%, Nov 22 88.5%, Nov 23 76.4%
Posted: 2026.11.05Ahead of the Grand Sumo Kyushu Basho (Sunday, November 8 to Sunday, November 22, 2026, at Fukuoka Kokusai Center), business hotels in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City, show clearly different booking build-ups depending on the stay date. Lining up the booking curves by stay date as of November 4, 2026 (estimated OCC based on OTA-listed inventory, N=70 properties / 10,845 rooms), Saturday, November 21 — day 14 of the tournament and the first day of a three-day weekend — had already reached 98.1% at 18 days out, while the final day (senshuraku) on Sunday, November 22 stood at 88.5% at 19 days out and the last day of the long weekend, Monday, November 23 (public holiday), at 76.4% at 20 days out: a gap of more than 20pt across the three days of the same weekend. On weekdays, the first half of the tournament (Wednesday, November 11) stood at 81.9% at 22 days out, the second half (Wednesday, November 18) at 87.9%, and the post-tournament Wednesday, November 25 at 81.5% — so even during the tournament, first-week weekdays sit at almost the same level as after it. Rather than selling the 15 days as a single block, this article sets out...
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Nago 140-Room Onsen Hotel Plan: 1km Supply Up From 255 to 694 Rooms
Posted: 2026.11.05In November 2025, local media reported that Peace Kikaku (ピース企画), a Naha-based lodging company, plans a 9-story, roughly 140-room hotel with a natural hot spring (onsen) on the former fire station site in Agarie, Nago City. The site is a public plot of about 5,089㎡ that the city bought back in February 2024 and put out to tender a second time, and completion is targeted for as early as FY2027. Starting from this single project, this article layers the room stock within a 1km and 3km radius, the estimated settled ADR of Nago City and each northern resort area, zoning, land prices and tsunami inundation assumptions, and the surrounding resident and working population, to quantify which price band of the northern Okinawa market an onsen-equipped urban hotel in central Nago would serve.
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Kyoto ADR Flips Up in October: City +12.4%, Business +9.1% YoY
Posted: 2026.11.05HotelBank Editorial Team compiled the estimated settled ADR (tax-excluded equivalent) for city hotels and business hotels in Kyoto Prefecture as of November 4, 2026, and set it against the finalized figures for the same month a year earlier. September 2026 was still on the downward track that began in June: city hotels came in at ¥20,179 (N=61), down 14.6% from ¥23,624 (N=58) a year earlier, and business hotels at ¥11,701 (N=327), down 2.4% from ¥11,992 (N=319). October, finalized in early November, broke that run. City hotels reached ¥32,868 (N=63), up 12.4% YoY, and business hotels ¥19,704 (N=326), up 9.1%, the first month above the prior year in five months. The notable point of this release is that both categories turned at the same time. Business hotels had already narrowed their decline from −15.6% in August to −2.4% in September, but city hotels had posted double-digit declines through September. This article reads the June–October finalized figures by month and by ward, overlays the current November estimate and booking curves for the autumn foliage season, and sets out what to check when pricing the peak month. Coverage: Kyoto Prefecture city hotels N=55–64 properties and business hotels N=312–329 properties (varies by month; N=...