“Long-stay hotel” has not settled into a single, agreed product category in Japan. Properties sold on something close to a monthly contract, ordinary hotels that simply list a consecutive-night plan, and serviced apartments that sit close to rental housing all appear side by side in the same search results. This article is written for investors, operators and corporate travel bookers. It separates the field into three business models, sets out the publicly disclosed terms of the major brands operating in Japan with sources attached, and then measures the 30-consecutive-night total for six major cities from MetroEngines Research listed-price data.

The long-stay hotel category splits into three business models

Start with the definitions. The properties grouped under the long-stay label fall into three models that differ in how revenue is built, how the contract is written, and how the room is designed. Without that distinction, lumping everything together as “long stay” makes neither a rate comparison nor a read on supply possible.

The three types of long-stay hotel

Business model	Contract / unit of sale	Room design	Revenue characteristics
Monthly-contract type	A block such as 30 nights is sold as a single product. The rate is fixed for the period, with no lease agreement, deposit, key money or guarantor required	Ordinary hotel rooms, unchanged. Housekeeping is typically thinned out to once every few days	The per-room rate is lower, but occupancy and collection are locked in ahead of time. Housekeeping and front-desk costs are compressed as well
Consecutive-night plan type	Plans with a consecutive-night condition — 7 nights or more, 14 nights or more — are layered on top of ordinary per-night selling	Existing rooms are used as they are. Shared facilities such as a coin laundry cover the needs of a longer stay	Long-stay demand can be captured with existing inventory, with the flexibility to revert to ordinary selling on days when short-stay demand is strong
Serviced apartment type	Built around stays of 30 days or more, often contracted with corporate clients on a monthly quotation	Units come with a kitchen, washer-dryer, furniture and appliances, and floor areas close to residential	Rates are high and stays are long. Demand is led by corporate accounts — expatriates, secondees and construction and plant workers

Source: compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from company disclosures

Between these three types sits the “apartment-hotel format,” where the rooms themselves are designed for a long stay but are still sold from a single night. These properties have a kitchen and a washer-dryer, sleep four to six, and are sold by the room; new openings in this tier have continued in Japan in recent years. In the price measurement later in this article, this tier is treated as its own category.

Why are operators looking at this field now? The reason is revenue smoothing. Securing one 30-night stay and winning 30 one-night bookings produce the same top line, but the operational load and the cancellation risk are very different. Overseas, the room count at long-stay hotels in the United States is reported to have grown by more than 50% between 2012 and 2022, expanding at 7.1% a year against 3.2% for the hotel market as a whole (Travel Voice, in Japanese). Japan has a deep supply of rental housing, so the American style of “living in a hotel” will not transplant directly. But in areas where three demand sources overlap — inbound long stays, construction and plant workers, and foreign expatriates — the model has room to work.

Major brands operating in Japan, listed side by side

Below are the major brands that officially market a long-stay product, presented side by side. No ranking by property count or room count is applied. Operators do not count “number of locations” the same way — some include only directly managed properties, others franchisees and partners — so there is no meaning in a third party recounting them and assigning positions. Everything listed comes from each company’s own disclosures.

Major brands operating in Japan, listed side by side

Brand (operator)	Main cities	Contract / booking unit	Room and stay facilities	Source
Ascott / Citadines / Somerset (The Ascott Japan)	Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka	Serviced residences covering everything from a single short night to a long stay	Residence-specification units. Citadines entered Japan in 2009	The Ascott Japan
APA Hotel (APA Hotel Network)	Nationwide	A monthly plan for 30 consecutive nights at the same hotel. Published from ¥105,000 for 30 nights	Standard housekeeping including a change of sheets and pillowcases every three nights. Desk power outlet, free Wi-Fi and wired LAN, suitable for remote work	APA Hotel official
Oakwood (part of The Ascott since 2022)	Tokyo, Osaka	Serviced apartments. Built around long stays, but short stays are accepted	Units with furniture, appliances and a kitchen. The Japan roll-out began in Akasaka, Tokyo in 2000	SA navi
Tokyu Stay (Tokyu Stay Service)	Tokyo and nationwide	Weekly and monthly plans of 7 to 31 nights. A flat-rate long-stay plan is available at 30 locations nationwide, with no contract or screening required. Stays of 32 nights or more are handled by Tokyu Stay Residence	A washer-dryer in every room. A mini kitchen, microwave and cookware in some rooms. About 20 sqm on average, with utilities and Wi-Fi included in the room rate and no set-up costs	Tokyu Stay official
Dormy Inn (Kyoritsu Maintenance)	Nationwide	Weekly and monthly long-stay plans marketed as “urban workation”	The distinguishing feature is being able to stay long term at a property with a large communal bath	Dormy Inn official
Fraser Residence (Frasers Hospitality)	Osaka	Covers everything from a single night to a long stay	A kitchen, cookware and a washer-dryer in every unit	Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau
Hotel MONday / MONday Apart	Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka	Weekly and monthly plans from 7, 14 and 30 nights. Beyond 30 nights, stays can be extended one day at a time	Induction kitchen, fully automatic washer-dryer, large refrigerator, microwave, rice cooker and cookware. No deposit, no key money and no utility charges, Wi-Fi included. Weekly housekeeping is built into the room rate	Hotel MONday official
MYSTAYS (Iconia Hospitality)	Major cities nationwide	Long-stay plans from 7 nights, plus monthly plans from 30 nights	Housekeeping and linen-change terms vary by property and plan	MYSTAYS official
MIMARU (Cosmos Hotel Management / Daiwa House Group)	Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka	Sold by the night as standard. The room design itself is built for long stays and larger parties	Spacious rooms sleeping up to 10, with a dining table, kitchen and cookware. A 24-hour coin laundry or an in-room washing machine	MIMARU official (in Japanese)
Minn (SQUEEZE)	Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hokkaido and others	An apartment hotel sold by the night that also accommodates long-stay use	Mostly rooms of 25 sqm or more with a kitchen. Mobile and self check-in run on an in-house system	SQUEEZE official

Source: compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team from company disclosures (this table is in Japanese alphabetical order and applies no ranking by scale or merit)

Read the table across and it becomes clear that each operator is competing on a different axis. One brand puts a flat-rate 30-night product on a nationwide network; another absorbs the “living” part of a stay by fitting a washer-dryer in every room; a third goes after multi-guest long stays with kitchens and large rooms; a fourth offers residence-specification units on the assumption of a corporate contract. The axis a reader should choose on is not “which is biggest” but “which fits what my company or my department actually needs.”

Measured across six major cities, the 30-night total has a median of ¥330,000 to ¥610,000

Now to the measurement. For the 30 consecutive nights from Thursday 1 October to Friday 30 October 2026, the cheapest listed price for each night (two guests per room, tax included) was summed for each property. The scope is business and city hotels in six major cities, limited to properties with 20 rooms or more where listings were observed on at least 28 of the 30 nights.

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team

30-consecutive-night total for six major cities (1–30 October 2026, two guests per room, tax included, N=2,184 properties)

City	Properties	25th percentile	Median	75th percentile	Per night (median)
Kyoto City	299	¥482,904	¥607,221	¥797,501	¥20,241
Tokyo 23 wards	891	¥460,859	¥566,156	¥764,532	¥18,872
Fukuoka City	218	¥415,747	¥490,964	¥613,216	¥16,365
Nagoya City	148	¥376,279	¥449,993	¥517,736	¥15,000
Sapporo City	161	¥347,614	¥390,345	¥454,540	¥13,012
Osaka City	467	¥281,200	¥337,365	¥429,643	¥11,246

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team (30 nights from 1 to 30 October 2026, two guests per room, tax included, sum of the cheapest listed price each night)

At the median, the gap between the most expensive city, Kyoto (about ¥607,000), and the cheapest, Osaka (about ¥337,000), is 1.8x. Per night that is about ¥20,200 against about ¥11,200 — and the fact that this is the spread across the same 30 days of the same October is exactly where the difference in each city’s supply and demand shows. Kyoto in autumn stacks sightseeing demand on top of international conferences and school trips, while Tokyo has a thick floor of business demand all year. Osaka, by contrast, has heavy room supply, and its 25th percentile falls into the ¥280,000s.

What matters in practice to a corporate booker is not the median but the distance between the 25th and 75th percentiles. In Tokyo’s 23 wards that runs from about ¥461,000 to about ¥765,000, a spread of 1.66x. Even for the same “30 nights in Tokyo,” the choice of location and property grade alone moves the total by more than ¥300,000. Put the other way round, arranging a long stay is mostly decided before any rate negotiation, in the design of which price band of inventory you go looking at. How the total builds up when a stay stretches to two months is measured on the same listed-price basis in Hotel Long Stay for 2 Months: What 60 Nights Costs, ¥790,000 in Tokyo and ¥490,000 in Osaka.

By business model, the 30-night total splits into three tiers

Next, taking only the brands that carry a long-stay product, the 30-night total was aggregated on the same terms as above. The scope is 192 properties located in major cities, of which the 172 that could be clearly classified are organised into four categories.

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team

30-consecutive-night total by business model (per room, two guests per room, tax included, N=172 properties)

Business model	Properties	25th percentile	Median	75th percentile
Hotels with consecutive-night plans	47	¥322,288	¥415,041	¥519,749
Extended-stay hotels (washer-dryer in the room)	28	¥555,099	¥730,770	¥1,015,989
Serviced apartment type	8	¥690,477	¥1,165,356	¥2,771,662
Apartment-hotel format	89	¥880,068	¥1,200,505	¥1,559,464

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team (N=172 properties, per-room total for two guests per room, tax included)

These categories organise price bands that follow from differences in product design; they do not rank brands. The extended-stay level has in-room washer-dryers and mini kitchens priced into it, and the serviced apartment level has residential floor areas, furniture and appliances priced into it. And the per-room figures must not be read straight across as “which is more expensive.” Rooms at hotels with consecutive-night plans are mostly designed for one or two guests, whereas apartment-hotel and serviced apartment rooms are designed for four to six — up to ten at some brands. Comparing per-room amounts alone puts things with different floor areas and different capacities on the same scale.

Booked for four, the per-person gap narrows from 2.7x to 1.3x

So the same 30-night aggregation was run for apartment-hotel properties using the listed price for four guests in one room, then converted to a per-person figure. The scope is the 86 properties with four-guest listings observed on at least 28 nights.

Apartment-hotel format: 30-night total for four guests per room and the per-person equivalent (N=86 properties)

Area	Properties	30-night total (four per room, median)	Per person, 30 nights	Per person, per night
Tokyo	54	¥1,504,074	¥376,018	¥12,534
Kyoto	18	¥1,259,030	¥314,758	¥10,492
Osaka	10	¥1,149,758	¥287,439	¥9,581
All	86	¥1,320,914	¥330,229	¥11,008

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team (four guests per room, tax included, sum of the cheapest listed price each night)

Compared within Tokyo, an apartment-hotel room for four comes to about ¥1.50M per room, 2.66x the median for a business or city hotel room for two (about ¥566,000). Converted to a per-person figure, though, it is about ¥376,000 against about ¥283,000 — the gap narrows to 1.33x. On top of that, apartment-hotel rooms have a kitchen and laundry facilities inside the room, so food and cleaning costs during the stay come down structurally. For placing a team of three or four in one city for a month, judging on the per-room total alone leads to the wrong decision. How the presence of an in-room kitchen moves food costs during a stay is worked through in Meals on a Long Hotel Stay in Japan: Three Patterns and the Switch to a Kitchen Room.

For a solo 30-night stay, conversely, the band for hotels with consecutive-night plans (median about ¥415,000, about ¥322,000 at the 25th percentile) is the realistic option. As the brand table above shows, this tier has an established format for selling 30 nights as a single flat-rate product, and APA Hotel publishes a monthly plan from ¥105,000 for 30 nights. Whether the use case is a solo business stay, a medium-term project run by a team, or preparation for a posting with family in tow changes which business model to choose.

What drives the 30-night total up is how many Saturdays fall inside the period

When 30 nights are stacked up from ordinary one-night bookings, the swing in nightly rate by day of the week is a large part of the total. For 96 long-stay brand properties in Tokyo and 518 business hotels across the eight central wards, a day-of-week price index was calculated with each property’s 30-night median set at 100.

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team

At long-stay brands, Saturday runs 133.1 and Monday 92.4, a gap of 40.7 points. Business hotels trace almost the same shape at 131.3 on Saturday and 88.9 on Monday, which shows the two are operating on the same demand curve. The period aggregated here, 1 to 30 October 2026, contains four Saturdays (the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th), and those four nights are what tell on the total.

Two practical implications follow. One is that shifting the start date by a single day can leave the period holding either four Saturdays or five. Even so, as the table below shows, the effect on the 30-night total is limited, so for a budget going through approval it pays more to settle the price band first than to adjust the start date. The other is the operator’s view. Because Saturdays stand out when bookings are stacked up in the ordinary way, a flat-rate monthly product that smooths them away carries a clear value for the customer: the price is easy to read. That several brands in the table above lead with “flat rate,” “no set-up costs” and “utilities included” can be read as making that legibility itself the product.

Change in the total by starting day of the week (approximate, Thursday start as the baseline)

Starting day	Saturdays in the period	Long-stay brands (Tokyo, N=96 properties)	Business hotels (Tokyo 8 central wards, N=518 properties)
Thursday start (1 October, as in this article)	4	Baseline	Baseline
Friday start	5	+1.1%	+1.0%
Saturday start	5	+0.8%	+0.7%
Sunday start	4	−0.5%	−0.7%
Monday start	4	−0.7%	−0.6%
Tuesday start	4	−0.5%	−0.3%
Wednesday start	4	−0.3%	−0.1%

Source: MetroEngines Research, compiled by the HotelBank Editorial Team (an approximation applying the day-of-week price index in the chart above to 30 nights = 4 weeks + 2 nights. It does not reflect the actual price movements of individual properties)

Even a Friday start, which puts five Saturdays inside the period, lifts the total by only about 1% on this approximation. Applied to the median for business and city hotels in Tokyo’s 23 wards (about ¥566,000), that is a difference of about ¥5,700. Night by night, Saturday stands out at more than 30% above the median, but averaged across 30 nights it thins out. What moves the 30-night total substantially is not the start date but the choice of price band seen earlier — more than ¥300,000 between the 25th and 75th percentiles in Tokyo’s 23 wards.

Three points for investors and operators

Finally, the points to weigh when looking at this field as a business.

First, how much revenue smoothing to count on. A 30-night stay fixes occupancy and collection in advance, but the rate over that period sits below what peak days could have sold for. In this measurement, Saturdays at long-stay brands in Tokyo ran +33.1% against the median. Selling 30 nights at a flat rate is precisely the decision to give up that upside in exchange for certainty. The deeper the occupancy trough at a location, the better the terms of that trade; the thicker the floor of business demand in a city centre, the more careful the design has to be.

Second, room design determines the demand segment. Whether a kitchen and a washer-dryer go inside the room changes which demand you can go after. A solo business stay for which a shared coin laundry is enough and a family or team stay built around cooking and laundry are different markets. In this price measurement too, a gap of 2.66x per room came down to 1.33x per person. In other words, the per-room rate of an apartment format only shows its real economics once the capacity is filled. So “is there demand at this location that fills the capacity” becomes the precondition for choosing this design.

Third, the regulatory position. Long-stay hotels are lodging facilities operated within the framework of the Hotel Business Act, not under a lease agreement. The convenience of needing no deposit, key money or guarantor, with utilities and Wi-Fi included in the rate, follows from that. At the same time, it has been pointed out that where the line falls between a long stay and a residence is an area where the regulatory framework has not caught up (Travel Voice, in Japanese). For development and investment work, confirming the fire, building and lodging-business requirements at an early stage is a precondition.

Summary

Japan’s long-stay hotels divide into three models — monthly-contract, consecutive-night plan and serviced apartment — with the apartment-hotel format sitting between them. The major brands each design their product on a different axis, and ranking them by scale serves no practical purpose.

Measured on a listed-price basis, the 30-consecutive-night total for business and city hotels in six major cities had a median between about ¥337,000 in Osaka and about ¥607,000 in Kyoto (N=2,184 properties). Narrowing to long-stay brands, the figures split into three tiers — a median of about ¥415,000 for hotels with consecutive-night plans, about ¥731,000 for extended-stay hotels and about ¥1.20M for apartment-hotel formats — but booked for four guests, the per-person figure falls to about ¥330,000. Solo or team; 7 nights or 30; whether cooking and laundry need to happen inside the room. Those are the three axes for the decision, not the size of the brand.

Related reading

• Six Checks for a Long-Stay Business Hotel: Tokyo Listed Prices at ¥16,722 a Night and Three Ways to Cut the Cost
• Hotel Long Stay for 2 Months: What 60 Nights Costs, ¥790,000 in Tokyo and ¥490,000 in Osaka
• What 30 Nights of Hotel Living Costs a Salaried Worker: ¥490,000 Tokyo, ¥240,000 Osaka, ¥230,000 Nagoya at Station-Front Business Hotels
• How Many Nights Before a Long-Stay Discount Bites? 15% at 7 Nights and 20% at 30 Is the Measured Going Rate
• Meals on a Long Hotel Stay in Japan: Three Patterns and the Switch to a Kitchen Room