Skip to content
Prototype · sample data where marked · not indexedPrototype · sample data
MinpakuX
日本語

Travellers

For travellersStaysAreasKinds of houseMinpaku PassThe story

Hosts

Host with Minpaku XSee it workYour websitePlansCommunityFree checkConsole sign-in
Your Pass · for travellers

For homes, minshuku and small inns

Host more. Run less.

Minpaku X brings travellers to your door, runs everything behind each booking, and puts you among hosts across Japan.

Book a 20-minute walkthroughFree 4-minute check

We'll show you the console with your own house's name in it.

Download the guide (PDF)
  • 08:02 New booking · Minpaku X · 2 nights
  • 08:02 Closed on every calendar
  • 08:03 Paid · receipt sent with your invoice number
  • 08:03 House guide sent, in Korean
  • 08:41 Cleaning accepted on LINE
  • 19:20 Guest register: 2 of 2 complete

What changes for you

Earn

Turn empty nights into income.

Travellers find you on Minpaku X, in English and Japanese, and Pass holders come looking for their next house. Your own booking site takes stays on the same engine. Prices follow the calendar: weekends, holidays, local events (Pro).3

+8.6%daily revenue for hosts who adopted automated pricing, in a peer-reviewed study.1

  • Guest register
  • Two-monthly report
  • Receipt
  • Cleaning

Hand it over

Leave the admin to the system.

Messages answered from templates in the traveller's language. The guest register filled in online and kept encrypted. The two-monthly report to the prefecture, filled in for you. Receipts with your invoice number, the town's tax, the month closed.

6–12 hoursa month back for a one-home host. Our estimate; we'll measure it with our founding hosts.2

Belong

Never host alone.

An online yoriai every month, a gathering each season in a different region, and a circle of hosts inside the console.

Every monthNext: Thursday 17 December, 14:00 · Online (planned)

Five short demos

Watch a house run itself.

見本 · SAMPLEA sample house and sample times

Demo 1

One booking, everything follows

Here is everything that happens after a booking arrives, without you.

  1. Host
  2. Host
  3. Host
  4. Host
  5. Host
  6. Pro
  7. HostPro
Step 1 of 7

Demo 2

A week with Minpaku X

Seven days in a two-room house. Where you would have spent the hours, the console spent them.

  1. Mon 7:30.

    The morning brief: two arrivals, and Saturday has no cleaner yet.

    Host

  2. Tue.

    A price suggestion for a local festival weekend.

    Pro

  3. Wed.

    Your cleaner takes Saturday, on LINE.

    Host

  4. Thu.

    A question in Korean, answered from a template.

    Host

  5. Fri.

    Tomorrow's registers are complete.

    Host

  6. Sat.

    Full house. Your time goes to your travellers.

  7. Sun.

    The week closes: income, costs and tax on one screen.

    Pro

Demo 3

Prices that follow the calendar

Weekends, holidays, a local festival, a gap between two stays. The console suggests a price for each night and gives its reason. You accept it or keep yours; the next sync takes it to every site.1

Sample House · two weeks in November

見本 · SAMPLE
  1. Mon 16¥28k
  2. Tue 17¥28k
  3. Wed 18¥25k
  4. Thu 19¥28k
  5. Fri 20¥34k
  6. Sat 21¥40k
  7. Sun 22¥36k
  8. Mon 23¥28k
  9. Tue 24¥28k
  10. Wed 25¥28k
  11. Thu 26¥28k
  12. Fri 27¥34k
  13. Sat 28¥42k
  14. Sun 29¥32k

If every night sells

¥439,000

+¥19,000 with these suggestions

Suggestions

Pro
  • Wed 18A gap between two stays¥28k ¥25k
  • Fri 20Three-day weekend¥32k ¥34k
  • Sat 21Three-day weekend¥36k ¥40k
  • Sun 22Holiday on Monday¥30k ¥36k
  • Fri 27Festival weekend¥32k ¥34k
  • Sat 28Local festival¥36k ¥42k
  • Sun 29Festival weekend¥30k ¥32k

Sample figures for a sample house, not a forecast. Results vary by house.

Demo 4

Your own booking site. Or let us build it, run it and sell from it.

The home page of atamiumihoshi.com on a laptop, a site run on Minpaku X
The same site on a phone

Atami Umihoshi · A Minpaku X siteHouse No. 001's own site

Host

Your site on our engine, in English and Japanese, on your own domain. You write it; it takes bookings from day one.

Pro

We design it, write it in English and Japanese, keep it fresh with the seasons, and sell from it through search, Instagram, LINE and Google.

  • The full price, shown before anyone pays
  • Card, Apple Pay and bank transfer
  • Receipts with your invoice number
  • English and Japanese, your domain

atamiumihoshi.com is a Minpaku X site. Same engine, same checkout, same console.

Demo 5

Travellers looking for houses, not rooms.3

Your house gets its own seal, and travellers collecting seals come looking for it. We write your page in English and Japanese, and every booking runs through the same console.

見本亭HAKONE · SAMPLE宿
Illustration

Hakone Mihon-tei

A small inn · Hakone, Kanagawa

from ¥26,400 a night, all in

見本SAMPLE
Seal of Hakone Mihon-tei, a sample, autumn: a sample mark: an inn's eaves under rising steam
みんぱく手形ON THE ROADSora見本01020304
A traveller's Minpaku Pass, three houses in
Your page
Written with you, in English and Japanese
Your seal
Drawn with you from your house's own mark
Their Pass
One seal per house per season, so they come back

How the Minpaku Pass works

See every screen

One system

Everything you just saw is one system.

The kind of system a large hotel runs on, built for a house with two rooms and one phone.

Most small houses, todayWith Minpaku X
A spreadsheet of who booked whereOne calendar for every siteHost
The same message, typed again and againTemplates in the traveller's languageHost
A cleaning rota in a chat threadTurnovers on LINE, with checklist and photosHost
Paper registers at the doorFilled in online before they arriveHost
Receipts typed by handSent by themselves, with your invoice numberHost
A website you can't changeYour own booking site, English and JapaneseHost
Prices set by feelA price for every night, with its reasonPro
A box of paper for the accountantThe month closed, ready for your accountantPro

Made for a Japanese house

Japanese first
Plain Japanese on every screen, with English beside it.
LINE, built in
Your cleaners and staff work from LINE links. Nothing to install.
Your town's rules
Accommodation tax worked out the way your town sets it.
Your kind of house
Home, minshuku or inn: the calendar and paperwork follow.
Illustration

Yoriai · 寄り合い

Yoriai: where hosts meet

Every month online, each season somewhere new, and every day in the console.

  1. Online · 45 minutes · 14:00

    Founding hosts

    planned

  2. Online · 45 minutes · 20:30

    planned

  3. Online · 45 minutes · 14:00

    planned

  4. Atami · Seasonal gathering

    Plum season

    planned

All dates are planned. Venues are set once our founding hosts have joined.

See the calendar

Plans

Three plans. Choose how much we carry.

Listed

We sell for you.

For inns and homes that keep their own systems and want more travellers.

Grow: prices, the books, team, forecasts: Not in this plan
Run the house: calendar, register, LINE cleaning, receipts: Not in this plan
Your own booking site: Not in this plan
Sold on Minpaku X, with your seal in the PassWe write your page

¥1,000a month + tax (¥1,100)

10%platform fee per booking + tax

List your house
Our suggestion for most homes

Host

Run it yourself, with your own site.

For owners who run their own home or small inn.

Grow: prices, the books, team, forecasts: Not in this plan
Run the house: calendar, register, LINE cleaning, receipts
Your own booking site
Sold on Minpaku X, with your seal in the PassYou write, we check

¥1,980a month + tax (¥2,178)

8%platform fee per booking + tax

Start with Host

Pro

The whole system, and a site we build and run.

For houses that want to grow without hiring.

Grow: prices, the books, team, forecasts
Run the house: calendar, register, LINE cleaning, receipts
A site we build, run and sell from
Sold on Minpaku X, with your seal in the PassWe write your page

¥2,980a month + tax (¥3,278)

12%platform fee per booking + tax

Talk to us about Pro

The platform fee applies only to stays booked through Minpaku X. Prices per house, before tax. Plans from ¥1,000 a month + tax.

On every plan: the monthly yoriai, set-up with a person, cancel any month, export everything.

Compare plans

Built and running

What's real today

House No. 001, Atami Umihoshi, runs on Minpaku X every day: its site, bookings, register and books.

Every screen works on a phone, in English and Japanese.

See the house

The road ahead

  1. Now
    • The console
    • Your own site
    • The free check
  2. Next (planned)
    • The marketplace and the Minpaku Pass
    • The monthly yoriai
  3. Later
    • Chinese and Korean pages
    • The paper Pass
    • Regional benchmarks

Recently shipped

The marketplace prototype
Finance: profit and loss, statements, finance health, assets and depreciation
Charts across the console, loans, unit economics, market radar
Member cards and automatic tier-ups
A demo workspace with your own house's name; bank transfer at checkout

Always

  • Cancel any month.
  • Export everything as CSV or Excel.
  • Your traveller list is yours.

Questions hosts ask

I already use Airbnb and Booking.com. Do I have to stop?

No. Minpaku X syncs with them, and stays booked there carry no platform fee.

I'm not good with computers.

Every daily task works on a phone, and we set it up with you, by phone or video.

How long does it take to start?

We aim for one week from your papers to your first page.

Who are the travellers?

People in Japan and from abroad who choose the house first: couples, families taking a whole house, and travellers collecting seals.

Can I leave?

Any month, and you take your data with you.

What is the platform fee?

A share of each stay booked through Minpaku X: 10%, 8% or 12%, depending on the plan. Stays synced in from other sites, and stays you enter yourself, carry none.

Notes

  1. Zhang, Mehta, Singh and Srinivasan, Marketing Science 40(5), 2021: Airbnb hosts who adopted an automated pricing tool. Results vary by house. Source
  2. An estimate from the steps the console automates, not yet a measurement.
  3. Selling on the Minpaku X marketplace begins once Minpaku X holds its registration (住宅宿泊仲介業 or 旅行業).
Minpaku X

Your house, in good company.

Twenty minutes, on a call or a video, with the console set up under your own house's name.

Book a 20-minute walkthroughFree 4-minute checkDownload the guide (PDF)

Prefer to talk? Call us on number to confirm.