An order you can read. An order no one can buy.

First, what fits

We keep only the houses that match your search: the area or kind of house, the dates, the party and any filter you chose. A house closed on your dates isn't shown as if it were open.

Then, seven things out of 100

A tie goes to the house whose web address comes first in the alphabet.

1. Travellers who book20

   Of the people who open the house's page, how many go on to book. Smoothed, so a new house isn't judged on three visits.

2. Reviews from people who stayed20

   Only people who stayed can review. A few reviews count for little until there are more. There are none yet, so every house starts from the same value.

3. Keeping its word20

   Stays the house cancelled, and whether the calendar and the price were right when people booked.

4. A page that answers15

   The facts, getting there door to door, an honest bath line, its photographs, both languages and its questions answered.

5. Replies10

   How quickly the house answers messages.

6. Nights you can book10

   Bookable nights in the next 60 days.

7. New to Minpaku X5

   A small lift in a house's first 60 days, fading to nothing.

In this prototype the sample houses' inputs (page views, bookings, reply times) are sample figures. Atami Umihoshi's are its own, and nothing is counted on the marketplace yet.

What never moves a house

The ordering can't see these, even by mistake: they aren't among its inputs, and a test in our code proves it.

• Its plan, or anything it pays Minpaku X: the monthly fee or the platform fee.
• Its Minpaku Pass: its seal, or how many travellers have collected it.
• Whether Minpaku X runs the house. Atami Umihoshi, House No. 001, is run by the Minpaku X team and ordered by the same rules.
• Advertising. There are no ads on Minpaku X today.

What we tell you

Which houses are ours, and which are samples. Samples are marked 見本 · SAMPLE and are never real houses.

• Atami Umihoshi: Run by the Minpaku X team. Ordered by the same rules as every house.
• Hakone Mihon-tei: Sample listing: there is no real inn by this name.
• Kyoto Mihon-machiya: Sample house: there is no real house by this name.
• Hakuba Mihon-sō: Sample house: there is no real house by this name.
• Ōita Mihon-no-ie: Sample house: there is no real house by this name.

If ads ever come

• They will be marked 広告 · Sponsored and sit apart from the houses.
• They will never change the order of houses, and one tap will hide them.
• We will date the change on this page before it happens.

Ads, in full

Changes

Every change to the weights or the rules is dated here before it takes effect.

3 Nov 2026

Plans and the platform fee, and Minpaku Pass seals, added to what never moves a house. Ads taken off the pages travellers see.

2 Nov 2026

First published, with the seven weights. Prototype: the inputs are sample figures.

Booking safely