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You may have many questions about the guest house, such as, "What is guest house?", "How about the key money and the other fees?" and etc.. You could find out the answers about it here.

What is the difference of guest house and room share?

Almost of room sharing is make up between an individual that normally means to share a room with your friends, acquaintance and so on. And you do not need to make contract with them.
Anyway, guest house is managed by the guest house company, and you need to make a contract with them.

What is a dormitory?

Dormitory is, the place that there are many people live and spend their daily-life in the same room. Comparing with the private room, dormitory is cheaper but lack for privacy. Anyway, the availability of private space, common space and type of bed are different in each place. So, we would like to recommend you to make an inquiry to the management company to confirm about it first.

What kind of people live in the guest house?

When you think about guesthouse, many people may be imagine about the place that many foreigners are living in. But, in fact, by the reason of cheap price and its comfortable, the Japanese users are also increasing in the present. Such as, Japanese college students, part-time workers, company employee and etc..

What is the point for choosing guest house?

Each guest house's characteristic, rules and management is different by management company. So we would like to recommend you to talk with the manager first that will let you know more about the house.
Moreover, to make your guest house life going smoothly, we strongly recommend you to make an appointment to visit the guest house also. Going to visit the house by yourself will let you know about the people who living in, its rules and etc. that you could know that your lifestyle matching with it or not.

What is the things that I should care for living in the guest house?

Living in the guest house is means that you have to living with the stranger. So, be nice with other tenants and follow the house's rules!
Sharing house with someone means that you may get into a trouble easily ,such as, making a noise at night and etc.. So, let's think about the other tenant first before doing something.

How should i do when there is a trouble occur in the guest house?

Talk with manager or guesthouse company if the trouble could not solved between you and the person who are in concerned.
However, the solution that the house's manager will give is depended on house's rule and characteristic. So, it is also important for you to know about the house's policy to correspond with it.

Is it possible to invite my family and my friend to the guesthouse?

There are many guest houses that not allow the person who is not the tenant to go into the guest house. For more information, please contact the guest house company.

Are there some process of checking the documents when applying?

The process of document-checking is required for many guest houses. For more information, please contact to the guest house company.

Is key-money necessary?

Normally, renting a room in guesthouse is unnecessary for key-money. For more information, please contact to the guest house company.

How about the light and water expenses?

The way of paying a light and water expenses is depended on the house's rules that may be by sharing all of the costs with the other tenants, paying one room by one room and so on. For more information, please contact to the guest house company.

Is the guarantor necessary?

Almost of the guest houses, guarantor is not necessary for renting a room. For more information, please contact to the guest house company.

Is there a lock for each private room?

Almost of private room have their own lock. For more information, please contact with the guesthouse.

Is there curfew?

It is depend on each house's rules. For more information, please contact with the guesthouse.

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