I know this site has no promotion rules, but I figure I should post it since it is relevant to the sub and I was tagged in the weekly thread. Mods – feel free to delete if you think this is more harm than good. My sources are from suumo and athome active listings supply.
On a tangent – I am actually losing $5/day to run this side project, and I'm not sure how to monetize. Not a big fan of charging a monthly fee given I only get a hundred or so users using it daily, so open to feedback if anyone has ideas on possibly making this b2b data or something.
Hoping you can make some use of it to understand why certain areas cost more than others.
by anjobanjo102
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how about metric system for those of us not familiar with freedom units
Nice site, thanks! Can you add a sqft/sqm selector? I think most people who live in Japan would be more accustomed to metric since that’s what the real estate sites are using too.
It looks interesting, can you add metric measurements? It doesn’t seem logical to use the imperial system in Japan. You might want to consider Tsubo too.
Sorry I can only understand area measurements in either school busses or football fields.
I also find it strange that the currency shown is USD, since the sources all use JPY. Is the conversion done on the fly, when scraping the data or when? Why not use JPY and avoid all the mess?
Would be better if it’s not in usd. While I understand your reasoning, Ito be far more usable for a larger audience if it’s in yen or defaults to yen then switchable to usd
You can’t look at it as house sqm. You have to look at it as land. The house is basically worthless
Welcome in, and thanks to u/[upachimneydown](https://www.reddit.com/user/upachimneydown/) for linking your post in the weekly OTP.
As mentioned there, I encourage you to consider other sources of data, such as the MLIT land survey (link in the wiki RE page).
In addition you may want to reflect on existing tools (also in the wiki) such as [Tochidai](https://tochidai.info/) who allows to browse the map down to neighborhoods, ie what key added value your tool can bring.
Is this the price per square foot or ???
That’s actually really interesting, thanks for sharing .
Too bad this just happened:
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanrealestate/s/ctsVva2aXM
hello from the other dark blue patch
It’s a nice website! One thing I noticed is in cities like Sendai, Nagoya, and Kobe if you click on the different wards they all just say Kobe city instead of say Tarumi-ku (or maybe I’m not looking in the right place?)
Thanks, nice project. Why does it cost do much? 5 usd per day
Very useful and solved a particular problem I’ve had “exploring non common towns to consider purchases” and can use this as a proxy to see kinda where people actually live vs extremely rural at a glance without resorting to scouring the entire country by satellite
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