Japan to minimize restrictions by municipalities on private lodging

Homes are meant for local people to live in and to be affordable. Hotels and BnBs are for property developers to invest in and for tourists to sleep in. Never should the twain mix lest you want the sort of disastrous consequences we see in cities like Barcelona and Amsterdam.

@M3

And Wales, Norfolk and Cornwall....

hotels just want to protect their turf. i admit noisy drunken tourists with tattoos coming home at 3am is a serious problem in small and quiet residential areas. often i find plastic bags full of plastic, bottles, cans, leftover combini food and airline bag tags discarded outside my business. there are a lot of minpaku around here.

the solution is that cities should create Khoa San Road like enclaves, so the problem can be localised and cause minimum impact on local residents.

the solution is that cities should create Khoa San Road like enclaves, so the problem can be localised and cause minimum impact on local residents.

But how is creating an enclave any different from zoning an area for commercial hotel use? That's basically what I would say should happen. Otherwise you end up with the problem of people in residential areas are getting nasty surprises.

Ultimately, I think the reason many people prefer to stay in these sorts of private lodgings is because they often offer better amenities that hotels (ie. microwave, oven, washing machine, bath tub, forks & knives & kitchen tools, and so on). At least that's why I prefer to stay in apartment/hotels. I think newer hotels are slowly catching up though. Last week I stayed in a big hotel in the Netherlands that offered many of these amenities in the room and the price was very reasonable. I wonder if newer hotels should be made to include some of these amenities by law in exchange for zoning permission? The hotel chains probably have to accept that the days of room-service, expensive hotel restaurants, mini-bars and extortionate dry-cleaning fees are numbered.

Minimizing regulations would mean zero regulations, which is clearly not what they're going for.

The minimum practical regulations would be those to ensure that the income is reported for taxation. But I don't know how you could ensure that.

@M3

And London, Edinburgh, Brighton............