Guides
Guides for a month or more in Japan
Plain answers to the questions people ask before a long stay: where to base yourselves, how renting works when you are coming from overseas, and what the places around each Kichi are like.
Japan with kids: one house, not two hotel rooms
Why families end up in two small hotel rooms, what a house changes, and what a month costs.
Read the guide
Where to stay in Japan for a month
Hotels, monthly apartments, holiday rentals, standard leases and whole houses, compared honestly.
Read the guide
Renting a house in Japan for one to six months
Why standard Japanese rentals rarely work for a few months, and how a fixed-term lease does.
Read the guide
A month near Kyoto, from Otsu
Ten minutes from Kyoto Station by train, on the shore of Japan's largest lake.
Read the guide
A month in Itako, Japan's lake country
Canals, lakes and an iris festival, about 85 minutes from Tokyo by highway bus.
Read the guideEvery Kichi is a whole furnished house, let on a fixed-term lease of 30 days or more. If you are coming for two or three weeks, you book the month and use what you need.