SUUMO Japan Rental Market Statistics by City

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Compare advertised monthly rental levels across a saved Japanese city watchlist. Enter city/area codes and receive one flat, typed market summary per city/area. This is an independent rental statistics entry; it analyzes this property type only and returns no indicative yield.

Price: $0.02 per city/area with priced listings. Source-confirmed empty cities are free. There is no listing-row fee and no optional individual rows in this Actor. Five successful cities cost $0.10. Provider/platform resource usage may apply separately under your Apify plan.

Input

Use cityCodes with one to five 5-digit SUUMO city/area codes, such as 13113 (Shibuya), 13104 (Shinjuku) or 27127 (Osaka Kita). maxSampleRentalUnitsPerCity defaults to 60 and accepts 30–300. convertToUsd defaults to true; USD fields are optional if FX is unavailable.

{"cityCodes":["13113","13104"],"maxSampleRentalUnitsPerCity":60,"convertToUsd":false}

Most city/ward codes match five-digit JIS municipality codes. SUUMO also groups some county areas under its own selectors (for example, 27320 is labelled 豊能郡 in the rental city index). Results refer to the exact source area code and verified area label, rather than an assumed government boundary.

Output

One rent_summary row per valid city: source count, priced sample count, source-listed JPY price distribution, per-m2 distribution and capture time. Flat fields such as rentMedianJpy and rentPerM2MedianJpy are directly usable in CSV or an API ingestion pipeline. coverage is always bounded_sample; totalListingsFound is the source advertising total. SUUMO consolidates listings, so this count can differ from displayed properties or rental-unit rows. Use the priced sample count as the statistics denominator; it is not a census. Rental fields also report positive stated management-fee median, positive deposit/key-money shares among sampled rows, building age and the most frequent layout/count (first seen breaks ties). Rent excludes the separately reported management fee.

A source-confirmed zero returns areaStatus: "no_listings", zero sample count, null price statistics, a timestamp and a hint, with no event charge. An invalid city, unreadable layout, positive source results without usable prices, authentication/rate-limit or acquisition failure is an error. Every requested city must be verified. If any city fails, the run fails before returning summaries or charging city fees. Source-confirmed zeros remain valid free results.

Choose your workflow

Use this Actor for rental price summaries only. Use SUUMO Rent, Condos & Gross Yield when you deliberately want both types and their indicative area-level yield; its existing contracts remain available. For rental unit rows use Residential Rental Listings Bulk. Investment Condo Listings Bulk is a different Yahoo! Real Estate source, not SUUMO condo coverage. The original SUUMO Actor also offers a bounded optional sample of listing rows.

For a same-filter comparison between SUUMO and at home, use Japan Rent Prices by Ward — Compare SUUMO & at home. That Actor needs both portals and matching area identifiers; this Actor observes a single SUUMO city watchlist.

For the other SUUMO property market, use Used Condo Asking Price Statistics.

Repeat the city watchlist

Save the same input as an Apify Task, schedule it at the cadence you need and retain each run dataset. Compare by cityCode, type and checkedAt, with identical sample settings. Changing property mix can move a median without a same-property price change. This Actor does not persist a historical baseline or infer new/removed listings. Each run uses the same $0.02 per nonempty city rule.

Limits

Up to five cities and 300 sampled units per city/area; 256 MB default and 600-second cloud timeout. Source acquisition stops after 540 seconds, reserving 60 seconds for result delivery, billing and run-summary storage. Acquisition is bounded to 100 HTTP requests per run with throttling, including robots, allowed city resolution, pagination and optional FX. A server disconnect before a response is retried once after two seconds; both attempts count toward the same request limit. Timeouts, authentication blocks, rate limits and other transport failures are not retried. Source totals, visible rows and coverage can change during collection. The source lists buildings with multiple room rows, so the sampling unit is a rental unit. The source ordering and acquisition limits are disclosed with the sample; cross-run property mix can change. Samples are not official population indices, complete inventories or forecast returns. Public pages only, no account login or paid proxy dependency. Examples are illustrative contracts, not live price quotations.

Privacy

Only aggregate market statistics and source-area identifiers are returned. No occupant, owner, agent contact, email, telephone, photographs or private account data is collected in the output. Unofficial; not affiliated with SUUMO or Recruit.

If something goes wrong

• Wrong number or a failed run? Open a ticket on the Issues tab. I read every one and reply within 2 business days (Japan time).
• You never get a fake "empty" result. If the site can't be read, the run fails and says so.
• Price: $0.02 per delivered city with priced listings. Source-confirmed zeros and failed cities are free; no individual-listing fee.
• Checked every week. An automatic test runs this tool weekly; if the site changes, I fix it.
• Public pages only. No login, no personal data, and it goes easy on the site.

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Disclaimer

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