Accommodation tax in Japan by local government

What this map shows

Dots are towns and cities with an accommodation tax: filled dots are in force, hollow dots are scheduled to start. The colour of a prefecture shows whether it charges its own prefecture-wide tax.

Tap a dot or a prefecture to see the tax per person per night for each price band. Where both the prefecture and the town charge one, the prefecture's tax is shown too.

Choose "In force" or "Scheduled" to show only those. Scheduled start dates are the official dates in documents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Amounts for scheduled taxes are not on this map yet.

Questions and answers

What if both the prefecture and the town charge a tax?

Guests pay both. In some towns the prefecture's tax is reduced; this is noted in the pop-up.

Do school trips pay it?

Exemptions differ by local government. Check the local government's own information.

When is it updated?

Not on a fixed schedule: when the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications agrees to a new or changed accommodation tax or updates its list of non-statutory taxes, or when a local government announces something about its tax.