Look up for Sakura House.

They have tons of rooms and guest hourses available without you paying key money and other BS.

Good luck!!

Yeah like I said I've looked _alot_ at sakura houses already. What i wondered was if someone had any other good tips!

Craigslist has good ones sometimes and gaijinpot has many postings as well.

Most of them are private postings so you might want to contact as many as possible and check out whoever responds.

Good luck!!

Thanks for that.

I have a few prospects in sight now... Seems like most guesthouses wont know much about vacancies until mid/late summer though.

I hope those sites were useful for your search.

Yeah, i found this page via gaijinpot: Reasonable Apartments Accommodations in Tokyo Kimi Information Center . Seems there even are some reasonable priced small apts. to look at..

Atleast if there's no key money or deposit. Seems you always have to pay an agent fee though.

Look no further! All the Guest Houses!
 

Hey, everyone

I was looking for a guest house last year and got frustrated with only being able to find the "mega gaijin houses" the ones with the advertising budgets...

anyway I just made a site this week to help all you travelers and myself haha find guest houses across Japan.

Gaijin House Japan

It lists tons of guest houses across Japan with no biased opinions, if you stayed at any of them please comment on them to help us find the good, the bad, and the dirty. If one isn't listed I will list it.

To the op hope this isn't too far off the path of goodness here but their is a major lack of good guest house listings. I really hope this will help the fellow travelers of Japan.

Love yea

I really like the idea of the page and hope many people fill in their comments once they stayed at a house! I will.

Hey dude!

Yeah, i know what you mean about there not beeing any good listings.

Site seems real nice, I too hope people will write in their opinions and comments after staying at a guesthouse. I will try to do the same.

Keep up the good work!

Tokyo apartment, Guest house, guesthouse room in Japan - Sakura House :)