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Share-house private rooms from ¥31,000 rent in Tokyo (¥47,500 a month with fees), or your own small furnished apartment, both from 1 month with no deposit or key money and signed online from abroad. Both need a guarantee company with its own fee, and leaving costs ¥16,500 from a share house or ¥55,000 from an apartment.
Apartment prices as read on October 9, 2026; share-house rooms on October 3, 2026.
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From XROSS HOUSE's own pages, its 1,480 apartment listings on October 9, 2026, 60 apartment pages we read in full, and posts by renters.
Our view: the share houses are the low-cost way in, if you are 39 or younger and can live with small rooms and no visitors. The apartments are worth it if you want your own place for 6 months or more and can't get an ordinary lease yet; for 1 to 3 months the exit fee makes them expensive, as the apartment stay costs show.
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XROSS HOUSE's own example apartment, Chambre K 103 (シャンブルK 103), near Kami-Shakujii Station in Tokyo, rent ¥69,000. Its example stops at the first month (¥100,500); this adds the months after and the ¥55,000 you pay to leave (exit fee).
| Stay | Total | Works out per month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | ¥155,500 | ¥155,500 |
| 3 months | ¥296,500 | ¥98,833 |
| 6 months | ¥508,000 | ¥84,667 |
| 12 months | ¥931,000 | ¥77,583 |
Move-in fee ¥30,000 (campaign price; ¥50,000 without it), plus ¥69,000 rent and a ¥1,500 support fee each month, plus the ¥55,000 exit fee. Not included: the guarantee company's first fee, electricity, gas, water, internet and bedding. Staying past 1 year means a new contract, with new screening and a ¥22,000 fee (contract). The listing for this apartment showed ¥71,000 rent on October 9, 2026, so XROSS HOUSE's example is out of date.
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Japanese button: “Deposit, key money and agency fee all ¥0 [Cross One Room]” Opens XROSS HOUSE's site (Japanese)
Apartments: rent plus a ¥1,500 support fee (support fee). You sign up for electricity, gas, water and internet yourself; XROSS HOUSE offers a paid option with utilities included but does not publish its price (utilities). Futons and mattresses aren't included: rental is ¥3,000 a month plus tax for at least 6 months, or ¥20,000 plus tax once (bedding).
Share houses: rent plus a flat ¥15,000 common fee that covers water, electricity, gas and shared supplies, the same ¥1,500 support fee, and free Wi-Fi (share house fees).
On October 9, 2026 XROSS HOUSE listed 1,480 furnished apartments, 919 of them in Tokyo, and 113 share houses. Most apartments were occupied: 263 showed a date they come free.
| Prefecture | Apartments | Cheapest rent | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | 919 | ¥57,000 | ¥77,000 |
| Kanagawa | 156 | ¥47,000 | ¥69,800 |
| Osaka | 146 | ¥46,000 | ¥63,000 |
| Fukuoka | 100 | ¥49,800 | ¥75,000 |
| Chiba | 61 | ¥56,000 | ¥70,000 |
| Aichi | 42 | ¥49,800 | ¥64,000 |
| Saitama | 41 | ¥54,000 | ¥65,000 |
| Kyoto | 10 | ¥55,000 | ¥65,500 |
| Hyogo | 4 | ¥68,000 | ¥69,500 |
| Hokkaido | 1 | ¥61,000 | ¥61,000 |
Listed rent before the support fee and utilities, counted by our script from XROSS HOUSE's search on October 9, 2026. Share-house private rooms were listed from ¥27,000, with a median starting price of ¥47,000, before the ¥15,000 common fee.
Rent by Tokyo ward, room sizes and what a 1 to 12 month stay costs are in XROSS HOUSE Tokyo prices.
The apartments are one-room units with a bed, fridge, washing machine, TV, microwave, desk and curtains, varying by property (equipment). In 60 we read in full, floor space ran from 9.3 to 21.5 m², median 15.3 m², and the buildings were 5 to 56 years old, median 37.5.
Other furnished apartments in Tokyo, with their costs, are on furnished apartments in Tokyo.
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Japanese button: “Deposit, key money and agency fee all ¥0 [Cross One Room]” Opens XROSS HOUSE's site (Japanese)
XROSS HOUSE needs no personal guarantor: you give an emergency contact instead (FAQ). Its FAQ adds that "some" properties need a rent-guarantee company. Every one of the 60 apartment pages we read, and the four share-house pages, said 保証会社の加入が必須 (joining a guarantee company is required), with the guarantee company's own screening and a first fee that "varies by company" (example listing). Ask for the amount before you pay the move-in fee, which is not refunded if you cancel. Rent is then paid by card or bank debit through the guarantee company.
You show photo ID. Foreign nationals show a passport with enough validity left, plus a residence card if they have one (documents). Apartments take ages 18 to 59, share houses 18 to 39 (age limits). XROSS HOUSE screens every application and does not give reasons (screening). It doesn't say which visa types it accepts.
Everything up to the contract is online, so you can sign from abroad. Some properties need you to collect the key at the office on move-in day (signing from abroad). The move-in fee can be paid by card, including cards issued abroad, bank transfer, QR payment app or convenience store (payment). A room can be held for 30 days from your application; after that rent starts even if you haven't moved in.
You can register your address there, which you need for your residence card and a bank account (FAQ). Staff are listed for Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Sinhala, Burmese and Nepali, 10:00 to 18:30 every day (languages).
Start from x-house.co.jp and pay only through the payment page XROSS HOUSE staff send during the contract. A renter on Reddit in December 2025 was contacted on WhatsApp by someone claiming to be a XROSS HOUSE agent and asking for money in advance. XROSS HOUSE does use WhatsApp itself, which makes this harder to spot.
Every contract is a 定期借家契約 (fixed-term lease) that ends on its date with no renewal. It is signed for 1 year, and you can leave earlier with 1 month's notice, filed online (contract term). To stay past a year you apply for a new contract, with new screening and a ¥22,000 fee for an apartment (¥11,000 for a share house).
Leaving costs ¥55,000 for an apartment and ¥16,500 for a share house, tax included. There is no separate cleaning fee unless you caused damage (FAQ).
You can move to another XROSS HOUSE property without a new move-in fee, paying only the difference in rent (transfers). Two renters report limits in practice: one was refused after filing a move-out notice, and a 2022 review says you must stay 1 month in the first room.
Friends and family may visit an apartment; share houses allow no visitors. All properties are non-smoking and allow no pets (rules).
Nearly every renter account we found, on Reddit and the Japanese review site みん評 (Minhyo), is about the share houses. We found none about the furnished apartments. The low move-in cost is the main praise. Dirty or poorly kept shared areas are the most repeated complaint (4 accounts from 2022 to 2026), followed by limits on the free room transfer (2).
“Xross was recommended to me by my language school and i used them for 3 months and from my personal experience i can vouch for them !”
“just to receive a mail from them this evening that I cannot relocate because I already sent the cancellation form for when I will be going back home”
“the cleaning company coming every 2-3 weeks instead of every week etc; you can definitely feel the penny pinching.”
“I was kinda shocked when I saw how extremely dirty and smelly all the shared facilities are”
“internal "screening" process is very arbitrary and blackboxed, and never give you any clear reason for rejection.”
“I've rented from them and my place was brand new. It was super nice.”
“the Wifi is considered a Free service in the house, therefore they don't care if Internet is slow or crappy”
Fees and rules come from XROSS HOUSE's Japanese FAQ, fee and listing pages, read on September 18, 2026. We counted every listing through its search on October 9, 2026 and read 60 apartment pages, picked at random, in full. On October 3, 2026 we counted the private-room starting rents of its Tokyo share houses again and read four share-house pages in full. Renter quotes are from Reddit, each linked to the post or comment. We found no government action or lawsuit naming XROSS HOUSE. In October 2025 some of its share houses moved to another manager, GG House, and the complaints tenants posted afterwards are about GG House. We have not rented from XROSS HOUSE, so there is no star rating here.
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A private room in a Tokyo share house started at ¥31,000 rent on October 3, 2026, which is ¥47,500 a month with the ¥15,000 common fee and the ¥1,500 support fee. The move-in fee is ¥30,000, not refunded, and leaving costs ¥16,500. A rent-guarantee company's first fee comes on top, and XROSS HOUSE does not state it.
Yes. "Cross One Room" (クロスワンルーム) is the name some sites use for the furnished apartments of XROSS HOUSE (株式会社クロスハウス). XROSS HOUSE itself calls them furnished apartments (家具家電付きアパートメント).
XROSS HOUSE's own example is ¥100,500 for the first month: a ¥30,000 move-in fee (¥50,000 without the current campaign), ¥69,000 rent and a ¥1,500 support fee. A rent-guarantee company's first fee comes on top, and XROSS HOUSE does not state it. Leaving costs ¥55,000.
Not a personal guarantor; you give an emergency contact. But every apartment page we read, and the four share-house pages, require a rent-guarantee company, which screens you separately and charges a first fee.
Yes. The contract is for 1 year, but you can file your move-out notice on the day you move in. You still pay the move-in fee and the ¥55,000 exit fee, so a 1-month stay in XROSS HOUSE's example apartment comes to ¥155,500.
Yes. XROSS HOUSE's FAQ says you can move your resident registration (住民票, resident record) to the property.
Yes. Everything up to the contract is online, and cards issued abroad are accepted for the move-in fee. Some properties need you to collect the key at the office on move-in day.
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See XROSS HOUSE apartments
Japanese button: “Deposit, key money and agency fee all ¥0 [Cross One Room]” Opens XROSS HOUSE's site (Japanese)