CHARACTERISTIC OF RESIDENCE TYPE GUESTHOUSE IN CITY

This study aims to investigate the characteristic of guesthouse as a kind of residence type in metropolitan city, for efficient utilization of existing housing stock. The conclusions of this study are as follows;1. Many guesthouses use a small scale house and are shared by a few people. Therefore, management is done by resident's self-responsibility.2. Because of the convenience for traffic, guesthouse has concentrated on the part around the center of a city. And around a guesthouse, there are a lot of senior citizen and live-alone.3. The fixed-term rental housing system is used for a contract of guesthouse. Therefore, the owner can manage real estate premeditatedly and the tenants can borrow a room for low wage charges and can leave it freely.4. Guesthouse has high profit nature, but has little amount of profit.