Metropolis

JapanTravel has become the most trusted reference for travel to Japan by creating excellent content to guide travelers and provide the resources necessary to plan and complete the perfect visit to Japan. JapanTravel.com holds the largest collection of travel articles and photos and is Japan’s only travel site to use a points-based system to reward contributors and readers alike.

JapanTravel is a network of more than 40 partners and 2,000 contributors, who represent the whole of Japan, rather than just Tokyo and other big cities. Our content is created by local Japanese and resident foreigner contributors – who know Japan best.

We have created a massive database approaching 10,000 articles, 50,000 photos, and are now expanding into video content. We aim to become the primary hub for travel information in Japan.

Technologically, our site is powered by a unique and user-friendly crowd sourcing content management system. Our highly functional system is continuously being improved and includes, rankings, discussion, rewards and much more.

MetroHomes is the largest web database of English-language real estate properties located in Japan. Partnering with some of Japan’s largest bilingual realtors, including the top two firms, we are able to aggregate, classify, and offer for search and enquiry more than 10,000 properties. Our expertise is fast, technologically competent data aggregation, search, and retrieval, and we focus on these points for MetroHomes, keeping the site simple and easy to use.

MetroHomes is published by Metropolis, Japan’s No 1 English magazine.

The force behind MetroHomes is Metropolis. We’re the largest domestically produced English-language magazine in Japan, and the only magazine that has its distribution of 30,000 copies independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), through its Japan arm. The magazine is read by over 70,000 readers from 850 distribution points throughout Tokyo, Yokohama and Chiba. There are a further 30,000 regular internet readers.

30,000 copies every alternate week, certified by Audit Bureau of Circulations.

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The MetroRewards store allows you to redeem activity points earned at JapanTravel.com, DogLovers.jp and MetroDining.jp in exchange for services vouchers and physical goods. We hope that our recognition of your efforts will keep you coming back and contributing to these online communities.

Products viewed at the MetroRewards store are subject to change due to inventory, sponsor decisions, or other reasons. We apologize in advance for any disappointment this may cause, but we encourage you to check back regularly to see what’s new. If you want a newsletter to give you updates, please go here.

Currently products are not purchasable from this store with cash or other forms of payment. If you see items that you would like to purchase outside of our rewards system, please feel free to contact the sponsors directly.

MetroWorks is a software technology company that creates open platform applications to help publishers, website operators, and corporations serving content to the public to increase traffic and monetize their websites.

Based in Japan, we are an international company building a network of partnerships around Asia.