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FEATURE: Tokyo hotel teams up with Airbnb-style private lodging operator

Photo taken in Tokyo in February 2018 shows Hotel Suehiro President Mitsuharu Nishizawa (L). The hotel has agreed to work with the operators of budding Airbnb-style Japanese home-share accommodation called "minpaku." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minpaku helps visitors enjoy, understand cultural differences

Photo taken Aug. 31, 2015, shows a pile of cardboard boxes containing fruits and vegetables at the venue for the "Food Culture in Korea and Japan" special exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Minpaku" private lodging in Japan

Photo taken June 15, 2018, shows the house (R) of Masatada Suemitsu who started a "minpaku" private lodging business at his home the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Minpaku" private lodging in Japan

Masatada Suemitsu puts a sign on the door of his home in Nishitokyo, western Tokyo, on June 15, 2018, certifying that it is a registered "minpaku" private lodging. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Minpaku" private lodging in Japan

Masatada Suemitsu (R) and his wife prepare on June 15, 2018, to receive guests as they start a "minpaku" private lodging business at their home in Nishitokyo, western Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Minpaku" private lodging in Japan

Hitomi Yamamoto, in this photo taken Jan. 21, 2018, shows a room at the "minpaku" private lodging that she runs in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Minpaku" lodging promoting rural tourism, solving hotel shortfalls

Yukio Shintani (L) and his wife, Tamiko, talk about their experience participating in a minpaku event, in which homeowners take payment from travelers for lodging them in their homes, in the western Japanese city of Tokushima on Aug. 14, 2017. A French newlywed couple and their friends stayed at their home during the Awa Odori dance festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo