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CHINTAI API

Japanese Rental Rooms, Listing Details, Agencies and Locations

Scrappa's read-only CHINTAI API turns one of Japan's large rental portals into structured JSON. Search rental rooms by municipality or railway line with type, rent, area, layout, walking time and building age; read full listing records with fees, coordinates, features and images; read shop profiles and shop listings; and find prefectures, municipalities and lines. Japanese text is kept and numeric fields are added.

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Request 
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/chintai/search?prefecture=tokyo&city=13104&max_rent=150000&layouts=1K,1LDK&sort=rent_asc" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response 
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "items": [],
    "pagination": {
      "page": 1,
      "buildings_per_page": 20,
      "total": 1214,
      "total_pages": 61,
      "returned": 38,
      "dropped_by_filter": 0,
      "has_more": true
    },
    "query": {
      "prefecture": "tokyo",
      "city": "13104",
      "max_rent": 150000,
      "layouts": ["1K", "1LDK"],
      "sort": "rent_asc"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "endpoint_family": "search",
    "billable": true
  }
}

What you can build

Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.

Rental Search Applications

Build Japanese rental search by municipality or line with filters for rent, area, layout, walking time and building age.

Rent Monitoring

Track asking rents by ward or line with rent sorting, exact room totals and yen fields for rent, fees and deposits.

Listing Data Enrichment

Pull the full record of a room: fees, contract terms, exact coordinates, equipment groups and images.

Agency Research

Read shop profiles with licence number, hours and memberships, and list the rooms a shop offers.

Location Tools

Resolve Japanese place and line names to search-ready codes across all 47 prefectures.

CHINTAI scraper API

CHINTAI API for rental search, listing details, agencies and locations in Japan

The CHINTAI API is built for proptech teams, relocation services and analysts working with Japanese rentals. Search by municipality or railway line, filter by rent, area, layout, walking time and building age, then use listing details, agency endpoints and the location tree to build search tools, rent monitors and data products.

Search Japanese rental rooms with honoured filters.

Choose the right CHINTAI API endpoint

Search CHINTAI rentals

Find a municipality or line with autocomplete, then pass its search parameters to the search endpoint with a rent range and layouts.

Open CHINTAI Property Search API docs

Read the full record of a room

Take an id from search and request the listing endpoint for fees, coordinates, equipment, images and the other rooms of the building.

Open CHINTAI Listing Details API docs

Look up an agency

Take the agency id from a room, read the shop profile and list the rooms the shop offers.

Open CHINTAI Agency Profile API docs

Available endpoints

Everything you need in one API.

GET

Property Search

/api/chintai/search

Search rental rooms by municipality or line with rent, area, layout and age filters

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Related resources

SUUMO API overview

Add Japanese rent and sale listings from SUUMO.

at home API overview

Add Japanese listings from at home.

LIFULL HOME'S API overview

Add Japanese listings from LIFULL HOME'S.

Scrappa vs Do-it-yourself rental data extraction

See how Scrappa compares to the official API.

Dedicated CHINTAI endpoints
Scrappa: yes (6 endpoints)
Do-it-yourself rental data extraction:
Output format
Scrappa: Structured JSON with yen fields
Do-it-yourself rental data extraction: Raw page content
Unknown filters and values
Scrappa: Rejected with a clear error
Do-it-yourself rental data extraction: Silently ignored
Request mode
Scrappa: Read-only
Do-it-yourself rental data extraction: Depends on implementation
Parser maintenance
Scrappa: Handled by Scrappa
Do-it-yourself rental data extraction: Your team

Key features

6 read-only endpoints for Japan
Rental rooms by municipality or railway line
Filters for type, rent, area, layout, walking time and building age
Full listing details with fees, coordinates and equipment
Shop profiles and shop listings
Location autocomplete and tree for all 47 prefectures

Frequently asked questions

The CHINTAI API is Scrappa's read-only REST API for rental rooms in Japan. It covers search, listing details, agency profiles, agency listings, location autocomplete and the location tree.

No. Scrappa is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by CHINTAI. A Scrappa API key is used to access the endpoints on this page.

No. CHINTAI lists rentals only. This API has no sale search.

Yes. CHINTAI applies the rent filter to rent plus management fee. Every room also has rent_yen, management_fee_yen and total_monthly_yen so you can check it.

No. All CHINTAI endpoints on this page are read-only.

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