Moving to Tama and the Tokyo Islands: Support in 6 Municipalities, Up to ¥2 Million for Housing in Okutama (2026)

Subsidy amounts and conditions are set by each town or village and can change. Ask the contact office listed in each section before you sign for a house or start work.

For moving to Tokyo’s Tama area and the islands, the largest amounts are housing subsidies: Okutama Town pays up to ¥2 million for building or buying a house, and Niijima Village up to ¥5 million for renovating a house from its vacant house bank. Cash relocation grants exist in Ome City (up to ¥1 million) and Okutama Town (up to ¥1 million for starting a job or business). This page compares 6 municipalities (Okutama, Hinohara, Ome, Hinode, Oshima and Niijima) for people moving from the 23 wards: vacant house banks, housing and renovation subsidies, trial stays, extra amounts for families with children and consultation desks.

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1. Comparison of migration support in 6 Tama and island municipalities (housing subsidies, grants, vacant house banks)

The large amounts are for housing: Okutama pays half of the cost up to ¥2 million for building or buying a house, and Niijima pays 80% up to ¥5 million for renovating a vacant house bank property. Cash relocation grants are in Okutama (job or business) and Ome (acquiring a house). Every program needs a check of conditions or a consultation before you apply.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Tamashima Migration and Settlement Portal, “Migration and settlement support information” (Japanese) lists programs by municipality. The amounts and conditions on this page come from each municipality’s own pages.

2. Okutama Town: up to ¥2 million for housing, plus a grant for jobs and startups

The “Migration and Settlement Support Subsidy” pays half of the project cost (up to ¥2 million) when a couple aged 45 or under, a household with a child up to age 18, or a person aged 35 or under builds, extends, renovates or buys a house. The cost must be ¥100,000 or more, and the program runs from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2035. Above the limit, a ¥100,000 gift certificate of the Okutama Town Commerce Cooperative is added for using a contractor in the town and another for using local timber. For a loan of ¥4 million or more over 10 years or longer from a financial institution, there is also an interest subsidy of half the interest rate (up to ¥300,000 a year, or ¥330,000 with a financial institution in the town, for 36 months). Source: the Okutama Town page on the subsidy (Japanese) and the leaflet (PDF) on the same page.

The “Settlement Promotion Support Grant” is for people who moved from outside Tokyo’s disadvantaged areas and either got a job listed by the town or started a business in the town. You must have lived outside disadvantaged areas for at least 5 of the last 10 years, be 50 or under when you apply, and apply between 3 months and 1 year after moving in. You must have moved in on or after June 1, 2020 and intend to live there for 5 years or more. A job is ¥300,000 for a single person and ¥600,000 for a household of 2 or more, and a startup is ¥600,000 for a single person and ¥1 million for a household of 2 or more. If you move away within 3 years of applying you may have to return all of it, and between 3 and 5 years half of it. Eligible jobs are on the list of job openings (Japanese). Source: Okutama Town page on the grant (Japanese).

The town’s vacant house bank (Japanese) has, besides the regular bank, categories for young people, for townspeople and a “zero-yen vacant house bank”, and you can filter by the Kori, Hikawa and Ogouchi districts and by rent or sale. “Young Resident Support Housing” (for couples aged 40 or under or households with a child in junior high school or younger) and “Country Life Support Housing” (for couples aged 45 or under or households with a child in high school or younger) use vacant houses, and the house is transferred to you if you keep living there for 15 years or more. Renovation costs are paid by the resident (Okutama Town page on the housing, Japanese). The contact is the Young Resident Settlement Promotion Section of the Child-Raising and Settlement Promotion Division (0428-83-2310).

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3. Hinohara Village: subsidies stack when you move into a vacant house bank property

Under the village’s “Settlement Promotion Vacant House Use Program”, moving into a registered vacant house gets ¥100,000 per case for moving costs, ¥50,000 per child up to junior high school age, and ¥100,000 if the parents’ household has lived in the village for 1 year or more. If a vacant house at least 10 years old is renovated by a contractor in the village once a resident is decided, half of the cost (up to ¥1 million) is paid. There is also an interest subsidy (up to ¥1 million) for people who borrowed ¥5 million or more for 10 years or longer to buy, but you can get either that or the renovation subsidy, not both. Disposal of household goods (half, up to ¥100,000) and a real estate agent’s brokerage fee (half, up to ¥100,000) are also covered, and everything must be finished within the fiscal year of the grant decision. Source: Hinohara Village page on the program (Japanese).

Properties are listed for sale and for rent on the registered vacant house list (Japanese; updated October 29, 2026). Negotiation and contracts are with the owner or a real estate agent, so ask the agent on the list about a property, and ask the Village Development Promotion Section of the Planning and Finance Division (042-519-9556) about the subsidies.

A migration experience house opened in November 2025 (Hinohara Village notice, Japanese). On the booking page (Japanese) linked from the village’s page, you can stay from 1 night to 6 nights at ¥2,000 per day (tax included). Only people with a migration experience purpose can use it, not tourists, and there is a simple screening when you apply.

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4. Ome City: up to ¥1 million relocation grant when you acquire a house

The “Ome ni Kimeta! Relocation Grant” is a base amount of ¥100,000 plus add-ons, up to ¥1 million, and you must have a consultation with the city’s migration desk before signing a purchase contract for a house. It is for the head of a household that moved in on or after April 1, 2025, who acquired a house before moving in or within 2 years after, and lives there. For the 5 years up to the move-in date you must not have lived in the Nishitama area (Fussa City, Hamura City, Akiruno City, Mizuho Town, Hinode Town, Hinohara Village and Okutama Town) or moved out of Ome City. If you signed a purchase contract before the consultation, you are not eligible.

Add-ons are ¥100,000 for acquiring a vacant house unused for 1 year or more (not apartment buildings such as condominiums), and ¥100,000 for acquiring a house in the “Countryside Satoyama Living Support Districts” of Futamatao, Sawai, Mitake, Mitake-honmachi, Mitakesan, Kurosawa, Osoki, Tomioka and Naruki. If you acquire a house in these districts, the applicant and spouse each get a youth support add-on (¥200,000 if 29 or under at move-in, ¥100,000 if 30 or over) and a child-raising add-on of ¥100,000 per child up to junior high school age. Applications are basically online. Source: Ome City page on the grant (Japanese; updated November 1, 2026).

For a preview stay there is the “Trial Ome Life Subsidy”, which pays 50% of the lodging cost at partner facilities (up to ¥5,000 per person per night, up to 4 nights). You must have a migration consultation first and apply at least 14 days before the first night (Ome City page, Japanese).

For people commuting to central Tokyo there is the “Long-Distance Commute ENJOY Grant”. Conditions include at least 40 km one way by rail from the nearest station to the workplace’s nearest station, aged 39 or under on the application date and commuting at least 4 days a month. With a commuter pass it is ¥5,000 a month, and for people who moved on or after April 1, 2025 up to ¥180,000 over 36 months (Ome City page, Japanese). The “Three-Generation Living Together or Nearby Grant” is for households with a child in junior high school or younger that move from outside the city at the parents’ household’s invitation and start living together or nearby, and it is ¥100,000 once the child-raising household has lived there for 3 years or more (Ome City page, Japanese).

Vacant houses are on the city’s vacant house bank (Japanese) by sale and rent, and you can get information on unpublished properties and new listings through an application form. The migration and settlement promotion concierge (Japanese), residents including people who moved there who give advice, is free, and you can talk in person at City Hall or on Zoom. The contact is the City Promotion Division (0428-22-1111, extension 2309).

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5. Hinode Town: up to ¥500,000 for renovating a vacant house bank property

The “Young Generation Vacant House Utilization Renovation Subsidy” pays half of the renovation cost (up to ¥500,000) to young people who buy a vacant house bank property and move in. It is for people living outside the town or in rental housing in the town, who are married and under 40 or raising a child aged 18 or under, within 1 year of the sales contract, and intending to live in the house for 5 years or more. It closes within the budget, and it does not apply if payment crosses fiscal years. Source: Hinode Town page on the subsidy (Japanese).

Under a revision of the guidelines on April 1, 2026, the town’s vacant house bank (Japanese) can also register buildings that do not meet the new earthquake standards, under certain conditions. People who want to buy or rent submit a registration application, and a licensed real estate agent mediates negotiation and contracts. The contact is the Housing and Transportation Policy Section of the Town Planning Division (042-588-5059).

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6. Oshima Town: up to ¥500,000 for buying and renovating a vacant house

The fiscal 2026 “Vacant House Measures Subsidy” pays half of the cost of purchase, renovation and disposal of household goods (up to ¥500,000) to people who buy or rent a vacant house registered in the Oshima Town vacant house bank. Conditions: you intend to live in Oshima Town for 3 years or more, the house has been unoccupied for roughly 1 year or more, the work is done by a business in the town, and the eligible cost is ¥100,000 or more. Work starts after the grant decision and must finish within the fiscal year. Source: Oshima Town Vacant House Bank, “About the subsidy (housing)” (Japanese).

That page gives the completion deadline as “until March 31, 2026” (fiscal 2025’s last day), which does not match a fiscal 2026 subsidy. Check the completion deadline with the Policy Promotion Section of the Town Office (04992-2-1444). You can look for properties on the Oshima Town Vacant House Bank (Japanese).

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7. Niijima Village: 80% up to ¥5 million for renovating a vacant house bank property

The “Settlement Measures Grant”, whose content was revised in fiscal 2026, is for owners who have registered (or plan to register) a vacant house in the bank, and people who buy or rent a house or land from the Niijima Village vacant house bank and intend to live there for 10 years or more. Renovation is 80% up to ¥5 million, and land clearing 50% up to ¥500,000. As a rule the renovation must be for a building whose construction started on or after June 1, 1981. The fiscal 2026 application period was May 1 to June 12, but the page says applications outside the period may be accepted if the work is finished within the fiscal year. The contact is the Planning Coordination Office of the Planning and Finance Division (04992-5-0204, extension 204). Source: Niijima Village page on the grant (Japanese).

Property and living information is collected in the housing information of the migration and settlement site for Niijima and Shikinejima run by the Niijima OIGIE general incorporated association, “flowlife” (Japanese).

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8. Migration consultation desks (Tokyo’s desk in Yurakucho, and Akiruno City)

For Tama and the islands as a whole, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Tokyo Tama and Islands Migration and Settlement Consultation Desk” is on the 8th floor of Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan in Yurakucho, inside the Furusato Kaiki Support Center Tokyo. In-person consultations are by advance booking, and you can also consult by phone or Zoom. It is closed on Mondays, holidays and during the summer and winter breaks, and the phone number is 080-8719-4073, or the Furusato Kaiki Support Center (03-6273-4401) if you cannot get through. Source: Tokyo Tamashima portal, “Consultation desks” (Japanese).

Akiruno City names the migration and settlement staff of the Mayor’s Office (042-518-7151, weekdays 8:30 to 17:15) as its contact on the city’s migration and settlement site (Japanese).

9. Conditions to watch when moving from the 23 wards to Tama or the islands

• Okutama’s grant for jobs and startups is for people moving from “outside Tokyo’s disadvantaged areas”. If you are moving from the 23 wards or similar, check with the town whether you fall in that category.
• Ome’s relocation grant and trial stay subsidy both require a migration consultation before you apply. Consult the city desk or the concierge before you decide on a property.
• The islands’ subsidies assume a property registered in the vacant house bank, and require a contractor on the island (Oshima Town) or completion within the fiscal year (Niijima Village). A plan to renovate with a contractor off the island may not qualify.
• If you keep commuting to central Tokyo, there are programs built around commuting, such as Ome’s long-distance commute grant. Okutama’s job grant requires a job listed by the town.
• Many programs require an intention to live there for 5 years or more (10 years or more in Niijima, 3 years or more in Oshima), with repayment rules if you move out early.

Sources

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• Tokyo Tamashima Migration and Settlement Portal, “Migration and settlement support information”
• Okutama Town page on the subsidy
• list of job openings
• Okutama Town page on the grant
• vacant house bank
• Okutama Town page on the housing
• Hinohara Village page on the program
• registered vacant house list
• Hinohara Village notice
• booking page
• Ome City page on the grant
• Ome City page
• Ome City page
• Ome City page
• vacant house bank
• migration and settlement promotion concierge
• Hinode Town page on the subsidy
• vacant house bank
• Oshima Town Vacant House Bank, “About the subsidy (housing)”
• Oshima Town Vacant House Bank
• Niijima Village page on the grant
• “flowlife”
• Tokyo Tamashima portal, “Consultation desks”
• migration and settlement site
• Housing
• Japanese version of this page (日本語版)

Checked with official pages on November 1, 2026 (Japan time).