Where those casinos will be in Japan? When will they be open? (Osaka/Nagasaki/Hokkaido)2018

1. Where will Japan Casino be?

The IR Implement Bill was approved on July 20, 2018, which means that it has been decided that casino integrated resorts (IR) will be constructed in the near future in Japan.



IR facilities basically mean a comprehensive resort including a casino such as a hotel, shopping mall, casino, restaurant and bar, food court, pool, spa and massage, attractions, business convention center, meeting rooms, event hall and concert hall.


As a trump for highly profitable businesses to boost the Japanese economy, casino advocates in the government and local government have been looking into the IR attraction possibility for years.



For such IR facilities (casino integrated resort facilities), quite a few prefectures put their hands up to be a candidate site in 2013- 2014 such as Hokkaido (Kushiro/Tomakomai/Otaru), Miyagi (Sendai), Chiba (Makuhari/Narita Airport), Tokyo (Odaiba), Kanagawa (Yokohama), Shizuoka (Atami), Osaka (Maishima/USJ/Kansai Airport), Fukuoka (Huis Ten Bosch), Miyazaki (Phenix Sshigaiya) and Okinawa (Churaumi/Neo Park Okinawa).



However, as for what will make up the IR facility in Japan, five parts such as the casino, International conference center, shopping mall (recreation facility), domestic tour service facility and hotel are required and a policy to decide on attraction sites after choosing businesses in May, 2017, so it’s been progressed and there are advantages to urban areas.



On top of that, the attraction sites will be decided based on the following bills, so the prime candidate sites will most likely be big cities.



A maximum of three casino facilities. The number of casinos will be reviewed again seven years from approval.
The number of allowed entries into the casino is up to three times every seven days and 10 times per 28 days. (including foreign residence living in Japan)
Admission is 6,000 yen for Japanese. (including foreign residence living in Japan)
Provision of My Number Card when going into a casino for Japanese will be mandatory.
The casino size is up to 3% of the whole IR.
The casino operators pay 30% of their profit to the government and local government.
The casino management committee is established and regulated.


≫ Click here to check out a list of casino candidate sites in Japan



Also, overseas major casino companies like Las Vegas Sands, Melco Resort and Entertainment and Wynn Resorts are keen to invest a lot on big city casino resorts, so as of July 2018, it seems some cities are leading such as the west big city, Yumeshima, Osaka, Tomakomai in Hokkaido where a lot of Chinese tourists are coming through and there is great transportation access, Sasebo in Nagasaki where it can attract tourists coming for Huis Ten Bosch and Yokohama in Kanagawa which is another representative city after Tokyo.



★ Attraction site forecast for Osaka IR
≫ Where will the casino be in Osaka?

★ Attraction site forecast for Hokkaido IR
≫ Where will the casino be in Hokkaido?

★ Attraction site forecast for Nagasaki
≫ Where will the casino be in Nagasaki?




2. When Japanese casinos will be made?

The IR Implement Bill is expected to be approved on July 20, 2018 in Japan and Japan’s first casino d resort (IR) will definitely be open in 2020m the Tokyo Olympic year or later, so they start IR operations in two to three places on trial and when the reviewing time comes in seven years after the approval, then it can become a maximum of up to 10 places as a facility per wide area block possibly based on a regional system.


As far as the procedure to open casino resorts, I can tell that the first IR facility of Japan will be constructed in between 2024 and 2025.



● Procedure to a open casino resort

1.Submit an IR Promotion Bill to the parliament and let it be excuted (Established on December 15, 2016)
2.After the IR Promotion Bill is enacted, create a structure in the government and pack the frame up of the IR Implement Bill after discussions. (within one year)
3.Submit the IR Implement Bill to the parliament and let it be excuted. (Established on July 20, 2018)
4.Setup a regulatory organization and lay out the frame work.
5.The government receives an application from the local government and designates certain multiple tourism facility regions (IR). (two to three cities)
6.Local government selects private businesses who will conduct development.
7.The private businesses to assmme development apply for a casino license and attain it.
8.Private businesses are provided with the operating system and start operaing the casino resort. (2024 to 2025 ish?)

( Sourced from Casino Japan Vol. 27, 2013 )



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