Renovations & Repairs in Sapporo and Niseko — in English

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Tell us what the building is, where it is, and what you want done. You will get an English confirmation by email straight away — reply to it with your photos attached.

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Broken right now? Start here

Sapporo gets cold enough to break things that do not break in most countries — water pipes freeze inside walls, drains back up, roof drains ice over. If you are reading this with water on the floor, this is the section you want. These are services we already run in Japanese; the prices below are the ones published on our Japanese site (frozen pipes and roof ice · drains; both pages are in Japanese), tax included.

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What “we speak English” means here — and what it doesn’t

We would rather be precise about this than oversell it.

Takumi MuramatsuConstruction Manager

He reads and answers the English messages himself, and he runs the projects on site. There is no account manager in between.

How we handle English, honestly

We are a Japanese construction company. Our written English is machine-assisted — we use translation tools, and a person checks every message before it goes out. Our spoken English is limited.

We tell you this because it changes what you should expect. In practice:

• Write rather than call — in writing we can be accurate in a way we can’t guarantee over the phone.
• If something reads oddly, say so. A translation can be grammatically perfect and still miss your point. If a line in a quotation doesn’t sit right, tell us — that is not a nuisance, that is the system working.
• Nothing important stays verbal. After any meeting or site visit you get a written English summary of what was decided. In construction the expensive mistakes are the ones where two people left the room believing different things; if we misunderstood you, that document is where you catch it.

Building in Hokkaido for 29 years is what we are good at. English is the tool that gets you that work, and we are plain about how it works.

Proof that we are a real, licensed construction company in Sapporo

Anyone can put a website up. These are the things you can check independently.

The people you will be dealing with

The licences above belong to the company. These two hold the individual qualifications that sit behind them, and they are the two who will be on your job: one prices it and plans it, the other runs it on site and answers your messages. Both are named here so that you know who you are dealing with before you write.

Daisuke Muramatsu村松 大介Director — he heads the company

Twenty years in construction, and the second generation to lead this company — he took it over from the founder, who started it in 1997. He is a licensed second-class registered architect — he draws up the design himself, and he still comes out to site. Your estimate and your programme are his: he prices the job and plans the order the work happens in.

Seven national qualifications in all — the architect’s licence, asbestos surveyor qualifications for buildings and for other structures, and operator licences for small mobile cranes, slinging loads, earth-moving plant and mobile elevating work platforms.

On the Japanese company register his title is 取締役 (torishimariyaku, Director), and he is the company’s representative. Full profile, with every qualification listed (in Japanese).

Takumi Muramatsu村松 拓海Construction Manager — your English contact

Seventeen years on site. He is the one you are writing to: he reads and answers the English messages himself, comes out and surveys the building, prices the job, and then runs it. Renovation work and drain trouble — blockages cleared, and an in-pipe camera survey when you want to know why it happened — are what he does most.

Eighteen national qualifications and licences sit behind that. What they mean in practice: he is a certified asbestos surveyor for buildings and for other structures and a certified asbestos works supervisor, so the survey Japanese law requires before demolition is done by us and not bought in; he is a licensed mobile crane operator and slinger; he is licensed on excavators, demolition machines, rough-terrain carriers, mobile elevating work platforms and forklifts; he is certified for gas and arc welding and for fall-arrest harness work; and he holds heavy goods, large special vehicle and towing licences, which is why our machines turn up on our own trucks.

The same person from your first message to handover. Full profile, with all eighteen listed (in Japanese).

Other colleagues work on your building as well — including the two first-class registered architects mentioned above. These are simply the two who make the decisions and answer for them.

The kind of work we take on

We are a general contractor — not a showroom that subcontracts the trades, and not a single-trade outfit. In practice that means we can open a wall, move the pipe behind it, and make the room good again with one team and one contract.

The work we do most: bathroom, kitchen and toilet renovation; full interior renovation of houses and apartments; roof and exterior wall repair; drain cleaning and blockages; demolition. We also build new houses, and take on exterior and civil works — fences, carports, driveways. If it involves a building or the land around it, it is our kind of work. Small jobs are welcome too — adding or moving power points (electrical outlets), taking out built-in cupboards and shelving, and similar work.

If what you need isn’t on that list, ask anyway. If it isn’t our kind of work, we’ll say so — honestly, and straight away.

Photos of our recent projects and our full company record are on the Japanese site. The pages are in Japanese, but the photographs are not — have a look, then ask us anything about them in English.

What typical jobs cost

Guide prices we publish on our Japanese site, as of 2026, tax included: unit-bath renovation from ¥660,000 · system kitchen from ¥550,000 · roof repainting ¥450,000–900,000 · drain cleaning from ¥33,000. Every building is different — the written, itemised quote is what counts. Outside Sapporo, travel is quoted separately, in advance.

Where we work: Sapporo, Niseko, Kutchan and Kyogoku

We are based in Kiyota-ku, Sapporo, and work across the whole city. We also travel to Niseko, Kyogoku and Kutchan. Elsewhere in Hokkaido? Ask anyway — we will tell you straight away whether we can take it on.

From your first message to handover

1. 1InquiryWhatsApp, Instagram, LINE or the form below. English is fine.
2. 2Photos & drawingsSend whatever you have. Photos, floor plans, a previous quote. Nothing formal needed.
3. 3Online meetingIf the job warrants one. Translation tools, plus a written English summary afterwards.
4. 4Site inspectionWe visit and measure. Free inside Sapporo; quoted in advance outside Sapporo.
5. 5Written scope & estimateItemised, in English. You will see what is included and what is not.
6. 6Written approval before any additional workIf we find something unexpected after work starts, we stop, explain it, and issue a revised quotation. Nothing is added to your bill without your written approval.
7. 7Progress photos & updatesSo you can follow the job from anywhere, including from outside Japan.
8. 8Completion report & aftercareA written report with photos, and a named point of contact afterwards.

If you are not in Japan while we work

If you own a building in Hokkaido and live somewhere else, the question is not really whether we can do the work. It is what happens on all the days you cannot be there to look. Our answer is that everything that matters reaches you as a document, in English, and that nothing moves without your written approval. In practice:

• Your property manager or agent, dealt with directly. If someone looks after the building for you in Japan, tell us who they are and we will work with them in Japanese — while you keep getting every document in English. Tell us as well what they may decide on your behalf and what you want to decide yourself. We would rather ask that at the start than guess it halfway through.
• Access is agreed in writing before we start. A key handed over, a key box, your manager letting us in on the day — tell us how you want it handled and it goes into the written scope with everything else, so nobody is improvising at your front door.
• Nothing is added to your bill while you cannot see the site. If we find something unexpected once work has started, we stop, explain it, and issue a revised quotation. Your written approval comes first. Distance changes nothing about that — if anything it makes it matter more.
• You watch it happen. Photographs and a written update as the work goes on, so the first time you see the job is not the day you land.
• Handover arrives as a document. A written completion report with photographs, and a named person you can write to in English afterwards.

Questions we get asked

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Tell us what the building is, where it is, and what you want done. If you have photos or a floor plan, mention it — we will ask you to send them by reply.

Office hours 8:00–18:00, Monday to Saturday (Japan time, UTC+9). Messages are accepted at any time; we reply during office hours, normally within one business day.

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Privacy, in plain English

What we collect through this page: your name, contact details and what you write to us. What we use it for: replying to you and preparing your quote — nothing else. We do not share your details with anyone else, except where Japanese law requires it. This page uses Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Cloudflare Turnstile. The legally binding text is the full privacy policy (in Japanese) — ask us if you want any part of it explained in English.