COMPANY
About Us
STORY
Our Story
We have traveled. Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa—and eventually, Antarctica. In Japan, we once gave up our home and drove across all forty-seven prefectures.
Our way of staying was always a kind of 'living travel.' Spending a week in one place, buying groceries at the neighborhood supermarket, listening to the music of that land. Rather than rushing through tourist spots, we engaged with each city as if breathing in its air. Through that kind of stay, we gathered many things that can't be seen any other way.
That's when we realized: great experiences don't arise from sensibility alone, or from logic alone. The texture of a space, the warmth between people, operational decisions backed by data—when all of these align, something stays in people's memory.
Yet in reality, these things are often handled by different people, different companies. The designer doesn't look at the numbers. The operator doesn't articulate the vision. The marketer never stands on the floor. Business gets assembled with each specialty working in a silo.
Yuka-Han was founded to rebuild this fragmentation from a single perspective. The people who can discuss every detail of an interior also design the revenue model. The people who craft the marketing also write the messages to guests. Every dimension of the business, navigated by both sensibility and logic.
Today, with accommodation planning and operations as our core, we are growing into operations management, photography studios, marketing, and consulting. What they all share is an interest in 'making moments that move people viable as a business.' We will keep expanding that outline, one step at a time.
PURPOSE
A little more spark in life,
A little more wonder in the everyday.
A little more spark in life. A little more wonder in the everyday.
We believe travel gives a spark to life. For us, travel isn't an escape from the everyday—it's part of life itself. We want to be the catalyst for someone's 'just a little more interesting day.'
Not through imposition, but through small openings. Touching the life of a place you visit, just a little. That is the experience and space we deliver as a business.
VALUES
What We Stand For
Work Hard, Live Hard
All In
We give everything to work, to travel, to every moment of daily life. The depth of a professional who delivers exceptional output, and the richness of 'living well' as quality input—we never cut corners on either.
Pure Inspiration, Bold Creativity
From Spark to Creation
Strip away assumptions and receive inspiration with an open mind. When it's time to create, be bold—think 10× bigger. Without genuine inspiration, real creativity cannot exist.
Data-Driven, Poetry-Crafted
99% Logic, 1% Spark
Every business decision starts from logic and numbers. Yet there are things that pure logic alone cannot produce. If data is the skeleton, poetry is its soul.
Equity and Symphony
With Heads Held High
We don't accept profiting from information asymmetry. 'Integrity' is too vague a word—so we say it this way: we advance our business in harmony, so that everyone involved can walk with their head held high.
LEADERSHIP
Our Team

Yuka Yamamoto
Yuka
CEO
Born in Fukuoka, raised in Hyogo
Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture; University of Tokyo, Institute of Medical Science
After working in R&D at a manufacturing company, she moved into marketing, branding, and business planning. During her student years, she studied abroad at McGill University in Canada and completed internships at a research institute in Germany and a multinational corporation in Switzerland. Having traveled to all 47 Japanese prefectures and over 70 countries, she brings a seasoned Airbnb guest's perspective to space design and guest experience design. Responsible for: facility branding, guest experience design, QA.
Facility Branding / Guest Experience Design / QA
Gaisho Han
Gaisho
CEO
Born in Jilin, China; raised in Kanagawa and Osaka
Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies
After a career in HR at an IT company covering labor management, system design, and M&A/PMI, he began planning and launching hospitality venues in 2018. He has been involved in developing large-scale hostels and hotels in Tokyo, Hakuba, and Fukuoka, as well as vacation rental management and cleaning operations. He began hosting on Airbnb from his own home in 2015 and continues to the present. During his student years, he completed a business internship in Gurugram, India. Fluent in Japanese, Chinese, and English. Responsible for: business development, revenue design, all back-office operations.
Business Development / Revenue Design / Back Office
COMPANY INFO
Company Info
| Company Name | 株式会社ユカハン |
| English Name | Yuka-Han & Co., Ltd. |
| Founded | May 1, 2020 |
| Address | 2-5-21 Ohanajaya, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Capital | ¥30,000,000 |
| Directors | Gaisho Han, CEO Yuka Yamamoto, CEO |
| Banking | Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Union Tokyo Higashi Credit Union |
| Business | Accommodation planning, development & operations (Wuto) Vacation rental management Hospitality operations consulting Photography studio Marketing Consulting Real estate leasing |
| Lead Brand | Wuto |
| contact@yuka-han.com |
