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The coin-operated laundry market has been transformed into a living infrastructure that incorporates blankets, futons, sneakers and dry demands from the old “where people who have no washing machines in the house” In the 2026 survey of the Yano Economic Research Institute, the Japanese cleaning market in 2025 decreases, and the coin laundry has been increasing.
So, “Laundry is profitable?” "It is dangerous to easily devote.
The essence of this business is the equipment industry that puts heavy initial costs first, even in unmanned stores. Location, parking lot, equipment configuration, cleaning, crime prevention, electric bill and gas bill, machine renewal. If you read this page, you can see the yield of the appearance immediately.
In the future, if you put a washing machine, it is not a time to make money. Demand for large-scale stores, DX, parking lots, community-based stores, and capital-capacity stores, and small-size old-fashioned stores reduce operating rates. Coin-operated laundry investment is clearly in the direction of bipolarization.
First Con まず
Coin laundry investment is not a low-risk vice-.
However, it is not a fair business.
Rather, it is good to correspond to the flow such as shortage of labor, cooperative household, shortage of household time, large wash, cleaning cost, disaster prevention and life infrastructure. The market itself is still in demand.
The problem is that the understanding of the entrant is shallow.
It looks delicious if you see only words such as "unmanned", "to use land", "high yield". In fact, the first large opening funds will be used to pay monthly utilities and cleaning management costs, and a mountain of machine renewal will come after 10 years. It is difficult to escape like changing the product on the way if you mistake the location.
The coin laundromat is not a customer service business, but it is the rate of equipment utilization.
If you remove it, it will fail.
The market is growing, but it is not an easy market
First, it is a market environment.
According to Yano Economic Research Institute, the domestic cleaning-related market in 2025 is based on the company’s net sales of 2,799 million yen. 6% By looking at the breakdown, the cleaning shop is reduced to ¥1,540 billion. On the other hand, the coin laundromat is 1,155 million yen, and the year-end 100. 9%
If you look at this number, the coin laundry will look strong.
In fact, the number of stores is increasing in the long term. In the LP gas survey report, coin laundries are divided into approximately 10,000 stores in 1996 and about 20,000 stores in 2017. Zenrin Marketing Solutions also explained that the number of stores increased by about twice in 20 years.
Is it safe to raise the right shoulder?
It is different.
In the consignment survey of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the viewpoint of the coin laundry business "the market is in the state of business" is introduced.
In other words, there is a demand. The shop was also open. That’s why the competition became thicker.
2026
Why Entry
However, we have continued to consider coin laundry investment, coin laundry FC and land utilization. Easy to understand.
1. Strong in labor shortage as an unmanned store
飲食店 restaurants and retail outlets, you can operate without having to have staff at all times. 24 hours This is large, though there are many business situations that concern the increase of labor costs and the difficulty of hiring.
However, management is not zero only by unmanned. Cleaning, crime prevention, rehabilitation, equipment trouble ing remains.
The unmanned store is a business that does not require people.
2. Easy to read through cash and instant collection
Cash or cashless payment on the spot. It is not a business type where the receivable is piled up.
It is not possible to increase inventory like restaurants and retail stores. If there is a certain amount of repeat use, the monthly sales forecast is easy to make.
This sense of stability is stinged by people thinking about land owners and side business management.
3. Strong inflation and depression
Laundry is a生活enditure to life.
It is not possible to wash clothes and futons because the view became worse. In order to reduce the cleaning cost, people wash down, blankets, curtains, sneakers, etc. by coin laundry.
Yano Economic Research Institute also organizes the coin laundry market in 2025 that the entire cleaning-related market was subtracted.
However, it is different to make money at any store because it is strong in depression. If the店 are nearby, it is easily deprived of the demand that is close to your needs.
4. Good compatibility with land use
A coin laundry is an easy-to-understand option for people with idle and roadside small land.
In particular, it is easy to enter candidates in areas with a lot of family households, near supermarkets and drugstores, along the easy-to-access land, living roads.
It is a choice of monetization rather than re. There is no room for people. There is no burden on the head office, staff, and stock.
The reason why this interim position is used for land use.
5. Retaining defence consumption of cleaning fee
The Yano Economic Research Institute has been making use of coin-operated laundry, which is convenient, as a change in cleaning demand.
No longer in the era of cleaning suits every time.
On the other hand, futons, blankets, curtains, downs and sneakers that are difficult to wash in household washing machines remain. This is the strength of the coin laundry.
6. FC is easy to convert and the entry package is ready
Coin-operated laundry FC and opening support companies offer comprehensive services such as device selection, interior design, payment terminal, remote monitoring, cleaning agency, and financial simulation.
If you look from an unexperienced person, it looks pretty easy to start.
This is a factor in increasing entry.
However, it is not safe because it is packaged. The FC head office's income model assumes good location, constant occupancy rate, utilities as expected, and repair costs as expected. In the actual store, the number is shifted due to weather, conflict, rent, cleaning quality, and machine failure.
The essence of coin laundry is the equipment industry
If you look at the coin laundry with a side-operation sense, you can make a mistake.
The essence is the equipment industry.
If you are a restaurant, there are scenes that can be ground by taste, customer service, and menu development. If you are a retailer, there is a room where you can move with goods and sales promotion.
The coin laundry is different.
No sales will occur if the machine is turned. Making sales is not the owner’s love, but equipment utilization rate.
Therefore, the design before opening the store is almost a win.
| Contact Us | Getting Started |
|---|---|
| Contact Us | It is difficult to enter by car. |
| Parking | Demand for large washing |
| Equipment | The occupancy rate decreases such as putting too large machines in the single person area |
| Store area | It becomes a shop that is difficult to use without enough worktable and waiting space |
| Close | Women and families leave |
| Security | Nighttime use is not extended, and you can enjoy it. |
In the guidance guideline of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the coin operation cleaning business is defined as a business that utilizes washing machines and dryers to the public.
This is not just a sub-operation, but a sales with equipment and管理 management.
In landlord and tenant type, the meaning of yield is different
The cost of the coin laundry investment is the yield and initial cost.
However, this numerals change at all by having land or renting.
| 項目 | Home | Tenant type |
|---|---|---|
| Early Cost | It is heavy when it is included in the building and exterior | Easy to manage existing properties |
| Fixed cost | Fixed asset tax, maintenance, cleaning, utility costs | Rent, utilities, maintenance, cleaning |
| How to see yield | It is easy to see thick in the long term for no rent burden | It becomes thin at once depending on rent |
| Income: 3 points | Easy to down for rent | If the rent is heavy, it will be hard to worry |
| Ease of withdrawal | Building a building is difficult to move | Easy to withdraw depending on the contract |
| Contact Us | People who want to make use of land for a long time | People who want to store at location priority |
Because the landlord type does not have rent, it is useful for long term. However, the escape route when the location is incorrect is narrow.
Tenant type is a heavy fixed cost of monthly rent, which is easy to take a good place. When sales fall, rent will not wait.
It is also necessary to pay attention to the expression "8 to 12% yield" and "10% if conditions are good". These figures are based on the model case of the opening support company and land-use media. However, it depends on how much sales forecast, equipment price, borrow interest rate, rent, utility cost, cleaning cost, repair cost, uptime rate, and machine renewal cost.
Yield is not the answer.
It is a set of prerequisites.
Especially in the tenant type, if the rent exceeds a certain percentage of sales, it will be bitter. The rent is fixed though sales can be shaken by weather and competition. If you look at this sweet, you will be able to break the simulation of the black one in a few months.
The initial cost is the same. If you are a small store, you may be told about 20 million yen. However, if you have newly built a building, we have built a parking lot, put large equipment and go to settlement, crime prevention, and signboard, the total investment amount will be quite large. If you are looking for land use, you need to separate "Total investments in buildings" and "機械 estimates only for machines".
It is dangerous because it is unmanned
There are many coin laundry failures in the story, “It takes more time than I thought”.
utilities scrape profits
Use water, electricity, and gas for large dryers and dryers. In the LP gas survey, the gas consumption of the washing machine and dryer is arranged for each model, and the heat source cost is directly connected to the business balance.
When the energy price rises, the profit is pressed as it is.
There is no reason to raise the price. If there is a compet in the neighborhood, the number of use will decrease by increasing the value.
Shops die when cleaning
The laundromat is clean.
Garbage is dropped on the floor. The filter of the dryer is packed. The washing tank smells. It is difficult to enter the night.
The repeat will fall.
In unmanned stores, daily cleaning, garbage disposal, forgotten goods management, security camera confirmation, detergent inspection are necessary. If you are outsour, you will be able to spend more time.
The cost is both.
Problems occur even during pregnancy
Currency exchange The cacheless terminal is stopped. There is a foreign matter in the dryer. troubles between users. Bring home garbage.
These on-site responses are only light on the balance simulation table.
However, it is effective in actual operation.
It is attractive as a word. However, it must not be completely left over because it is a business with a site.
Machine update wall comes after depreciation
It is a machine update that is easy to overlook by coin laundry investment.
It is a new equipment when opening. In the first few years, there may be fewer repairs.
However, laundry dryers and dryers are not brand new. Motor, board, drum, belt, drainage, payment terminal, security camera. The more ancient, the more the repair cost is clear.
Then, when the depreciation of the machine is finished and thought that the profit is thickened from here, the estimate of the machine update will appear.
It's here.
Even if the profit seems to be out, if you don’t have a future machine update fund, it’s practically just preceding the profit.
In the facility industry, it is necessary to prepare for the next investment, as long as the cash is visible.
The biggest reason why it is easy to fail, after
Coin laundry is relatively simple.
So easy to enter.
It’s easy to enter and compete.
Even if you find a good place and open a store, you may be able to have a wider parking lot, state-of-the-art facilities, app settlement, bright interiors, and large cafes.
At this time, old stores are hard.
Even if the price is counterfeited, the utility costs and repair costs are heavy. Additional investments are required to compete with facilities. Transfer is not easy.
The fear of coin laundry is to enter the latest equipment.
There is a weak surface in the rearing junken because it is an equipment industry.
The future market is bipolar
In the coin laundromat market from here, it is better to see which stores will gather more than whether the number of stores increases.
Winning and losing are quite divided. It is better not to be ambiguous here.
| Easy to win | Stores that are easy to suffer |
|---|---|
| Large store | Small old shop |
| Parking | Bad lead |
| App cacheless | Cash only |
| High Performance Dryer | old machine |
| Clean and bright interior | Dark Shop |
| There are proposals for futons and sneakers | Washing machine |
| Regional events and disaster prevention collaboration | Thin coverage with the region |
When you put a washing machine, it is almost the end.
The user is not selected just by close. Easy to enter, clean, dry, hard to wait, you can see the availability of the app. I will visit such a shop.
Even if the market is growing, not all stores will grow.
Rather, a strong store enters the stage to deprive the sales of a weak store.
Capital
Another change is capital.
Previously, coin laundry was noticeable as a private land utilization and a side business management. Of course, there is a demand.
However, the more competitive, the greater the investment you need.
- Large equipment
- Parking
- App Cashless Payment
- Remote Monitoring
- Security equipment
- Cleaning quality
- Multi-Store Management
- Gas and Power Contract
- Advertising and sales promotion
The more you can see, the more you are alone.
If a major FC, multi-store owners, gas companies, equipment companies, and real estate companies come out with a dominant strategy, small-scale stores are競争ous in terms of competition.
It is true that you can start with an individual.
However, it is not possible for individuals to win.
It is better to think separately.
The real competition is not only a cooperative
The coin laundry competition is not only a separate store in the neighborhood.
It is a competition with in-home laundry DX.
- High Performance Drum Type Washer Dryer
- Household gas dryer
- Bathroom drying
- Laundry Service
- Home Delivery Cleaning
- Washable Clothing
Yano Economic Research Institute also pointed out that the high performance of household washing machines and the spread of washable suits are changing the cleaning demand.
This is related to coin laundry.
If the number of people who can complete until drying in the home, the frequency of daily washing may be lower.
On the other hand, the areas that are difficult to do at home, such as futons, blankets, carpets, sneakers, heavy rainy days dry.
It is more convenient to wash at home.
It is weak in "washing".
Is it possible to get things that are troublesome at home in a short time, clean and stress free? It is the experience value.
Figure: Coin laundry investment wins and pitfalls
Key points to success
It is important to believe that the sales simulation of the FC headquarters is not as it is.
What to see is mud smell.
| ation | Reasons to See |
|---|---|
| Competitive operating rates | Is there a real demand? |
| Rainy days and days | See the strength of dry demand |
| Weekday Night/Holiday Day Use | Is it in a life guide line? |
| Parking | Is it easy for large washers? |
| Do you lose to later ? | |
| Rent/Utilities | Is there too high profit and loss? |
| Renewables | 10 years later |
It is dangerous to judge only by demographic and sales forecast on the desk without doing this investigation.
The coin laundry market is still in demand.
However, it is not a person who believes to win.
It is a person who sees the location cold, refuses capital investment, does not lighten cleaning and crime prevention, and can weave it to future machine update.
Coin laundry is an unmanned store and labor-saving business.
However, it is not an un、 income.
While it is attractive for land use, the risk of initial costs, utility costs, cleaning management, machine renewal, and competition stores is heavy. Even if you use a coin laundry FC, it is easy to fail if you judge it only by the presented yield.
As of 2026, demand is increasing. The laundromat incorporates short-term and large-scale washing demand for consumers as the cleaning shop is shrinking.
However, the market is not easy.
The future is bipolarization and capital battle.
Large store, parking lot, DX, high performance dryer, clean space, close to the area. This store is easy to rest. Old small stores, poor guided stores, cash-only stores, and stores that have preceded renewal investments will be bitter.
The conclusion of the coin laundry investment is simple.
Is it possible to create a structure that protects the equipment utilization rate rather than making money?
If you think so far, it is worth considering. It is a dangerous investment if you do not see it.
出典
- Japan LP Gas Association "Research Report on the Study of New Demand for LP Gas"
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Renewable Business Report on Appropriate Commercial Transaction and Service Environment"