Travel-spot discovery app with AI swipe matching, Tokyo

What is for sale

This is an iOS travel app that lets users discover restaurants, sightseeing spots, cafes, beaches and shopping using a swipe-based interface combined with AI personalised recommendations, similar in feel to a social media app rather than a traditional search tool. The app, brand design, landing page and source code are already complete and the service has launched with some monthly revenue, though full-scale marketing has not yet been carried out. The owner is selling to focus resources on other business priorities and wants to hand it to a buyer who can develop it more aggressively.

This is an asset sale, so the buyer acquires the app, source code, brand and domain rather than a company, and will need to set up their own accounts, payment processing and any required registrations under their own name.

What is included

• Source code
• App design data and brand assets
• Landing page
• Domain (negotiable)
• Know-how / operational knowledge
• Existing subscription billing setup

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Unique swipe-based UI for discovering travel spots rather than traditional search
• AI-driven personalised recommendations for each user
• Core features already built: swipe search, AI recommendations, spot detail pages, favourites, category search
• Designed for global scalability across travel, food, cafe and shopping categories

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• No serious marketing or advertising has been done yet, so customer acquisition and growth are unproven
• Buyer should check the current state of the subscription billing operation before proceeding
• Buyer should confirm exactly which assets are included in the transfer
• Financial disclosures are minimal: revenue shown only as a wide bracket and no profit figure given
• Transfer of any third-party platform accounts may be restricted by those platforms, so this needs checking during negotiation

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). You start a bank relationship from zero.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money