Abstract
The aim of this study is to find out how people consider and acquire information of residential environment, during their home acquisition process. This has been done through questionnaires to the Government Housing Loan Corporation contractors who recently defined their home area and obtained their houses, in Tokyo, Sendai and Hiroshima metropolitan area. The fmdings from the analysis of the answers, was that 1) most of the households families search homes in relation with commuting time, route, market price distribution, etc., and as a result, settle down at familiar and close area, 2) most of the information of residential environment they get are from site observation, and 3) there exists necessity for residential information environment but there are problems in their actual distribution.
