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Whenever I used to make sweeping statements (eg about toilets or something) about Japan, there would be fifteen different responses from people around Japan saying I was wrong, often with pictorial evidence. So with that in mind, yeah, every house has at least one smallish (or large) tatami room or 和室/washitsu. In fact when I lived in apartments this was also true of apartments, as long as it isn't a one-room of course. More than one, probably not, unless the whole house itself is a traditional structure, as you suggest.
Edit: Everybody got it, though it only made my 15 year old feel like he has a sore back, my wife has no fever but coughs a lot. My youngest is like When's dinner?
My two-bedroom apartment, built in 1973, does not have a 和室. It was renovated more recently, though, so maybe it had one before I moved in.
As they say, the fastest way to find out a fact online isn't to ask....
I've probably lived in 6 apartments here and now a house, and all of them has had a tatami room, but there you go. I guess not everywhere has them.
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