Nice place to stay and conveniently close to Oshiage - Skytree and Ueno. The village is lovely and you get a real Japanese experience. The train station is conveniently close and about a 5 min walk but is not on the JR line or subway line. You will need to obtain a pasmo pass. So if you are getting a JR pass only get if for the days that you are actually travelling around Japan as i didn't find it useful around the city.