Pros:
- A great location. Just a few minutes walk from Akihabara station. Many restaurants and convenient stores are within walking distance. As others mentioned - there is a smell to the place, but once you get the air going it didn’t seem to bother us anymore.
- Host is very responsive and helpful. Even offered to mail something that we left behind.
- Beds were very comfortable!
Negatives:
- you must walk up 4 steep flights of stairs to get to the place.
- The photos are not accurate. The place was much more run down than depicted. The light fixtures were taped to the ceiling, wall paper peeling off the walls, dining chairs were mismatched and in poor condition etc. Also in the room with 3 beds, the photo shows actual beds, but there were just three mattresses on the floor. They were comfortable - but not what we expected when we booked the place. Everything was just much more worn down than the pictures show.
Just be fairly warned. It ended up being a good location for us - but I personally wouldn’t book there again unless the condition improved.