The place is relatively near JR Itabashi station, which is great for those travelling with the JR Rail Pass. However, it does involve a slope in the process of getting there. Following the given instructions made it easy to find the place, the post office is your marker. Food places and convenience stores are nearer to the station rather than the house.
When we arrived, we realized two things, that the place was really small for our party of three, and it was really cold.
The first floor has, the bathroom, the kitchen, and the entrance.
There was limited space on the first floor ( right between the stairs and entrance ) to open a standard sized luggage or a larger but still airplane acceptable size luggage, without involving some levels of gymnastics or jumping over the luggages. If you have been travelling for a while, or with a bigger group, the struggle to find space for the luggages is real. We ended up having to put the bigger luggages in the kitchen.
The main other unfortunate issue was the heating. There is a total of 3 heating appliances throughout the entire house, of which, one in the kitchen, two upstairs -- one in the bedroom, and one in the living room ( which was also modified to be the second bedroom -- there are only a total of two rooms in the entire house, the declared common space was in fact the second bedroom). Only the one (an a/c unit type) in the bedroom works well enough for us to not require our outside clothes indoors, which was most unfortunate. The rest were small and did little for warmth. The saving grace were the heated blankets, but we could not remain in bed all the time. Anytime we left the bedroom, we had to be dressed in outdoors clothing.
The stairs are very narrow and made it really dangerous to bring any luggages up or for the young and old, but there are metal railings installed for safety. They were too cold to grasp, but seemed sturdy enough if necessary. There were used cups in the sink, and the toaster left much to imagination. We did not dare to cook in the house.
Overall, the house may be more suited for those who are highly tolerant of the cold, or for the warmer times.
This was our 4th location in our entire trip and sadly, the most unsatisfying one.