Amazing apartment, host and fantastic country!

I cannot say enough nice things about our host Kentaro. I can honestly say that I have had no issues. Kentaro was ready to help whether it was a technical question about the apartment or a personal question about the upcoming events. He was always in-touch with us to make sure we had everything we need. The politeness, punctuality and cheerfulness of Kentaro and the Japaneese culture in general was limitless.

Kentaro's place is situated in a great location. It is a walking distance away to one of the biggest local shopping markets Asakusa (bring some cash with you, you will want to buy everything!). The area has many different places to eat out: starting with the traditional Japanese cuisine and ending with Chinese, Korean and American (in case you get home sick). There is only a ten minute walk from the place to the Uno train station where you can depart to any other part of Japan. The train station has a nice variety of foods, small breakfast places that open around 6am and souvenir shops.
There is a small family bakery right around the corner from the apartment that has delicious pastries for breakfast and they open pretty early. There is also a grocery store right across the street from the apartment in case you want to purchase some stuff to make your own breakfast with.

I'll recommend to have a print out on how to get from the train station to the apartment before you get there, it took us quite some time to find the place because we didn't have internet access. Kentaro keeps some print outs in the apartment on how to guide yourself around the place. After the first day using their train system it would become easier to understand.

The apartment was spotless and had all the necessities such as water, snacks, coffee, and tea. The washer machine was very convenient, we got to use it a couple of times. The shower had shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and a hairdryer so just take a shower and relax. On our last day we had a late evening flight so Kentaro was pretty flexible with the checkout time. I will definitely, come back to Kentaro's place when I visit Japan some time in the future. Ten days was not nearly enough to see all the precious parts of Japan but we made it to the Mt Fuji, Kyoto, Nara and all the best parts of Tokyo.