We are a French – Korean couple in our 40. We live in Seoul, South Korea, and we travel to Japan frequently on purposes of business and holidays.

We stayed at M. Yoshida’s place from Sunday September 8th until Sunday September 22nd, 2019.
It was our first sojourn there, and you’ll find here under our evaluation of the listing.
1)	The Pros:
-	The house is well situated in a calm backstreet, 5 minutes away by walk from Shibuya station;
-	The premises are very clean and well maintained;
-	The bathroom is vast against Japanese standards, it has a real full-size shower booth, and it benefits from the light from the outside through a large window (which is quite rare in Japan).
2)	The Cons:
-	During our stay, we have had no human contact neither with the host nor with the team in charge of the management of the property. For a price per day past $400, a meet & greet in person with a handshake and a smile, or at least a hand-written welcome note left in the house would be a minimum. If you like the feeling of being “at home away from home”, this place doesn’t qualify. It’s nothing but a business and it’s managed as such;
-	The house is impersonal, it does not offer enough storage space for the travelers’ belongings (only a tiny chest of drawers and a couple of coat hangers are available in the dressing room), and aggressive instructions are displayed everywhere under ugly plastic pouches, conveying the sensation of staying in a boarding house instead of a nice vacation home;
-	This is a joint property made of 2 distinct parts, which are rented separately. They’re although attached together, and the whole building unfortunately suffers from a dramatic lack of appropriate soundproofing. You shall thus be prepared to hear the least noise put out by the guests next door as if they were with you in the room (at the beginning of our stay, we’ve had an interesting experience with a bunch of young foreign guys who were speaking and laughing out loud at any time, and who were partying hard every night);
-	Smoking is strictly prohibited within the premises, and that’s quite fine like this. Yet smoking around the house, even occasionally and at dutiful distance, must be avoided as well. Some neighbors are apparently highly smell-sensitive: without gently approaching you to have the matter addressed between willing persons, they’ll immediately report to the management team who’ll then jump on you without checking the facts any further, making you feel irresponsible as well as under close watch;
-	The double-bed in the master bedroom is too small for 2 grown-ups having regular body features.
As a conclusion we have the regret to say that M. Yoshida’s house, though ideally situated, is just another big, expensive hotel room with no charm and without the service.
Overall, we’ve been very disappointed, and we did not enjoy our 2-week stay.