We stayed in Yukio's apartment for two weeks. There were three of us, me, my son and daughter. The apartment has two rooms that can be used for sleeping: the bedroom (or rather sleeping room, because there were no beds, we slept on mattresses on tatami floor) and the living room with folding seat that could be converted in an extra mattress if necessary. There are a lot of extra bedding in the closets, mattresses, blankets and pillows if you like to sleep in a soft bed. We liked the tall table and chairs in the kitchen, where we could eat and have tea in the evening. We even cooked dinner for ourselves a few times. The kitchen has two burner gas stove, a pot and a pan and some utensils. So if you have time you can cook. The refrigerator is small but was more than enough for us three. The bathroom is a fully sufficient, although a bit different from what we are used to in US and if you like salt bath, Yukio is offering bath salts, so help yourself. The air conditioner worked well. In other words, the apartment was great. The neighborhood was great, safe, quiet, and if you don't want to spend extra money in the vending machines, there is a great grocery store, bakery, cafe, liquor store, post office and the shop selling teas just across the street. Now I want to say a few words about our host. Yukio san is a great man. To name a few things, he met us personally at the door, during our stay always came to pick up our trash unless we insisted otherwise. I had to bring my daughter a set of kitchen knives. so he gave me a great advice on Japanese kitchen knives brands, which I ended up purchasing at Tsukiji market in Tokyo. He let us use the second separate bedroom (actual bedroom with two beds) so our daughter would not sleep in the same room with us. When we had to leave, there was a long trip before us, because we flew home from Osaka Kansai Airport so had to leave very early. So Yukio drove us to Tsurukawa station at 5 am. There was only one problem, but it was our lack of planning rather than the fault of the host or the flaw of the apartment. All our destination were in central Tokyo, around Yamanote line. It circles the city center and give access to pretty much all major tourist spots that we wanted to visit. As many tourists do we bought JR Rail Pass. We tried to use non-JR trains to get to Tokyo, but figured that we'd spend extra money that we shouldn't spend. So we decided to trade money for time and took JR trains to the city center. At different times of the day, it could take up to two hours to get to Tokyo station, for example. So plan well. This location is not...