Wonderful host and house!
The house: charming, immaculately clean, plenty of room for 4 people, everything looks new and in perfect shape. Downstairs is a lovely kitchen fully equipped, a living room space in tatami mats, a spotless high tech toilet and a lovely separate shower with everything you need. Also a new high tech washer-dryer with soap. The upstairs is a lovely space separated down the middle with sliding doors. For us there were 4 beds, two on each side of the sliding doors. One side polished wood floors, the other perfect tatami mats. Very comfortable. A good air conditioner/heater on each floor, more than enough. Sweet little up and downstairs patios. Upstairs also closet space available. Anyway, the house is great and in a low key neighborhood away from all the hustle and bustle of the busy Tokyo areas, but very easy to get around since the subway is about 100 meters from the house!
The Hostess: Keiko is absolutely wonderful. She is readily available, easy going, resourceful and clearly enjoys helping her guests. She's like a mom and good friend at the same time. She showed us so many little considerations--she's really fantastic. She was easy to reach by email or phone with questions. She speaks English well. She gave us great directions, advice, ideas, and even some fresh tomatoes from her neighbor's garden! Keiko is everything you hope for in a host.