If you're looking for a cheap place to stay in Tokyo, proceed with caution. I personally will not be staying here again, however, I will list the good and the bad from my experience here:
Good:
- Daisuke's communication was excellent - Finding the place was easy and check-in was a breeze.
- Location - Only a few minutes walk from Kinshicho metro and JR rail.
- Single rooms - Nice to have your own bedroom at a great price. Bedrooms were secure and clean.
- The rooftop - Although not mentioned in the listing, the building has a large common roofspace on the 6th floor. A nice view of the busy street below. This was also a nice place to meet other guests.
- Other guests - My stay would have been much worse if not for the lovely people I met at this airBnB.
Bad:
- What you see is not what you get - The photos do not represent the place you will be staying. The building is old, cigarette smoke filled, and dirty. The bedrooms were clean, but the common areas were not.
- Cleanliness - Garbage left in hallways, on the roof, at the entrance, everywhere. One morning I went to the toilet to find bloodied tissues and cotton tips on the floor. Kitchen had dirty dishes and always reeked of fish.
- Showers - Also the listing shows two showers, this isn't practically the case. Both showers are in a single room, so if someone is using one, they lock the door so there is no access to the other. For a residence with 17 rooms, 1 shower is simply not acceptable (very long wait times...).

- The noise - Walls are extremely thin, so you can hear everything going on the rooms next to you, and the hallways. Just as you would a hostel, I brought earplugs, however, the noise was so bad I would sometimes even be awoken with them in. Furthermore, one night I was woken up at 12AM to someone doing vacuuming.
- The building - Although the area of Kinshicho is nice, the building is not. It has a thai "massage" (open until 3am) across the hall, as well as a strip club underneath. The stairs are filthy and smell of cigarettes.
- Room 502 - Please note, there is no window in this room! It is not explicitly stated, which is ridiculous. The room gets no fresh air or sunlight. Even jail cells have windows...