When visiting Japan, we’ve stayed at Kazutaka and Megumi’s home in the Shibuya ward. This location’s closest Train station is the Nishi-shinjuku-gochome station (西新宿五丁目駅) as stated in the description which is about a 7-10 minute walk (depending on your pace). This station is operated by the Toei line and we’ve found it useful to get around most places using a 72-hour subway pass (for foreigners; it works on both Tokyo Metro and Toei lines.)
As of the location, it is a few blocks away from a Family Mart and 7-11 which was convenient after a long day of exploring Tokyo and you would like to have some snacks during the late night. Not near too many restaurants but there are a few around, but if you do want to go to Shinjuku, it would only be two stops away. Going from Nishi-shinjuku-gochome -> Tochomae -> Shinjuku station, this route was roughly 4 minutes on the Oedo Line (and trains are punctual and fast)
There are 3 floors and the first floor has dining room, a table that seats 6 individuals a sink and a mirror with a television set and the next room over, there is the kitchen and all of the appliances listed. The kitchen was also connected to each room with two toilets and another room in the back that also had a shower and a washer and stairs going to the next floor.
The second floor only had a single large room, this room had its own toilet closet and a sink outside within the room. Overall with three toilets, this location was easy to house multiple people that needs to do their business. During our stay, we had a 5 single-sized bed configuration in this room, a nightstand and a table to hold the any lose items.
The third floor had a single large room with 3 beds (all double-sized), a shelf to hold your things and a space heater. With overall 3 floors, the use of space to host all of us was quite efficient! Overall, Japan is very space efficient and most of the houses are build with a really steep stairwell within a narrow space as well. As it definitely is nice to have your items near where you sleep, some of my friends when I was there decided to leave their luggage on the lower levels as the shower is located on that level and there is space within the dinning commons to do so and the showering area (or toilet) has more than enough private spaces to change. As the stairway is narrow, getting your items up to the bedroom levels could be difficult. Overall, its not necessarily this location in particular, but other parts of Japanese residential housing also have narrow and steep stairwells (I have also stayed at another AirBnB in another city in Japan prior to coming to Tokyo.)
Overall my stay here was excellent, from the pictures, I got what I have expected, the host responds pretty quick to our inquiry and we were not too far from some of the popular point of interests like (Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, as this is just a train ride away and if you’re heading to the airport using the Narita express, you’re also able to take it from Shinjuku JR station which can be transferable from the Toei Shinjuku station stop).