Great area with lots of restaurants and shops close by. It's right by shinokubo station, you may hear the train passing by but it's barely noticeable. If you enjoy Korean cuisine, this is for you! the area is called hyakunin cho, also known as Korean town.
The place was very well equipped. Two air conditioners that kept the entire place cold during hot days. We had almost everything we need in the kitchen except paper towels. It wasn't too big of a deal, we just used kleenex instead. We make our own meals quite frequently so if paper towels were provided it'd be a lot easier.
We like how there were two wifi connections, a pocket wifi to take along when you head out, and a in-home wifi connection, which was faster than the pocket wifi. We were a party of five, and there were times I had to nap with our youngest one (she just turned 3), I could still have access to the internet while my wife and my two other kids took the pocket wifi with them when they headed out.
if you enjoy night running, like me :) you can run to waseda university campus, it's a good 30 min run one way. Only a tiny part of the route was a bit hilly. It's a good route to do if you're looking to do an hour run.
all in all, we enjoyed our stay at Hiroko san's place. We won't hesitate to stay at this place again for our next trip to Japan :) Thank you Hiroko san
Hans