The apartment is esthetically pleasing but not very functional. The apartment was easy to find, check-in was a breeze since Toshiyuki gave us clear instructions. The apartment is located on the 2nd Floor and there is a short flight of steps (no elevator) to get to the apartment. The whole place was beautiful, from the tatami mats to the kitchen utensils, however the place itself wasn't very functional. There were no kitchen towels/hand towels in the bathroom to dry your hands (I had to sacrifice one of my small towels for it). There were no place to hang your clothes in the bathroom apart from the small towel bar on the shower door. When we checked in, the whole place smelled like cigarettes and when we open the fridge, although it was empty, it smelled like rotten food was left in there. The 3rd bed was not made upon check in but we did find extra bedding sets and we made the bed ourselves.
All these issues were communicated to Toshiyuki and he was very quick to respond and assist. He gave us the lock combination to open the extra bedding set and sent someone to clean the fridge again the next day.
We were there on a 3-day weekend in Japan and right below us, there is a karaoke bar. For 3 consecutive nights, we could hear people talking/yelling on the streets, bad singing coming from the karaoke and felt bass music on our pillows. Toshiyuki anticipated this and provided us with earplugs in the airbnb and eye mask since the traditional sliding windows did nothing to shield the outside street lights. The walls between each apartment were also very thin. One of the nights, there were new guest at the airbnb apartment next to us and they partied in the room all night. We could hear them talking, yelling, banging and thumping around their apartment. The earplugs did nothing to help the noise and sad to say, it was one of my worst nights ever.
The last night however was great. Since it was the last day of the weekend, there were no yelling or karaoke singing and we gladly slept like babies. The beds in the apartment were fantastic and the rain shower (water pressure) in the bathroom were also great.