I stayed at Yoshi’s place for 6 days as a home base for my last week to take day trips from.
I stayed by myself. The location was convenient to a subway station with a nice walk down an older shopping street which you can get some nice discounted sushi and other food items as the shops are closing for the day.
The lodging is also a 15 minute walk from Ueno station for Shinkansen and other JR line needs.
The lodging is priced well.
I stayed here at the tail end of Autumn / early winter and the unit got pretty cold. I found I had to turn the heater up all the way. Make sure you keep the bathroom and toilet room doors closed at all times. Also the window in the toilet room- make sure it’s not just closed by locked which closes it a tiny bit more. I think it’s that window that contributes to most of the cold as well as the pop-out vent near the TV. As long as you keep that all closed and have comfy clothes you’ll probably be good.
One day I tried taking a relaxing bath and almost used up all the hot water for the day. I never ran out of hot water. So you won’t be taking multiple baths in a day which is not a problem as one person but if you have two bathers in a group should consider. Seems the hot water unit fills and heats up once per-24 hours. I can respect that resource system.
The bathroom hose and holder system is really nice. One of the better ones I’ve experience in all my many AirBnB travels in Japan. It’s a vertical bar with a latch so you can adjust the vertical height to all sorts of positions. Usually there are two fixed holders one high and one low which is helpful but not as nice as Yoshi’s free sliding adjusting holder.
I would recommend that maybe the host provides an additional warm blanket or two for the bedding specially in the end of Autumn and Winter season.
I’d also recommend the host consider maybe adding a body mirror in the bedroom on the half bare wall. There is definitely space and would really complete the otherwise nicely stylish bedroom. Tokyo is a very stylish population so I think having that full body check before you head out the door is a nice reassuring benefit.
Overall I think this is a great place and value that puts you in a convenient location for Ueno area and subway/train access.
Another big bonus to me is the unit has a washing machine in the kitchen area which is a requirement when I travel Japan as I like to only bring a week or less of clothes and wash one or two times a week so I can travel smaller.
I would consider staying here again in the future and would recommend this lodging to friends.