Lina’s home is in a quiet neighborhood with bus stops just around the corner and the Metro station a few minutes walk away.
The traditional tatami room is a nice experience, however, the futon is quite uncomfortable as it’s thinner than it looks on the photos. The A/C is great in the Tokyo summer heat.
Still, we were pretty disappointed as things weren’t really prepared on our arrival: Lina wasn’t home when we arrived and we didn’t meet her until the evening of the next day. She hadn’t even charged the pocket wifi or prepared any explanations (such as how to turn on the warm water in the shower!). As there’s no other working wifi available in the room (there definitely is no 2 Gigabit fiber internet as stipulated in the listing, and the pocket wifi is very slow), we couldn’t ask her any questions or research things by ourselves. We didn’t feel welcome at all. Lina kind of made up for it with some tea and a chat a day later, but communication isn’t easy. Her partner apparently didn’t even regard us worthy to introduce himself.
We also had some privacy concerns: There’s no lock on the shower door and no place to change in private before having to climb up the two flights of stairs and walk across the living room. You just have to hope for noone to come downstairs. Even though Lina says she won’t come in the bedroom if the door is closed (there’s no lock), we noticed that someone had been in there at least twice.
I wouldn’t recommend staying longer than a few days as there are no cupboards (or even a trashcan) in the room and we had to put all our clothes and stuff on the floor. In Tokyo, it’s probably an alright place for the price, but I wouldn’t stay here again.