If you are here, just book this place. I almost never get around to writing reviews, but Mai and her room in Shimokitazawa were TRULY outstanding. Short or month-long stay in Tokyo, no problem. Picking a place in the city to set up base can be tricky and confusing, I know, but trust me that this is the place you will want. For one, the apartment is located in about the most convenient and cool area you can imagine within Shimokitazawa, an already very centrally located neighborhood. Within Shimokita, it is hardly one block from a metro station that will take you anywhere across the city and onward to day trip spots like Hakone. The apartment itself is a gorgeous little space adorned with silks that you get to live in within this already great neighborhood (by the way: note that most any apartment or hotel you will find in Tokyo--even the nicest ones--will not have many sq. ft.) Because so many listings in Tokyo seem sterile and like they were built last week, so I was relieved to find when I arrived: perfect bedding and character touches, a beautiful old wooden building, tucked back from a small and charming street and atop the cutest kimono shop that Mai runs during the daytime. You can even buy a beer at the shop, too! And then of course, you get Mai as a host. Mai made me feel right at home. I have stayed in many an Airbnb, for various durations, and she has gone the most above and beyond her duties of any host I've met, helping secure favors that made my stay much more convenient and remedying minor issues like my inability to understand a Japanese central heating remote with superlative kindness and sweetness. I wish I would have had more time to hang out with her, because from my interactions she seemed like a deeply chill human being--and, like most people I met in Tokyo, WAY cooler than I am. Try her place out. I wish I could have stayed longer.