Tokyo is a beautiful "gem" that everyone needs to travel to and enjoy. We had an incredible 10 day visit in this wonderful treasure. It would not have been as good a trip without this property and the incredible owner; Midori. She was the key to making our trip special in that she was attentive to our needs, questions and our hopes. She worked hard to help us turn this AirBnb into our temporary "holiday" home as we came to Japan to be with our family for 10 days over the Christmas holidays. From helping us to plan a side trip to Kyoto; to snowboarding suggestions; to dining recommendations; to locations as to where we could go; to Christmas Eve services she worked hard to meet our travel requests. Because of that we continue to be overwhelmed by our memories of both her hospitality and that of the Japanese people. This particular AirBnb is an excellent "setting" to enjoy all facets of that "jewel" we now call Tokyo. When we come back to Tokyo I would fully expect us to seek to stay again in this Airbnb. The apartment is large and very comfortable. It is well located, only a short walk from the Okobu train station and one stop away from the main Shinjuku station. The building is not large but it does have a small 7-11 style market on the bottom floor; making it convenient for daily consumables such as milk, bread, yogurt etc. About a block away is a larger market with everything else you might need; and across the street from that market is a french pastry shop (which has very good "christmas cakes" by the way). The area is safe and we did not feel uneasy; even late at night. The apartment is easy to find and access and the instructions of how to open the building and apartment doors were clear. We were able to to do it even though we don't speak Japanese and we had arrived in the wee hours of a Sunday night. We were a family of four adults and we had plenty of space to both be together when we wanted and to relax when we wished to be apart. The closets are spacious with plenty of room to hang clothes and to store suitcases. The master bedroom is big; large comfortable bed for two large tall adults. It has its own couch and desk and served as an excellent place for our two adults sons to hang out, read or just rest apart from the main living area. The bathroom was very well appointed from toothbrushes and toothpaste to laundry detergents to lotions to soap. It has a good clothes washer when needed and drying racks are provided as well. Whatever you need for cleaning yourself or your clothes is there for you to use. The shower area was large; larger than most in hotels in the US. Plenty of hot water and soap and shampoo etc. The instructions of how to operate the hot water system were clear. (Google translate on our phones however did help at times with some of the appliance instructions). In the main living areas are three individually controlled heating/cooling units and they worked just fine. The kitchen itself was very nice; not at all a small "pullman style" kitchen that you find in other AirBnbs. It had everything you would need and enough room for two people to work around each other simultaneously. It had a full gas stove; a full size very nice refrigerator. All the kitchen utensils were there. We had requested Midori to provide a coffee pot and upon check in we found it and a very nice supply of a variety of coffees for us to enjoy as we awoke from our initial 24 hour travel day. The four of us always cooked and ate breakfast together at the western style kitchen table and we had plenty of room. The adjoining living room itself is spacious with plenty of elbow room for any activity you may want to do. It is tastefully decorated. The couch is large enough that all four of us could sit on it simultaneously with plenty of space or if we wanted we could move one of the kitchen chairs over and have a larger group. It has a large sofa table and both a very long nice wall credenza and window table which provided plenty of space for laying out maps, travel books etc. Next to the living room is a sleeper sofa which was fine. One of our party slept on it every night comfortably. Along one wall of the living room is a long line of tall windows (with curtains for sleeping) that allows you to look down on the street and activities from your 4th floor location. It was enjoyable to sit there and watch the neighborhood wake up and go about it's day. Not that much pedestrian or vehicle noise; other than the normal police and fire sirens that you have in any city. Like many locations in Tokyo the apartment is not far from a major train line. That location is great for train access but might concern some with noise. We solved that by installing "white noise" apps on our ipads for those sleeping in the front bedroom. That took care of it. This was only a minor issue in the living room/side bedroom and not a problem in the master bedroom. We had no noise at all surrounding apartments or buildings. Neither did we have any cooking or food smells coming from the surrounding buildings or apartments. For us it was an excellent home away from our true home and we are grateful. Finally let me say that as travelers from North America and experienced in traveling in Europe and Scandinavia we were naturally nervous as to how best navigate this totally unique place in this our first trip to Asia. We had nothing to be...