Tarou’s place is lovely and spacious. We felt at home when we arrived. The area was also convenient and could easily access Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ginza etc.
But as much as I would like to make a good review. A lot of unfortunate things happened that I know isn’t Tarou’s fault, but I want to make an honest review of our stay.
The room smelled strongly of cigarettes when we first arrived. It was most likely because of the previous tenant, because there were no smoking signs posted. Because of this, it wasn’t a totally pleasant experience off the bat especially with a 1 year old. Luckily the smell faded the next day plus with the help of a ton or air freshener.
That first night was also plagued with someone constantly walking with heavy feet on the top unit till early morning. Fortunately that stopped the next day.
Unfortunately the following day, there was a water outage that was supposed to last a couple of hours turned into 30 hours of no toilet and shower. Tarou tried his best to compensate with 4 bottles of water and to transfer to a bigger room. the building management also lent us a toilet and shower to use on the lower floor, but was surprised to find out the heating didn’t work until 30hours after as well.
My son and I decided to stay at our home instead, while my sister and mom remained at the property disappointed but trusted the water would return. Sadly it didn’t return as soon as we were expecting.
With all the things that happened, I have to honestly say we were extremely disappointed. We wanted to enjoy the last days with family in Japan. But because of our experience we had to part ways a bit annoyed instead.
This was probably an isolated case… (hopefully it was) I want to give 2 stars instead of 1 becauseTarou tried his best.