My worst stay in a Airbnb ! ( And i have done many worldwide ).
I here repeat the comments I made to Yutaka one a personal note, ( if this message reaches Yutaka which i doubt ) but if you dare hire this apartment, or any other in this building, you will never talk to Yutaka, but to 4 or 5 different persons for each exchanged message.
Because this is not a "normal" Airbnb but a kind of cold / ultra techno / distant / "Apple-ized" way to receive people.
First the apartment is very much ok. Cool, modern, design, with a futon bed, which is ok if you're fond of sleeping on a hard soil. But this is all fine and the apartment and neighboring though a bit far from the center is very much ok.
More problematic : One of the windows lets the morning light flow in at 5:00 am in may… So if you're sensitive to light during your sleep… forget it.
Now getting worse : You have to read and comply to a 40 pages notice of the apartment to understand and be as much "collaborative" with its rules . If not ? … be aware that the heavenly justice of Yutaka will fall on your shoulders.
I knew i could'nt smoke in the apartment, ( it's written in the house Bible ) and i didn't.
But i did smoke on the terrasse ( which is nice ), taking a little Ikea bowl of 1, 50 dollars to use as an ashtray.
The day after, as if there was a camera on the terrasse, or a spy observing my moves, i was sentenced with a blame ( polite of course ) but i had broken the rules of the apartment !!!!! …
People and neighbors may have complained … yeah yeah… there are no immediate neighbors. Anyway… Then after long mails with the Zens team, and after deliberations on their part, it was decided that i would be fined 7 euros ( 8 dollars ) to pay a special detergent to clean and "sanitize" the table ware !
Goodness. I already had washed this fake ashtray three times, nope, it had to be "sanitized" with the zen's team ghostbusters.…
One's doesn't feel home at any moment in this apartment. Your are someone who is just "allowed " to be transparent … against 660 euros for 4 days !
This is it.
Yukata will say… It's the rule of the apartment not to smoke cigarettes there ( which i can understand ) but on the terrasse outside ? At night ? In the open ? nooooooo,
it's ridiculous, and the reaction of the "zen's team" ? Outrageously pathetical.
I left and met great Japenese people after, cool , and friendly, and very much caring.
Too bad i didn't have even the possibility to meet someone at the "Zens" team … who should better work in a hotel, and not for a Airbnb, because this is no Airbnb.
Wish you humanity, caring, and a bit let of rules in your life. You'll be more happy, because money is not everything ah ?
Olivier.