This is a lovely apartment in a new modern building not far from Yongkang Street, which is full of restaurants. It's a great neighborhood for finding food in one of the less westernized parts of central Taipei, and it's probably a 5-7 minute walk from the Dongmen MRT (metro) station exit 5 (and the original Din Tai Fung). There are decent places to stock up on groceries nearby (e.g., a Pxmart 5 minutes away, almost to Dongmen station, a produce market just on the other side of Xinyi Road, and a fancy western Jason's supermarket just over 20 minutes walk away next to the Guting station. The kitchen was sufficient for having cereal and milk for breakfast and keeping some fruit around, and would have been sufficient for a good bit more if I'd wanted to use it for that. The building seems reasonably secure (key fob entry to the building, then locks on the (very sturdy) apartment doors, but perhaps unnecessarily so, since the neighborhood seems quite safe (like most of Taipei).

The apartment is quite light during the day; it's not so effective at blocking the light out if you want darkness to sleep in (the curtains aren't quite fully opaque, and some light comes in through the bathroom and its frosted windows). There's also a good bit of noise (band practice?) from the adjacent middle school in the mornings (starting perhaps around 7:30 or 8am, although I didn't note the exact time).

The wifi was reasonably good, and worked well except for blocking the port for secure IMAP (port 993), which breaks desktop email clients (but not webmail). The laundry in the basement was also just fine (although it's cold water only, which is what I want anyway, and I'm not sure I could have figured out which bottle was the detergent if I hadn't brought my own).

Communication with Jan and her assistant was fine, although I wasn't particularly demanding as this was my second time staying in one of Jan's apartments (I'd previously stayed in 4B directly below.)