Hotel Livemax Nippori, Tokyo

- I accidentally picked the 'smoking' room, but they changed me to non-smoking for free! - I couldn't really figure out how to get room service (cleaning/etc) - front-desk was hit-miss with English, but translation app worked well enough - despite being on the 4th floor, this street is very quiet at night. Where-as in another city I stayed on the 8th floor, and it was noisier because the street - a nice distance to Ueno park, and maybe 200m from Yanka Ginza shopping street. Get the Chestnut dessert, really good

- I accidentally picked the 'smoking' room, but they changed me to non-smoking for free! - I couldn't really figure out how to get room service (cleaning/etc) - front-desk was hit-miss with English, but translation app worked well enough - despite being on the 4th floor, this street is very quiet at night. Where-as in another city I stayed on the 8th floor, and it was noisier because the street - a nice distance to Ueno park, and maybe 200m from Yanka Ginza shopping street. Get the Chestnut dessert, really good

Even the space is not very big, it is enough for our need. Facilities are also perfect. The room is also very clean enough, don't expect more in this price! Most important is the staff is super helpful! Good!

The staff was great. The location in the heart of Nippori is great. The facility, however, is old. The rooms are very small. The hallways stink of smoke. Some things in the room were broken, etc. If you've done the youth hostel thing before it's OK, but I wouldn't recommend it for a family.