I like Akihabara

small hotel

The location was OK

Room too cramped for travellers with suitcases

We stayed at this hotel 3 nights. The location and room in itself were quite good.

I was surprised when I arrived by the absence of waiting space, and the coldness of the ladies at reception. I felt really embarrassed to ask them a few practical questions as I first landed in Japan (how to pay for the subway, and how to buy a train ticket) because they clearly didn't want to do much efforts to answer. I had suppositions instead of answers. The same day, I found out that Ueno train station was indeed just an 11-minute walk straight down the road. I am pretty sure they knew it... That felt strange. We arrived at the hotel at 7:30 am, and the check in was at 3pm. We went to buy our train ticket, we had lunch, we walked around a good while, but at 12:30, I felt dizzy and completely exhausted after more than 40 hours traveling and a night spent in the airport, and it was 5 degrees outside and we didn't have access to our warmer clothes and no space to change (they didn't look happy when I asked them to take something I forgot in my luggage which was in the small room near the reception desk). So at 12:30 we went back to the hotel to ask politely if they could let us know in case the room was ready before 3pm, so we could have a rest. Instead of accepting, they said that the room is ready but the rule in Japan is that check in is at 3pm, so if we want it any time earlier, we have to pay extra. If I asked for early check in at 7:30 am when we arrived, I would understand, but in our present case, they just made my 10-year old and I wait on the only two chairs in front of the tiny reception desk until 3pm whereas our room was empty and cleaned already. That logics was quite hard to swallow... Maybe we are not used to rules that are so strict, usually reception staff let people in if the room is ready early... I tried to ask the manager (the other girl was really antipathic), but the rule is the rule. We didn't want to have a cultural clash...

Delicious Japanese style breakfast, comfy beds and included pyjamas were a nice touch

Nothing

Es net i silencios

Mida de l’habitació massa petita per 2 persones i per una estada de varis dies perquè no hi queps bé amb l’equipatge.

La tranquilidad, el silencio, el desayuno.

Creo que los filtros de aire estaban con polvo porque cada día encontrábamos mucho polvo en lugares que estaban limpios.

The location is great and central

Tiny room advertised as a double room One queen bed for a reservation of a family of 2 adults and 2 children, we had to pay extra for a room with a king bed that could be separated (the room was as small as the previous one) Breakfasts are advertised as included but only for adults, children must pay and it isn’t cheap compared to meals in Japan but relatively cheap when coming from a western country The room was extremely tiny and didn’t deserve the title double room

Superb location south of Ueno. Fully equipped room, as usual in Tokyo.

The room is certainly smaller than described on booking.com. The breakfast area is too small, closer to a "closet" than to a "room".