Toyoko INN Akihabara Kanda — Attraction in Tokyo

We've stayed in five of the Toyoko brand and they are pretty much the same: Clean, reasonably priced, with a tasty but simple breakfast. The rooms are small so you wouldn't want to spend much time there, but they are well equipped and quite adequate for sleeping, showering, storing your suitcase, etc. A single room is downright tiny so I paid just a little more for a double although I was alone.||||The Toyoko chain's rooms are booked early because they are such a good deal. Four months before our arrival in Tokyo, only a few of their hotels had twin rooms left. I'm sure they are fully booked every night, so trying for one at the last minute is probably a waste of time.||||This one is in Bakuracho, near an exit of the JR Sobu line which leaves Narita Airport as the JR Kaisoku Airport line, and changes names on the way to Tokyo. Taking that line and getting off at Bakurocho means not having to take the train all the way to Tokyo, then walk a great distance in Tokyo Station to find the subway you need to take you back in the direction you just came from. We estimated by taking the JR Kaisoku (JR Sobu) line directly to the hotel we saved at least half an hour and avoided lots of schlepping our bags around.||||The hotel is a 20 or 30 minute walk west along the river to Akihabara ("Electric City") and 20 or 30 minute walk east to the Edo Museum and the sumo headquarters.||||Free wifi is adequate.||||We especially appreciated Yuka at the front desk, a charming and...

We've stayed in five of the Toyoko brand and they are pretty much the same: Clean, reasonably priced, with a tasty but simple breakfast. The rooms are small so you wouldn't want to spend much time there, but they are well equipped and quite adequate for sleeping, showering, storing your suitcase, etc. A single room is downright tiny so I paid just a little more for a double although I was alone.||||The Toyoko chain's rooms are booked early because they are such a good deal. Four months before our arrival in Tokyo, only a few of their hotels had twin rooms left. I'm sure they are fully booked every night, so trying for one at the last minute is probably a waste of time.||||This one is in Bakuracho, near an exit of the JR Sobu line which leaves Narita Airport as the JR Kaisoku Airport line, and changes names on the way to Tokyo. Taking that line and getting off at Bakurocho means not having to take the train all the way to Tokyo, then walk a great distance in Tokyo Station to find the subway you need to take you back in the direction you just came from. We estimated by taking the JR Kaisoku (JR Sobu) line directly to the hotel we saved at least half an hour and avoided lots of schlepping our bags around.||||The hotel is a 20 or 30 minute walk west along the river to Akihabara ("Electric City") and 20 or 30 minute walk east to the Edo Museum and the sumo headquarters.||||Free wifi is adequate.||||We especially appreciated Yuka at the front desk, a charming and...

The room was good size. Looked onto a brick wall. No safe. The room had a clock, a TV, a big and small mirror. Chair to writ at desk set along wall with TV. Slippers. Nightwear to be selected from foya. Many branches at different levels of cost. You get what you pay for. Coat hangers on the wall for wardrobe. TV Japanese only. No satellite. Could buy from catalogue movies for 500 yen. Breakfast included. Was just passable. Route Inn had a superior breakfast. Staff here were NOT the usual Japanese welcoming, friendly. I stayed 3 nights. When I came in, they had their heads down, and I was ignored. It is very unusual for the Japanese. There was not a lounge chair to be had in the lobby. The breakfast was served in an open area by the lobby. Weird set up. They had washing machine and dryer in back corner of lobby. Only saw a couple of foreigners on each day, and they were couples. It's definitely serving the Japanese community mainly. Hygiene supplies are picked up in the lobby. I'm on a budget as not just travelling for a week or two and I travel multiple destinations on a budget rather than spend on up market hotels so I'm not disappointed in room but the friendly staff definitely lacking at this location. The location itself is quiet. Train links are good and actually helped not to be in the heart of traffic jam railway stations. I got used to them before hitting the...