Hostel DEN — Hotel in Tokyo

I stayed here for 8 nights upon my first ever arrival in Tokyo, Japan and enjoyed my stay.

The location of this hostel is absolutely perfect because you are not IN the busy areas of Tokyo, but one of the four stations that surround this hostel will get you there.

I booked a 6 person mix dorm for my entire stay and the first night was beautiful. The 3 after that someone in my room was causing the earthquakes in Tokyo with his "healed but broken nose issue". Due to this extremely penetrating noise, even with 3M earplugs, reception did everything in their power to change me to a female dorm. I wasn't expecting them to be able to relocate me due to them being fully booked. They truly try everything in their power to make the guests happy.

The two rooms I stayed in were clean enough, the bed linen was fresh and both rooms had an option to open the windows for ventilation. The beds come with a light and plug and have curtains all around to secure your personal space. They also have a locker per bed to put your stuff in and that comes with a key. Inside that locker you get slippers that you can use upon your stay there. The bedrooms are opened with an electronic card reader.

The hostel has a rooftop to hang laundry, smoke or relax. They have separate bathrooms, a working area and a little prayer room. There are functioning washing machines and dryers available if needed for 300yen too.

Social wise I would say this hostel is an in between hostel in comparison to others. It's not a party hostel, nor a very quiet one. They organize many events, but you do get the feeling that the staff and the people who attend are quite a group/clique. So if you're an introvert you might find it quite hard to connect to people. Yet, if you do try, you'll be able to meet some people who you can hang with. I noticed during my stay the majority of the guests were either late teens/early twenties or late thirties- and way above.

The showers are on the second floor so you'll always have to pack what you need and walk down in order to use that. I do prefer the shower amenities on the same floor, yet it is what it is. The showers were kept extremely clean, however only 2 showers were operating when I was there. The shower is equipped with shampoo, conditioner and bath soup. They also have a dryer and tissues available in the area outside the bathroom.

There is a make-up/ getting ready area on every floor. So no need to go down to get ready, only for showers.

This hostel felt like a good start for my...

I had thought this was a really good place to stay at. However over the course of a two week stay everyone in my room realized we were all covered in these same, tiny bites. One evening after we came back from a trip around Tokyo, we found that our bed sheets had been changed without any of us asking. (Normally this is something you have to pay for). Later that night we found a fully grown bed bug. We all had an awful time sleeping, and found out that they had washed our sheets because they knew that we had bed bugs and didn’t tell us at all. After raising up our concerns to the management and workers, they brushed off our concerns and acted as if it was nothing. The ONLY thing they were willing to do was to help us move into a bigger room with more people. It was clear they didn’t know how bed bugs spread at all, and how bad they could be for their entire business, especially because of how easy they spread. They still made us pay to use their laundry machines, and gave no form of compensation. It was absolutely ridiculous how nonchalant they were about the whole ordeal.

Do NOT stay here unless you want bed bugs and to go through the ordeal of throwing away luggage and spending hours cleaning them to ensure they don’t come home with you. I know this place is cheap, but as the saying goes “you get what...

This is the dirtiest I have stayed at in Japan. It’s shocking. The showers, sinks and hallway are disgusting. There is mold everywhere. Also, the showers are only on the second floor and all the dormrooms are on the other floors. So you have to walk through the dirty hallways everytime, where everyone wears their sneakers. Guests also wear shoes in the dormrooms! It’s because there are no shoeracks to prevent this, which I have seen in every other hostel in Japan. The kitchen downstairs and common room are super messy. Do they even clean? The people staying at the hostel are mostly young backpackers and they don’t seem to make an effort in keeping the place clean either (because it’s already dirty). The common area downstairs is way too small for the amount of people staying at the hostel. There is a tiny working space on the 2nd floor with 4 chairs, but honestly it’s full when two people are in there. The only good thing in the dormsrooms is that they have lockers for safekeeping. The staff is very nice and helpful to accomodate us. If you are looking for a hostel with social vibe and meeting others and dont care about cleanliness, this is a good place. But if you want to stay somewhere clean and enjoy a spacious, clean common area than do...