Toyoko Inn Tokyo Akabane-eki Higashi-guchi Ichiban-gai — Hotel in Tokyo

The usual Toyoko Inn experience: efficient service, clean and comfortable air conditioned box (aka your room) with high speed breakfast the next morning to get all the guests through.||||BUT, surprisingly, this hotel has a quite interesting location if you want an authentic non-tourist evening. Leaving the north ticket gate of Akabane JR station and then immediate right for the east exit. On your left you can see MacDonalds - head towards it and there is a road next to MacDonalds called Ichibangai (一番街）- this road leads up to the hotel and is lined with small restaurants and bars of all kinds - this is the long established night entertainment district for the area. Just wander along and take your pick....but don't expect any English spoken - this isn't...

Clean, budget-friendly hotel. Hotel staff were accommodating and know a little English. Near the Akabane train station, about 5 minutes walk. There are many local restaurants and convenient stores within the hotel vicinity. ||Room includes heating pot, ironing board, desk, slippers, bath & hand towels, toothbrush, tissue, shampoo, rinse and soap all in separate dispenser. It has T&B , with bath tub. The toilet bowl has built-in bidet, very typical of Japanese toilet. Hosekeeping is done daily if requested during check-in. The hotel allows baggages to be deposited at the front desk . prior to check-in time which is 16:00. There is also a japanese breakfast included in...

Moulded air-conditioner blasted out moulded air. You need air-conditioner all the time in Tokyo in July, so it was a nightmare. Asked for changing the room which was refused, but cleaned the filter which mitigated the situation little.|Bed bugs infested bed. I found itchiness everywhere on my body, and asked for cleaning. This place is full of protocols and weird rules; I was told off for leaving pillow-tips. Everything here is neatly organised with procedures and time-schedules, so guests must follow them. Cleaning was well organised, but...