Tokyo House Ikebukuro

This was our first stop in Japan upon landing at the Narita Airport. Ikebukuro is a section of Tokyo located on the Northwestern side of town and the train station is the second busiest in the city. We navigated there via the Narita Express and a change of trains in Shinjuku Station amazingly well after our 12 hour flight from LAX. Thank goodness they put up very detailed step by step picture directions on their website. We never would have gotten there without the visual aids.

Our room the first time through, we also stayed her our last night in Japan, was a traditional Japanese style room with tatami mats and foldable futons on the floor. We barely squeezed all five of us and our luggage in the room, but that didn’t prevent us from sleeping well. It also set off Jack’s love of Japanese style rooms which we stayed in nearly every night during our visit to Japan.

The guesthouse itself was down one of the typical narrow streets off a large commercial street. It had a small common kitchen, 2 computers, wireless access and clean shared bathrooms/showers. Nothing fancy, but perfect for our needs. It turned out to be our cheapest accommodations in all of Japan too! We didn’t expect we would find that in Tokyo?!