Engawa

We stayed for two nights, and the location was excellent. The bathroom really is very small, but this is easily the cheapest group rental around here. For friends or family travelling on a budget, I can definitely recommend it.

Avoid this place. It has four stars on Air BnB because people are too afraid to leave an honest review. The bathroom is awful, and the toilet can't be used properly because it's jammed right against a wall. I had to go to the 7-11 instead. It's unacceptable that properties like this can be listed. There are decent hotels nearby that cost less than this dump. This has been our worst stay in two months of travelling around Japan, and nothing else has come close to how bad it was.

The photos on Air bnb gave a completely different impression, and in that sense it felt like a scam. I don't trust Air bnb reviews much either, since they can apparently be rejected with some excuse, lol, so I'm leaving this on Google, which feels more unbiased. The security is only a wire-style padlock, and both the veranda and back veranda are glass doors that rattle in even the slightest breeze. There are no shutters on the veranda, so I didn't feel secure at night. I wouldn't recommend staying here if you're a woman or travelling alone. When I checked in, the whole building seemed to lean quite a lot. During my two days and one night there, walking around the room threw off my sense of balance. As others have said, the bathroom was very hard to use, and it seemed especially challenging for my parents, who are in their seventies. I'm not sure whether the house had been renovated, but there was a strong paint-like smell that lingered for the whole stay, even with the air purifier running at full power. There were very few kitchen appliances provided.

A nice place with a convenient location and a typical style. I'm 180 cm tall, and the bathroom gave me no trouble.