Traveled with wife and 2 young children - ages 7 and 5. Was basically looking for a cheap and conveniently located hotel. Having heard good reviews about the Toyoko Inn chain, wanted to book the ones at Ueno/Asakusa, but they were fully booked. So had to settle for this one and what a find it was!

Location wise, it's about 300m walk from the A2/A3 exit of the Nihon-bashi Ningyo-cho station of the Hibiya line of Tokyo Metro. Along the way to the hotel, there are about 4-5 restaurants, 1 family mart and one 24 hours convenience store. The station is about 2-4 stations away from Ueno station, Akihabara and Tsukiji market and 5 stations from Ginza station, which makes it rather conveniently located. The station is right along Amazake-yokocho, which is a very pretty street of traditional Japanese sweet shops and nice eateries. At night, both sides of the street are lined by charming lighted paper lanterns. Right next to the hotel, there's a restaurant serving delicious Korean charcoal barbecue that's filled with local Japanese and a nice gyoza restaurant that serves 10 gyoza for only 290 yen.

Facilities wise, the rooms are very small but spotlessly clean. The twin room came with 2 beds of 1.2m x 1.95m, which could be pushed together. Sleep sharing for young children is allowed so the 4 of us could sleep quite comfortably on a giant bed of 2.4m x 1.95m. Night gowns and toiletries are complimentary. Simple breakfast of rice cakes / bread / miso soup / coffee / tea / water is included. Internet access at the lobby is free and they didn't even charge me for printing my boarding passes.

Piecewise, I paid 24500 yen for 3 nights of twin room, including 1500 yen for the Toyoko Inn club membership, which granted immediate 20% off regular room rates.

The only downside to this hotel? The staff speak limited English and extra pillows were not available.

We stayed at this hotel on two separate occasions on our recent visit to Japan - October 2008. Its location was excellent as it was a few minutes walk from the local Ningyocho Subway plus about a 10 minute walk from the TCAT terminal. We caught the Limousine Bus (about AU$30) from Narita Airport to TCAT then walked to the hotel.

It was excellent value for money - about AU$95 a double with breakfast - miso soup, choice of rice cakes, pickles, coffee/tea. The rooms were spotless and very comfortable - western style with a queen bed, table & 2 chairs, room under the bed for your suitcases, TV, bathroom with bath/shower, toilet etc.
We wanted to stay in the Ningyocho area as there are many good inexpensive eating places around here. Close to Ginza as well - only a few stops on the subway.

We ended up staying in several of these Toyoko Inns as we traveled around Japan as they were extremely good value for money and in great locations. They also have laundries with coin in the slot washing machines and dryers plus drink machines & free internet access. We would definitely stay here again.