Stayed here again during another trip to Tokyo. Now with the NEX travelling directly to the Ikebukuro Station, it makes travel to Narita easier.
Planning for the trip is also easy as they do not charge you once you make the reservation. They only charge you once you arrived. Ladies get a set of welcome gift.

Room is small but clean and now has WIFI in the room as well. Rooms are not exactly sound proof. You can hear the phone ringing next door and footsteps from the corridor.
Do opt for the Eco plan if you do not need to have daily cleaning. The Eco plan deducts 300 yen from the daily room rate and it actually is not a bad thing if you don't plan to leave the hotel early everyday. They will clean the room every alternate day. And you don't have to vacate the room at 10am every morning for the housekeepers to clean your room.

Hotel comes with a free breakfast which is served from 7 - 930am. Definitely try the egg mayo sandwich. This is the best egg mayo sandwich I have ever tasted.

Am still staying here and have found numerous bedbug bites all over my legs, the only part of my body not covered when I'm sleeping. The room looks really clean, so I'm shocked that this happened. Have never encountered bed bugs before so have no idea what to do about it. The hotel did change my room but I wonder if that will stop the bugs from getting to my house when I eventually go h

Close to the Ikebukuro station, free internet. We found the hotel with only a little wandering. They don't always turn on the lighted hotel name sign at night, we discovered the next day, when we had a hard time finding it again. The breakfast was filling, but repetitious. They served the same thing every day. I found the repeated choruses of "ohiyo gozaimasu" from the servers pretty entertaining.

This hotel seems to be mostly aimed at the Japanese salaryman or small family and should have been fine. However, our experience is that they've started letting in some of the "street trade" from the nearby area. Two nights out of four we had noise problems. On our first night, a party of 4 checked in next door and by 11 pm were in the midst of a loud drinking party, waking us up. My husband went to the desk and asked to be moved, which we quickly were. On the last night we were again awakened at 3 am by some guy having loud headboard-banging sex with two women right against our shared wall. I don't care about what other people get up to, but we really don't appreciate the noise waking us up.

We stayed for two nights at the end of our trip to Japan. Great to be able to get the Narita Express from Ikebukuro Station (an easy walk away). Hotel and room rather basic, but everything fine. And good to have free internet via a cable in your room. The road is probably the closest Tokyo gets to a "dodgy area", which really isn't that close. The eating floors (11 to 15, I think) of the big shopping centre at the station (Tobu) are worth a looking round and serve good food at a variety of prices.