Toyoko Inn Tokyo Uguisudani Ekimae

Typical Toyoko Inn: Small clean rooms, pleasant helpful staff, good location 5 minute walk from Uguisudani Station, tasty filling breakfast. Restaurants, convenience stores, etc., in area. Right on the other side of the station is Ueno Park. Uguisudani is on the JR Yamanote Line. The next station to the south (15 minute walk) is Ueno Station, which is a station for northbound Shinkansen. No subway is very close. Although it appears that the only route down from Uguisudani Station to the hotel includes stairs, after crossing the tracks look carefully to locate the elevator that will take you to the street level. On this trip we discovered that the typical Toyoko breakfast including various hot dishes has gone away from some of their hotels. Now those hotels have just bread, rice, and miso soup to eat, and an orange liquid and tea/coffee to drink. This one still has the old style Toyoko breakfast with salad, fish or meat, cooked vegetables, and other tasty offerings. This one still offering a substantial breakfast. Hoping they never regress. Helpful staff, some English. Arranged on-call massage people for us, 3000 yen for 30 minutes. Great massage. This was my third time staying at this hotel. We plan to return next year.

this hotel was a short stayover before i went to Osaka the next day as i arrived in Tokyo at 3pm.. the location is ideal as i can take the Narita Express and then change another train to Uguisudani Station.. it is 1 stop away from Ueno Station, thus getting to Ueno Park for sakura viewing is simple.. the hotel is 5 mins walk away and there are plenty of food choices around the hotel itself.. the hotel room is small as per all other Tokyo hotels but since it was only for 1 night, it was just sufficient for my wife and I.. we didn't open all our luggage so it was not very cramped.. they have shavers and toothbrush available at the front desk, so it will be good to collect when you checked in.. breakfast is onigiri, some miso soup and rice.. drinks are coffee and tea.. don't expect buffet style, this is a simple hotel.. the only problem i had was it was a smoking room.. so it took a while before the lingering smoke smell went away.. had to turn on the aircon and open the window a little to get rid of the smoke smell..

This is the third time this year I have stayed here, for a total of about ten days. Among the things I like about it is the convenient location a five minute walk from Uguisudani Station (you can see the top of the hotel from there if you know where to look), with Nippori Station one stop to the north and Ueno Station one stop to the south. Both of them are served by Keisei Skyliner from Narita Airport, then a quick ride on the JR Yamanote Line to Uguisudani. Getting here via Narita Express would take much longer, transferring at Tokyo Station to the JR Yamanote Line. (The JR Yamanote Line is the one that encircles the city so many of the prime destinations such as Shibuya, Ginza, Shinjuku, etc., are stops.) Around the hotel are lots of neighborhood-type restaurants, and an inexpensive supermarket is just a few doors north. The rooms are small, as the other reviewers say, but the price is right and it includes breakfast. The staff is pleasant and helpful, with special thanks to Takada-san serving breakfast who is so cheerful and does her job so well. The breakfast consists of triangular rice balls of three varieties, miso soup, a macaroni salad, meatballs or tiny wieners, a stir fry, various Japanese pickles, bread, and coffee/tea. The salad, meat, and stir fry vary from day to day. We plan to return to this hotel next year because although the rooms are small there is nothing wrong with them, and the price and location are great.