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Originally Posted by Columbine
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Hotel: Sakura Hostel, Asakusa
Location: Asakusa, Tokyo.
Overall Score: 6/10
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Score
Location: 6/10 - Somewhat hard to find as hidden down the backstreets (head past the neon love hotel to find it), but very close to Asakusa temple and train lines.
Staff Language Proficiency: 7/10 - Most well-capable of speaking english.
Cleanliness:6/10 - Acceptable levels of cleanliness, although the showers and beds are a bit old.
Price: 6/10, Mix of rooms available with dorms starting at aprox 3000yen, and private rooms ranging from twins for 8000yen to 8 beds for 23000 yen. A bit on the pricey side for what you get, but then, this is Tokyo.
Overall Comment: Looking at the website, they may have renovated, but it's the only place I have ever stayed where the dorm ceilings were padded with grey rubber. Beds were old and you had to go outside along a veranda to get to the showers and toilets from the dorms. A lot of breeze-block walls and outside looked straight into other people's apartments. Basically ugly but serviceable. Staff were unmemorable, so neither criticism or praise there. The shared showers were irksome as there was nowhere very dry or secure to put things, but it was clean. Lockers are small, but the place in general is quite safe.
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I didn't find the beds old at all, they were quite nice in my opinion. And I have to say the staff were very nice and welcoming. They seem to have frequent parties and events every month, and I joined one of their parties which I really enjoyed. I talked a lot to the staff at that time and I guess that's why it left me with a warm image of them.