A whole house for four or more,
one minute from the Yamanote Line — and grandparents never climb a stair.

One minute on foot from Shin-Okubo Station on the JR Yamanote Line — you turn left out of the ticket gate, walk straight, and the house is at the end. Okubo Station on the JR Chuo-Sobu Line is about 4 minutes away, and Shinjuku Station is about a 17-minute walk. From Shin-Okubo it is 3 minutes by train to Shinjuku, 6 to Ikebukuro, 7 to Harajuku, 10 to Shibuya and 23 to Tokyo Station.

Yes, and this is one of the best things about the house. The four bedrooms are upstairs, but the ground floor is a complete home on one level: the living room has two double sofa beds, and the bathroom with its bathtub, the separate shower room, a washlet toilet and the kitchen are all on the same floor. Grandparents, anyone with a bad knee, or a family member recovering from surgery can sleep, wash and eat downstairs while the rest of the group takes the bedrooms above. Hotels rarely let a group of eight book rooms that stay together like this, and search filters cannot find it — so ask us if you need it, and we will make up the sofa beds before you arrive. There is a step up from the entrance into the house, as in most Japanese homes.

No — a good share of our bookings are four to seven people. With four people you take a bedroom each, or two couples take two, and the ground floor with the kitchen, the long table and the living room is all yours. Compared with two hotel rooms in Shinjuku you usually pay about the same or less, and you are one minute from the Yamanote Line. The house only starts to feel full above twelve.

Sixteen is the maximum Airbnb listing accepts, but the honest answer is that the house is comfortable at around 12. There are 9 beds: 4 double beds and 2 semi-double beds across three bedrooms, 1 queen bed in the fourth, and 2 sofa beds in the ground-floor living room. Three extra roll-away beds (smaller than a single) can be set up on top of that. Two adults per double or semi-double works; a party of 13–16 means everyone shares a bed or takes a roll-away, so tell the host your exact group and they will confirm the arrangement before you book. At the other end, the house works from four people up: a party of four to seven takes a bedroom each and has the whole ground floor to itself.

Two floors, 131.95 m². The ground floor is one long open space: entrance, kitchen with an island, the dining table for twelve, and the living room at the far end, plus the bathroom, a separate shower room, a washlet toilet, a twin-basin vanity and the laundry cupboard. All four bedrooms and a second washlet toilet are upstairs. There is no lift — the bedrooms are up a staircase.

The house sits on a quiet residential lane, not on the Korean food street. Guests rate the location 4.8 and repeatedly note how quiet it is inside for somewhere a minute from the station. The other half of the terrace house is a private residence, so the house rules ask guests to keep the volume down indoors, on the balcony and on the street outside — especially in the evening.

Yes. Two baby cribs with mobiles, two bed guards, two high chairs, two bibs and a bottle set with cleaning tools are kept in the house, along with toys and picture books, so families can pack lighter. The bedrooms are on the 2nd floor and the ground floor is one continuous space, which makes it easy to keep an eye on small children while cooking.

Yes — there is a drum-type washer-dryer in a cupboard beside the stairs, with detergent provided. It washes and dries in one cycle, so you can start a load on your way out in the morning and come back to clothes that are already dry. There is also a coin laundry nearby if a big group needs to run several loads at once.

Two places to wash and two toilets. The ground floor has a bathroom with a deep soaking bathtub and, next to it, a separate shower room — so two people can wash at the same time — plus a washlet toilet and a twin-basin vanity. There is a second washlet toilet upstairs beside the bedrooms, which is what stops the morning queue for a group of ten or twelve.

There is a projector and a pull-down screen in the living room instead, set up for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. With the sofas turned towards it, it works better for a group of twelve than a television would.

No. Parties, drinking parties and loud music are prohibited, and so is making noise, smoking or drinking on the street outside the house. Smoking is not permitted anywhere indoors. This is a residential street with neighbours on the other side of the wall; breaking these rules carries a flat charge under the house rules.

Pricing moves with the season, how far ahead you book and how many of you there are, so the only accurate figure is the total shown on the Airbnb listing for your exact dates and group. Compare that total against the four or five Shinjuku hotel rooms your group would otherwise need, not against one room. Booking and payment go through Airbnb listing, which shows live availability.