A two-room apartment for five,
ten minutes on foot from Shibuya.

Five, which is also the maximum on Booking.com listing. The Japanese-style room holds one double bed and one single bed; the living room, behind its own sliding door, holds a double sofa bed. Two adults with one or two children fit comfortably. Four adults works well — two on the beds, two on the sofa bed. Five adults is permitted and possible, but 33 square metres with a single shower room is snug at that number, so plan for four if you want room to spread out.

It works if you are fine with a squeeze. Five means a double and a single in the tatami room and two on the double sofa bed in the living room, with one shower room for everyone — the registration allows five and the beds are really there, but four adults is where it stops feeling tight. What you get for the trade is a whole 2DK with a kitchen, a washing machine and a lift, on a quiet street ten minutes from Shibuya, for one price split five ways. Compared with two or three hotel rooms in Shibuya, that is usually a big saving, and many groups choose it for exactly that reason.

No. The apartment has a walk-in shower room with a thermostatic shower, and a separate toilet with a washlet in its own room. If a deep Japanese soaking tub matters to your trip, this is not the right apartment — but having the shower and the toilet behind two different doors does mean four or five people are not queuing behind one in the morning.

Yes. 2DK is the Japanese notation for two separate rooms plus a dining kitchen. Here that is a Japanese-style room with tatami and fusuma sliding doors, a living room, and a dining kitchen with a round table for four. A sliding door divides the two rooms, so the people on the sofa bed and the people on the beds can close a door between them — which is the difference between an apartment and a studio.

Shibuya Station is about a ten-minute walk. The nearest station is Shinsen, on the Keio Inokashira Line, about three minutes on foot and one stop from Shibuya. Shinsen itself is a quiet pocket of small restaurants and cafes behind the Shoto district, so you walk into Shibuya for the day and come back to a residential street at night.

The apartment is unit 502, on the fifth floor, and the building has a lift — so luggage does not have to go up five flights of stairs.

Yes, within limits. There is a 5.0 kg top-loading washing machine on the balcony, with laundry detergent and fabric softener provided. It washes, but it has no clothes-drying cycle, so a pinch hanger is provided and clothes are hung to dry. On a stay of four nights or more that is usually enough to halve what you pack — just do not plan on the same-day turnaround a drum washer-dryer would give you.

Properly, yes. The dining kitchen has a two-burner gas stove with a grill, a fridge-freezer, a microwave and an electric kettle, plus pots, pans, a knife, a chopping board, plates, bowls, mugs, glasses, cutlery and chopsticks. The round table seats four. Shinsen and the streets toward Shibuya are full of small shops and restaurants, so most guests cook breakfast here and eat out at night.

Children of any age are welcome. The apartment has no cot and no extra beds, so an infant sleeps with you; guests aged three and over count as guests when you book.

This is a lived-in residential building, with residents in the flats around this one, so the rules are firm: quiet hours from 21:00 to 09:00, no parties or events, no smoking anywhere in the apartment, and no pets. Anyone who wants a night out has Shibuya ten minutes away on foot — the apartment is where you come back to sleep.

Check-in is between 16:00 and 23:00, and check-out is by 10:00. Check-in is self check-in; arrival details are sent through Booking.com listing before you travel.

Rates move with the season, how far ahead you book and how full the calendar is, so the only accurate figure is the total shown for your exact dates and party size. When you compare, weigh it against two hotel rooms rather than one — a party of four sharing a Tokyo business hotel would usually be split across two rooms, with no kitchen and no washing machine.