bAKpAK Tokyo Hostel

The most fun and best hostel I've stayed at in twelve countries
I stayed here for a week in March of 2008. This hostel is great. Its a ten-minute walk from Minowa station and easy to find. The lounges and community areas are great for meeting people, playing games, music, poker, and so much more! We had a blast. There are convenience stores nearby, and its a quiet, safe neighborhood. It also had free Wi-Fi and internet computers to use. They also allow you to rent movies from them for free, and watch them in the TVs and DVD players they had in all the rooms. I love this place!

Ok, first the good points. The location is great. It's in a nice, quiet area and it's only about a ten minute walk from the Minowa Subway Station. The lounges are great. The people who work there are very helpful and often have stashes of additional maps. Now, the bad. We stayed in a mixed dorm, which meant one shower for the fourteen people staying on the floor. Also, two friends of one of the employees shower there daily and get ready for the day in the big dorm, twice waking me before eight a.m. They play hiphop music loudly at night in the downstairs area, which drove me nuts after a while. The upstairs lounge area was usually quiet. Though, they have a quite a porn collection in thier video library. This is not a place to bring the kids.