"e-guest house" provides the information of guest house and room share for your wonderful life in Japan.

Point of Choosing Guest House.

When you choosing the guest house in the first time, you may have some questions about it. Such as, the point you have to be careful when deciding. We would like to suggest something about it here to help you to make a decision.

The guest house company (their style, corresponding and etc.)

It is the very important thing to know how often of their visiting of the guest house. if the frequency of visiting guest house is high, it means that when there are some trouble occur in the house they could help you to solve that problem faster. And they could help you to get closer to your housemates too.
However, It do not means that the guest house company would take care of you for everything or always available to solve the problem. So, let's try to solve the problem by yourself first and contact them later if you do not know how to do.

The atmosphere of guest house

The atmosphere of the guest house is variously that depends on house owner, manager, and company. So, talking to the manager or caretaker of the house could help you to let you know not only the house's atmosphere and also how the guest house company will do when you have a problem.
May be it is difficult to know all about the guest house before move in, but at least you could know about how clean of the guest house, are the other tenants follow the rules or not and etc.. And it could help you to know if you match with that guest house or not.

People that live in the guest house

The people that live in the guest house is variously and its proportion is depend on each guest house's policy. To know it before decide to move in, it would helps you to know what kind of people you have to share a house with. And it pretty important that your life in guest house would be go smooth or not.
For instance, you may feel uncomfortable if all of your housemates is the japanese that could not speak English anymore.

Unique characteristic of guest house

You need to ensure about the characteristic of the house before you move in.
There are many guest houses that have events and parties periodically and its frequency is depend on each guest house. If you are not quite a party people, it may be good for you to do not choose the guest house that have many parties. Because it will make you get tried and could not enjoy with your guest house life. Therefore, please ask and consider the house's character first before making a decision.

Rental fees and the other expenses

There are several kind of systems that some of guest house are sharing all of the costs and some is paying one room by one room.
If you ask that which system is good for you, It is depend on your lifestyle. If your house is sharing style and you are not in your room all the time, you have to pay the same price as the housemates although you do not use it. And you would feel that it is not fair for you. So, We would like to recommend that you need to know it first to compare your lifestyle with their system before choosing a house.

Style of use

The facilities that you could use in the guest house is also the important point for choosing a house. Most of facility are shared in the guest house and if there are no enough facilities for the people in the house, you would feel inconvenience. So, this is also the important thing that you need to consider before choosing the house.

Shared facilities in guest house

Bathroom, Kitchen, Refrigerator, Washing machine, Shoebox and etc.

■ Bathroom and Lavatory

You need to check for the number of bathroom and lavatory that there are enough for the people in the house or not. Bathroom and lavatory are tend to be crowded in the morning that would make you upset if its short of it.

■ Kitchen and Refrigerator

This facility is the one thing that you have to use it oftenly. So, We would like to recommend you to check that how big the kitchen and refrigerator are, how many people using it before make your decision.

■ Washing Machine

The washing machine also same as the kitchen and the refrigerator above. To avoid the inconvenience of yourself, you have to know about the number of it too.

■ Shoebox

In Japan, people take their shoes off before get in their houses, therefore, guesthouse in Japan are equipped with the shoebox and put it there when they get into the house. But the space is limit, so you can use the box for the couple pair of shoes.