Toco Tokyo Heritage Hostel

Toco Tokyo Heritage Hostel is a unique and design-award-winning 2-star budget accommodation located at Iriya in Taito Ward, approximately ten minutes’ walk from Uguisudani Station on the JR Yamanote Line and Iriya Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. Housed within a carefully restored Taisho-era wooden townhouse built in the early twentieth century, Toco combines genuine historic Japanese architecture with modern hostel amenities to create an accommodation experience that is entirely distinctive in Tokyo’s budget lodging landscape. The hostel offers Japanese-style tatami-floored private rooms with futon bedding, traditional shoji sliding screen doors, original wooden window frames, and a tranquil inner courtyard, alongside dormitory beds in both mixed and female-only configurations. Free high-speed Wi-Fi, coin laundry, and luggage storage are available. The historic neighborhood surrounding the hostel in the Iriya and Minowa area of Taito Ward is one of central Tokyo’s best-preserved old downtown shitamachi districts, full of traditional shopfronts, local temples, sento public baths, and authentic izakaya restaurants. Ueno Park is a ten-minute walk. Asakusa is reachable on foot in approximately twenty minutes. The hostel has been recognized by international design publications and travel media as one of Japan’s finest examples of sympathetic historic building renovation for contemporary hospitality use.