I am not talking about layout. I am talking about unclean bathrooms and beds, mold, cigarrette smells in the corridors, people falling over in the corridors, weird noises at night, aircons that don't work.

APA does not provide top notch maintenance for its hotels in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Nishi Kasai, Meidaimae, or any non important area.

If you stay in the hotel close to the central station of a small town - that's touristic. Japanese tourists are staying there.

What I mean is that APA is really bad off the beaten path, and since the article recommends branching off, using APA is a very bad idea.