Sakura Guesthouse

Run by a Kyrgyz-Japanese family, the fresh if somewhat bland block contains spotlessly clean rooms with shared hot showers. Communal space is limited to a small yard-table and tiny summer kitchen. From the big Gazprom Petrol Station on Jibek Jolu (one block east of Abdrakhmanov (Soviet)) walk 200m north up Usenbayev. Take the second unpromising lane left, turning beside Usenbayev 152.