Field Diary
Ageha, Otsuka: A Wholesaler's Price Sheet Behind a Convenience Store's Coupon
Ageha is a Sugamo-dispatch hitozuma deriheru whose price ladder is a perfect straight line — ¥21,000 for 70 minutes, then exactly ¥5,000 for every extra half hour, which makes the marginal hour cost less than half the opening one. Then the shop puts its loudest coupon on a 60-minute course that isn't on the price sheet. I counted all 88 published shifts for the week and found the long course is most bookable at 2pm, not at the shop's busiest hour.