Field Diary
Tachikawa Seifuku Collection: The Costumes Are Free, the Meter Is ¥275 a Minute, and the Coupons Are Written in a Different Language
A Tachikawa hotel-health field report on Seifuku Collection — a shop whose name sells costumes and whose banner sells inexperience, whose 60-plus outfits cost nothing, and whose official price list is denominated entirely in ¥1,100 bricks worth exactly four minutes on a meter that runs ¥275 a minute through zero. Then the coupon sheet shows up speaking round thousands, and the cheapest minute in the building turns out to sit in a cell the main grid never mentions.