Field Diary
Shanze Rize, Ueno: The Coupon That Discounts Nothing, and the One Course Where the Clock Charges Double
A store-type cosplay health shop five minutes from Okachimachi with a clean three-tier clock-based price board — except on one rung, where the surcharge silently doubles. Plus the new-customer coupon whose advertised 11% discount is worth exactly zero yen at every hour of the day, and what the flat ¥3,000 foreign-customer fee does to the shape of the menu.