We covered Charme (シャルム) back in July: the "S-class amateur" pitch, the suburban economics, the first-timer discount. I'm not going to rewrite that. This time I went the other way. I skipped the glossy part of the site and spent a Wednesday afternoon in the boring part: the 必読注意事項 ("must-read notes"), the full price table, the coupon fine print and the travel-fee chart.
Quick refresher on what the shop is. Charme is a delivery health (deriheru) based in Tachikawa, the big rail hub of western Tokyo. You call, pick a woman, and she meets you at a hotel or your home. Phone 042-518-9857. Every source I checked was read on October 1, 2026: the official site (tachikawacharme.com) and the shop's Cityheaven pages. I haven't booked, and after reading what follows, you'll see why.
The line about me
Here it is. The official site's rules list who the shop will refuse. Next to the usual entries (under 18, gangsters, drugs, drunks) there are two that matter to every reader of this site:
- On the price page: "外国籍の方、又は日本語が通じない方", people of foreign nationality, or people who can't communicate in Japanese.
- On the must-read notes page: "外国人の方の利用", use by foreigners.
That's not buried in a footnote. It's in the main refusal list, both times.
I'm a New Yorker who can order ramen and apologize in Japanese. That's it. By the shop's own written rules, I'm out twice: once for the passport, once for the vocabulary. A lot of Japanese shops have a rule like this, and plenty never print it, so I give Charme credit for saying it up front. You find out from a web page, not from a phone that clicks off mid-sentence or a driver who turns around in the hotel parking lot.
If you're a foreign visitor: take the rule at face value. Don't try to talk your way around it, and don't have a Japanese friend book for you. The same page says the shop can stop a session the moment it finds a rule broken, with no refund. In Tachikawa there are other shops with different policies, and your money spends fine there.
The rest of this piece is for two kinds of readers: Japan residents who meet the shop's terms, and anyone who just wants to see how a suburban Tokyo deriheru writes its contract. Because that's what this page is. A contract you agree to by dialing. The first line says so: "by calling, you are deemed to have agreed to the terms."
The money rules nobody puts on the banner
Cancellation is expensive. For advance bookings, the shop charges a share of the total: 30% three days out, 50% two days out, 70% the day before, 100% on the day. The price page adds that if you cancel, you may not be able to book again. That's stiffer than a lot of downtown shops, and the reason is easy to see. A woman who gets sent out to Tachikawa for you is a woman who isn't working for anybody else.
No changes after you pick a course. In plain words: once the course is set, there's no cancel, no switching women, no shortening the time and no refund. If you're the kind of guy who meets her and has second thoughts, this isn't the shop for you.
Cards cost 10%. Card payment works, but there's a 10% fee on top. The shop says its name won't appear on the statement. Bring cash. On a ¥25,000 booking, that 10% is lunch for a week.
You pay up front. The rules say 前金制: payment first, straight to the woman. Staff don't come to the room. The shop also promises no charges outside the menu, and says the only extra you'll be asked for is an extension.
Extensions are ¥12,000 per 30 minutes, and only if she doesn't have another booking right after you. Ten minutes before the end, she'll set off a timer she brings with her. That's your signal to start getting dressed.
The penalties are big. Break a rule and the page says the shop will copy your ID, check where you work, take your photo and charge ¥500,000 in damages. It also says it will take you to the police if it thinks that's needed. And there's a separate clause saying that if an injury from fingering causes bleeding, you pay her medical costs and lost wages. Read that one twice, then keep your nails short.
The usual no-gos also apply. No full sex (honban), no swapping numbers or social media, no asking her out after hours, no hidden cameras, and no third person in the room. She also has to be able to shower: the shop won't send a woman to a room without a bed, a bath and hot water. If you refuse the pre-play shower and mouthwash, that's grounds for refusal too.
The prices don't match each other
Here's where I got out a notepad. Charme posts prices in four places, and they don't all agree.
The official price table (price.php):
| Course | Regular | New customer (¥3,000 off + 10 min) |
|---|---|---|
| 45 min | ¥13,000 | — |
| 60 min | ¥19,000 | 70 min ¥16,000 |
| 75 min | ¥24,000 | 85 min ¥21,000 |
| 90 min | ¥28,000 | 100 min ¥25,000 |
| 120 min | ¥37,000 | 130 min ¥34,000 |
| 150 min | ¥46,000 | 160 min ¥43,000 |
The Cityheaven Q&A ("what course do you recommend for first-timers?") says something else: 90 minutes ¥27,000 → 100 minutes ¥24,000 and 120 minutes ¥35,000 → 130 minutes ¥32,000. The rotating banner on the official site's own home page uses those older-looking numbers too: ¥24,000 and ¥32,000.
The Cityheaven coupon page agrees with the price table (¥28,000 / ¥37,000). But it shows the "regular" 60-minute price as ¥24,000, made up of ¥19,000 plus a ¥5,000 joining fee (入会金) that the coupon brings down to zero. The joining fee isn't on the official price table at all.
So, for a first-timer:
- 70 minutes for ¥16,000 is the same in every source. That's the safe number.
- For 100 or 130 minutes, you'll see a ¥1,000 or ¥2,000 gap depending on which page you read. My guess is the price table is current and the Q&A and banner weren't updated, but that's a guess.
- Ask about the joining fee on the phone, and confirm the total before she arrives. You're paying her up front, in a hotel room, and that's a bad place to find out two web pages disagree.
On top of the course price:
- Nomination: free if you let the shop pick (free), ¥2,000 to pick from photos, ¥3,000 for a repeat nomination (hon-shimei).
- Travel: free to hotels near Tachikawa Station. ¥1,000 for a home in Tachikawa, or for Akishima, Kunitachi, Hino or Higashiyamato. ¥2,000 for Hachioji, Fuchu, Kokubunji and similar towns. Up to ¥5,000 for Suginami, Setagaya and Nerima. The cheapest move is a station-area hotel.
- Paid options range from ¥2,000 (rotor, costume, taking her pantyhose home) to ¥5,000, with vibrator and electric massager at ¥4,000 each.
A realistic first-timer total, then: ¥16,000 for 70 minutes, +¥2,000 if you choose from photos, ¥0 travel to a station hotel, plus the room. Call it ¥18,000 before the hotel, paid in cash.
The fun part of the price table
Somebody at Charme has a sense of humor, or a lot of confidence. The price table keeps going long after anyone sane would stop: 12 hours for ¥271,000, an overnight "date course" for ¥333,000, two days for ¥666,000, three days for ¥999,000, and a three-day "trip outside the Kanto region" course for ¥1,111,000. Read those last four numbers out loud. That's not pricing. That's a slot machine.
I'd bet nobody books the million-yen trip. But it tells you something. The shop wants you to see 70 minutes for ¥16,000 right next to ¥1,111,000. Next to that, the short course looks like spare change.
What the roster looked like on a Wednesday
The Cityheaven listing shows hours of 9 a.m. to 5 a.m., and so does the official site. The Q&A section still says 10 a.m. Plan on 9 a.m. and you're fine either way. The Q&A also lists New Year hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on December 31, noon to 5 a.m. on January 1, and normal hours from January 2.
Around 1 p.m. on October 1, the "available right now" board on Cityheaven had eight women waiting, ages 19 to 23, one of them on standby since 9 a.m. The shop also lists ten new hires between September 10 and September 27. That's a lot of fresh names for one month, and it matches what we said in July about this kind of "amateur" house: the faces turn over fast.
Two promos are running that matter more than the faces:
- "0-yen options." Ask for more kissing, more cuddling, being in charge or being taken care of, a shared bath, more nipple licking or a paizuri, and the shop says it will try to get as close to what you want as it can, at no extra charge. It's a smart ask for a first-timer who doesn't know the names.
- Review discount. Post a review, let the shop know, and your next visit is ¥3,000 off (¥1,000 off if you're booking the same woman again). It's a fair deal, and a reminder that the reviews you're reading were partly paid for in discounts.
There's also a new-hire discount: ¥2,000 off the 60- and 75-minute courses and ¥3,000 off 90 minutes and up when you book a woman with the "new" mark. You can't use it for a repeat nomination.
Who this shop is actually for
- Foreign visitors and non-Japanese speakers: not you. The rules say so in writing, twice. Book somewhere that welcomes you.
- Japan residents who speak Japanese and live or stay out west: the 70-minute, ¥16,000 first visit at a hotel near Tachikawa Station is solid value, if you can live with the rules: no changes, a timer, up-front cash and no cancelling.
- Guys who like to keep plans loose: think hard. A day-of cancellation costs the full course, and the shop may not take your next call.
My scorecard on the fine print
- Honesty of the rules page: ★★★★★. Everything that could surprise you is written down, including the part that rules me out.
- Price consistency: ★★☆☆☆. Two different 90- and 120-minute prices, plus a joining fee that's on one page and not the others. Confirm on the phone.
- First-timer value (if you qualify): ★★★★☆. ¥16,000 for 70 minutes plus free station-hotel travel is a fair way in.
- Flexibility: ★☆☆☆☆. No changes, no shortening, no refunds, and cancellation fees up to 100%.
- Friendliness to foreign visitors: not applicable. The door is closed, and to its credit, the shop says so.
I came to read a contract and found the clause with my name on it, more or less. That's the most useful thing this page can tell an English-speaking reader: check the rules page before you check the photos. At Charme, the photos are pretty and the contract is strict, and only one of them decides whether you get in.