12:20 p.m. — Same Door, Different Rules
The office is still where it was: 豊島区池袋2-65-19, ER Building 1F, unit A-2, three minutes from the north exit of Ikebukuro Station. Phone 03-5985-2243. Hours run 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 the next morning, reception from 9:30 — with one wrinkle worth tattooing somewhere visible: Sundays close at midnight. If your whole plan is "it's open till four," don't make that plan on a Sunday.
Lunchtime on a Thursday is a different shop from the one that answers at 1 a.m. The north exit is just delivery trucks and salarymen cutting through to the Seibu line. The shop's live "available now" board had three therapists on standby between 12:09 and 12:35, ages 22 to 25, every one of them tagged with the same line: 60 minutes ¥14,000, hotel included, new customers only. Which is a nice greeting for everybody who isn't me.
Because here's the first thing a returning customer learns: the internet booking button is for first-timers only. The shop says so plainly — from your second visit on, you book by phone or through the Yumeoto app. The front door narrows the minute you've walked through it once.
12:30 — The Bill Without the Training Wheels
Here's the house board, which nobody looks at on visit one because the coupons are louder:
| Course | Price |
|---|---|
| 60 min | ¥14,000 |
| 80 min | ¥19,000 |
| 100 min | ¥23,000 |
| 120 min | ¥27,000 |
| Extension, 20 min | ¥6,000 |
Fees: entry ¥0, photo nomination ¥1,000, net nomination ¥1,000, return nomination (本指名) ¥2,000. Options: nude ¥2,000, nipple play ¥2,000, kissing ¥3,000.
Now run my two visits side by side. Same course, same therapist.
| Visit 1 (coupon) | Visit 2 (rack) | |
|---|---|---|
| 80 min | ¥18,000 | ¥19,000 |
| Nomination | ¥1,000 (photo) | ¥2,000 (return) |
| Hotel | ¥0 — shop pays | ~¥3,000 (shop's own estimate) |
| Total | ¥19,000 | ¥24,000 |
That's ¥5,000 more, about 26%, for the exact same eighty minutes with the exact same person. And notice where it comes from. Only ¥1,000 of it is the course. The rest is the hotel you suddenly pay for and the nomination fee that doubles the moment you prove you liked her. The shop's loyalty penalty is literally priced at "you came back for the same girl."
To be fair, this isn't a con — it's how almost every Ikebukuro shop works. But a house whose whole identity is the first visit makes the cliff unusually steep, because the first visit was unusually padded.
1:40 p.m. — What Eighty Minutes Bought, Again
I'll keep this short, because the session isn't the story. The reason I went back was the reason anybody goes back: the first time, she was good at the actual massage — the oil work before the 回春 portion was real effort rather than a warm-up formality — and I wanted to know if that held when I wasn't a new face she was auditioning for. It mostly did. Second sessions are quieter. Less introduction, less performance, more of the thing itself.
That's the honest case for the ¥2,000 return-nomination fee: you're paying to skip the part where two strangers figure each other out. Whether that's worth ¥2,000 is between you and your wallet. I'll just say the roster has 28 names, ages 21 to 29, and the "new face" tab reads zero — so a free pick isn't a gamble on a trainee, but it is a gamble.
What I would not do, either visit: extend. ¥6,000 per 20 minutes is ¥300 a minute, while stepping up from 80 to 100 at the desk costs ¥4,000. Same twenty minutes, ¥2,000 apart. Book long in the lobby or don't book long.
2:10 p.m. — The Move That Fixes Visit Two
The shop runs everything through Yumeoto, a booking and membership system shared by several Tokyo groups. Register and you get 5,000 points, one point to the yen, good for a year. The Heaven Net coupons say in their fine print that they don't apply to bookings made through Yumeoto. Most guys read that as "choose one." I read it as "choose an order."
Visit 1: book by phone, say "ヘブンで新規割を見た", take the coupon and the free hotel. Visit 2: book through Yumeoto and burn the 5,000 points.
| Visit 2 via Yumeoto | |
|---|---|
| 80 min + return nomination | ¥21,000 |
| Signup points | −¥5,000 |
| Hotel (approx.) | ¥3,000 |
| Total | ≈¥19,000 |
That's the same ¥19,000 as the first visit. The cliff disappears. And from then on the system pays you back: the shop says Ikebukuro visits earn 1,000 points on a 60 and 2,000 points on an 80 or longer, credited the next day, plus 1% of the total. On a ¥21,000 return eighty, that's roughly ¥2,200 back toward visit three.
One caveat I'd check with the desk before relying on it: the points are pitched as a first-registration bonus, not a first-visit-to-this-shop bonus. The page doesn't say a past coupon customer can't claim them, but it doesn't promise it either. Ask before you build a plan on it.
The Number in the FAQ That Doesn't Add Up
One last thing for the spreadsheet crowd. The shop's own FAQ recommends the 80 for first-timers and says that with the 5,000 signup points it comes to ¥15,000. But the board says 80 minutes is ¥19,000, and ¥19,000 minus 5,000 is ¥14,000. The FAQ is a thousand yen off — my guess is it was written when the 80 cost ¥20,000 and nobody updated it. It's in your favor, so I'm not complaining, but it's a reminder that on these pages the price table outranks the prose.
Bottom Line for the Second Time Around
- Visit two costs about ¥5,000 more for the same 80 minutes with the same therapist — mostly hotel and the doubled nomination fee, not the course.
- Sequence it: coupon by phone on visit one, Yumeoto points on visit two, and you pay roughly ¥19,000 both times.
- Never extend at ¥300 a minute when the desk sells the same twenty for ¥4,000.
- Remember Sunday: midnight close, not 4 a.m.
- Book repeats by phone or the app — the web button only knows first-timers.
Filed from a Seibu-line platform at 2:40 p.m., ¥19,000 lighter, both times.