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A late-morning first visit to Awa no Dendoshi, a basement soapland with just two rooms near Ikebukuro's west exit: 60-minute prices that rise with the clock, a ¥19,000 all-in 40-minute nominated coupon before noon, a sixth-anniversary online discount, and why small can be the point.
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Camomile is a high-class Yoshiwara soapland at Senzoku 4-47-12 with a ¥30,000 110-minute bath fee, a 33-woman roster almost entirely aged 20 to 22 and free pickup from six stations. A New Yorker plans a first visit and finds a line on the official site that ends the plan: the shop does not accept customers from overseas.
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Aimable (エマーブル) is a Yoshiwara soapland at Senzoku 4-22-3 that posts all-in prices: ¥45,000 for 100 minutes on the regular course, down to ¥39,000 with a Cityheaven coupon and up to ¥85,000 for its Premium tier. A New Yorker works through every rate, the booking windows and the four pickup points to find the smartest first visit.
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Not every Tokyo soapland is in Yoshiwara. A New Yorker rides the Keio Line out to Higashi-Fuchu for a 9 a.m. slot at Fuchu Derby, a Kadoebi Group house with a ¥22,000 all-in 60-minute rate, a 69-woman roster, cards accepted and a reservation line that opens the night before.
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An American at Yoshiwara's PUZZLE soapland walks through the posted Japanese price list, the separate FOREIGNER'S PRICE column that runs about double, the online-only coupons, the 6 a.m. opening and what a 70-minute visit felt like.
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A late weekday visit to Yoshiwara's Chateau Petra, a standard-price soapland staffed by mature women: the ¥39,000 90-minute flat price, the ¥6,000 after-9 p.m. discount for free (no-nomination) guests, the 22:30 last entry and how picking no one worked out.
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A Yoshiwara luxury soapland runs a paid review campaign — ¥2,000 off your next visit for posting — and has answered every one of the 245 reviews it has collected in fifteen months. Across all 245 the women average 4.83 and the price averages 4.29, and the price line is sliding. Here is the full price ladder, the per-minute math the shop only half-publishes, the two discount badges that exist on no profile, and the morning plan that fixes all of it.
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Playgirl is the only soapland Cityheaven lists in the entire Katsushika-Shibamata area, and its price page is six numbers long — no options, no points card, no membership. I priced every combination per minute and found a daytime board where extending is cheaper than starting, a night coupon worth exactly one nomination fee, and a 10% credit-card surcharge that appears nowhere on the shop's own pages and wipes out the day discount three and a half times over.
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Pandora is a high-grade Yoshiwara soapland built entirely on the aijin — the kept mistress, the secret second life, alibi help included. It charges ¥56,000 for 110 minutes as a single honest total, which is more than most of this street manages. But it has exactly one discount, ¥5,000, sold through three different doors, and the fine print on one of those doors voids it the moment you re-book the woman you actually liked. A concept about staying, priced for leaving.
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Lupinus bills itself as Yoshiwara's top-tier koibito-kei soapland, and almost every woman on its board is advertised as having never done the job before. That sounds like a contradiction until you read the recruiting page, the 131-name roster, the empty coupon tab and the 30,000 yen floor nobody actually pays.
A licensed shop with a private bath-equipped room — the one format where full service is on the menu. English keeps the Japanese word: soapland. Japanese shops write ソープランド. Korean listings use 소프랜드, Chinese ones 泡泡浴.
A soapland is a licensed format with a private bath-equipped room. It is the format where full service is available, generally ¥25,000–80,000 for 60 minutes nationwide.
Yoshiwara (Tokyo) is the top tier at ¥30,000–80,000; Kawasaki and Yokohama ¥25,000–55,000; regional cities (Sapporo, Sendai, Fukuoka) ¥20,000–40,000.
Call ahead to confirm. Walk-in (free) entry is standard, but some shops take reservations. Start mid-tier.