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A standard-class Yoshiwara soapland charges ¥25,000 for its 60-minute course and ¥25,000 for a 90-minute weekday coupon — the difference is whether you get to pick. Its cheapest per-minute rate is the one where you surrender the choice, and the roster you'd be gambling on is a decade older than the official site says it is.
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A mid-tier Yoshiwara soapland that posts one honest all-in number instead of the usual split bill — and then runs three permanent discounts, every one of which is void the moment you ask for the same woman twice. A 26-woman roster where one name holds a third of the reviews, and the arithmetic of what loyalty costs here.
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I went back to this Ikebukuro soapland in August and ignored the price sheet. Cross-referencing the shop's own July nomination ranking against a single day's shift board turns up something the discount tiers never advertise: the dawn slot is both the cheapest and the most decorated.
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A Shinjuku field report on New Hime Koshitsu Sauna, a sixth-floor soapland that Cityheaven files under 'bargain' at ¥24,000 for 70 minutes — carrying two separate price sheets, the cheaper of which exists for exactly four hours a week, hands back a flat ¥3,000 that never touches the last twenty minutes, doubles the fee for asking again, and opens an hour before the phone line that books it.
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An Ikebukuro soapland running a campaign where the price changes three times before lunch. I went at the cheapest hour with a calculator, found the exact point where the shorter course becomes the better deal — and worked out the ticket book that drops it to ¥261 a minute.
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Playboy is an affordable Hachioji soapland three minutes from JR Hachioji Station, open 9:00 to midnight every day with no days off. Sixty minutes runs ¥19,000 before noon and ¥20,000 after, an 80-minute course is ¥28,000 all-in, and designation is a flat ¥1,000. The pitch is a cast that spans amateurs and new faces all the way to hitozuma types. Here's why the tiny morning discount tells you exactly who this shop is built for — and why 'range' is the thing you're actually buying.
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Baron (Danshaku) is a high-class Yoshiwara soapland pitching itself as a top-tier house — 120 minutes at ¥80,000, knocked to ¥65,000 (19% off) by three separate coupons that all land on the exact same number. Open 11:00 to midnight with reception from 10:00, walkable from the Asakusa–Iriya stretch of Taito-ku, online booking up to a week out, WeChat for overseas visitors, and a pair course. Here's the one word in the fine print that tells you what that ¥65,000 actually gets you at a premium shop — and what it doesn't.
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Big Man is a standard-class Yoshiwara soapland pitching two things at once — a real-girlfriend sweetness and what it calls the biggest costume closet in the district. Courses run to ¥39,600 for 130 minutes (¥36,300 with the 8% coupon), open 9:00 to midnight, pickup from Minowa Station, with new-customer, birthday and campaign-girl discounts. Here's what a shop asking you to book both a lover and a cosplay set actually owes you on the mat.
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Idol Kenkyuusei bills itself as the best cost-performance soap in Yoshiwara — 70 minutes from ¥23,000, no entry fee, no nomination fee. I booked the base course to find out where a price that low hides the cut.
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A field report on Maid Master, a maid-cosplay budget soapland in Yoshiwara that prices the same 50-minute room like a hotel prices a night — cheapest at dawn, dearest by mid-afternoon. The costume is the hook, but the clock is the real story.
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.