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Okusama Tokkyu, Tachikawa — The Summer Campaign Board Beats the Official Price List by Twenty Minutes, to the Yen Field Diary
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Okusama Tokkyu, Tachikawa — The Summer Campaign Board Beats the Official Price List by Twenty Minutes, to the Yen

A Tachikawa delivery health runs two price boards at once — an official course list and a summer all-in campaign — and the campaign is not a discount so much as a different shop. On two of the four courses it charges the exact same yen as the list price one step down, and hands you twenty extra minutes, the designation fee and the transport fee for nothing. Meanwhile the longest course on the official board is beatable by a thousand yen using the shop's own extension price.

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Second Love, Otsuka — The 33% Coupon Is a Flat ¥4,000, and Every Course Still Lands on Exactly ¥200 a Minute Field Diary
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Second Love, Otsuka — The 33% Coupon Is a Flat ¥4,000, and Every Course Still Lands on Exactly ¥200 a Minute

An Otsuka delivery health prices its entire board at a flat 200 yen a minute — a third under the Tokyo standard — then charges 4,000 yen in fees to walk in the door, and offers a headline 33% coupon that is really a flat 4,000 yen off. Do the subtraction and the coupon turns out to be an exact refund of the fees, to the yen, on every single course.

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Kyosei! Nidonuki! Kairaku Okusama Shinbashi — One Shop, Three Price Lists, and the ¥8,000 Question of Which One You Get Told Field Diary
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Kyosei! Nidonuki! Kairaku Okusama Shinbashi — One Shop, Three Price Lists, and the ¥8,000 Question of Which One You Get Told

This Shinbashi delivery health shop lists 70 minutes at ¥18,000 on its system page, ¥10,000 on its coupon page, and a six-rung ladder on its event page that neither of the other two mentions — including a 120-minute course cheaper than the official 90. Which price you pay comes down to which of three phrases you say on the phone.

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Delivery Cute Uguisudani — The Board Says ¥18,000 for 90 Minutes. Seven Customers Wrote Down What They Actually Paid. Field Diary
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Delivery Cute Uguisudani — The Board Says ¥18,000 for 90 Minutes. Seven Customers Wrote Down What They Actually Paid.

Delivery Cute opened in Uguisudani seven weeks ago with a price board topping out at ¥18,000 for 90 minutes and a nomination ladder that stops at ¥5,000. Then thirteen customers filed reviews, and seven of them itemised their bills — four 90-minute visits at ¥24,000, ¥28,000, ¥28,000 and ¥30,000. Only two of the seven receipts reconcile with anything the shop publishes.

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club OASIS, Yoshiwara — The ¥21,000 Bath Fee That Appears in No Total, and One ¥3,300 Discount Sold as Both 23% and 9% Field Diary
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club OASIS, Yoshiwara — The ¥21,000 Bath Fee That Appears in No Total, and One ¥3,300 Discount Sold as Both 23% and 9%

A standard-class Yoshiwara soapland advertises a ¥21,000 bath fee it says is currently free — but its own coupon page prices the regular course at ¥38,500, the exact figure you pay today. The waiver is worth 20 minutes, not ¥21,000. And the same ¥3,300 discount is advertised as 23% off on one coupon and 9% off on another, because the two coupons disagree about how long the regular course is.

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Chocolat, Yoshiwara — One Course, Six Start Times, Eight Prices: The Soap That Puts a Number on the Woman Herself Field Diary
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Chocolat, Yoshiwara — One Course, Six Start Times, Eight Prices: The Soap That Puts a Number on the Woman Herself

A high-class Yoshiwara soapland sells exactly one thing: 120 minutes, from one of six fixed start times, with a stated identical service level for every woman on an eight-person roster. Then it charges between ¥62,500 and ¥88,000 depending on which one you pick — and the price ladder turns out to be the review ladder, published.

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