Field Diary
Forty Years and Two Prices on the Board: Booking SEIRENES, the Ikebukuro SM House That Won't Publish a Menu
SEIRENES has worked Ikebukuro as an SM specialty house for forty years and publishes almost no price list — two numbers, a 42% badge that doesn't survive arithmetic, and eleven pieces of equipment thrown in free. A report on how to read a shop that hides its menu, why the morning discount buries the night one, and why every route to a good rate here bottoms out at the same 227 yen a minute.