Field Diary
Gotanda Sankyu: The Shop Named After Its Only Discount, and the ¥2,000 Fee That Turns Out to Be the Entire Menu
A budget deriheru in Gotanda whose price board is one perfectly straight line — ¥2,200 per fifteen minutes, nine courses, no volume discount anywhere — with exactly one number sitting off it: the ¥3,900 half hour the shop is named after. The ¥2,000 nomination fee isn't a nomination fee, it's the price of an eighty-eight-item menu, and every promotion in the building is a disguised way of not charging it.