Rainy Kanagawa has its own particular air. The Kanagawa district. I folded my umbrella, walked into the hotel lobby, and called JAPANCLUB Playboy.
The 120-minute course runs 65,000 yen. That was inside the budget I'd set for the night. Kannai, Akebonocho, Isezakicho area; open 10:00 to 24:00.
Let me be honest about the skill
In a soapland, "high skill" doesn't simply mean "good at it." After 17 years, the conclusion I've landed on is that the real skill is "the ability to read your state."
A girl who runs a fixed program versus one who moves while constantly judging what you want right now: even in the same 120 minutes, the felt experience is completely different. The girl at JAPANCLUB Playboy was the latter.
Let me be specific. Early on, I reacted strongly to a particular moment. She caught that reaction. Then, five minutes later, without a word, she came back to it. She had memorized it and put it to use. Few girls can do this. Many of them see the reaction but let it die in the moment. Memorizing it and leveraging it later takes real powers of observation.
The pressure adjustments were fine-tuned too. She dialed it in before I could even say "a little." I think she was reading my body's responses. There's something good about being understood without having to spell it out. The moment you have to say it, that itself drops the quality of the experience.
The pacing of the time was solid too. Gather information in the first half, use that information in the second. The ending didn't come abruptly; it eased naturally into the afterglow. She treated the 120 minutes as "designed time." I think the 65,000 yen is the price for that design ability. Running into this caliber of skill in Kanagawa is the payoff for never stopping the search.
The importance of talking
If you ask what I want out of a soapland, I won't say skill alone. The quality of the conversation, the atmosphere, the way time flows: these are big factors too.
The girl at JAPANCLUB Playboy started the conversation naturally. Not the canned "Where are you visiting from?" but the kind of intelligence that glances at the state of the room and then picks a topic.
The memory of those 120 minutes
Over the 120 minutes there were parts where we talked and parts where we were quiet. Making the silence feel un-awkward is its own kind of communication skill. Few people can use silence well.
As a Kanagawa soapland, the 120-minute course at 65,000 yen: rather than the weight of the price, judged by "quality of time," my satisfaction was high.
To sum up
JAPANCLUB Playboy is "a place where you can have a conversation." That's less about the shop's concept and more about the individual girl. Kannai, Akebonocho, Isezakicho area; open 10:00 to 24:00.
Summary
| Item | Rating |
|---|---|
| Overall service | ★★★★★ |
| Service | ★★★★★ |
| Value | ★★★★★ |
| Would I go again | ◎ Going again |
A high-satisfaction night down to the details. JAPANCLUB Playboy in Kanagawa, I'll be back.