Wednesday, a little after noon, a window seat in a coffee place on Yasukuni-dori, Kabukicho's neon still off for the day. On my phone: Hishoka Joshi — 秘書課女子, "the Secretarial Section Girls" — an imekura (image club, i.e. role-play) running in hotel health style out of Shinjuku Sakae Building 2F, Kabukicho 1-6-11. Open 10:00 to 24:00, every day, with the phones picking up from 9:30. Credit cards accepted. Receipts available.
Hotel health, for the uninitiated: you walk into the reception, pick a woman and a course, pay, then go check into a nearby hotel alone. She follows. You pay for the room. The shop's own FAQ says you find the hotel yourself, or they'll show you a hotel map at the desk, and that you normally don't walk the street together. There's a delivery option too — they bill themselves as playable "hotel-health style or delivery style" — with free transport to business and love hotels around Kabukicho and Okubo, ¥1,000+ elsewhere in Shinjuku ward, and up to ¥5,000+ for the far edges of the 23 wards.
Here's the thing I noticed before I noticed anything else. The Cityheaven listing my lead pointed to, under the old slug hishokajoshi, now dead-ends at the portal's age gate. The shop's old domain forwards to a new one. And this morning at 11:30 the shop posted a campaign titled, in so many words, "Complete Comeback Commemoration." Footer still says © 2009. Comeback from what, the page doesn't say. A company with a sixteen-year-old copyright line and a fresh relaunch banner — fine. I've seen delis on Second Avenue do the same thing with a new awning.
The Benefits Package: Rack Rates
All-time pricing, same rate from open to close:
- 45 min ¥15,000 — billed as a "trial course." Course C only, no costume, no web points earned or used.
- 60 min ¥18,000
- 75 min ¥22,000
- 90 min ¥26,000
- 120 min ¥33,000
On top: ¥2,000 membership fee (first visit only), ¥2,000 designation, ¥2,000 repeat designation. Hotel from ¥2,000. 30-minute extension: ¥10,000.
Run the per-minute and the ladder flattens nicely: ¥333 at 45, ¥300 at 60, about ¥293 at 75, ¥289 at 90, ¥275 at 120. The step from 90 to 120 is ¥7,000 for thirty minutes. The extension is ¥10,000 for the same thirty. That's a ¥3,000 penalty for not deciding at the desk.
And the 45-minute "trial" is a quiet trap. It's only ¥3,000 under the 60, but it strips the costume — at a shop whose entire product is the costume. Buying the 45 here is like ordering the steakhouse's side salad.
So a first-timer who walks in at rack, designates someone, and books 60 minutes pays ¥22,000 to the shop, plus the room.
The Four Memos From Management
Then the discounts. As of today the shop's posts show four live campaigns, and every one of them is built on two course lengths — 70 and 100 minutes — that do not appear anywhere on the rack menu. Hold that thought.
1. New Customer Discount. First-timers only. 70 min ¥16,000 / 100 min ¥21,000, "total," membership fee included. Hotel separate, designation +¥2,000. You earn 5% back in web points, plus a 2,000-point sign-up bonus, plus 1,000 points on your second visit. Say "I saw the new-customer discount" when you book.
2. Comeback Campaign — "up to ¥7,000 off." For any woman except the new hires. 70 min ¥16,000 / 100 min ¥21,000, and the designation fee is waived. Not valid for repeat designation, not stackable with anything, no points used or earned. A survey gets you 1,000 points.
3. Autumn Discount. Same exclusions on the cast side (no new hires), open to new and returning customers alike. 70 min ¥16,000 / 100 min ¥21,000, designation extra. Repeat designation excluded. Up to 2,000 points usable, but only if you designate.
4. Rookie Support Campaign. The reverse: only women within four months of joining. 70 min ¥18,000 / 100 min ¥23,000 + ¥2,000 designation. You must designate — no free assignment. New customers can't use it. The 100-minute version isn't valid for what the post calls the "love hotel course," which the system page never defines. Repeat designation excluded.
Now the math, for a first-timer who wants a specific, non-rookie woman for about an hour:
- Rack 60 min: ¥18,000 + ¥2,000 membership + ¥2,000 designation = ¥22,000
- New Customer 70 min: ¥16,000 (membership included) + ¥2,000 designation = ¥18,000, plus roughly ¥3,000 of points between the bonus and the 5%
- Comeback 70 min: ¥16,000 with designation waived — but the post doesn't say whether a first-timer's ¥2,000 membership fee is folded in. Ask before you hang up.
Either way, ten extra minutes for ¥4,000 to ¥6,000 less than the rack 60. The "up to ¥7,000" headline can't be checked against anything, because there is no rack-rate 70 or 100 to subtract from. That's the trick with campaign-only course lengths: the discount is measured against a price that doesn't exist.
Job Descriptions: The Course Menu
The play is sold as courses, free of charge with any booking of 60 minutes or more, along with a free costume:
- A — Office Harassment. You play the lecherous boss.
- B — Commuter Train. She stands blindfolded holding a strap, sound effects included.
- C — Office Romance. The girlfriend-style one. The only course where she undresses you and showers with you; in the others you shower alone first.
- D, E, F — "The Secretary's Revenge." The reverse versions, where she leads.
The FAQ is surprisingly candid about the men who'll actually buy this. Shy about playing the creep? Pick a course where she leads, or pick C. Don't know how to take charge? Same answer. Is there a timer for switching roles? No, but "about half and half" is their advice. Time starts when she enters the room. Finishes are unlimited.
Basic service is listed as kissing, full-body licking, nipples, fellatio, 69, sumata, fingering. One detail worth knowing: the default fellatio is with a condom — the shop says it's because the cast are amateurs. Without is a ¥1,000 option.
The Compensation Ladder: Options
This is where the theme gets funny. The toy bundles are named after a corporate org chart:
- Section Chief Set ¥1,000 — rotor plus electric brush
- Department Head Set ¥2,000 — two rotors plus the brush
- President Set ¥3,000 — rotor, small vibrator, wand
- Chairman Set ¥4,000 — big rotor, big vibrator, wand
Every promotion costs another thousand yen. Honestly, more transparent than most real companies.
The free list is longer than I expected: glasses, gloves, cuffs, a penlight, sunglasses for her, a shoulder rub before or after, ear-cleaning on her lap before you start. Hosiery you pick, rip and keep is ¥1,000; panties ¥1,000; a garter set ¥2,000.
The Dress Code
The costume page is all office wear and nothing else I'd worry about: recruit-suit skirts and trousers in black and grey, vests in navy, pink and grey, houndstooth jackets, striped skirts, one-piece dresses, a race-queen set. Two additions posted in the last 24 hours: a new "office casual" line (today, footwear choice included), and yesterday's shop-original "proper office uniform" — grey or black vest or jacket over a tight mini, white or red ribbon, twelve combinations, free from 60 minutes. The post brags it's made by an actual office-uniform brand, "different fabric, different feel." A shop competing on fabric weight. Only in Tokyo.
Today's Org Chart
The portal board shows 68 women on the roster and 7 on today's shift, listed ages 20 to 28, the earliest starting at 11:00 and the latest running to 23:00. One was already marked "reception closed" by early afternoon. The headline pick this morning is a 22-year-old new hire, 148 cm, billed as "completely new to the industry," working 11:00 to 15:00.
The pages don't quite agree on who they hire. The official system page says roughly 20 to 25; the shop comment on the portal says roughly 22 to 35. Today's board falls inside both, so call it a typo in the HR department.
Two policies worth reading slowly. Photos are mosaicked — the shop says these are women with day jobs who can't show their faces — and you can see the unblurred photos at the reception desk for free. And there are no changes and no cancellations. Those two go together: you get one good look in person, then you're committed.
The shop is also unusually blunt about its own product risk. The system page says that because the women are new to this, some never show up for their first shift, some quit after one or two, and booked customers sometimes get let down. I've never seen a menu apologize in advance. I respect it.
The Termination Clause
Then the house rules, and they're long. No requests for intercourse — the shop says it is a registered, licensed operation and will call the police and walk you to the station. No rough fingering, no anal, no spanking, no forced oral: "we are not an SM club." No hidden cameras; your phone stays in your bag. No toys of your own. You can bring your own uniform or underwear, but only new and unopened, inspected at the desk.
Two clauses stand out. Any "confusing" behavior during sumata that makes a woman afraid and leads her to quit gets you billed a ¥1,000,000 penalty plus compensation to her, via the group's lawyer. And posting a woman's name on forums like 5ch or Bakusai gets you identified and banned.
Then the list of people they won't serve: drunks, organized crime, hosts, scouts, people with poor hygiene, violent customers — and foreigners. 外国人. In plain text, between the drunks and the yakuza.
So that's where my reading ends. I'm a New Yorker writing in English; by the shop's own rules I don't get past the desk, and I'm not going to pretend I did. Everything above is off the shop's official site and its portal listings as they read today, not a session.