A three-day weekend, and a menu with too many numbers
October 12, 2026 is Sports Day, the second Monday of October. It's a national holiday, so Tokyo gets a long weekend. I spent the morning watching kids run relay races in a schoolyard off Kaname-cho and by noon I was back at a hotel a few blocks from the Ikebukuro West Exit with nothing on the calendar. That's the right time to read a delivery-health menu, before you've had a drink.
I already knew the shop. Pochadol Gakuen (ぽちゃドル学園, "Pocha-Idol Academy") is a deriheru, a delivery health service that works out of the North and West Exit side of Ikebukuro. It does one thing: curvy, full-figured cast, which the listing pitches as G-cup and up, who come to your room in a school-uniform costume. This site did a piece on the shop's positioning back in July. This one is about money: what the deals on a holiday Monday actually cost.
The basics, from the shop's Cityheaven listing:
- Phone: 03-5155-1255 (the listing says to mention you saw it on Heaven Net)
- Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., no regular days off
- Base area: Ikebukuro, Toshima Ward. The shop says it focuses on Toshima and Shinjuku wards and can go anywhere in the 23 wards.
- Official site: pochadol.com
- Web booking and chat: both offered on the listing
At 11:42 the "available now" board had a 20-year-old called Miyu on standby, listed at 171 cm. The standby board matters for one deal below.
The list price you're measuring against
Here is the published system page, with no discounts:
| Course | Price |
|---|---|
| 60 min | ¥11,000 |
| 90 min | ¥16,000 |
| 120 min | ¥21,000 |
| 180 min | ¥31,000 |
| 240 min | ¥42,000 |
On top of the course price:
- Membership (entry) fee: ¥2,000. First-timers pay it.
- Photo nomination: ¥1,000. Repeat nomination: ¥2,000.
- 30-minute extension: ¥8,000
- Transport: free in the Ikebukuro West/North Exit zone; ¥1,000 elsewhere in Shinjuku and Toshima wards; ¥2,000 for Shibuya and Nakano; ¥3,000 for Bunkyo, Itabashi, south Kita and east Nerima; ¥4,000 for Taito and Chiyoda; ¥5,000 for Chuo, Minato, Shinagawa, Meguro and east Suginami. The shop says the exact fee can change inside a ward, so confirm it on the phone.
So a first-timer at a station-side hotel pays ¥23,000 for 120 minutes: ¥21,000 plus the ¥2,000 entry fee, before any nomination. Every deal below gets measured against that.
Options are priced in bands: ¥2,000 for things like cosplay, toys and an eye mask; ¥3,000 for a short list including two photos; ¥4,000 for "instant play" and a lotion bath; ¥8,000 for unlimited video. The cosplay option comes up again in two of the deals.
Deal 1: Halloween Night, ¥24,000 for 120 minutes
The headline banner: 120 minutes for ¥24,000, 180 minutes for ¥35,000, with the entry fee and transport included and cosplay at half price. Book the day before and you get 10 extra minutes. Nomination is extra, it's for the 23 wards only, and the shop says same-day bookings may not get a car.
"Transport included" is the whole trick. Put it next to the list price for a first-timer, 120 minutes, no nomination:
| Your hotel | List price + entry + transport | Halloween Night |
|---|---|---|
| Ikebukuro West/North Exit | ¥23,000 | ¥24,000 |
| Rest of Toshima / Shinjuku | ¥24,000 | ¥24,000 |
| Shibuya / Nakano | ¥25,000 | ¥24,000 |
| Minato / Shinagawa / Chuo | ¥28,000 | ¥24,000 |
At a hotel near the station, the Halloween package costs ¥1,000 more than just calling and ordering 120 minutes off the menu. It's a tie if you add cosplay (¥25,000 both ways, since the ¥2,000 option becomes ¥1,000). For 180 minutes it's worse: the list price is ¥33,000 with the entry fee, and the package is ¥35,000. It only wins once transport reaches ¥3,000. The 10 bonus minutes for booking a day ahead are the only edge at Ikebukuro. This package is for a guy in Roppongi or Shinagawa. Near the station, skip it.
Deal 2: the Sports Day "undokai," ¥14,000 for 90 minutes
This is the one that fits the holiday. It's billed as a "big sports meet," with 60 minutes at ¥11,000 (shown struck through from ¥15,000) and 90 minutes at ¥14,000 (struck through from ¥20,000), "up to ¥5,000 off," and 10 free minutes if you book in advance. The catch: you have to write a review or leave an "ii-ko" (good girl) rating afterward.
The struck-through prices don't match anything on the system page. The real list price for 90 minutes is ¥16,000, or ¥18,000 with the entry fee. And neither markdown is ¥5,000: one is ¥4,000 and the other is ¥6,000. Ignore the banner math and use real numbers. The banner doesn't say whether the ¥2,000 entry fee is included, and that decides the deal. If it is, a first-timer saves ¥2,000 on 60 minutes and ¥4,000 on 90 against the real list price. If it isn't, 60 minutes saves nothing and 90 saves ¥2,000. Either way, the advance-booking bonus turns 90 minutes into 100. At ¥14,000 all-in, that's ¥140 a minute, the cheapest rate on the page. With the entry fee added, it's ¥160. Ask before you book.
Deal 3: the "super-instant" discount, ¥15,000 for 100 minutes
100 minutes for ¥15,000, 130 minutes for ¥20,000, with the entry fee, one toy, cosplay and an onahole all free. The shop calls it "up to ¥10,000 in value." It only applies to girls on the "available now" board, and both nomination and transport are extra.
130 minutes for ¥20,000 beats the ¥23,000 first-timer list price for 120 minutes. You get 10 more minutes for ¥3,000 less. It works out to about ¥154 a minute, and you get a costume thrown in. The cost is choice: you take whoever is on standby, like Miyu at 11:42. If you already have a favorite picked from the roster, this deal isn't for you.
Deal 4: the newcomer trial, ¥15,000 for 90 minutes
Girls in their first three days at the shop come at ¥10,000 for 60 minutes or ¥15,000 for 90, with photo nomination included. Repeat nomination is extra, and the shop says it may assign the hotel depending on her schedule. The listing doesn't say whether the entry fee applies, so ask that too. This deal makes sense only if a new girl has just joined the roster you like.
Deal 5: the two coupons
The coupon page has two more:
- Heaven coupon: entry fee waived plus 10 extra minutes, same-day bookings allowed. A review is required, nomination is extra, and it can't be combined with the booking discount.
- Web-booking special: 120 minutes for ¥20,000, with the entry fee and an onahole free. The shop compares it to a "normal" ¥25,000, but that includes a ¥2,000 option you might not want. Against the honest ¥23,000, it saves ¥3,000. That makes it the cheapest straight 120 minutes on the page, and it doesn't depend on who's on standby.
What I'd actually say on the phone
Ranked by cost per minute for a first-timer at an Ikebukuro hotel:
- Sports Day undokai, 90 + 10 min, ¥14,000 — ¥140/min if the entry fee is included, ¥160 if it isn't. Review required, and the advance-booking bonus means calling ahead, not ten minutes before.
- Super-instant, 100 min, ¥15,000 — ¥150/min. Standby girls only.
- Super-instant, 130 min, ¥20,000 — about ¥154/min, cosplay included.
- Web-booking special, 120 min, ¥20,000 — about ¥167/min, any girl. The best choice if you want two hours with someone specific.
- Halloween Night, 120 min, ¥24,000 — ¥200/min, which is more than the ¥192/min list price at this hotel. Only worth it far from Ikebukuro.
Every one of these is dated October 12 only. They probably roll over day to day, but I can't promise anything about tomorrow, so check the event page on the day you call. Add the nomination fee to everything (¥1,000 photo, ¥2,000 repeat). Pay for options separately unless the deal lists them as free.
The shop's notices refuse customers under 18, high-school students included.
The English door costs more than double
There's one more price list, and you should know about it before you pick a door. The official site, pochadol.com, opens on an age gate with "English / 简体 / 繁體 / 한국어" buttons. They don't translate the Japanese menu. They send you to the shop's page on YOASOBI HEAVEN, the inbound portal, which bills the shop as "Foreign visitors are welcome," with multilingual chat and a translation app. The courses there:
| Course | English page | Japanese list | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 min | ¥30,000 | ¥11,000 | 2.7x |
| 90 min | ¥42,000 | ¥16,000 | 2.6x |
| 120 min | ¥58,000 | ¥21,000 | 2.8x |
| 180 min | ¥82,000 | ¥31,000 | 2.6x |
The English page doesn't say whether that includes the entry fee, transport or nomination, and it doesn't mention any of the five holiday deals. Maybe the markup pays for the chat line and the translation help. Still, it's the same shop, the same cast and the same 23-ward car service, at roughly two and a half times the Japanese price. That's the sign that matters most to a foreigner: the shop is plainly set up to take foreign customers. If you can read the Japanese system page and make a call in basic Japanese, or have a friend do it, the ¥14,000 sports-meet deal and the ¥58,000 English two hours are both on the table. I know which one I'd call about.
The verdict
- List price: ★★★★☆ — ¥11,000 an hour is mid-market, and the fee schedule is clear.
- Holiday deals: ★★★★☆ — the undokai and super-instant deals really are cheaper.
- Banner honesty: ★★☆☆☆ — the struck-through prices are invented, and "transport included" hides a premium near the station.
- Transport table: ★★★★★ — free in the home zone, and every ward is listed.
- English channel: ★★☆☆☆ — foreigners are welcome, at about 2.7x the Japanese price.
- Coming back: ○ — but I'll check the event page first.
The idol-academy costume gets your attention. The money is in the fine print: one deal is a real discount, one is a coupon dressed as a discount, and one, at a hotel by the station, charges you a thousand yen for being "special." On a holiday Monday, the cheapest move is to book a day ahead, mention the sports meet and write the review.