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Kochi Bans Street Touting Downtown, the First Shikoku City to Do So, After Rip-Off Bills of Up to ¥1.5 Million
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Kochi Bans Street Touting Downtown, the First Shikoku City to Do So, After Rip-Off Bills of Up to ¥1.5 Million

Kochi City has passed an ordinance that bans street touting for any kind of business in its downtown nightlife district, the first of its kind among Shikoku municipalities. Officials say touts are the way in to rip-off bills. The zone designation takes effect October 23, 2026, and fines of up to ¥50,000 start in April 2027.

Kanjuku Banana Shinjuku: A Batting Cage, a Shrine and a Don Quijote as Meeting Spots, and a Nomination Fee That Went Up Five Days Ago Field Diary
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Kanjuku Banana Shinjuku: A Batting Cage, a Shrine and a Don Quijote as Meeting Spots, and a Nomination Fee That Went Up Five Days Ago

Kanjuku Banana Shinjuku is a married-women and mature-women deriheru that meets you on the street in Kabukicho, at spots like a batting cage, a Don Quijote and a shrine. Courses start at ¥13,000 for 70 minutes, and as of October 1 its nomination fees doubled. I walked the meeting-spot map on a Tuesday morning and read the board.

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Hentai Club Mesuiki, Kamata: An M-Seikan Dispatch Where Every Option Costs ¥0 and Foreigners Are on the No List Field Diary
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Hentai Club Mesuiki, Kamata: An M-Seikan Dispatch Where Every Option Costs ¥0 and Foreigners Are on the No List

Hentai Club Mesuiki is a Kamata M-seikan dispatch service, open 10:00 to 4:00, that bundles seventeen options at ¥0 into courses from ¥15,000 for 50 minutes and runs a standing 90-minute, ¥20,000 coupon. Its own house rules list 外国人の方 (foreign customers) among the people it turns away, so I read the menu, the late-night board and the transport map instead of booking.

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