Secret Touch is a fashion health massage parlor in the Ikebukuro section of Tokyo. “Fashion health” clubs in Japan offer hand or oral services in a fixed location. They do not send women out to meet customers in hotels like “delivery health” or delihel clubs.

Secret Touch has a large purple sign in Japanese. It also has some flashing lights and other things meant to draw people in to its discreet location.

Located just a short walk from the West Exit of Ikebukuro Station, Secret Touch is totally open to foreigners even though some of the business is handled in Japanese. The front desk staff which consists of two older guys in suits cannot speak English. Some people who do not speak Japanese report entering the club by simply nodding in agreement, selecting one of the Japanese names shown on the board and paying the appropriate amount. The service providers don’t seem to mind foreigners.

Those providers are on the older side. Most are in their fifties and some may be older than that even though the shop profiles show women being in their thirties. The shop is sometimes described as a MILF fetish shop because of this though the place doesn’t really play into the age thing at all. Instead it just offers bathing services followed by a brief massage and a combination of oral and hand relief. The women perform the services fully nude.

The rooms are compact but clean. They each have a bath tub, a shower area, a steam box that is never used and a massage table. Drinks are provided free of charge to customers and the staff aims to please. Prices range depending on session length but services start at 9800 Yen ($88 USD) for 50 minutes.

Secret Touch. Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from 7:30 AM — Midnight. Website: http://secret-touch.jp Click here for map.

Kirari Community Cafe in Ikebukuro is one of many Kirari shops in Tokyo. Kirari runs a series of dating clubs throughout the city though they do not all operate the same way.

There are two Kirari Community Cafes in Ikebukuro. They both follow the same model. They are places where guys go to pick up women. The women expect to be compensated for their time and the shop charges a fee for making the connection.

When customer visit Kirari Cafe for the first time they have to sign up for a membership at a cost of 2000 Yen. This requires filling out a short form with a name and a phone number. Many people use fake names but their phone numbers must be real as the shop calls to verify.

Customers must speak Japanese to get through the membership sign up but some foreigners use the help of Japanese friends to get around their lack of ability in the language.

Once customers become members they receive a silver card that allows them to reenter the shop again any time. Each time they enter the shop they must pay a 2000 Yen fee. This gives them access to the place.

Downstairs there are viewing rooms. Women come to sit in these rooms which have two way mirrors. The guys in the club can see the women but the women can’t see the guys. The women have books and their phones to keep them busy but some also spend the time doing their makeup.

The club is basically meant as a place for regular women to meet regular guys. Some office ladies and others like them do use the club but there are also some professionals and some women who basically live off of guys who show up. They range in looks. Most are attractive but all sorts show up at the club from timid Japanese girls next door to super tanned gyaru* and even Europeans.

When guys see a girl they like they fill out a small piece of paper with their name, job and an indication of what they are looking for. They can indicate that they are looking for a dinner date, someone to drink with or an friend for some quick erotic fun.

The guys give these slips to guys on staff who in turn take them to the women. If the women agree they are taken upstairs to chat with the guys who show interest in them. These chats happen in small private booths.

Usually guys get right down to business and say what they are looking for. Women usually reply with how much money they are looking for. A lot of people are meeting to exchange sex for money though a few really do go out on dates. Typical rates for a few hours of romance in a local love hotel are from 100,000 Yen to 300,000 Yen ($900 – 2,700 USD).

Many women are only comfortable going to nearby love hotels that they can walk to and from. They don’t want to enter taxis or trains in most cases.

Pictures of women who show up at the Kirari Cafe locations often pop up on the Kirari Cafe Twitter page though faces are usually blocked out to some degree.

Kirari Community Cafe. Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Open every day from afternoon to late night. Website: http://www.cafe-kirari.com/ Map on website.

There are many “cabaret” or kyabakura style hostess clubs in Tokyo. Guys pay big money to sit and talk with attractive women though they almost never get anything more than that.

Foreigners are not allowed in most of these clubs unless they can speak Japanese. Even though who can speak Japanese are not allowed in many of the clubs if they are not of Japanese ethnicity. Gira Gira Girls is fine with foreign customers who either arrive with Japanese friends or can speak Japanese themselves.

A lot of the women inside the bar can speak some English. A few are even fluent as a result of international travel or study. The women seem to take a real interest in foreigners even when they can’t speak any English at all.

Gira Gira Girls operates on its own model. It is a hybrid between a go go bar and a hostess bar. The lobby is large and shiny. The hallway downstairs to the main room is even more elaborate. It’s covered in all sorts of decorations as well as many bright lights and colors.

The actual bar downstairs is very large. It has a huge stage down one side and many tables throughout the rest of the bar. Dozens of Japanese women and quite a few “half-Japanese” women hang around the bar in bikinis and lingerie. A look at the women can be seen on the bar’s website gallery and Instagram profile. The bar also has a Youtube channel.

There are regular shows every night when the women get up and dance around the bar while a select few do go go style shows on stage. Some also work the large chrome poles installed on either side of the stage. Things can get wild during the show with the women groping and kissing customers but the ladies never get nude.

In between dance shows the ladies hang out with customers. Each lady usually sits with a customer. Other available ladies stand on stage waiting for new customers. Some customers spend extra to sit with several ladies of their choosing. Others pay the basic entrance fee and have ladies rotated around to them every ten or fifteen minutes.

The pricing at Gira Gira girls is clearly marked but still confusing. Customers have to pay a cover charge. Then there are additional fees for drinks, buying drinks for the ladies inside, food and more. There is also a 15 percent tax and service charge attached to every bill. The place is not incredibly expensive especially by Tokyo standards.

Gira Gira Girls is a well known place with regular shows. It’s not necessarily a “sexual shop”. Officially customers aren’t allowed to touch the women in the bar but it’s usual to see interaction that sometimes includes women sitting in the laps of customers. In nearly all cases women who work in Gira Gira Girls don’t meet customers outside of the bar.

Gira Gira Girls. Basement Floor 1, 1 Chome-7-7 Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Open seven days a week, 7:00PM – late night. Phone: +81 03-3200-5566 Website: http://giragiragirls.com. Click here for map.

Back in October this site reported that Japanese MILF porn star Shiomi Yuriko was offering sexual services to foreign customers at the Tokyo Hentai Club in the Shibuya section of Tokyo. She followed two other Japanese AV stars who worked at the club earlier that year.

Then just last month semen loving AV star Shiho Egami made an appearance at the new Shinjuku Tokyo Hentai Club location where she offered her famous oral skills and more to foreigners willing to spend some Yen.

Now we can report that two Japanese porn stars are simultaneously making themselves available to foreign customers in the coming days.

International sensation Ayumu Kase will be working at the Shibuya Hentai Club on April 18 to April 20. Auyumu-chan started her career in Japan working for the then-fledgling S1 No 1 company and later went overseas to the US where she preformed several scenes with the famous American porn company Brazzers. Now she’s back in the land of the rising sun and she apparently has a taste for gaijin.

Kase Ayumu previously starred in such amazing AV pieces as “Father-in-law’s Daughter Oppression” and the above pictured “Nymphos and Cum VI“. She has also appeared at many Japanese strip clubs. She is currently working in the US porn industry and will film more in the near future. Sessions with Ayumu at Tokyo Hentai Club Shibuya are apparently going fast. It’s easy to see why.

Over at Tokyo Hentai Club Shinjuku Japanese AV star Konno Hikaru is appearing on April 18 and April 27. Miss Konno entered the industry a few years ago and has been working ever since. She has a cute look which might help explain why she debuted with the Kawaii company.

Hikaru-chan has appeared in modern classics like “Ovary Rental: Schoolgirl My Girlfriend Has Creampie Sex With Anyone!” and “Booze Talk, 2 Days And 1 Night Of Drinking, Fucking, Talking Candidly And Barhopping“, which appears above. She has done dozens of videos in total in which she demonstrates her amazing skills. Her body is tight and trim and she definitely knows her way around a man.

Since she is only working at the Shinjuku Tokyo Hentai Club for two days it seems likely that Hikaru Konno will be completely booked in no time. A select few who put in the time and effort to contact the club and make a booking will be the only ones able to seize this once in a life time chance. Others will be stuck watching her porn videos, which admittedly isn’t that bad.

Seventh Heaven (not to be confused with the Seventh Heaven strip club) is a foreigner friendly delivery health style escort service located in the Shibuya section of Tokyo. The business goes out of its way to find foreign customers as illustrated by its English language website.

Delivery health or “delihelu” shops send women on their staff out to meet customers in love hotels or sometimes their homes. The shops are typically legal and licensed. The women provide “health services” which typically include massage and either a hand job or blow job. Full sex is not permitted by Japanese law.

Seventh Heaven follows normal operating procedure for delihelu shops in the city. Customers call the shop or use the reservation form on their website to book an appointment. Their information is confirmed then the shop sends a lady out to meet the customer. The ladies are accompanied by a man who collects payment upfront and shows customers a list of rules that includes things like a ban on rough touching and sex.

Prices vary at Seventh Heaven depending on the course and length of time. The least expensive course is a 90 minute executive course for 60,000 Yen. At the higher end there are 150 minute suite courses for 140,000 Yen. A more expensive royal suite course also exists.

The Seventh Heaven website shows a huge staff of dozens of women. The website also has a schedule that shows who is working during each day of the week.

Seventh Heaven. Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from Noon — 5:00 AM. Phone: 03-6416-3949. Website: http://heaven777.casthp.net

As regular readers of this site know Japan is home to an extensive adult entertainment industry. With everything from a wide variety of sex shops to a huge array of porn and countless male sex toys the country often makes waves around the world with each new development. Surprisingly a new innovating shop created by the famous Soft on Demand porn conglomerate received minimal coverage in the English language press.

The SOD experience center in the Akihabara section of Tokyo has really broken new ground. The well illuminated front tells the tale in Japanese though a quick walk inside the foreigner friendly shop makes things clear even to those who cannot speak the local language.

There have long been rooms available for people to rent called mangakissa. People can read manga, surf the internet or take a rest for a few hours in these places which are popular for people who miss the last train or who simply want a private place to rub one out. The SOD center is like a mangakissa but along with the comic books and internet access it also offers adult videos, male masturbators and even virtual reality goggles.

The inside of the shop looks like a Japanese porn shop but it is a little cleaner and less cluttered. Countless SOD titles are spread throughout the store. There are also plenty of Tenga male sex toys around. Of course the aforementioned goggles are also available. Apparently there are already several titles shot point of view style meant to match with the virtual reality gear. One features a nurse giving a handjob and another features oral and cowgirl from a hot Japanese teen.

A use of a private room for one hour is just 550 Yen ($5 USD). A full day room rental is 3150 Yen ($28 USD). The rooms are small but well done and purpose built. They even have soundproof walls to keep out any noise from nearby users.

SOD Experience Center, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. Open 24 hours. Click here for map.

JK Style is a foreigner friendly delivery health outfit operating Tokyo. As the name implies the place has a school girl theme though obviously there are no actual school girls working at the place. Although the ladies listed on the JK Style website are described as ranging in age from eighteen to twenty several are well into their mid twenties.

The JK Style website is complete but also complex. Even those capable of reading Japanese might have trouble figuring out the various prices that depend on everything from time of day to the type of session. Foreigners are most likely to simply call the shop and ask to speak English. There are two male managers at JK Style who can speak English fairly well though they ask English speakers to speak slowly and clearly.

Generally speaking a 60 minute session starts at 19000 Yen ($170 USD). During the night and for longer sessions the price increases. Costumes like school girl uniforms and such also cost additional money. As a delivery health outfit the shop sends women out to meet customers at love hotels. Customers call the shop to make an appointment. Then they go to a love hotel and check in. Once checked in they call the shop back and give their room number. Then they wait for the lady they have booked to arrive.

There are dozens of women working at JK Style. Some are attractive but most are average at best. The pictures are heavily edited and do not always resemble the women they portray. In addition many of the most attractive women will not work with foreigners.

Service is supposed to include a massage and either a handjob or oral. Some women may do sumata instead. Although it is not permitted by law or endorsed by the shop at all some of the women also offer full service to customers at times.

True to form the ladies who work at JK Style often behave as if they are new to the scene. They do things like pretending to be shy. Some may not be pretending as a few do the work on the side. All are professionals though none offer a professional service course like ladies at Tokyo Style.

JK Style. Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from 10:00 AM — 5:00 AM. Phone: 03-6233-9969. Website: http://www.jk-style.tv/pc/home/

Sensing a serious gap in the industry Tokyo Hentai Club came along with a website and staff in English. The shop isn’t even open to Japanese customers which shows how serious it is about servicing foreigners. The people who run the phones and front desks are fluent in English. The website is clear and easy to navigate.

Around a dozen women work at Tokyo Hentai Club. They are all Japanese though some are mixed or “hafu.” Tokyo Hentai Club is also well known for hosting Japanese porn stars with regularity. They also have a team of twin sisters who work together.

Sessions start at 22000 Yen ($198 USD) for sixty minutes and go up from there. Additional options like costumes and picture taking costs more. Customers can call for women to meet them in their hotels or a love hotel. Alternatively they can show up to the shop in Shibuya where they can see pictures of the women on staff that show their faces. Then they can make an appointment. The women they book then meet them at the shop and walk to a local love hotel where services are rendered.

Tokyo Hentai Club. MM Building, 2F Room B, Dougenzaka 2-28-2, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from Noon — 4:00 AM. Phone: 03-6427-8921. Website: http://hentaitokyo.com

Located next to Kawasaki Station the shop just recently opened. Early on it had one woman on staff per day. Now the number is increasing. There are several women on staff and multiple women working each day. A recruitment campaign is also underway to hire even more women.

All of the women at Paradise work with foreigners. At other soaplands that are foreigner friendly there are only certain women on staff who will work with people who are no Japanese.

Soaplands are grandfathered in so they are not subject to rules prohibiting full sexual intercourse. Because of that Paradise is able to offer oral and full sex as a standard service. Sessions also include shower time and a soapy body to body slide on a nuru mat.

A 30 minute session at Paradise is 20,000 Yen ($180 USD). A sixty minute session is 30,000 Yen ($270 USD). Longer sessions, session extensions and selection of staff is also available at additional cost.

The women at Paradise are all in their twenties or early thirties and height and weight proportionate. All are generally attractive though some look better than others. Some can speak basic English. Others are nearly fluent. The photographs on the Paradise website are accurate.

Paradise offers an in person line up so that customers can see the women available when they visit. Alternatively they can make an appointment in advance. Some women do get fully booked at times.

The shop accepts cash in Yen and US dollars as well as credit card payments.

Paradise. 210-0015, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawasaki City, Kawasaki Ward, Minamimachi, 15-5. Open every day from noon to midnight. Phone: 044-272-1300. Website: http://paradise-inn.net

Tokyo has a number of strip theaters and peep shows like New Hot Point. Western-style strip clubs like those seen in the United States are a lot less common.

Tantra Tokyo is a strip club in the Roppongi section of Tokyo. Roppingi is famous in Japan as an area where foreigners congregate. While there are many foreigners in the area every day the local Japanese people still outnumber them by a wide margin.

Despite the name Tantra Tokyo does not offer any kinds of massages. Instead it offers shows and the company of scantly clad hostesses to customers. It looks like a western strip club inside but the mode of operations is a bit different.

Tantra Tokyo has choreographed stage shows performed by attractive women in various sexy outfits. The women come from all over the world. Japanese gals are most common but western women are always found in the mix. They are all in their twenties and thirties and fit. Some have an alternative type of look with colored hair and tattoos or piercings which is a bit out of the norm for Japan.

Other more individualized services are also offered at Tantra Tokyo. When there are no performances going on customers can call the women on staff over to sit with them in exchange for the purchase of a lady drinks. Drinks are not cheap as might be expected in Tokyo but the prices are not out of control either. Beverages start at 1500 Yen ($14 USD). Bills are tallied up fairly and documented.

The women at Tantra Tokyo also offer personal dances. These “tantra dances” typically consist of a lot of topless bumping and grinding on the customer. Sometimes kissing and touching is done too. It rarely goes any further than that.

While many adult entertainment facilities in Japan offer some kind of sexual release there are places such as the oppai pubs that are purely to meant to perk up customer interest. Tantra Tokyo is one of those venues. There is no system in place for customers to get any kind of sexual release. It is more of a party place especially on the weekends when festive events are held.

Tantra Tokyo is totally foreigner friendly. It maintains an English language website and has plenty of people on multilingual people on staff.

Tantra Tokyo, Zeches Baum B2F, 3-9-5 Roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. Open every Monday through Saturday from 8:00 PM. Phone: 03-5775-6533. Website: http://www.tantra-tokyo.com Map on website.

When looking for an exhilarating boyʼs night out in Osaka, most people would recommend you to a red-light district called Tobita Shinchi. And so, they should! As explained in Macho Pichoʼs report, it is the (little) Amsterdam of Osaka. Thereʼs a wide variety of stores, and the atmosphere on a Saturday night is an experience in itself.

However, for those who want to stray away from the mainstream trends, looking for a lower-key experience or a place that is a little kinder on the wallet, I have just the right place for you. I fully recommend you visit Matsushima Shinchi.

Matsushima Shinchi is a red-light district that has history all the way back to 1868 and is one of the “5 Osaka Great Shinchi” (Tobita is included). It is located in Nishikujo approximately 19 minutes from Osaka JR Station. And the nearest station is Kujo JR station. Hereʼs a map for reference.

The system and process of things are completely identical to Tobita Shinchi. The area pre-dates the Japanese prostitution laws and are disguised as ʻRestaurantsʼ where a customer and traditional Japanese waitresses (Nakai-san) fall in love freely. Once again similar to Tobita, you also have the lively Mama-san trying to escort you in to her ʻRestaurantʼ.

So, whatʼs different about Matsushima Shinchi?

1. The Pricing is Cheaper – On my most recent visits to Matsushima and Tobita (within the last year) the required minimum was cheaper in Matsushima. 11,000 Yen compared to 15,000 Yen in Tobita. Note: Prices may have varied over time and can be decided on a case by case basis.
2. Some Stores have a Selection – Not all but a number of stores have incorporated a Chinese massage-style ʻpick and chooseʼ system. You can find a pair of girls sitting at the front of some
   stores. It is something you canʼt see in Tobita and always fun to have more options.
3. Some Stores have a Shower – Once again not all stores, and something you canʼt find in Tobita. Some stores have a shower in their ʻRestaurantʼ (funny right?) and include this in their service. Itʼs great, because there is nothing more important than personal hygiene for everyone involved. Not to mention you can freshen up before and after. But, the shower does cut into your time so this may be welcomed by some but not others.
4. The District is Lower Key – Without a doubt, there are a lot less number of stores and there is a more ʻresidential feelingʼ to the area with more cafes and peopleʼs homes in the area. Also, there are less people walking around at night and the Mama-san arenʼt as in your face and aggressive. It is a lot less intimidating for shy guys compared to Tobita.

Now hereʼs the most important part of the report, the girls. In Matsushima Shinchi you will find girls in their 20ʼs all the way to 40ʼs. To be completely honest, the overall quality isnʼt on par with Tobita. On my recent visit, I found the girls to be more of the ʻgirl next doorʼ type compared to the ʻidolʼ types you would find in Tobita. However, the price, unique system and overall relaxed atmosphere makes up for it. But there are some beautiful gems in the mix! You just have to make sure to do a few laps.

All in all, if you have given Tobita Shinchi a go, and you wanted to try somewhere new that is reasonable, relaxed and low-key, Matsushima Shinchi should be on your ʻGo-toʼ list! I personally still prefer a soapland or delivery health but Matsushima Shinchi has a special place in my heart.

There is tons of porn available on the internet and most of it is free. That includes incredible amounts of Japanese porn that has been released over the years. Zenra sets itself apart from all the other sites online by offering really interesting Japanese adult videos with English subtitles that let viewers who do not speak Japanese understand what is actually going on in the scenes they are watching.

Because of this, the Zenra site has made it onto several notable lists over the last few years. Those include the list of the best Japanese porn on the internet and this list of porn that is still worth paying for.

Even though Zenra charges membership fees it is still a very popular site. While there is a seemingly infinite level of Japanese porn floating around the internet where it can be viewed absolutely free of charge, most of it is understandably in Japanese. Only those who speak the language can get everything out of those videos. Everyone else is missing out since one of the best things about Japanese porn is the high level of creativity behind it.

Zenra teams up with Japanese porn studios to make some truly amazing scenes available to the masses around the world who want to watch movies like “The Anal Training of a Beautiful Teacher” without enrolling in Japanese language lessons.

Now Zenra is teaming up with a Japanese company called RADIX to make a service previously restricted to Japanese guys available to English speakers around the world.

Through this partnership, Zenra is offering the creation of custom Japanese porn videos! Customers can write up to five questions for any star of their choosing from the available list. The stars they select will answer those questions and then do a 20 minute masturbation session in a custom video. The women will then strip off their panties and package them so they can be sent to their customers for sniffing or whatever it is people do with used panties.

The videos aren’t cheap at a charge of 80,000 Yen ($730 USD). But they are totally exclusive and no one other than the people who order the videos will ever see them (with the exception of the Zenra staff if they want the videos to be subtitled in English). It’s such a unique opportunity that it is difficult to complain much about the price.

The current campaign ends tomorrow but others are on the way. In fact, there new campaigns like this every few months. As more people learn about these campaigns Zenra is sure to draw in more and more customers who want to hear Japanese porn stars call out their names while getting themselves of with a little old fashion onani and some used pantsu.

Of course the customer video service is only available to people who have a membership to the Zenra website. But any real fan of the wide world of Japanese porn will have no problem paying a few bucks a month for access to such great footage and campaigns like this.

The Tokyo Hentai Club in Shinjuku is totally organized for gaijin customers. The website is in English and the staff both on the phones and in the shop not only speak and understand the language but are fluent in it. That is pretty rare for a business of any kind in Tokyo let alone a fuzoku operation.

A lot of the women at THC Shinjuku can also speak English. A select few are fluent. A few can speak basic English. One or two speak next to no English at all. They are for the most part all attractive and interested in their work. Of all the places to work in Tokyo they chose a place that serves a mostly foreign clientele.

Tokyo Hentai Club follows the standard delivery health model. That means that customers meet with a woman and then typically receive some combination of mutual bathing, massage, oral sex and a handjob. Some of the women on staff also offer additional services such as recording the session on video for a fee. Full sex is prohibited.

There are three classes of women at Tokyo Hentai Club: Silver, Gold and Diamond. As mentioned the club also regularly hosts Japanese AV stars who are in a class of their own.

Regular sessions start at 22,000 Yen ($201 USD) for 1 hour. Prices increase from there with women in the higher classes and longer sessions costing more.

The club can send women out to hotels and apartments inside of Tokyo but it is probably more common for customers to book an appointment to appear at the club itself. There they can meet with the woman of their choice and walk to one of the many nearby love hotels.

The Tokyo Hentai Club Shinjuku is located in the infamous Kabukicho entertainment district. The building is not clearly marked but the location is easy to find. The club has images and videos showing the way to their location on their website.

Tokyo Hentai Club. Kabukicho 1-13-4, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from Noon — 4:00 AM. Phone: 03-6427-8921. Website: https://shinjuku-hentaitokyo.com/

It’s nearly that time of the year again. In a few weeks millions of people will get together and exchange gifts to celebrate their holidays of choice. While not normally brought up in polite conversation it is undoubtedly true that a large portion of those millions consists of hentai guys who are fans of everything naughty in the land of the rising sun.

This silent sum of people is usually left to deal with their interests alone, but things don’t have to be so. There is no reason why modern people in the modern world can’t pick up some seasonal gifts their sex loving friends would really enjoy like “Kira Kira Special Big Tit Gal Santa” rather than burdening them with another crystal vase or pair of socks that they would rather not have.

The new Real Body Julia has to be high on any hentai’s wishlist. Based on the immensely popular and well reviewed Kiwami Zoukei Julia male sex toy this life sized torso replica is built for sexual pleasure.

Weighing a whopping 44 pounds this sex doll really replicates the busty physique of world renown Japanese porn star Julia. It packs the reusable fun into an adult’s only toy that is sure to leave any user very happy.

And let’s not forget about Japanese porn. The imminent demise of commercial porn has been proclaimed for several years but things are still going pretty strong in Japan. Sure there aren’t as many productions as there used to be but dozens of titles still continue to pour out of the industry every single month of the year. That means there is still some money to be had.

In a country where porn stars can become real stars any death of porn is unlikely. Combine that with strict anti-piracy measures and an active porn star set who regularly meet with and even have sexual relations with fans and you can understand why Japanese AV continues to live on.

As mentioned many times on this site in the past there is no better place for English speakers to find Japanese AV than R18. The website is well organized and absolutely filled with adult videos of all kinds. The site has videos from years ago in its archives and it adds new releases daily. With great videos like “I’m Enjoying A Creampie Communal Life” available to permanently own for less than the price of a round at a Japanese blowjob bar, it is easy to see why the site continues to grow.

What does this have to do with the holidays? Well, what hentai wouldn’t want to wake up to a new copy of “Princess Girlfriend: DMM’s No. 1 Selling CG Comics Brought To Real Life!” staring Kirara Asuka in their inbox?

On the Princess Girlfriend box cover star Kirara-chan perfectly imitates the image on the front of the Himekano Secret Lovers manga. Interestingly enough there is also a very good sex toy based on the same manga. Ain’t nothing like the real thing, but in a world when the real is a drawing and the imitation is a human, all kinds of things will do. A gift basket with the Himekano manga, Kirara Asuka’s video and the Himekano onahole would be an ultimate gift for any hentai.

One thing that long lacking from the creative and inventive world of Japanese porn was English subtitles. Some fans made their own over the years but there was never any really trustworthy and centralized place to find correctly subtitled Japanese AV until ZENRA came around. Surely any fan of Japanese AV or porn in general would love a gift membership to Zenra and its extensive archives of truly weird videos!

Japan is home to countless adult shops that typically sell a very interesting combination of adult videos and sex toys.

Most porn is now watched online, and for good reason. It’s much easier to find a flick on a phone and get busy then pursue the aisles of a sex shop. Still there is something authentically horny about looking through the many videos offered by Japanese porn pushers. At the end of the day, true hentai guys and AV otaku still like to have something to hold in their hands other than their own units.

For those unable to get to M’s Pop Life there are great online shops like J-List where all sorts of awesome Japanese AV DVDs and Blueray disks can be purchased. They are delivered right to your door and come in neat square boxes which are very easy to wrap and stick under the old tree.

Bliss Out is a happening bar located in the backstreets of the infamous Kabukicho section of Tokyo. “Happening bars” are basically swinger clubs where men and women meet to socialize and have sex together in a semi-public setting.

There are several happening bars in Japan. Some are foreigner friendly but only if the foreigners in question can speak Japanese. Since most of the customers are local this is meant to allow for conversations between customers and insure against any misunderstandings.

Bliss Out is one of the few Happening Bars that is completely foreigner friendly and it even has a man on staff who can speak English fluently. Because of this the bar does see its fair share of foreign customers though Japanese locals also show up with regularity.

In an effort to shield itself from too much publicity the actual Bliss Out location is not marked by a sign of any kind even though the place does maintain a website. It is still not too difficult to find. The door is down a flight of stairs and although it doesn’t have any signage the presence of things like an umbrella stand, motion sensors and CCTV cameras indicate that something is going on inside.

Once customers ring the bell next to the door they are let into a small lobby area where they are greeted by either a man or woman on staff. The man was previously mentioned. He is in his twenties or thirties and can speak English very well. There is also a woman in her twenties who can speak some English that sometimes works this area. There are some other employees but these two seem to be the most prominent.

Returning customers show their membership card and pay an entry fee. They then put their shoes in a closet. After that a second door is unlocked and they are allowed into the main bar area.

New customers are asked if they know what a happening bar is. If they say yes and ask to enter they are given a membership form to fill out asking for a name, address, phone number and nickname for the club. The forms are available in English and Japanese. The addresses and phone numbers written on these forms are not verified but the names are checked against some form of identification. Customers without identification are fact not customers at all since they are not allowed to enter.

Once customers do enter the bar they are free to move around and mingle. First timers are given a tour by someone on staff. Return customers can simply put their things in one of the lockers in a side room and then do whatever they’d like.

The main bar area is rather large for a bar in Tokyo. On the right side there are several couches and open floor areas. On the left side there is an actual wooden bar that is long and wide. At the end of the bar there are several sex toys including some incredibly large dildos. On the wall along the back there are all sorts of costumes including nurse and schoolgirl outfits. All of the toys and costumes are free for customers to use.

In a back corner there is a rest room. Next to that is a locked door that leads down a flight of stairs to the basement. Customers have to ask someone behind the bar to temporarily unlock the door if they want to go downstairs. When they come back up they can simply unlock the door themselves from the inside.

The basement area is specially designed and intricate. It contains two play spaces and much more. The smaller play space is filled with mats. It is accessed through a black curtain. Next to the curtain is a one way window that allows people outside to see into the play area without any inside being able to see back out. Below that window there is a large open grate that also allows people to see inside.

Across the way there is a much larger play area with a similar layout. The floor is covered in mats. The walls around the area are open to peepers. In the back behind a curtain there is a large grated wall where people can look inside. On another wall there are several booths behind curtains. These allow people to look into the play area while also maintaining some privacy for themselves.

While play is permitted in every part of the bar except for the staircase the main action usually happens in the specialized play spaces downstairs. That said it is not unusual to see women in their bra and panties being spanked in the main bar area.

A full range of people visits Bliss Out though some nights are a lot quieter than others. Most of the visitors seem to be in their thirties though people in their twenties and forties are not uncommon. Much older people are not as common but they do show up at times.

Bliss Out apparently does screen customers somewhat though it is difficult to tell who exactly is kept out. Single men are permitted though there are restrictions against large groups of guys coming together.

There are various prices at Bliss Out. New customers pay a one time 5000 Yen ($44 USD) membership fee. After that admission fees are based on whether customers come alone or as couples. Couples pay less than single men. Single women pay nothing at all. A 3000 Yen ($26 USD) fee can be paid by customers to get a free flow of drinks during their stay or they can simply buy their drinks one at a time. The first drink is free and non-alcoholic drinks are free all the time. Any tabs accrued by customers are paid on the way out at the bar.

Bliss Out. 1 Chome 10-1, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 AM. Phone: (+81) 03-6457-6169. Website: http://www.bliss-out.jp Click here for a map.

Moon Love (月の恋), not to be confused with the Japanese drama of a similar name, is one of many of the Chinese massage parlors in Tokyo that straddles the line of what is and isn’t actually permitted in Japan. As is the case in other countries with more repressive atmospheres the Chinese massage parlors in Japan pose as regular massage shops but often often a lot more than back rubs.

The Moon Love shop is located on a main street that connects with the large and busy Ikebukuro Station. It is well advertised with an illuminated sign out on the street displaying the name of the shop in Japanese, some prices that don’t necessarily correspond with the rates charged inside, and a picture of a Chinese model who appears nowhere within the walls of the facility.

Customers access Moon of Love by going to the second floor and ringing the door bell in front of the shop. The door is impossible to miss as it is surrounded by Christmas lights. The door is kept locked at all times except when customers or staff are coming and going. That is normally a sign that something more than stretching is happening inside and Moon of Love is no exception.

After customers enter they remove their shoes and sit in one of the two available seats. They are then offered tea and shown various menus offering all sorts of courses. The most common course is a 60 minute session with body wash for 10,000 Yen ($88 USD).

Once customers select a course they pay for their session and then get led to one of several booths. These cubicles are large and clean with floor level mattresses covered by heated pads. There are also things like clocks and ashtrays inside. The walls do not go all the way up to the ceiling though they are sturdy.

The women who work at Moon of Love are from the Chinese mainland. They are in their thirties and forties. Most men would probably say that they are of average attractiveness at best. They wear revealing clothes that show a lot of cleavage and usually expose their panties from both front and back.

Being from mainland China the women at Moon of Love are obviously able to speak Mandarin. They can also speak Japanese. Few can speak any other language including English but they all carry smart phones with Google translate and they know how to use it

The women who collect money up front are not always the women who massage the customers. Sometimes one woman will take the money and then return to a customer or do something else in the back. Since all women are similar in level of attractiveness this is not a “bait and switch” scam. Rather it is the logical outcome of a place with a few women on staff but a steady flow of customers.

After customers are led to their cubicles they left alone for a few minutes. During that time they are expected to strip out of their clothes and put on a provided double breasted robe. The robes are clean and seem to be laundered between customers.

After customer change into their robes they wait for their service provider to appear. During that time they can usually hear sounds including conversations bouncing off of the walls. More often than not they can also hear passionate moans and groans of men and women that reveal some of what happens in this massage parlors and a lot of others like it.

The women who work at Moon of Love sometimes act coy with new customers and ask questions like “where do you hurt?” This is their way to break the ice and figure out what kind of services customers are looking for.

A normal one hour session includes a brief massage that is followed by a short trip to the shower room. There customers lay down on a table shower where they are scrubbed down from head to toe with special attention paid to the backside and private parts. After that they are dried off and led back to their cubicle where they receive a mediocre body massage followed by a lubed up hand job.

More may be offered to certain guys at certain times but it is not an official service or even a sure thing. When additional services are offered they almost always come with an additional cost requirement. Repeat visitors and regulars are more likely to get extra services than first time visitors though there are no real rules in that regard since it is all technically against the rules anyway.

Moon of Love. 2 Chome-18, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from Noon to Midnight. Click here for a map.

New York New York is a fashion health shop in the Ueno section of Tokyo. It is owned by the same people behind Secret Touch in Ikebukuro and that shows in every way. The two places along with some other sister shops are all quite similar.

The New York New York shop is located on a busy alley in Ueno. There are neon signs on the corner pointing to the entrance which itself is topped by a large purple sign displaying the shop’s name in English.

The front door to the shop is glass but covered with a red layer that partially obscures what goes on inside. Since the street is so busy and filled with all kinds of shops no one really pays attention to who goes where. Ueno is home to everything from famous ramen restaurants to oppai pubs.

Once customers enter the New York New York lobby they are greeted by a male manager in a suit. He only speaks Japanese but he is patient with foreigners who speak English. The shop is foreigner friendly for the most part.

First time customers are shown a laminated sheet explaining the way the place operates in both Japanese and English. The sheet says things like “no sex” and claims the shop only takes a bathing fee of 5,000 Yen or so. In reality customers are expected to pay a set fee of 9,800 Yen ($86 USD) for a 50 minute session. This fee is paid to a middle aged Japanese woman through a glass window inside the lobby.

Once customers pay their entrance fee they are lead to a waiting room just off of the main lobby. The room contains couches along all four walls. There is a television on one wall and lots of books and magazines around.

When the service providers are ready the customers are retrieved from the waiting room and led to one of the many bathing rooms. The bathing rooms at New York New York look exactly like the rooms at Secret Touch.

The doors have glass windows that is apparently meant to show that no sex is going on inside. There is a elevated massage table on one side covered with brown towels. At the other end of the room there is a tiled area with a shower and a drain. In the corner there is a deep square bathtub and next to that there is a shimmering gold contraption of some sort looks like some kind of pressure cooker for human beings.

The women who work at New York New York resemble the women at Secret Touch too. They are for the most part all well into middle age. Although none are overweight they aren’t what most guys would generally describe as attractive either. Most show signs of child birth and quite a few are actually married. Surprisingly a few women at New York New York can actually speak English.

Sessions at New York New York follow a basic routine. Customers strip along with their service providers. Then they head over to the tiled area and sit on a specially designed soapland stool. The service providers then give them a brief washing before asking them to take a soak in the tub. After a brief soak the service providers dry off the customers and things move back to the massage table.

From there a normal course involves some combination of kissing, touching, hand jobs and oral sex. Some of the women are better at their job than others. Some will perform oral until well after the customer has ejaculated while others finish things by hand.

After customers finish they can either lay around with their service providers and chat or head back to the wash area to get another rinse and bath. Their sessions are then basically complete so they get dressed and head out the door.

New York New York. 2 Chome-10-9, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from 7:30 AM to Midnight. Phone: Phone: 03-3831-5194 Website: http://newyork2.jp Click here for a map.

Along with Pokemon and Toyota, Japanese is well known around the world as a source of the weird. Many times the weirdness extends into areas of sex and adult entertainment which makes it all the more intriguing. Mania Shop Slum is an adult video shop in the heart of Ikebukuro that sells things that would be considered revolting or even illegal elsewhere.

Mania Shop Slum is located near Ikebukuro Station. It is only a few minutes away by foot, nestled on a street that also contains things like a restaurant, some retail shops and a pachinko parlor. A traditional type of soapland is located just around the corner but it does not accept non-Japanese customers.

Two large flashing signs in the street indicate the location of the Mania Shop Slum The actual shop itself is located down a flight of stairs which is perhaps fitting considering that the products the place carriers would be called “underground” by some.

The shop is not small but it is so jam packed with aisles, shelves and products that it can be difficult to move around inside. Straight ahead there are aisles filled with DVDs that are sorted by categories. There are some “regular” Japanese porn DVDs in one area but most of the shop is filled with the kind of “maniac” videos that give the place its name.

Those videos are centered around a variety of subjects including urination, defecation (scatology) and roman showers (vomiting). They are organized by subject so that the piss fans don’t have to bothering digging through shit videos to find what they’re after.

Some of the most interesting aspects of the shop include a discount corner where grab bags are sold. Assumingly the bags are filled with things like DVDs the shop can’t get rid of rather than the kinds of bodily fluids featured in those videos.

The shop also has a corner where they sell Japanese sex toys and related accessories to allow fans a chance to play along at home. The prices for the toys are the same as those charged by other toy stores including the gigantic Love Merci.

There is a check out counter in the front that is mostly blocked off so that the staff inside and the customers do not have to make eye contact or really even see each other at any time. Money and products are shifted back and forth through a slot and over a counter that is just about waist high.

Mania Shop Slum. 1 Chome-42-17, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Open every day from 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM. Click here for a map.

EXE is a soapland in the Yoshiwara section of Tokyo. Yoshiwara is of course famous as a sort of historic red light district that has been around for hundreds of years. Yoshiwara soaplands are known for being some of the only sex shops in Japan that consistently offer full service as a matter of course.

EXE is known as being a high class soapland, but that mainly seems to pertain to the women who work in the soapland. They are among the most attractive of all the Yoshiwara ladies. The facilities at EXE are not necessarily top of the line. In fact they are rather basic.

The skills demonstrated by the women who work at EXE aren’t top notch either. Indeed, the admittedly attractive women who work at EXE don’t know how to do the famous soapy body to body slide that Japanese soaplands are known for.

All of this means that EXE is more or less an expensive brothel with some of the better looking women in the area on staff. EXE does have the requisite bathing facilities to officially make it a soapland, but it can hardly be said to offer the traditional Japanese soapland experience.

EXE is not oriented to foreigners at all. That said, they do accept foreign customers in some cases. They even have staff able to speak languages other than Japanese. That doesn’t mean that every guy who walks in is accepted by every person on staff. There might be people who refuse to work with gaijin.

A 110 minute session at EXE costs 25,000 Yen ($233 USD) for the house or bathing fee. Customers are required to give an additional amount of money to the service providers who they visit with. There can also be a foreigner tax. In total, sessions at EXE end up costing around 70,000 Yen ($653 USD) in total.

EXE is open every day from noon to midnight. Here is the EXE website. There is a map on the website.

Meiji Shoten is a large adult toy and entertainment shop located very near the east exit of Ikebukuro Station. Demonstrating the complicated yet widespread state of the commercial sex industry in Japan, Meiji Shoten is located next to a classical music shop just a few meters from one of the busiest train stations in the country.

The shop actually has two entrances. The main entrance is narrow but set off by a large red frontage that extends up several stories. The frontage has a picture of a busty blond manga character along with the name of the shop in both Japanese and English. Down at the ground level a poster with a picture of the famous red Tenga male sex toy is posted in the window to draw in customers from the street.

While Meiji Shoten is not nearly as large as either the M’s Pop Life or Love Merci super stores it is big enough to merit a mention. At the same time, it is not nearly as odd as the nearby Mania Shop Slum even though it does carry some of the same titles on one small shelf on an upper level.

Meiji Shoten spans multiple levels. The ground floor has two separate magazine sections along with areas selling erotic Japanese manga comics and other items. Next to the front counter there is even a section filled with things being given away for free. This often includes things like DVDs, tissues, small sex toys and posters of Japanese porn stars.

A sort of split level basement accessed at the back of the ground floor is filled with male sex toys of all kind. The place is absolutely overflowing with onaholes so that some toys like new editions of the Tenga cup are displayed along the walls in the stair cases!

An upstairs level is an absolute cornucopia of Japanese adult video for those who still acquire their porn the old fashion way. The library like room is packed with thousands of DVDs expertly organized by things like theme, studio and star. Small screens spread throughout the room play some of the movies being sold.

The prices at Meiji Shoten match those charged by other similar shops across the city and country. Nowadays a new Japanese porn DVD goes for the equivalent of around $25 USD. Apparently they still sell too since shops like this continue to flourish selling new videos that are produced nearly every day. While some studios have closed and Japanese porn actresses don’t make nearly what they used to per shoot the local AV industry is far from dead.

As made clear by large signs both inside and outside the store, foreigners who shop at Meiji Shoten do not have to pay the sizable eight percent local tax. If they bring their passports and show them to the staff at the counter they can have any tax on their purchase waved. Somewhat surprisingly the place still seems to be much more popular with locals than foreigners, even though tourists from places like mainland China flood nearby pharmacies in droves buying up all sorts of Japanese products.

Tourists can also get a 8 percent discount at this store if they show their passport. The deal is mentioned right on the website so there should be no confusion for anyone.

Meiji Shoten. 1 Chome-3, Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Open every day from 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM. Website: http://meijishoten.com Click here for a map.