Best 7 Soaplands in Tokyo for foreigners
What are the 7 best soaplands in Tokyo? There are many soaplands in the city. Most are excellent. But not all are open to foreigners. Some Tokyo soaplands are for Japanese only. Luckily 7 of the best actually accept non-Japanese customers. I will tell you about them in this guide.
Foreigner friendly soaplands in Japan are like a holy grail for horny gaijin. The world famous nuru nuru massage complete will all over licking and full service is like the pinnacle of sexual service. They say “the customer is God” in Japan. In the sexual soaplands, that is truly evident!
Soaplands are the best of the best when it comes to prostitution in Japan. That’s no small feat. The land of the rising sun is known for being a kinky place. One look at Japanese porn or even just Japanese sex toys will tell you that. That’s if you even need telling. Japan is already world famous as a center of sex of all sorts.
Foreigner friendly soaplands aren’t nearly as hard to find as they used to be. There was a time when you would get rejected from nearly every soapland if you weren’t Japanese. A lot of shops might still turn you away. But nowadays quite a few will let you in as long as you look alright. And as I will explain, there is even one soapland set up completely and totally for foreign guys!
A brief history of the Japanese soapland
The Japanese soapland (ソープランド) has a pretty interesting history. Now widely known as “sopurando” in Japan, these places originated as basic bath houses after the end of World War II. Back then a guy would go in and get his body washed by a woman.
Obviously more than just bathing was bound to happen when a naked man and a naked woman shared a private room. Especially when the man was paying the woman for her services. Things quickly evolved to the point that guys started expecting full service for a set fee at the soaplands. The businesses grew and added more facilities, women and male management that doubled as security.
Soaplands were originally called Turkish baths or “toruko-buro” in Japan. Some in Turkey took offense to this. According to the book Japan’s Sex Trade by Peter Constantine, a Turkish professor successfully launched a campaign to have the name changed. A public constant was help to rename the facilities. The winning entry combined the English terms “soap” and “land” and came up with “soapland”. Only in Japan!
Gaijin friendly soaplands in Japan
Gaijin is the not-so-friendly Japanese term for foreigner. There are other words like gaikokojin and such that are supposed to be more polite. But Japan is not really a politically correct society, so gaijin it is. That’s what you hear the most when Japanese people talk about foreigners anyway.
The Yoshiwara neighborhood of Tokyo is the most famous soapland area in all of Japan. Apparently prostitution goes way back there. Centuries ago there were women selling pussy in Yoshiwara. And the same goes on today. The district is a little far from the train station. But it is in walking distance. And if you go to a soapland there, they usually drive you back to the train station after you are finished.
Usually there is at least one or two women in each soapland who will take a foreigner. Ultimately it is up to them. The managers also have something to do with it. But they’ll let you know right at the door whether or not you are okay to enter as a foreigner. If you are, they’ll show you the chicks available to you inside.
The best Yoshiwara soaplands known to accept foreigners are:
- Y-shirt to Watashi
- Oiran Monogatari
- Moulin Rouge
- Giardino
- Versailles
- Atelier Naniwa
This list of foreigner friendly Yoshiwara soaplands may seem short. But it is also sweet. The service given in these places is practically unmatched. I’ve been around the world and I can’t really compare anything to a Japanese soapland. The only two things that come close are the best nuru massage parlors in Bangkok and the top sex saunas in Macau. Everything pales in comparison in my view.
There are soaplands in other parts of the country too. But these are the most famous. Plus soaplands in a lot of other places like Ikebukuro are really old school. They absolutely don’t want anything to do with non-Japanese guys. The many soaplands of Fukuoka famously refuse to admit any gaijin customers too. Tokyo remains the best city for soaplands. It is also the best place for foreigner friendly soaplands, especially since they are all located there. There is only one notable exception that I will now explain.
The best Tokyo soapland for foreigners
The last soapland to mention is arguably best of all. Probably because they sensed a market need, some people actually opened a soapland specifically for foreigners. That is GFE Soapland in Kawasaki. If you aren’t familiar with Japan’s layout, you might know the name Kawasaki from the vehicle company. Well the city of Kawasaki is just right outside of Tokyo. It’s not exactly Tokyo, but it’s close enough. If you’re in Tokyo you can get there in a few minutes by train or taxi. And GFE Sopaland is very easy to find once you do.
GFE Soapland is so set up for foreigners that the guys inside are native English speakers. They explain everything when you walk in. Then they take you back to a row of private booths. You wait there until they bring chicks by for you to check out. You select your chick and you’re off to the races.
The prices at GFE Soapland start at 20000 Yen for a 30 minute quickie. That’s just about $135 in American money. But if you want real soapland service, you probably have to do at least 60 minutes. That costs 30,000 Yen or just over $200 in US dollars.
I won’t go too far into detail when talking about this place. It is a soapland like any other. The main difference is that they not only accept foreigners, but actively encourage them to come on in. That’s rare for a soapland in Japan.
All of the places on this list are known to accept foreigners. But GFE Soapland is the only one totally set up for non-Japanese guys. Some of the chicks who work there might not speak anything but Japanese. But the other staff, signs and even the website is all in English.
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Update Request (and sorry for the long post):
COVID killed quite a bit of the scene in Yoshiwara, which was already on a decline ever since post-bubble salary stagnation (just check average/median salaries of the past 30 years)
Anyway, Cream Lemon, Darling Harbor, and Petit Royal merged into “Y-shirt to Watashi”, while Silky Doll and Landmark appeared to be closed, or under a new management. Not sure if any are still gaijin-friendly.
At least the dollar and euro are running strong against the yen for now, making Paradise more affordable for us.
My go-to used to be Earl-du-Chalet Haidi, now merged into their 2nd place Oiran Monogatari. Can’t verify whether they are foreigner-friendly, but if you speak decent Japanese, it’s worth a look.
One tip to share about Yoshiwara, and Japanese prostitution in general: NEVER trust the pictures. They subtract 10 years from actual age (it’s called Yoshiwara age in Japanese), and often photoshop their pictures from 5 years ago. Also, there is a positive correlation between chest and waist, unless you pay a significant premium, so don’t expect Japanese D+cup girls to be slim beauties. Also, you’ll find that 35+ yr old women that look like late 20s to us Westerners tend to give better service than some college-age girls that think their young looks automatically make them the queen of all horny men.
Being in the Benelux is tough, everything is overpriced except for good beer and cheese, thank god Germany is only a small weekend trip away. Can’t wait to go back to Japan, and until then always looking forward to new articles!
Thanks for the info bro. I haven’t been to Yoshiwara in a while. Most things in most places have been going down hill for years though. Can you name anything anywhere that has improved in the last 3 years?
Wow, that’s hard… my best answer over the past year would point to the NRW (Germany), only because Russian border politics drive up the population of women in need of cash migrating westwards (no offense intended to anyone). Then again, my sphere of “paid activity” is significantly smaller than yours (Japan, Singapore, several European cities), which explains why I read your articles to open myself to more perspectives.
Meanwhile, I won’t be going back home to the States anytime soon, I totally follow you on that.
It doesn’t have to be related to prostitution or even sex. Just name anything at all that has improved over the last 3 years. I’m not fucking with you. I genuinely want to know. I’ve been having a hard time coming up with much.
Ok, on a more general note:
(without including Robinhood, Crypto, or Reddit stock memes)
1) home activities, notably home improvement and indoor exercise (at-home gym) got a temporary boost. Gaming and VTubers got a permanent boost, if you ask me. I think laziness and consumerism won over productivity, which I say is a positive sign that people are trying to enjoy life, even in hard times. But unemployment benefits being better than going back to work for the minimum wage worker is just poor government planning.
2) cybersecurity, as a result of ransomware. The industry has always been doing great ever since politically-tied hacker groups, but I think 2021 just made it even better. Managed EDR packages etc.
3) electric car development, especially battery development. SPACs were more or less a “scheme” as I see it, but the total amount of capital that went into the endeavor clearly propelled battery length expectancy, to the point where consumers know waiting a few more years will mean getting a battery electric vehicle with 30%~50% more range in the same price bracket, and buying now will only mean dealing with massive depreciation.
Yeah, if you were in the right industry, clearly you had no choice but to see growth over the last 3 years. And who didn’t notice that vaccine development was great for all the companies that were allowed relaxed testing regulations of their vaccines prior to emergency public rollout (for those companies though, the vaccine production is only a fraction of the corporate portfolio, so net profit may not be as interesting on a whole)
I guess it depends on your perspective. I see a general decline in society. The general mood, the quality of products and services, the available of products and services, the cost of doing business, the political landscape, the slide towards major war.. you name it. I also sort of liked it when people did socially useful work.
Train connectivity in Thailand has improved, that counts for something right?
I guess it would if I rode trains in Thailand.
Amazing. How on earth do u get around then?
The traffic is nuts
Bangkok traffic is nothing compared to Manila or Jakarta. But it can get bad in spots. I travel Bangkok on foot. I do a lot of walking in Pattaya and Chiang Mai too. When I’m not walking I rent a car or use a ride hail app.
And the bangkok soaplands are all within walking distance of terminal 21. Good strategy!
Well the Huai Khwang soapies would be a 90 minute walk from Terminal 21. Good thing there are ride hail apps!