Wallet stolen at Tokyo Japan soapland
Hey everyone, I'm in Tokyo right now, came here yesterday and have 3 weeks left (maybe leaving sooner idk yet).
Long story, buckle up.
I went to a Soapland today, place is called Kinpeibai Yoshiwara Soapland, located out in 4 Chome-31-2 Senzoku, Tokyo. Website is: www.kinpei.net
Read online that this is a very foreigner friendly place, however dead wrong.
price is as follows:
50 minutes¥ 15,000 –
70 minutes¥ 20,000 –
90 minutes¥ 25,000 –
110 minutes¥ 30,000 –
130 minutes¥ 35,000 –
Nomination fee¥ 2,000 –
Btw, there's a 10,000 yen foreigner fee. So that should be 30,000 total for a 70min session.
When I walked to this place via Google map I saw many out touts on the street standing outside the doors to other soaplands and the like. Tons of them out there in the area. You can even see the girls walking about the street in broad daylight.
Anyway, I walked into the place and they ushered me into the waiting room (see pics) where everyone else was waiting. Pics of all the girls on the wall. The man knew I was a foreigner and brought me some cards of the available girls. Cards written in English, different and more expensive than the cards the locals got. I asked for the the 70min package for 20,000, and the man said no, not allowed, plus some mumbo jumbo in Japanese and told me the price was 35,800 total on the calculator. This includes the foreigner fee btw.
Total I paid was 35,800 yen in cash. From my wallet and the wallet was put back into my trousers.
Sat there for 5mins before the girl came through the door and held my hand and guided me through the halls into the room. Looked nothing like the girl in the photo. From what I read online, says it was a wash down then nuru massage plus make love, but I got different.
She asked me to remove my clothes which she folded and put into the basket and she took off her own clothes to put into a closet. After that she quickly washed me down with soap and water while I sat on a wooden stool and then told me to sit in the bathtub full of water while she cleaned herself off. Then gave me a towl to dry myself, and then onto the bed for sex, so no nuru massage. A quick capped Blowjob for a few mins then different positions for sex, and some light kissing. Not much skill, or she didn't want to bother. After 15mins or so I finished and asked me if I wanted a drink, I said ok and she ordered 2 ice teas via telephone to be delivered to the room. I was lying on the bed while she opened the door, and at that brief moment I thought I saw her throwing something out the door while she brought in the ice tea. I took a few sips and we just layed on the bed until the time was up. After we finished laying down we showered, separately ofc. Then I got dressed and noticed my wallet was missing from my trousers. I asked her where my wallet was and she said something I didn't understand so I translated it in Google. Then she recorded a voice translation telling me the time was up and the staff at the desk will help you find it. I kept asking her repeatedly where my wallet was and she made an X with her arms and pointed to the door. I asked her if I can check the closet and she kept saying time is up and asked me to go to the desk for help. So I left the room which was a big mistake. Went to the desk and asked them, and they checked the waiting room and then walked back to the room where me and the girl was and checked there. The girl was long gone and so was my wallet wherever the hell she or they took it. They said nothing is there so I sat in the waiting room again and translated a fuck ton of msgs asking what to do next as my wallet had all my bank cards, pasmo travel card which I had topped up about $50usd that day and my hotel card (which is liable for a 2000 yen fee if lost). They kept telling me to wait and wait and wait while they ushered in new Customers to the wait area. I waited for almost 45mins before I contacted my Japanese frd and he immediately called the police (koban), there was one right around the corner from where I was. While I was sitting there I realized that the closet inside the room me and the girl was in was facing the wall and the opposite side had a bunch of lockers, at that brief moment I think my wallet was either put in the closet for someone to take from the opposite side, or she threw it out the door or she really did steal it and placed it inside the closet with her clothes. One police officer came and spoke to the staff. Then we went out to the street and the police brought me to the station for 2hrs to fill out a form (see attached). Got on the phone with a English speaking police officer and he ended up coming down from another koban booth. In the end nothing could be done as there's no hard evidence someone stole my wallet he said. We talked for over an hr and he said that these establishments get permission from police to operate and that a lot of soaplands are bad places but the one I went to was a good one with no trouble on record - one cop that worked at the koban has been there for a long time and said no trouble happened there before like this. No thefts no nothing. He said if I saw the girl take it they could arrest her but they said I could have dropped it in the waiting room or the room I was in and another person picked it up. He even asked me if I wanted to see the girl again and maybe they can bring her into the station for more questions when she is free but she was working at that moment. Police told me to contact the UK Embassy tmrw as we tried that day after 4pm and it was closed. I just ended up going back to the station and then travel back to my hotel with whatever loose change I got in my backpack.
If you come to Japan and decide to go to a Soapland, please be careful and not bring a wad of cash in your wallet with all credit cards and other stuff. Just bring what is needed for the service and keep your other cards at the hotel.
Take it for whatever it is, I lost over 100,000 yen in cash from my wallet and the credit in my pasmo card plus bank cards, hotel key, etc.
I read stories about foreigners being conned in Japan, drugged in bars and robbed but no way that I thought I would get my wallet stolen on the second day.
If you read this and do decide to go ahead with the Soaplands, etc. Just be extra careful, keep an eye out for the girl and also the foreign-hating staff that works there. | |
