An 18-year-old Girl Reveals the Shocking Situation in Umeda, Osaka, Where You Can Earn 2 Million Yen a Month and Some Girls Look like Idols

A corner of Umeda, the center of Osaka, has become a lawless zone.

Within walking distance of Umeda Station is Togano-cho, a row of love hotels. On weekends, there are less than 20 women lined up in one of the narrow alleys known as American Street.

The women ranged in age from their teens to their 40s, and they were waiting to be approached by men, absentmindedly touching their cell phones. Some of the women looked like they could have been in an idol group, and they were being approached incessantly by many men. After a while, they seemed to have reached a negotiation and disappeared shoulder to shoulder into a nearby hotel.

While similar job in Shinjuku’s Okubo Park has become a social problem, a similar scene is spreading here in the center of Osaka. Many women and men gathered in this alley for the purpose of prostitution. Nao (a pseudonym), a woman in her early twenties, explains that she stands here two or three times a week.

There are about three times as many men as women standing there. Some days I stand for four hours, some days for one hour, but I still get three or four customers. They don’t stay all the time, but sometimes they leave when they get hungry and come back again. It’s that kind of ‘casualness’ that makes it easier to do this kind of job.

The women do not approach the customers on their own. However, when a reporter approached another woman, she said, “The market price is 15000 yen.”

The going rate is 15,000 yen plus hotel charges. The rest depends on the girl, but 20,000 without a condom, plus 10,000 yen for “Nakadashi”.

She explained in a clerical manner.

According to the girls and the men who flocked to them, the number of standing girls began to explode around the fall of 2022.