A writer who spent a year closely interviewing a Kabukicho “koinky girl” who was “making 5 million yen at a soap shop” saw a “deep darkness.

2023-08-29

The area around Tokyo Metropolitan Health Plaza Hygeia and Shinjuku Okubo Park, including Okubo Hospital, is the “koso” area (photo from “Reporto: Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution”).

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Okubo Park side. Some men are standing a little distance away from the women. (Photo from “Report: Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution”)

Kotone often teamed up with a friend to offer “threesomes” to customers. On this occasion, because the price was “delicate,” Kotone reportedly ran away with the customer (from “Reporto: Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution”).

Kotone sometimes had a lot of money, including several nights in a row at a city hotel. But the money was not earned solely from prostitution (from “Report: Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution”).

Like the other “koin girls,” Kotone also spent a lot of money at the hostels when she had a lot of money (from “Report: Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution”).

Mizuho Takagi stands in the love hotel district next to Hygeia.

Reporto Shinjuku Kabukicho Street Prostitution

Profile of Mizuho Takagi： Mizuho Takagi
Nonfiction writer, born in 1976. After working as editor-in-chief of a monthly magazine and as a reporter for a weekly magazine, she became a freelance writer. https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%A8%E7%91%9E%E7%A9%82/e/B07PMS7GYL/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
PHOTO： Hiroyuki Komatsu (Mr. Takagi)

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