Service Charge
サービス料 · saabisuryou
Also known as: saabisuryou
At adult venues this is the fee for the service itself; a soapland's price is split into a bath fee paid at reception and a service fee paid to the woman in the room.
At adult venues the service fee is not a surcharge on the bill, as at a hostess club, but the fee for the service itself. A soapland's price has traditionally been quoted in two parts: the bath fee, which is the venue's income and covers the room, and the service fee, which goes to the woman; at many venues you pay the bath fee at reception and the service fee to the woman in the room.
More venues now quote a single total combining the two, and the guide price on a listing corresponds to that total. Where a price list shows two amounts, the sum is the course price. Follow reception's explanation of what to pay where, and ask on the spot if it is unclear.
Japan has no tipping custom, so there is no need to hand the woman cash on top of the service fee.
When you'll encounter this
You meet it in the two-line bath fee and service fee display on a soapland price list and in reception's explanation of how to pay.
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