24 Kaikan, Shinjuku ni-chome, Saturday

[joizy]

I had a date set up with the big dicked Malay guy I met last Friday at the sauna, but he called in sick. I was kind of relieved, because he said he wanted to stay overnight (I told him I couldn’t sleep with people in my bed, which is true). I am not sure if he was really sick or if something came up. He said he wants to see me next Saturday.

Since I only have two more weeks left in Japan, I decided to return to 24 Kaikan in ni-chome to do more “research”. I wanted to see how it compared to Friday, since I was there yesterday and had a good time.

I arrived about 2:30.

Again, I looked for a machine to check in and there was none. The grumpy older clerk was not there. The mildly grumpy younger guy was. I realized the pricing system is different during the week, which kind of caught me off guard. (I had been all prepared to do everything right and speak perfect Japanese, but this threw me off.)

On weekdays, you have three options: private room, towels + robe, or just towels. Only towels is called “shoto” (short) and there’s a 6 hour limit. Since I never wear the robe, that’s what I got the past two Fridays I was there, but I hadn’t realized that it wasn’t an option when I went on weekends. Today I looked for it and noticed it wasn’t an option.

I went to my locker, and of course there was someone standing right next to mine in the otherwise empty locker room. I got changed and went up to the washing area. There were a few guys soaking and one guy washing up. No one really caught my interest, and no one seemed interested in me.

It took a while (maybe 15 minutes) until this very sexy dark-skinned guy came towards the back where I was standing. He got in the cold plunge. When he got out and walked towards the steam room where I was standing outside, he smiled at me. I couldn’t place where he was from, but I’m thinking maybe Polynesia, Māori, or somewhere in that area. He had dark skin and was hairy, had a beard and beautiful curly hair, a big thick muscular body and a beautiful smile. I said, “I can’t believe you got in that.” He told me it was good for him. He was hungover. Then he invited me to join him in the steam room.

I really enjoyed playing with him. He had a beautiful body and loved having his nipples sucked. He was ice cold from the cold plunge and his cold skin felt so refreshing in the hot steam room. We kissed, I sucked him, he sucked me, and gradually a small orgy formed around us. Finally it got too hot for me and I told him I needed a break. I went and took a cold shower and rested a bit. I did hook up with him again in the steam room later and we pretty much repeated the same thing.

For the most part, it was other non-Asian foreigners who were engaging with me. Most of the Asian guys were not interested. One Japanese guy joined me and my dark-skinned friend for a bit, we spoke later and he told me he had lived in the states and was now living in Finland.

There was also a beautiful young blond boy who looked like a first-timer. He walked back towards the sauna and seemed hesitant to go in. I figured he was out of my league, so I didn’t bother to follow him in, but I saw another white guy who was in worse shape than me go in after him so I figured if he was going to go for it, at least I could go take a look. The cute young guy was sitting in the area in the front of the sauna and was already being accosted by two people. The other white guy and an Asian guy with a nice dick. I decided to join in. I got down on my knees to watch the white guy sucking his cock and he was nice enough to share (I love it when people are generous that way). The boy was sucking the Asian guy’s cock and the other guy started sucking his nipples while I sucked his cock. His dick was the perfect size and it was really hot, but the steam came on and we all had to take a break. That boy was followed around by a crowd every time I saw him and usually had two or three guys pawing at him whenever he decided to engage.

I went up to the fourth floor, which is really my least favorite area because it’s either people having sex already, people sleeping, or guys feeling up people who are sleeping or already having sex. I have gotten lucky there a few times, but my luckiest spot seems to be the steam room. Nothing happened on the fourth floor, so I went back down to the steam room. The cute young guy was surrounded by 4 or 5 guys and I joined in.

Eventually I decided it was time for me to cum and I left a little after 5.

It was a hot time and I am sure I had more fun there than I would if I went to the bathhouse near where I live in California, but, for the sake of my research, I am going to go there one day just to check it out and see if have any luck, or end up being invisible.

When I went to check out, there was no one at the desk, so I said “sumimasen”. After a minute or two a new guy I had never seen before appeared. He said something which I think translated as “sorry to keep you waiting”. He gave me a hearty “domo arigato gozaimasu” when he handed me the key. It was the kind of customer service I have become accustomed to in Japan and why the other interactions I’ve had at the desk seem so odd and out of place.

So in terms of my assessment of the grumpy guy at check-in and others saying they haven’t had that experience, maybe it depends on who you get. It kind of felt like the three bears. There was the most grumpy, who is an older guy who seems to be there in the early afternoon, medium grumpy, a younger guy who is there in the later afternoon, and not grumpy at all, but very Japanese in terms of formulaic customer service language, who was there when I checked out after 5.

As far as the action at 24 Kaikan, there really seems to be something for everyone there. I prefer going early in the day because I feel like my ability to have fun decreases as it gets more crowded. But if you are hot, by all means, go later and like that cute young first-timer, you’ll have a crowd following you around and fighting over you.

I’m going to miss it and I’m going to miss Japan.

[PeterRS]

Just for a change, you might want to try the 24 Kaikan in Ueno which is probably the second gayest location in Tokyo after Shinjuku ni-chome. A slightly larger facility but on 11 floors that is about a 12 minute walk from Ueno station. It tends to have a slightly older crowd on average

This is a German site and while the text is in English the map is of Berlin!! But it's easy to scroll it over to Tokyo''s Ueno district.

https://travelm.de/en-US/place/chij5yvbzjqoggarjwttjv3pyro-en-24-kaikan-hotel-and-sauna-ueno 

Just come out of the east side of Ueno station, turn left and eventually you will see the sign on the other side of the road.

[joizy]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

Just for a change, you might want to try the 24 Kaikan in Ueno which is probably the second gayest location in Tokyo after Shinjuku ni-chome. A slightly larger facility but on 11 floors that is about a 12 minute walk from Ueno station. It tends to have a slightly older crowd on average

This is a German site and while the text is in English the map is of Berlin!! But it's easy to scroll it over to Tokyo''s Ueno district.

https://travelm.de/en-US/place/chij5yvbzjqoggarjwttjv3pyro-en-24-kaikan-hotel-and-sauna-ueno 

Just come out of the east side of Ueno station, turn left and eventually you will see the sign on the other side of the road.

I did go to the one in Ueno and didn’t have much luck. My Friday visits were to compare Shinjuku with Ueno. I was thinking maybe Friday afternoon wasn’t the best time to go. But when I went to ni-chome on Friday afternoons, I had the best time. Even better than Saturdays. Also, I’m in nishi-Shinjuku, so I don’t see any point going all the way across town when I’m having so much fun right in my own backyard.

[PeterRS]

Perhaps unfortunately Ueno is less cosmopolitan than Shinjuku, there are few schools nearby and so most of the patrons work for a living. Late afternoons onwards are the times to go.