{"id":9930,"date":"2012-08-17T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2012-08-15T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:44:09","slug":"fancy-brothel-in-tokyos-yoshiwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/fancy-brothel-in-tokyos-yoshiwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy brothel in Tokyo&#8217;s Yoshiwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/05103046-yoshiwara-brothel-fancy-building-japan-soapland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/05103046-yoshiwara-brothel-fancy-building-japan-soapland-467x800.jpg\" alt=\"prostitution in tokyo japan pink house soap land\" title=\"yoshiwara brothel fancy building japan soapland\" width=\"467\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/05103046-yoshiwara-brothel-fancy-building-japan-soapland-467x800.jpg 467w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/05103046-yoshiwara-brothel-fancy-building-japan-soapland-146x250.jpg 146w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/05103046-yoshiwara-brothel-fancy-building-japan-soapland.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/yoshiwara-soaplands-in-tokyo\/>Taito-Ku in Tokyo there remains a pleasure quarter<\/a> where sex for money isn&#8217;t legal, but paying someone to give you a bath for a certain amount of time is. If sex happens during your soaping activities then it is considered consensual and legal.  Soaplands (as they are called) aren&#8217;t the only such businesses in the area, but it is hard to miss them should you stroll through this part of town (dubbed &#8220;Yoshiwara&#8221; after the old red light district in Tokyo which no longer exists). When the buildings feature the type of exterior shown in today&#8217;s photo they are really, really  hard to miss even if you have no idea what is going on inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Taito-Ku in Tokyo there remains a pleasure quarter where sex for money isn&#8217;t legal, but paying someone to give you a bath for a certain amount of time is. If sex happens during your soaping activities then it is considered consensual and legal. Soaplands (as they are called) aren&#8217;t the only such businesses in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[175,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9932,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}