Escort Diaries: Why I Stopped Working With Tokyo Escort Agencies

Eastern European Agency - 4some in Shinjuku

When I first started working as an escort in Tokyo back in 2014, I experimented with several different agencies. Each one had its own rules, culture and way of doing business.

Some experiences were chaotic, some were funny, and a few turned out surprisingly memorable.

"Can you take a booking tonight?"

"Yeah, when and where is it?"

"Around midnight at a private home near Shinjuku.."

Now, even though I always like to play it safe, I still love adventure and this was one of those 'get an amazing experience because you were brave enough to step out of your comfort zone' kinda situation. It was late 2014 and my escorting career had just started.

I had contacted several escort agencies in Tokyo. One of them, apparently run by a Russian woman and her assistant from Kazakhstan, actually got back to me and offered a booking.

So up to Shinjuku I went and tried to find the house I was supposed to go to. It was a quiet residential area, 15 minutes from the station - luckily I had just gotten a smartphone cause without Google Maps I would have probably never been able to find it - but I got there just in time.

Another girl was supposed to join me there, but she ended up being almost an hour late, Natalia from Ukraine, a sexy blonde..

Since I didn't know which house it exactly was, I called the agency again so they would tell the client to come out and let me in.

Now here I am, in the middle of nowhere, this is my first booking in Japan - I was just hoping whoever opened the door wouldn't be too creepy, and I was glad that there would be another girl coming as well.

The door opens and there is this young and handsome guy, smiling and inviting me in to join me and his cousin in the living room.

I was so relieved at this point. The guys were real gentlemen and knew how to treat a lady, offered me drinks and we started chatting..

When Natalia finally showed up, we had already gotten cosy, I had already taken off my dress and was sitting at the house bar with the guys in my yoga pants and a push-up bra..

She was quite energetic and quickly started to negotiate with one of them about our donations.

"How much do you want?" He asked her, holding a big bunch of money in his hand, counting.

She was really good at it.. and she made sure we both got what we expected + taxi money and agency fee. I literally watched and learned.

After a while Natalia and her guy went to the bedroom upstairs while I stayed with my guy at the bar in the living room.

His eyes were conquering me relentlessly and his strong hands gently grabbed my hips, pulling me closer to him. We had already kissed a bit before.. but now the soft and passionate touch of his lips made me want him even more.

When he undressed me and looked at my body he started speaking in Portuguese.. from what I understood, it was words of admiration.

Most of the action we had was surprisingly on one of the bar stools - and I'm wondering until today how I managed not to fall over, kneeling on that thing while he strongly took me from behind. When I looked back and our eyes met, I could feel his energy, like magic..

Japanese Agency - "You're Hungarian now!"

I soon found out that there are basically 2 ways of working as an escort in Japan. Either you belong to an agency or you have your own website. Pretty much all agencies had fake pictures, copied from other websites showing anonymous models with blurred out faces. And if someone booked that particular fictitious woman, any random escort who looked somewhat similar and was available at the time got sent on the call.

The lady who ran one of those agencies already since the 90s and mostly worked with foreigners, was a Japanese middle aged woman named Mariko.

Before agreeing to work with me, she wanted to meet me in person and get a copy of my passport. She said that some of the girls had taken off with her commission before and she didn't want to take the risk anymore. We met at the lounge area of one of these big business buildings in Tokyo. Then she asked me a couple of questions, if I had experience, where my nearest station was, etc. and explained to me how the business worked on her side.

Basically most of her clients wanted it as quick as possible. So me living in the suburbs was not really good for business, since advanced bookings were very rare. So she told me that whenever I was downtown, preferably in the Roppongi area, I should call her and she could arrange a client for me. Afterwards I should send her the commission by bank transfer, 30% of what they paid.

In the meantime I had also put up my own website and placed a couple of ads that linked to it. A lot of the messages I received were obviously not serious - asking for more pictures, my bra size, my favorite sexual position, and on top of that a discount!

But even though it was a simple website with fairly regular photos at the time, I did start to attract serious clients through it.

For Mariko I actually ended up doing 3 bookings altogether. One of them was rather funny cause it was an expat that had booked this girl from her website - that was Hungarian - so I actually had to pretend to be Hungarian the entire time. When he asked me how to say "Cheers" - LUCKILY I knew it was "„Egészségedre" - cause my Hungarian friends from the International School in Denmark had taught me that phrase.

But pretending to be random girls from different countries started to feel absurd. After a few bookings like that, I decided it wasn't really for me - and stopped working with Mariko.

VIP Luxury Agency - "Get out of there, NOW!"

It's the middle of the night and suddenly I get a call from this woman with a Chinese accent: "How far are you from Roppongi? Can you take taxi and go there now?!"

"Wait a minute, I live like 45min from Roppongi, if I go there by taxi, it would be really expensive.."

"No problem! We have a very easy going client.. he pay for the taxi. I ask.."

"But wait! Actually I am sick right now!"

"You sick? No problem. Yesterday he book a girl who was on her period, and he don't mind!"

"Look, I really don't think I can do this right now.. I'm like coughing and sneezing over here and I wouldn't want to pass it on to anybody.."

"Ok. Wait! I will ask him and call you back, ok?"

"...o.....k....?"

Man! That girl sure was optimistic.. or just desperate to find somebody who could work tonight... - maybe all the perfect 10 Victoria's Secret models from her agency's VIP website were all busy.

5 minutes later she called back and told me the client had agreed to meet me at 10am the next morning for 90 minutes. I was so relieved! That not only gave me time to properly wash my hair, shave my legs and put on make-up, but also to recover a bit from my cold - and I actually felt much better that morning.

She had deliberately told me to wear high heels, so I put on these super high black leather boots, that I had just bought. I could somewhat walk in them.. but soon found, that they immensely slowed me down.

Finally I got to the Hyatt in Roppongi - the Hotel where most escorts usually work - and met with Jennifer, another Chinese girl from this VIP agency in the lobby who was there to collect the money from the client. She looked like a million dollars: Asian, long styled hair, red nails, heels, and an even redder coat, a not ignorable note of perfume around her and a cold and confident smile. We had less than 5 minutes to talk before the booking started.

First she gave me my cut for those 90 minutes and then she took me up to the room.

"Why you no wear make-up?" she asked in confusion while we were in the elevator.

"Oh, I do actually wear make-up. You see, around my eyes..?"

She shook her head in disbelief.

She obviously expected me to wear 10 layers of creams, powders and god knows what on my face, just like they all do in Japan.

"Alright. Mhm, we'll see if he complains." she added.

I just thought to myself that she obviously had no idea what men REALLY wanted.. and while make-up and fake nails were beautiful, other things were far more important. Like making them feel good, being positive, spontaneous, sweet, kind and actually enjoying what you do and passing on that good vibe.

"Yeah, let's hope he doesn't mind." I smiled innocently.

When we got to the door, here was this guy welcoming me with a most friendly and curious smile, like a kid in a candy store. He was American, around 60. with long grey hair and a woolen sweater - very down to earth and modest.

Before we started to get to know each other, he disappeared in the bathroom with Jennifer, the Asian beauty and gave her the money. I have no idea how much, but the rates of that agency were the highest I've seen so far.

After Jennifer had left, we finally had time to talk and get cosy. His room was a really spacious suite, with empty bottles and glasses scattered everywhere.

"Wild party last night, huh?" I asked curiously.

"Oh yeah, I had around 5 girls over.." He smiled.

I still don't know if he was actually serious about that number, but it became the running gag for the next 90 minutes.

And we did have a great time! He repeatedly asked me what kind of music I liked, and put on some funky tunes from his iPod.. we started dancing, with the champagne glasses in our hands, me on the table with my high heels on, feeling sexy - him right beside me with a big smile on his face, feeling adventurous.

I gotta say that this ended up being one of the most memorable and unconventional bookings I've ever been on - and I enjoyed every minute of it.

After 90 minutes my phone rang. It was Chloe, the girl with the Chinese accent I had talked to the night before.

"Your time is up. You have to get out NOW!"

"Alright. We're almost done. I'll be out in a minute."

She got really strict with me about leaving as soon as possible, I had to be reliable, loyal, etc.. Someone obviously liked rules and control.

"Ah, forget that agency," the client laughed after I hung up.

"Yeah right. Then they will never let me work with them again."

"You don't need them." - He was right.

That was the first and last time I worked with that particular agency. Even though they provided me the most high profile client - I certainly didn't like being ordered around like that. I love being my own boss, looking like the girl next door and coming and going as I please.

Until we meet

Vanessa 🌸