Kokoro Massage Bangkok

Kokoro is the shop on Soi 23 that treats the session as theatre. Its website sells Japanese nuru alongside AV cosplay and an SM mistress programme, with standard and VIP themed rooms. The card is short: ฿2,900 for a 60-minute AV session, ฿3,900 for 90 minutes of nuru, and two-therapist versions of both.

It suits someone who wants a theme, a costume or a particular room rather than a plain massage, and who is happy to pay extra for them. Skip it if you want a late finish, since the door shuts at 23:00, or if you're counting every baht: outfits and the VIP room are priced on top. Google reviewers often name their favourite therapists; the complaints, fewer, are about value and attitude.

According to its website, Kokoro offers three kinds of session: Japanese nuru, an SM mistress service and AV cosplay massage. The website lists standard and VIP themed rooms and publishes profiles of its therapists, described as in their 20s and 30s.

Reviewers fill in some of the stagecraft. One mentions a Red Room for the SM programme and says you can set the intensity in advance on a scale of one to five. Two describe costumes, one of whom asked for a football shirt and got it. Another says therapists were shown on an iPad before choosing. One reviewer describes a 90-minute VIP nuru that included a bubble bath. Kokoro calls itself a nuru house with happy ending massage alongside, so the cosplay is an option, not the whole menu.

Its rate card lists:

• AV, 1 customer one therapist 60 min: ฿2,900
• Nuru, 1 customer one therapist 90 min: ฿3,900
• AV, 1 customer two therapists 60 min: ฿5,500
• Nuru, 1 customer two therapists 90 min: ฿7,500
• Extra: outfit option (no duration listed): ฿300
• Extra: VIP room (no duration listed): ฿500
• Extra: outfit option (no duration listed): ฿500

Two outfit options appear at different prices; the card doesn't say which costume costs which, so ask. The VIP room adds ฿500 to whichever session you choose. A second therapist almost doubles the bill: ฿5,500 against ฿2,900 for an hour of AV. There's no 60-minute nuru and no 90-minute AV on the card as published.

Kokoro takes bookings on LINE, WhatsApp, Telegram and WeChat. Payment methods aren't listed. One reviewer mentions a 20% discount offered for leaving a review; that's one report. The shop also appears in the four-hands volume and the VIP rooms volume.

The address is 116/2 Sukhumvit Soi 23, in Khlong Toei Nuea. The website places it near BTS Asok and Terminal 21. By the numbers, MRT Sukhumvit is slightly closer: 570 metres, about nine minutes on foot. BTS Asok is 650 metres, around eleven minutes. MRT Phetchaburi is 17 minutes away.

Soi 23 is the lane of neon and bar stools that leads off Asok, and Kokoro closes at 23:00, an hour before the trains stop. A session that starts at 21:30 still leaves time for the Skytrain home. The Asok district page maps the rest of the soi.

Kokoro suits the visitor who wants a theme, a costume or a second therapist, and is choosing on those terms. It also suits the planner: the website's profiles and the four booking apps make it easy to settle the details before you leave the hotel.

It suits less well anyone who wants the cheapest door on Soi 23 or a session after 23:00. The Asok volume lists the neighbours by rating, and the late-night list covers the shops still open after Kokoro closes.

Kokoro Massage Bangkok holds a 4.3 Google rating from 132 reviews. Most of the recent reviews are five stars, and most of those are about a named therapist.

Yaya, Ava, Nene, Mayu, Bella and Rose each collect more than one warm review, and reviewers describe them as polite, attentive and good company. The costumes and themes come up repeatedly, and a couple of reviewers praise the SM programme specifically. One mentions friendly reception staff; another found the gel only average.

The complaints are a minority but pointed. One reviewer says the session ended early and the shop asked for more money. Another calls it expensive and says it has gone downhill, with therapists who seemed put out. A third names a therapist as unfriendly and careless. One reviewer, otherwise happy, felt the ฿3,000 session wasn't cheap for a therapist who seemed unmotivated. Agree the session, the extras and the total before you go in.