Telekura

thumb|right|150px| A telekura establishment in Ikebukuro, September 2015 '''''', an abbreviation for , are telephone-based dating services originating in Japan.

In the original incarnation of the telephone club, popular in the mid-1990s, a male client would pay a fee to enter a booth with a phone. The phone would then ring with calls from women or girls willing to go on a date – the implicit understanding being that this would lead to paid sex. These clubs have been outlawed as fronts for prostitution in some jurisdictions in Japan.