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I wrote this ; Akihabara is well known as an electric town but now it is called the Otaku's holy ground. Of course there are a lot of electronics stores, but now you will see Anime, Manga, figure shops, and many maid cafes (this is Japanese maid cafe portal site). Yes please check this post about moe moe and maid cafe.. Here and here are another good English post about maid cafes.

Usually maids work as waitresses in a cafe. In Some cafes, customers call maids "my lady" or maids call customers "my lord". When they serve Omelet & Rice, (check this post too.) they draw a heart mark or some lovely words with ketchup on top. (orz...what a stupid service!)
But recently Fukuoka Center police issued instructions to two maid cafes because they might be against the Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses. Two maid cafes made "a VIP course", VIP customer can sit at counter seat and watch maids at a little distance from maid. (orz...what a silly service)

If you have been to Japan on business, you might have a business entertainment, and you might go to hostess bar in Ginza or somewhere. To have such hostess service, the shop should have a license. So even though customers don't drink alcohol, maids don't talk to customers, those special service might be against the law as "entertainment in person". That is a thought of Fukuoka Center Police. Uh...stupid news.

By they way, I am not sure foreign people like such hostess bars, and I can't understand what is good actually. But I heard real professional hostess in Ginza (most expensive area) have ability / knowledge to entertain, make customer relax, be comfortable. Since the price is not cheap (actually it is very expensive), if they can't provide good service, they will lose customers so easily. A hostess in Ginza area wrote a book "How to judge a real guy" and it made big sales. She talks to the top people of companies every night, and automatically brushes up her eyes to see guys. :-) A real hostess might have an ability more than drawing a heart on an omelette with ketchup! I found the interview part1 with the hostess. (Here's part2) It might be interesting.

To be honest with you, my friends and maybe younger people don't drink at hostess bars. Even though they have enough money for bars in Ginza, they would choose Izakaya or nice restaurant. I suppose hostess bar business might be getting hard in Japan.

Comments

[Guy]

For whatever it's worth FANIME (a San Francisco Bay Area anime convention) had a maid cafe at its convention. It was called "Fanimaid." Last year two ladies dressed as maids were selling food at the convention. They were told by someone (an official?) they could not sell food. That was too bad. No one had told them that before. They were hoping to raise money for their school club. But this year the convention allowed for a "maid cafe." I think these two ladies this year were on staff at the "maid cafe."

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[Yasmin]

They have manga cafe's in Sydney? Where? This sounds pretty suss to me, the wa you describe te service, but yeah, girls are getting way more into maid cafe's coz they're cute. Hello Kitty did a special on the maid cafe hello kitty to promote maid cafe's in Japan and to try and dissapate their bad reputation.

[joururihime]

I've been to Japan in September, and of course, also visited a maid cafe which had been newly opened in Shinjuku, heehee. At the very first I wanted to visit those in Akibahara, eg. Cure Maid Cafe. However there were too many customers. A long queue was outside the cafe door and I hated waiting after walking for a whole day... X( surprise to see that there were female customers in the queue too! And for the maid cafe in Shinjuku, it was nicely decorated and got some manga bookshelves. Most of the customers were male though ;p As a girl, I had my lunch comfortably there. So there are still some "safe" maid cafes for girls ;D

[Mari]

Hi there
Of course, you can make maid cafe in your countries, everywhere, anywhere. I want to see it actually. You know Japanese girls looks so tiny and cute type face. But foreign women looks so adults and beautiful type face. I can't imagine how they looks like with such girlish costume.

[taro]

Hi Mari!
The 3Yen.com site is run by Yves and myself.
We tend to cover the quirky news like Maid Cafes. It's kind of fun and I've even had gaijin girls writing to the 3Yen asking for help getting a job in a Maid Cafe here in Tokyo, hee, hee.

[Joe]

wo.. maid cafe do exist?.. hehe.. I think I saw something like that in densha otoko drama.. gotta hand it to the person who started it.. seems like a profitable business.. ^o^

[Trejkaz]

I will have the following battle when I'm on holidays next year: My task is to go to a maid cafe. My wife's task is to try and stop me.

Do maid cafes exist outside of Japan? I always wanted to start one in Sydney. I've seen manga cafes in Sydney, so why _not_ maid cafes?

[Mari]

Hi Taro
You are writing for 3yen.com? I like that site.

Hi Sausage
I don't think girls like to go. It's guys world.

[Sausage]

Is it common for girls to visit maid cafes in Japan? I thought only guys would be interested.

[taro]

You wrote: "I found the interview part1 with hostess.(part2) It might be interesting."

Ha, ha, you're quoting all my friends websites about "Maids" when in reality we are reading you website for insight into Japanese side of life.

Keep up the good work.

Taro, the lame