Maid Station Cafe was the first maid cafe I ever went to, when I first came to Japan in 2007. It was a short visit, so I could only go to Akiba once, and after gathering all my courage, and also messing around with some friends, we decided to go to a maid cafe.

It was our first time in Akiba, so we had no idea how to look for maid cafes, much less what to expect. Was it going to be too ecchi for what we could handle? (Unlikely ^^) What we were sure is that it was going to be a new experience.

After the sun set, we started moving to the secondary streets and alleys in Akiba, if maid cafes actually existed, they would most likely not be right by the huge stores in Chuo street. However, after looking for a while, nothing seemed like it would be what we were looking for. It was getting a little late, so some talks about going back started to emerge. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, hello. It’s been a long time since I’ve written in here. Too much study and too little money leave little time for maid cafes, as they say ^^

First of all, happy new year. I hope you all get your maid dreams fulfilled in this new year.

I have two new posts almost ready to be posted, but before, I want to mention that I will be expanding the scope of this blog. This was originally meant to be a maid cafe exclusive blog, but one can only go to so few of these places, that I think it would be best to talk about many other things that may be of interest to my billions of readers!

So from now on, I’ll be talking about whatever I wish in here. This obviously includes maid cafes. Sorry to the hordes of maid cafe purists that visit this blog regularilly.

On a quick unrelated note, today was day 2 of the Comic Market. Day 1 was quite awesome, featuring some of my favorite circles; and day 2 was very cool as well, even though it was probably 100 times as crowded as day 1.

Day 3 is tomorrow and has most of my favorite circles. Also, I’m almost out of money. Let’s hope I can make it to the 20th!

Also, today (2nd day), the doujin circle to which I belong was selling  a book which included a few of my illustrations! I’m so happy to have my own creations at the comiket for the first time!

Just wanted to share that with you.

Now, back to the maids ^^;

Located in Nagoya’s otaku district, Oosu, M’s Melody is a wonderful maid cafe with a very formal and sober setting, which has become the best maid cafe I’ve been to so far.

I had went to Osaka for a few days, so I decided to stop by Nagoya on my way back. Since I hadn’t originally planned for this stopover, I had no idea where to go on a single day in Nagoya. Not willing to go back home after only going to Nagoya castle, I decided to search online for some information on my cell phone. I quickly found this amazing guide, which I strongly recommend if you happen to find yourself in Nagoya.

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When I go to Akihabara, I usually do so in the afternoon. However, this time lunchtime came while I was still there. This meant I would have lunch in a Maid Cafe.

Actually, this is the first time I do so, and I was not so comfortable with the idea, as food in maid cafes usually tends to be quite expensive (around 1000 yen, compared to 500 yen in the school cafeteria).

Nevertheless, for the sake of the blog (^_^;) I decided to spend a few more yen so I could give a review of another Maid Cafe. I had the Akiba Days guide with me, so I just decided to go to a random place I hadn’t been before.

The Maid Cafe I found myself in is called JAM Akihabara. Located in the B1 floor on one of the alleys, I have to say I had a little bit of a hard time locating it. The sign is quite small, and the place itself does little to stand out. This was clearly a place with a clientele different from those other large cafes, so it would definitely be interesting.

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I’ve created a new page, which you can find at the right of this site, in which you can see which maid and cosplays cafes I’ve been to.

The point of this list is to show which cafes are likely to get reviewed in the near future, and which ones I would like to go to.

Please check it out!

Even though most maid cafes are located in Akihabara, Maid House Dear Cafe is one of those that is not. Located near Yokohama station, you can find it according to their website’s instructions:

Starting by the gates at the west exit of Yokohama station, exit the station, and take town street number 5 (editor’s note: just as you exit, take a left, and go straight through the mall in front of you. When you exit the mall, you’re in town street number 5). Go straight and cross the Vivre 21 bridge, pass through the Tokyu Hands store until you reach the Okano-cho intersection, cross it and go through the street between the Yokohama ramen store and the Three-F (スリーエフ) convenience store. Within 50 meters (editor’s note: on your left hand) you’ll find Dear Cafe ♪.

A maid cafe in Yokohama is quite interesting for me, as going there is easier, faster and cheaper than going to Akihabara. I went with a friend, and we found that they were doing an event that precise day. The cafe was full and we could not go in, but we were offered with the choice of giving them a name and a cell phone number so they would call us when a table was open (this is a normal feature in Japanese restaurants and cafes). We received our call around 20 minutes later and we went back into the cafe.

The actual cafe is medium-size, and can seat around 25 people in several tables for two, which can be easily converted in tables for four or six, and also a counter at the end. Predominant colors were white and brown. The place was quite organized, but still felt very comfortable.

They have a very large menu, full of non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks, some food items, desserts, ice cream and many others. By far, this has been the maid cafe with the largest menu I’ve seen. Also, there are some special items (such as “Kimagure Curry” and “Kimagure Ice Cream”) which seem to change on a regular basis, because their actual descriptions in the menu are “Ask our staff about these”. Read the rest of this entry »

Maid Cafe/Animation Studio Popopure is a relatively large, and quite popular maid cafe in Akihabara, just by the AsoBitCity shop (not the one on the main street, but the one after crossing the street).

I first learned about this place because several maids stand just outside the shop handing flyers. You can either go inside by yourself, or you can simply approach one of them and ask them to show you where the shop is. I had crossed that place several times when going to AsoBitCity, until one day I decided to actually go in with some friends.

This cafe is unique in the sense that it is not only a maid cafe, but also, as it is implied by its name, it is also an animation studio. This means that for the small price of 1500 yen, you get the unique experience of dubbing a 60 second animated feature, with your voice and those of some of the maids, and get the resulting video on a DVD.

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