Hello again. It’s review time again, and now we go to distant Okinawa to bring you the latest information on the best maid cafes all over Japan. Today’s review is for LOVE♥PLUS (love heart plus), located in Naha, Okinawa.

I went to Naha on vacation, and a little bit out of topic, I really recommend the place. It is Japan, only with people 1000 times warmer. It’s not that Tokyo dwellers are cold, they’re just… shy. Not at all in Okinawa, everybody is warm, smiling and willing to look at life from a good side.

Now, Naha is the capital of Okinawa, if you go Okinawa, you will most likely land in there. There is a quite recently finished monorail (the Yui-rail), which takes you from the airport to downtown Naha. Most likely, you will want to get off at Kencho-mae station, which lies near the far west of Kokusai-dori, Naha’s most lively street, where most commercial establishments, including this wonderful maid cafe lies.

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Located in the far end of Akiba, near Suehirocho station, Cure Maid Café is a nice formal style cafe, not unlike M’s Melody in Nagoya.

The first thing you will notice about this place is the unusual way to get into the cafe. For maid cafes, you normally enter a building, and the first thing you see is an elevator that will take you to the desired floor. However, the big difference with this place is that you need to enter a gachapon (those machines in which you put money to get a capsule with a random toy inside) store called “Gee Store”, walk to the far end of the store and then you will see the elevator. This small detail may be a little bit confusing, but once inside, it’s a maid cafe.

This cafe is located on the sixth floor of the building, and the elevator is rigged so a chime rings as the elevator door opens. Once inside, a girl will take you inside and show you to your table.

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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 »

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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