Royal Milk Maid Cafe in Akihabara

Posted on 15. Jan, 2012 @ 10:49 am by in Osaka, Tokyo Views: 1,836

I have a friend who is about to head to Japan for the first time, and he wants the Maid Cafe experience. I have been to maid cafe’s before, but not anytime in the past 5+ years or so… so I’m way out of the loop.

This youtube introduction of Royal Milk is pretty good, and the host actually speaks Japanese which is a plus.

Have any of you been to maid cafes? Any recommendations?

Also while we’re on the subject, if you are going to go to Akihabara as a tourist I strongly recommend also visiting NAKANO BROADWAY Shopping Arcade. It’s like Akihabara but with more focus on the anime/maid/figure side of otaku culture rather than the electronics. I haven’t been there forever… and I can’t believe I didn’t blog about it when I did go… but it was great, and my tweeps assure me that it does indeed still exist. Danny Choo has a great piece on Nakano Broadway here you can check out.

Back to the subject of maid cafes, I went to e-maid cafe in Osaka back in 2006 with a quite otaku Japanese buddy and had a fun time. You can read that old school JapanNewbie e-maid cafe blog post here, and you can check out e-maid cafe official site here.

e-maid cafe in Osaka circa 2006

Let me know if you have any maid cafe recommendations!

  • Ryu Oni

    I’ve always been in the Kansai area and only spent about a total of 3 or maybe 4 hours in Akihabara. I really wanna go to a maid café, just to say I have! But my wife would probably disapprove…

    • http://twitter.com/JapanNewbie Harvey

      Why not check out this e-maid cafe in Osaka? Don’t tell your wife you went!

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