Maid café
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Maid cafés are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan and Taiwan. In these cafés, waitresses, dressed in maid costumes, act as servants and treat customers as masters, as if
Interior of a maid café in Osaka, Japan
A maid distributing flyers in Akihabara
Waitresses at a maid café in Toulon, France
Entrance of a maid café in Taipei
Akihabara
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Akihabara is a neighborhood in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, generally considered to be the area surrounding Akihabara Station. This area is part of the Sotokanda and Kanda-Sakumachō districts of
Maid café
…and mistresses), as if they were in a private home, rather than as café patrons. The first permanent maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in March 2001, and they have since become popular across the country. Increased competition drove the cafés to employ more diversified…
Akihabara in 1976
Animate and Comic Toranoana stores
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"Maids" promoting maid cafés near Akihabara Station