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Maid Cafes Add Cool to Akihabara
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Frilly black dresses with curvy tails. White aprons with matching headpieces. Wooden buckets. Hot pavement. Lots of free-flowing water.
An unlikely combination for sure, but that was the recipe that blended culture past and present in a promotional event at Tokyo’s electronic paradise of Akihabara last Sunday.
To the uproarious approval of a gathering of five hundred mostly young male otaku, or extreme fanatic, female employees of Akihabara’s now trendy maid cafes (a generic expression given to a variety of shops staffed by pretty young girls outfitted in alluring costumes) assisted in the performance of uchimizu - the summer ritual of tossing water on to hot pavement in an effort to create a cooling sensation.
Frilly black dresses with curvy tails. White aprons with matching headpieces. Wooden buckets. Hot pavement. Lots of free-flowing water.
An unlikely combination for sure, but that was the recipe that blended culture past and present in a promotional event at Tokyo’s electronic paradise of Akihabara last Sunday.
To the uproarious approval of a gathering of five hundred mostly young male otaku, or extreme fanatic, female employees of Akihabara’s now trendy maid cafes (a generic expression given to a variety of shops staffed by pretty young girls outfitted in alluring costumes) assisted in the performance of uchimizu - the summer ritual of tossing water on to hot pavement in an effort to create a cooling sensation.