Maid Cafes
icis_machine posted an awesome blog entry on maid cafes, and asked me to fill in blanks. i was in japan for the osaka part of the trip too, so we hit a maid cafe first before we went to @home.
i dont remember which one it was, but it was in a grimy little area surrounded by odd little electronics stores and anime shops. i think they said the area was home to 50 maid cafes. the one we went into was crammed and cute, kinda styled like a breakfast nook with little kid style drawings on the walls and photos of the maids. each maid fit a different anime archetype.. the smart girl, the cat girl, the den mother. i think we got the ditzy girl, i forget. it wasn't the cat girl.
we ordered drinks and they came in teeny tiny little glasses. the maid stirred them with a spoon. i was shooting pics but the second i had the flash on she freaked out. i guess normally they charge for photos, and she woulda gotten in trouble if anyone noticed.
some of the special services that you could get were like footrubs and massages. i dont really remember much about that cafe aside from that.
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