Café - At Home (Maid’s café)
Café – At Home is a chain of café’s in Tokyo where beautiful Japanese girls dressed as maid’s serve you. We visited the one in Akihabara. Now when I say the girls are dressed as maid’s, I am not talking about your stereotypical maid’s outfit hired from a costume shop. I am talking about a maid’s outfit in Lolita/Harajuku style. These girls were as dressed up as you could imagine. It was a fun café, and also a bit weird with the maids encouraging guests to participate in various cute activities, like making love hearts with your fingers. The guests sat on one side of a row of benches and the maids who were serving were on the other side. On the maid’s side, the floor was lowered so that the maid’s were always beneath you. Needless to say, if you are an avid feminist, this is not the place for you! We were also warned on entrance that you must not attempt to solicit the girls in any way. Evidently, they have had problems in the past.
Above is a picture of the what the maid’s look like. Our ones were a bit more dressed up, but we were not allowed to take pictures inside the cafe.
