Maid Dry Cleaning
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Sun 2008/06/01 10:44
The lockers range from 3,000 yen per month for a W：270 × D：310 × H：168 sized locker or 13,000 yen for a W：420 × D：475 × H：890 sized locker - may be able to fit a Candy Girl inside. Full price list at NT System.
If you are convinced that this service is for you then walk along Chuo Dori in Akihabara until you see this entrance. Photos and coverage by AkibaMap.
I know there are maid cafes in Shanghai, Canada and Thai but am interested to know if there are maid cafes or other maid related businesses in your region.
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Wed 05/07 21:26 comments (119)
Maid related services in L.A.? Never. The ideas that continue to grow in Japan that surround anime & otaku would never come true. I'm not sure if it's because people are scared or because th ideas would be rejected. L.A. is ful of mixed interests anyway. And my dry cleaners is a plain dry cleaners on the corner of 5th and Spring in Downtown L.A. I can't even stand being inside for too long. The dry cleaners in these pictures make me wanna live there. :p
(ID #201789) Posted on 2008/06/01 10:55
aren't there a maid cafe in LA just stared a month ago??? call Royal/T Cafe in Culver City L.A http://www.royal-t.org
(ID #263901) Posted on 2008/08/12 23:01
Maid services here? Never =(. Although we as part of the manga/anime/figure/2D/etc. etc. community probably have a largely different picture of what a maid is (should be) like. If the girls are cute though, I'd definitely want one to open here, but I guess that'll only happen in the farfetched opposite world.
(ID #201794) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:01
Maid service LOL , First time i see this but maids sure looks so cute ^^
(ID #201801) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:08
Part human, part student, 100% loser
There are a few maid cafes here, I think... Never really been to any of them... LOL, you got me there for a second... Lock you up and a locker and pour wax on your dolphin, that sounds more like torture than anything else...
(ID #201812) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:20
Extremely Poor College Student
next will be maid swiming instructors
(ID #201814) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:24
Director/代表取締役
I Will be the first to go take photos if that happens.
(ID #201988) Posted on 2008/06/01 18:18
Plenum (Registered on 2008/05/29 15:18)
how about maid dolphin instructors?? eh? (ok that might be a bit too far)
(ID #202254) Posted on 2008/06/02 05:19
Would really love that! ^.^ *Grin*
(ID #204066) Posted on 2008/06/04 11:35
Maid services? I wish. This is just going a bit too far, but I still like the idea.
(ID #201817) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:37
Considerable service i must say, as they didnt attempt to ripoff customers with massive extra fees for maids. There one Meido Kissa in Penang, MY, but thats just waitress wearing maid outfit. No 'Irashaimasen goshujin-sama' (╬ ಠ益ಠ) IMO, this kind of stuff is best leave it in Japan, as it wont really work outside Japan.
(ID #201819) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:41
That's kinda far still.. Wish they had one here in KL though.
(ID #201900) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:43
Maid-cosplay dry cleaning here? Oh, Danny, you jester you. You'll be lucky if the woman taking the dry cleaning isn't some mature woman in her 40s. In any case, the concept of maid here is very different from the one in Japan. We have Filipino or Indonesian petit women serving as household cleaners and baby-sitters. And sometimes, the maids here get lousy employers where they get shouted at, locked in the house without food and such. Otaku maids represent a fantasy, which is why I don't see the idea being exported to other countries much. We have a maid cafe here, though, I think.
(ID #201821) Posted on 2008/06/01 11:54
Student, Spiral Warrior
Still no maid cafes nor anything of the like in Taibei (that I've come across), but I don't spend too much time downtown, and moreover I haven't been looking.
(ID #201824) Posted on 2008/06/01 12:02
Student - Network Engineering - CCNA
guh....Australia ;_;
(ID #201827) Posted on 2008/06/01 12:05
It would be damn lucky to even found a maid that cute in a store, working, here in Singapore >_< There's a Maid Cafe here in Singapore, but I've never been there =/
(ID #201831) Posted on 2008/06/01 12:33
I wish, I need a new job...
(ID #201832) Posted on 2008/06/01 12:33
だいがくせい
maid service in miami? well with enough money... but for normal folk, no maids here =/
(ID #201834) Posted on 2008/06/01 12:55
Thats my future job XD
(ID #201842) Posted on 2008/06/01 13:08
Sadly, no maid services around here. It's disappointing really.
(ID #201850) Posted on 2008/06/01 13:20
no maid services around here too. but then again, there are no girls that moe enough
(ID #201859) Posted on 2008/06/01 13:28
you need to use your imagination dude LOL
(ID #201933) Posted on 2008/06/01 15:42
Geek Liaison
Well if someone tried to open a Maid Cafe in the US I'm sure that the radical feminist would throw a fit. And, protests are rarely good for business in the long run. Now if I remember right some of the anime cons have set up temporary maid/cosplay cafes. That's about the most we will see for maid in the US.
(ID #201861) Posted on 2008/06/01 13:28
Anime Otaku/gamer
oooooooooo....kakoii
(ID #205340) Posted on 2008/06/06 01:14
umm hey guys first comment but have you guys heard of ROYAL/T? Its a cos cafe in CA http://www.royal-t.org/
(ID #201868) Posted on 2008/06/01 13:41
Holy crap. Thanks for the info. How could i let this slip under my radar? I had no idea. Now i'm eager to check it out this week. And what better place than Culver City. I like that part of Culver City, it's all artistic. Thanks again. :)
(ID #201896) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:29
Geek Liaison
Holy Crap on a Triscuit. How the heack did this sneek in under the radar. Too bad I live 10 hours away and gas in 4.30 a gallon or I would head down there.
(ID #201901) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:47
Sucks to be you. :p I'll check this out next week after i see the dentist for my root canal. I want to enjoy my first visit without any random oral pain. :p
(ID #201940) Posted on 2008/06/01 15:47
Thx for telling how CHEAP gas is in the States! Did some calculating: In Germany 1 gallon would cost 9,06 $. But nevertheless i wouldn´t drive that far 2...what a pity for u
(ID #202067) Posted on 2008/06/01 22:41
My monthly $24 bus pass sticker replaces $100's worth of gas a month. :p So i don't have to worry about gas.
(ID #202415) Posted on 2008/06/02 11:44
OMG......i live only ten minutes away....where the hell was I? How could I not know....
(ID #201938) Posted on 2008/06/01 15:46
WHOAH! Thanks!
(ID #202330) Posted on 2008/06/02 08:34
Videogame Magazine Editor
Last I heard, there was a maid cafe in Penang, Malaysia. But I've never been there. Considering the number of anime fans concentrated in Klang Valley, I'm surprised a maid cafe hasn't been set up.
(ID #201881) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:10
That dress looks like it is mainly made of polyester. The poor girl must be sweating a lot in it on hot days.
(ID #201885) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:16
Oh and no, we don't have any maid cafes here and I have no problem with that.
(ID #201887) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:20
Okay, the maid business sure is getting bigger in Japan... Here, not so much...
(ID #201891) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:23
no maid cafe here! it wouldn't work anyway since majority of population hardly knows about anime.
(ID #201903) Posted on 2008/06/01 14:53
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
kawaii! love that large bow on the maid's hair XD maybe I should make one for myself LOL
(ID #201939) Posted on 2008/06/01 15:46
TK-8316 / 宅男 Otaku / 工程师 Engineer
maids in sngapore works long hours with only 1 day off each month. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/344530/1/.html
(ID #201943) Posted on 2008/06/01 15:52
that maid and our "maid" are totally different don't you think.
(ID #201977) Posted on 2008/06/01 17:20
despite our maids being imports, some are pretty nosebleed material. However, there are minority which are higurashi material. cases of "nice boat" have occurred before.
(ID #202139) Posted on 2008/06/02 01:30
Student and full-time otaku
Nope, no maids here; heck there aren't even many drycleaners around here...
(ID #201995) Posted on 2008/06/01 18:54
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Otaku business mind applicability.. Hmmm, seems like just about everything can be otaku flavoured.
(ID #202002) Posted on 2008/06/01 19:33
Online Shop
It never cease to amaze me with the new ideas they keep come up at Akihabara. I wonder how far will they go o_O?
(ID #202017) Posted on 2008/06/01 19:43
No maids here :'(. I know that my room would be so clean if there were. :D
(ID #202037) Posted on 2008/06/01 20:54
No Maid related Business here. I think there will never be any, since when somebody would try to start something like this some feminists would make a riot and demonstrate against it infront of the shop with sings like "Is that what we fought for?" or "Like back in the Middle Ages..." and the TV coverage would lead to debates about how "Stores try to downgrade the role of women in contemporary society"... or maybe not, but i can really imagine it.
(ID #202061) Posted on 2008/06/01 22:16
I don't think there is a single maid in Sweden, except for the cosplayers. Which is boring, as maids are awesome. ^^-b
(ID #202065) Posted on 2008/06/01 22:34
There was one in Bangkok. But it was closed due to a certain situation... Anyway, here, you can see many maids in cosplay, comic events' snack corners. But they come with very plain but expensive snacks&drinks lol
(ID #202077) Posted on 2008/06/01 23:08
Amateur novelist
The closest thing we got was a mediocre maid cafe, and it closed down >_>
(ID #202114) Posted on 2008/06/02 00:50
Wow! This is going on the visit list
(ID #202155) Posted on 2008/06/02 01:55
Secretary
A (lame) anime store here has a (lame) maid cafe just to say they have one. The girls are nothing special and all they have is a cruddy looking couch...no cafe at all. It is sooooo stupid I can't even express how stupid it is...
(ID #202160) Posted on 2008/06/02 02:10
Student, Programmer
No maid laundry in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada >_< Although putting it in the Plaza across from the University would definitely be good for business since there are so many engineer/cs students
(ID #202184) Posted on 2008/06/02 03:08
All these maid things... I wonder, how do they hire people for these jobs? I mean, wouldn't they have to hire based a lot on attractiveness, eye size, etc? Isn't that illegal or something? >_>
(ID #202202) Posted on 2008/06/02 03:52
.NET/Web Developer
None here. And I don't think it will click either. Just not enough otakus to support the business. Wish there was a locker rental business in my region as well. I could think of a lot of ways to use that.
(ID #202204) Posted on 2008/06/02 03:53
Unfortunately, I don't know any of these services, but this is a really great idea. I would really like to open one of these businesses. XD And we don't have to gather point here like in the Maid Cafe? Personally I really like this business, like to see it in live.
(ID #202224) Posted on 2008/06/02 04:22
Lockers in a dry cleaning huh? Reminds of that line from Terminator: "Laundry day. No clothes. Right."
(ID #202260) Posted on 2008/06/02 05:38
Is expensive, but, i think is more cause everything looks expensive in japan We have a nice try of maid cafe in Monterrey, but the way to get the same service is a long way to walk
(ID #202269) Posted on 2008/06/02 06:08
No maid service here, should gather some girls and start one...
(ID #202322) Posted on 2008/06/02 08:17
Part time employee - University student
Maid service in Greece? Mwahahaha!!! ^0^ You can see many topless girls in beaches, but maids...definitely not!
(ID #202355) Posted on 2008/06/02 09:17
There was this one that used to be on the ground floor of a senior citizen residence around my area...but I'm not sure what the status of it is now. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to go.
(ID #202405) Posted on 2008/06/02 10:46
Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but they recently (last month?) opened the first maid cafe in the U.S.! I actually went by, and the maids were there, but the cafe wasn't open yet (they gave us free ice coffees though :)). It's supposed to be based on Japanese maid cafes, but it also has an art gallery space. I wrote about it on my blog: http://animesearchsite.com/?p=17
(ID #202837) Posted on 2008/06/02 22:14
anime/cosplay events organizer
The only meido service that I know of here is the local Manga Kissaten near my place and that's it. ^^;;;
(ID #202942) Posted on 2008/06/03 01:50
Student of Engineering in computer
Maid services are very few here, even there no store with that kind of girls in that suit. I could open a maid cofee here. That's been the first. That's all...bye
(ID #202989) Posted on 2008/06/03 02:43
オタク by moonlight, Graphic Designer by daylight
I don't even know we have a maid cafe in Canada!!! (Oo.
(ID #203059) Posted on 2008/06/03 03:58
Machine Operater, Otaku
Totally jealous, even if it is just a dry cleaning service. We have nothing like that here in our USA city, and prolly no where for a good long drive. Not to be a smartass on the subject, but we do have a maid service here called "maids on wheels" and I highly doubt they wear the uniform, much less someting remotely cute.
(ID #203268) Posted on 2008/06/03 10:28
maid services here-no. Even if there were, there just wouldn't be any girls to fit the "moe" likeness. Meido cleaning services is exclusively Japanese idea, so it would never work here.
(ID #204741) Posted on 2008/06/05 06:00
Im fascinated by the maids, school girls and cat girl related businesses! They're so adorable :3 There's a maid cafe in Toronto, but that's the only one of know of in that area.
(ID #208245) Posted on 2008/06/09 12:11
Recording Engineer, Musician, IT Technician
I wish there was something maid related here in Princeton, but no luck. That's what trips to Japan are for.
(ID #211902) Posted on 2008/06/13 09:37
Student and part time otaku
TOO CUTE~ I think I should start up a maid girl laundromat in my area. I have a feeling it would be PRETTY popular. *snicker*
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