Tried to go to a maid cafe last week in Akiba but was to be greeted with extremely long queues outside each establishment. Tried looking for one that didn't have queues but could find any so gave up. When you are in Japan, would you spend a few hours trying to get into a maid cafe?
I think it would be funny to go to one but I sure wouldn't spend a few hours in line to get into one.
Same here.
Agree, there are other stuffs to do there and we don't want to waste our limited time by queuing up.
My thoughts also.
Would never wait in line for a normal Maid Cafe! I WOULD, on the other hand try a "Maid Bar", that is, a bar that has Maid hostesses. It is like a hostess bar, but with Maidos instead.(There is one close to NAKANO BROADWAY) Depending on which one you go to, the girls are REALLY cute & sexy. Also many "services" are offered! I dont think I will go to Akiba , just to get a very expensive coffee and look at a totally average, boring, un-sexy Japanese girl dressed as a Maid...
That's a hard question to answer. If the maids are hot and if the food is good. I would. If not, I wouldn't...
My thoughts exactly. That, & I made sure noone that would ruin my reputation or get me into trouble was with me...-_-;
I would go without even thinking but I wouldn't stay in line for more than an hour.
well, do we know if they're always packed, 24/7? (are they opened 24/7?)
- that's one of the problems with some popular maid cafes like @home, mailish to name a few. i would mind waiting in line for less than an hour but waiting for more than hour is a bit much for me unless the maid cafe has some really cute maids then i wouldn't mind ^^ - have you tried other maid cafes in akiba danny? - for those who wants to discover the maid cafe experience but don't know which maid cafe to start, here's an akiba map where it has the locations of all of the maid cafes in akiba ^^ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/sephiroth00/akibacafemap2008.gif
Well, if I was just visiting Japan, I'd have to wait in line, can't miss going to a maid cafe while I'm there!
Yeah, I would do the same... But I don't think I would be able to wait for more than an hour, unless I have a PSP or something... Even then that would get boring.
Same thing for me too, 1 hour at most anything more is just too much
Going to Japan is pretty expensive, so to stay in a queue to ender a maid cafe....hell no there are more important things to watch and see and buy ^^, you can see girls on the streets :P
I went to the cure Maid cafe and the neko cafe (in one manga shop of the main street, i cant remember the name, the buildin is in a corner), both was fine and the girls was very polite, but nevah will spend 1 hour of my time to enter in one.
Another one may be "Cafe with Cat" I can recommend CwC, too. http://www.toranoana.jp/with_cat/
I'd wait FOREVER if that's what it takes ^^ The maid on the picture looks really nice :> Some things to do while waiting: Look at passer-by girls, read Megami, or play PORTABLE EROGE~
Must be kinda hard... Maid cafes must have regular clients... Anyways, I'd like to go to one just to see how it is... but I'm not much into waiting in lines too. I even bought this Akiba-guide to Maid cafes, but ended up not using it.
i'd bribe my way in by slipping a few 1000yen here and there
if i go alone, i might just wait cause maid cafe is a part of otakuism. but if my kanojo follows along, she might pull me off the queue with my ears...all the way to ginza or shibuya...
danny, if there's a long queue at the popular ones, maybe you can try those where dudes dress up as maids. bet there's lesser queue. (right?) ('~')
I thought with so many Maid Cafe in Akihabara, there won't be much queues but I guess I was wrong. I would not spend hours trying to get in one though. Because if there are many people waiting in line, even if you manage to get in, service would be poor due to so many people to serve. You won't be able to enjoy the maid cafe fully with so many people inside +_+
LOL definitely will visit. XD
line too long -_-... but then again... worthit? lol
hell yeah it's woth it!
If I were to be there, not as a tourist, but as a foreign worker then yes I will wait otherwise no ^^
Well, just like when new electronics come out and new fads come, they also go. Probably just a flux in the use. Give it some time. Either the supply or demand will bend. :D
If the maids are as cute as the pic, half an hour of waiting is nothing! But if you want me to wait for more than an hour... Nah...
the maids would have to be "ANIME" hot for me to wait that long.. and even then.. EVERYTHING BETTER BE DOPE!!
I went in that cafe twice on my last Tokyo trip! The maid cafe was super cute, and the maiko cafe was quite intresting! @ home cafe is well worth the wait, but i was lucky and went when there wasnt a queue. Whenever i want a quick maid cafe visit, i go to cafe with cat on the 2nd floor of comic toranoana. There are rarely queues, and its pretty laid back in there.
heck no. time is short and i wouldn't waste it on something ordinary as that. and my gf would kill me ;)
I just saw part of an interview today with the proprietor of a maid cafe in Canada, complete with Japanese girls. Evidently they went out of business already, alas. Haven't seen anything like a maid cafe here in Taibei yet, but I haven't been looking.
well if i'm in japan i'd definately want to try it out once. maybe when there isn't such a large queue around.
I strongly recommend Schatzkiste. http://schatz-kiste.net/
Damn it, I remember this place. @home cafe's located at the 7th floor and the queue started from the 2nd. I didn't bother so I just wasted time loitering outside the premises, only to have one of the maids telling me to leave ;-; Btw that maid you see there is their star who goes by the name of hitomi-chan.
As for me, I usually wait less than one hour to enter even if it's a top notch maid cafe... BTW, Most maid cafes in Akiba have "Valentine's Day" special promotion from this week to the next week. It's very good time to raid maid cafes for return match(^^;... Shall we have a maid cafe off-kai in this weekend ??
Do Not Mind! =B Anyway heading over to Tokyo this March on a study trip so will try to get my hands on a maid... I meant get my way to a maid cafe. ^^;
All of these cafes are for men. I was wondering are there any cafes for girls?
CHECKMATE was closed in Jan/2008. Please check "Queen Dolce", and "Poisson-Rouge/kingyo chaya" http://www.akibakotower.com/queen-dolce/ http://poisson-rouge.jp/
That reminds me of that scene in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya when Kyon and his friends waited in line to see Tsuruya-san and Mikuru-chan's Cafe. What did Tsuruya say? Bad yakisoba and tap water? lol I personally hate long line-ups so I would avoid it, but if I had more time it would be a unique Japanese experience for sure :)
I will wait if the chick of the poster is in that cafe :)) Its just super kawaii
A Maid Cafe is exactly like Hooters: a place where attractive women serve you shitty, overpriced food and drinks; a waste of time.
No I wouldn't on the beginning, I'd prefer to buy stuff at Akiba. Later on I probably would gain interest in them and then I'd probably would spend a few hours in a queue ^^'
Maybe not hours, but I'm quite sure that I'd wait at least a few minutes, because I definitely want to visit a maid cafe some day. Oh, and waiting shouldn't be any problem, because there's one really popular cafe here in Helsinki, which is sometimes during the summer time so crowded, that you have to wait to get inside. And there are no maids in there.
Heading to Jap for the whole of March, and a Maid Cafe experience is definitely on the itinerary. I suppose we can try minimizing the wait by going on days that are not so busy like weekdays and camping out well in advance of opening hours hehehe :P Been planning this trip for waaaay too long, would be a shame to not go to a maid cafe after spending all that time and money getting to Japan.
Heading to Jap for the whole of March, and a Maid Cafe experience is definitely on the itinerary. I suppose we can try minimizing the wait by going on days that are not so busy like weekdays and camping out well in advance of opening hours hehehe :P Been planning this trip for waaaay too long, would be a shame to not go to a maid cafe after spending all that time and money getting to Japan.
I am going to Japan this July and I will try and visit a maid cafe, but not sure if I will be able to. Been wanting to visit one for a while, but not sure how many I will run into. Even the hostess bars mentioned in other posts will be good too. I am just a suck for cute girls in maid outfits and glasses.
