Foot Spa Cafe

So we've seen interesting otaku services such as paying to go into a girls bedroom and having your ears waxed - whats next?

There is now a cafe type place in Osaka called Ashi Yu Ya where you can go and have a cuppa Japanese tea while soaking your bare feet in a tub of hot water with a traditional Japanese maid called a Jyochu [女中[じょちゅう]].

A foot spa is known as "Ashi Yu" [足湯[あしゆ]] and can also be found at many Onsen (hot spa) around Japan.

So what are they charging for this invaluable service?

• Trial course - 1,950 yen: You get to stick your feet in a tub of hot water for 15 mins - *alone*. But the maid does give you a hand massage.
• 30 minute Basic "hand course" - 3,900 yen: Stick your feet in a tub of hot water together with the maid for 10 minutes. She then gives you a hand job (hand massage) for 20 mins and you get a cuppa Japanese tea.
• Just like the Japanese girls bedroom, girls get a discount - two girls get the "hand course" for 3,900 yen.
• 30 minute foot reflexology course - 4,500 yen: Share the tub with the maid for 10 mins and get your feet massaged for 20. Cuppa tea after.
• 60 minute foot reflexology course - 8,800 yen: You would think paying more gets you more time in the tub with the maid but you would be wrong - 10 mins in the tub and 50 mins of foot massage.
• 90 minute ultimate course - 12,500 yen: 10 mins in the tub, 20 mins hand job, 50 mins foot job and 10 mins of punching your shoulders - cuppa tea after.

After 10 mins of soaking your feet in the tub of hot water with the maid, she then proceeds to pour some of the tub water in a traditional Japanese rice wine cup where she then drinks the water down in 3 gulps for good health.

For girls who are interested in working at Ashi Yu Ya, theya are looking for staff and are paying 1,200 yen per hour and you need to be between 18 and 25.

Not too sure about the hygiene aspect of this though. If I was a cute traditional Japanese maid, I certainly wouldn't want to share a hot tub of water with a hairy oily salary man.

Come to think of it, if I *was* a cute traditional Japanese maid, I probably wouldnt get any work done as I would be playing with my eyes all day long.

The 2D girl is a Jyochu that I found when searching for more pics at Noantica.

Ah - nearly forgot to mention - was joking about her drinking the post-foot-spa-water. Image and news via Sankei.