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Japan has a maid hotel you can stay in, and it’s now taking reservation applications

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2026
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“Small manor in the Izu highlands” is getting ready to welcome guests once again.

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• (hotels • ito • Izu • Izu Kogen • Japan travel • maid cafes • maids • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • tourism • travel)

Japan has a new maid school, and it’s now accepting applicants for its first term

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 4, 2026

Butler Association Japan wants to provide training in legitimate maid skills, but says they can be applied to other professional fields as well.

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• (butlers • education • hospitality • maids • schools • society)

Japan’s reverse maid cafe lets cosplaying customers play the part of maids in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2025

Become a Maid flips the maid cafe script.

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• (cafes • cosplay • cosplayers • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • themed cafes)

Akihabara maids gather to splash water at Tokyo shrine in annual uchimizu event【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2025

Traditional and modern Japanese culture mix at Kanda Shrine.

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Foreigner-friendly maid cafe adds translation panels to Akihabara location

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2025

Technology hopes to help visitors from overseas more thoroughly enjoy a unique aspect of Akiba culture.

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• (Akihabara • At-Home Cafe • COK • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • technology • tourism • translation • travel)

New Japanese maid cafe has strict age limit for maids: No one under 65!

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 21, 2025

Shangri-La is attracting customers both older and younger than its senior citizen maids.

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• (cafes • COK • grannies • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • seniors • weird)

Abuse Cafe Japan: We get abused by waitresses in maids’ uniforms at Tokyo’s viral pop-up diner

• Oona McGee
  Sep 19, 2024

Like the worst maid cafe you’ve ever been to, where diners are told to eat their food like pigs.

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This Japanese maid has a special ability she’d like to share with you

• SoraNews24
  Nov 13, 2023

A trick anyone can learn with a bit of practice.

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• (COK • cool • cosplay • cosplayer • funny • Ikuna Kamezawa • LOL • maids • maids costume • pasta • SNJO)

Maid street in Akihabara gets a new vending machine that’s sweeter than usual

• Oona McGee
  Oct 5, 2023

An assassin has infiltrated the famous otaku neighbourhood in Tokyo.

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Tokyo cosplay company releases cosplay swimsuits in time for summer【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2023

Clearstone creates pair of cosplay swimwear options.

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• (Clearstone • cosplay • cosplayers • fashion • maids • swimsuits • swimwear)

Akiba Dental Clinic: The Akihabara dentist where a moe maid in cosplay cleans your teeth

• Oona McGee
  Jun 15, 2022

This new dentist wants to make otaku dreams come true.

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• (Akiba Dental Clinic • Akihabara • cosplay • dental • dental care • dentist • dentistry • maid • maids • maids costume • moe • otaku • SNJO • Tokyo)

Part-maid cafe, part-dentist’s office? Akiba Dental Clinic opens in Tokyo【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 11, 2022

Frilly outfits and assisted teeth-brushing practice are part of the otaku-oriented dental clinic.

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• (Akihabara • anime • cosplay • dentist • health • maid cafes • maids • meical • otaku • teeth)

Crackdown on illegal maid cafes looks to be making maids a rarer sight on streets of Akihabara

• Casey Baseel
  May 26, 2021

Tokyo police bust five maid cafes for violation of Adult Entertainment Business Regulation Law, and they’re looking for more.

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• (Akihabara • COK • crime • maid cafes • maids)

Missing the maid café? Virtual @Home Café lets you chat with cute virtual maids at home!

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 10, 2020

Sweet animated maids will soon be available to dote on those of us desperate for a dose of hospitality — even those living outside Japan!

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• (@Home Cafe • at home • cute • Infinia • maid cafe • maids • online services • social distancing • Virtual @Home Cafe)

55-year-old anime voice actress does amazing maid cosplay of character 40 years younger【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 12, 2020

The voice acting legend whose voice never ages celebrates Maid Day.

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• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • Kikuko Inoue • Maid Day • maids • voice actors • voice actresses)

Akihabara maid cafe finds novel way to stay on brand during coronavirus crisis【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 3, 2020

Masters and mistresses can only enter after receiving “moe ointment” at the door. 

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• (advertising • Akihabara • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • cosplay • cosplayers • COVID-19 • maid cafe • maid cafes • maids • marketing • novel coronavirus • Tokyo)

Japanese maid delivery service brings omurice to your door 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2020

Now you can apply to have omurice delivered to your door with a side of “moe moe chin”.

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• (advertising • cosplay • cosplayers • maid cafe • maid cafes • maids • marketing • Nippon Ham • omelette rice • omurice)

Maid cafe manager who dated one of his maids says he was kidnapped and beaten by the yakuza

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 25, 2020

Quitting your job can be hard when your bosses are gangsters.

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• (COK • crazy • crime • maid cafes • maids • yakuza)

See-through Japanese maid’s uniform gives you the power of X-Ray vision

• SoraNews24
  Jan 19, 2020

See what lies underneath with this sheer cosplay costume born from a busty manga sketch.

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• (cool • cosplay • Cosplay costume • cosplayers • fashion • lingerie • maids • Mocolle • Village Vanguard)

Are Japanese B-Stylers racist? Jim Jeffries investigates cultural appropriation in Japan 【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 15, 2019

Where do you draw the line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation?

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• Japan
• (dating • Jim Jeffries • love • low birthrate • maid cafes • maids • millenials • romance • travel • videos • YouTube)

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