Japanese maid cafes were popularised around 20 years ago and feature waitresses who wear small uniforms and address male patrons as ‘master’ or similar. They eventually spawned a gender-flipped ...

Tokyo’s campy his-and-her cafes–inspired by the multi-billion-dollar high-tech fantasy culture of anime–are all the rage. At new “butler” cafes, deferential men serve tea to women. But cafes offering ...

It’s not a big secret that I am regularly strolling up and down Ikebukuro’s Otome Road on my weekends, the famous “female Akihabara”, as it is often called. In between manga and merchandise stores, ...

If you are going to be in Tokyo, then you will be able to test out these Black Butler locales starting February 1st. Fans will be able to visit the cafes on a first-come, first-serve basis where ...