It didn’t take long for our beloved Japanese geeks to get some more services handled by beautiful maids.

The maid costume is very popular in akihabara neighborhood in Tokyo, where you can find many cafés with maid waitresses. The young geeks called otaku really enjoy being served by a maid.

Many times you can finds girls wearing the costume on the streets, promoting the cafés they work in. there is even an English school where the teacher wear the lovely black and white dress.

Now a place called NTK Systems in the neighborhood now provide the same dry cleaning and locker service as before with a tiny change: the front desk clerk is now wearing a maid costume.

According to the report at akibamap, the prices are pretty much the same as for other cleaners. So the special treatment by the maid, actually doesn’t cost you a thing if you need dry cleaning. Wonder how much they charge for a dry cleaning to a maid costume.

We know already that there is a maid café near Los Angeles, but what about some more maid business around America?

And what’s better than some of the beautiful Japanese maids that walk around in Tokyo? If you still doesn’t know in Akihabara neighborhood in Tokyo you get into maid cafes, where the waitresses are dressed as maids. Don’t think that the girls are disadvantaged. There are also male cafes, where you can see men dressed as maids. You also have mom cafes where they dressed as moms – but that’s for a different visit to Tokyo.

They are dressed like this because of the Otaku – Japanese geeks – who love to see the girls in this outfit as part of their love to anima, the Japanese animation.

So take a look, and don’t hesitate to call to you travel agent and get on the next plane to this wonderful city. If you’ll click on the pictures you’ll get into the Flickr page of the photographer. Enjoy!

No. 2 – Mystery maid:

No. 3 – Young ones:

No. 4 – Promotional maid:

No 5. – Another promotional maid:

Tell us in the comments what you think and maybe there will be another part of pictures.

A maid café’ is opened recently is the Royal/T in Culver City near Los Angeles. The café will serve dishes like miso sandwiches and Japanese chicken curry rice. In The deserts section you will find Kyoto sunset parfait and a variety of Japanese teas.

The 10,000 ft. Royal/T will also serve as an art gallery and a shop that will offer Japanese art, books, toys and more. It’s seems the aim of the space is to expose the huge Japanese art collection Susan Hancock, an art collector.

The last attempt to export the idea of custom play restaurants (or “cosplay café” as it called in Japan) wasn’t so successful. The “I Maid Café” was opened in Toronto in October 2006 and was closed two years after. That’s although the Canadian maid café, got covered in national newspaper and a TV show. The video below shows an interview with the Canadian maid café owner.

It seems that the café was copying the exact cafe’s in Tokyo:

What do you think: Are maid cafés will become a Japanese export around the world, or will stay with the sushi for the mean time? Tell us in the comments below.

If maid cafes are new to you (and even if they don’t) you might be surprised to know that the Japanese have taken it a step ahead. The new trend is drag maid cafes where men are dressed as maids.

They are dressed as women and greet customers as women, but they are not. The cafes can be found in the Akihabara districts in Tokyo – which the technology district. The neighborhood attracts the Japanese otaku, the young people that are admiring anime, manga and video games. And it seems that are willing to pay more for this service.

Watch the full video for more:

And if you want mom to serve you coffee – Then Tokyo also got a place for you.

It seems that the young geeks (known also as Otaku) are so shy that they can only look on the teacher if she will wear a custom. So a quick entrepreneur did the math and opened a school that offers courses in English dedicated to these sensitive guys. The new term for this: Cosplish (custom + English).

Yohei Suzuki, the owner of the new school, is highly familiar with satisfying the needs of Tokyo geeks. His former business was a “maid bar” where the waitresses were dressed as maids, another popular hangout place for young geeks.

So following this trend we can now expect to see in the futures comic stores with salespersons as DragonBall, and some taxi drivers in NYC dressed as Fullmetal alchemist.

You can view the new courses here (Japanese): http://cosplish.seesaa.net/

More: [Reuters], [Japan Times]