Akiba is the place to be for gamers and anime, I went there last year. There were people as far as the eye could see. Maybe a little exageration. Here is a photo from inside the train station.



I just realized how ould this thread is. XD

Went to a maid cafe in Akihabara with a friend two days ago. It was a bit expensive but good fun and my perception of maid cafes has changed (I was expecting them all to be a bit sleazy but the one I went to wasn`t at all). Worth going to at least once for experience sake.

I'm a huge fan of Yodobashi in Akiba. Well worth a trip!

I went to the @Home Maid cafe last month and it was really interesting. I was expecting a regular cafe with girls dressed as maids but I didn't expect it to be so entertaining. The girls are amazing actresses!

I was also surprised at how many of the customers were female. Probably 1/4 to 1/3?

Either way, Akihabara has been changing over the years. It seems to be growing in the services field (video parlors, maid cafes) while its electronics retailers are slowly disappearing.

Akihabara for me it was like Ikebukuro i tried the maid cafe i was curious but nothing special other than a lot of electronics ...
I prefer a lot Shibuya or Asakusa. :vsign:

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i think akiba is pretty cool, if you have money to spend.
my freind forced me to get a picture with a maid. one said no but other said ok lol.

I went to Akiba last year wit my friends, but when I went there it is almost rush hour time coz almost all shops is starting to pack their things inside to close their shops.. they close soo early here.. huhu~

a couple hours.... A COUPLE HOURS??? I spent that long looking through ONE store, not to mention the fact that there were about 20 others like it that I had to go through. Maid cafes, C&C curry, arcades... Actually, come to think of it, I think my friend and I spent nearly a week solid there. Granted, we did go back to some places that we visited before, but it was still a very entertaining week!

Mmm, C&C Curry... And they sell the rouxs, too!

I went to Akihabara on Sunday with a friend, mainly to try and get some pics from inside a maid cafe. Unfortunately they didn't allow pictures (they showed us a lists of rules before we were seated).

The maid cafe experience was underwhelming, to say the least. Some of the maids looked attractive in their outfits, but my friend and I already had pretty girlfriends, so we were very interested. But the cafe was full of others (20/30-something male virgins) who couldn't seem to get enough of them.

As it was, it cost us 3000 yen for our seats, 600 yen for some noisome (which means not-very-good) chicken nuggets, and another 600 yen for a beer. 4200 yen total... the money would have been better spent at a hostess club.

But the day wasn't a total loss, I found a good deal on a clean Nikon F4, and an HDMI cable for my television.