Cross Dressing at Japan Maid Cafes, Male Maids Land on the Scene

On the ever changing Tokyo scene, there is an addition to the Maid Cafes trend, cross dressing.

At least that's what Males maid to order at new cafes (Kyodo News, Japan Times, December 24) suggests.

You can witness that, they say at Hibari-tei Cafe (Akihabara) where all maids servers are men dressed like women.

The article quotes one of them:

"Reina, is in his 20s. During the week he goes to work in a business suit at an information technology company, but on weekends he serves at the maid cafe wearing a size 9 uniform, padded bra and fake nails.

At 165 cm tall and weighing 51 kg, he has a girlfriend, but she doesn't know about his second job, he said.

"I become a totally different person to release my stress from work. I have the feelings of a man and I will quit once I get married," he said."

Following their pattern of odd themes, the owners of Hibari tei also started Chibichibi Maid Cafe where everything comes in small sizes from maids to food and so on (illustration below, from their site).

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