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, ...

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 ...

Sneak a peek inside the first butler's café in Japan, opened in 2006 and functioning as a kind of fantasy world – at least for those who fantasise about being served tea by a gentle butler. Advance ...

Swallowtail, located in the Ikebukuro neighborhood, is one of Tokyo’s most popular butler cafes, where handsome, smartly dressed men offer suave service to customers as they sip their herbal tea and ...