Back to Tokyo

Onomichi is famous for its ramen (noodles) and I simply looooove ramen, so Onomichi and Peter was a perfect match. My vacation was unfortunately coming to an end and Saturday I ate my last Onomichi ramen and then took the Shinkansen home to Tokyo. I still had two days in Japan before going home to Denmark so I went back to the Yoshimuras who was kindly letting me stay a little longer than initially planed. During my entire trip at least three different Japanese friends had independently told me about this new “hit” place called Maid Café. It's this place where the waitresses are dressed in maid uniforms and when the customer enters they don't just say “Welcome” they say “Welcome home master”. You can play games with the maids for 500-1000 yens and they do little cute shows on a stage. All in all it sounds a bit like a creepy place where old business men hit on young girls in sexy uniforms. On Sunday the wife of my host family Rieko and I went to electric town Akihabara to look for a PDA and check out all the other neat electronic gadgets that Japan has to offer. But in Akihabara there is also a Maid Café, so this being the last day I could see young Japanese girls in skimpy clothes we decided to go check it out. I was kinda exited because it seemed like a very weird place. If it was in Denmark it would certainly attract a certain type of clientèle. But this was Japan, so it was nothing like that. The customers were mostly young people and guys, girls and even couples went there. Unfortunately it was so popular that 10-20 people were waiting in line when we came so we just stared through the window for a while and then left. So instead of pretty maids, here is a picture of some delicious USB-stick sushi.


128MB sushi sticks.　おいしそう～