Mulboyne wrote:will get you a haircut and "head spa".

Greji wrote:

Mulboyne wrote:will get you a haircut and "head spa".

..it a "head spa"? What else does the Maid do?

Kuang_Grade wrote:Fitting for Roppongi, it looks like they may have a FG maid as well

Mulboyne wrote:Maid Reflexology MaiSen has just opened in Tenjin, Fukuoka.

Mulboyne wrote:

Mulboyne wrote:Akiba culture will hit Roppongi Hills when Maid Moe Cafe opens in Event Space Umu on the 14th of this month. Unfortunately for Roppongi otaku, the cafe will only be there until the 5th February.[t]japan[/t] [t]tokyo[/t] [t]roppongi[/t] [t]cafe[/t] [t]cosplay[/t] [t]maid[/t]

GomiGirl[I wrote:yuk gross bleugh - who wants somebody else to clean their ears????[/I]

Greji wrote:Any man who goes to a barbershop in Japan and orders the works.The shampoo guy or girl will usually do it after the shave.

GomiGirl wrote:yuk gross bleugh - who wants somebody else to clean their ears????

A new type of esthetic parlor is emerging in Tokyo to provide people with a healing effect. These establishments are devoted exclusively to cleaning people's ears or providing a combination of earwax removal and massage. The idea is to remind customers of pleasant feelings they had during childhood when resting their heads on their mother's lap to have their ears cleaned. Store manager Akiko Inaba heads the Mimi Kurin (ear cleaning) Store at the western entrance of JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Staff use an earpick equipped with an ultrasmall camera to take a close-up photo of the inside of the ear and show it on the monitoring screen. Inaba said the ear cleaning device is well received because people can see their earwax with their own eyes...more...

Mulboyne wrote:"...equipped with an ultrasmall camera to take a close-up photo of the inside..."

Mulboyne wrote:In related news, Butler Cafe Swallowtail is due to open in March.

Mulboyne wrote:And it is now open:

Asahi article (Japanese)

Mulboyne wrote:Kyodo via Yahoo: Healing service parlors emerge, specialize in ear cleaning, massage

...I had come to try one of Tokyo's newest hi-tech treatments for Japanese businessmen with time on their hands. In a tiny salon called Mimi Kurin (which means ear clean) on the third floor of a building near one of the city's biggest stations, they will scrape the gunk out of your ear with a scoop attached to a miniature camera. You sit down in a lime green chair and try to relax. In front of you is a flat screen television with what looks like an image of the sun, an orange circle slightly out of focus against a black background...

...It tickled, but not in a good way. It felt like the scoop was going way too far down inside my ear although to be honest that might have been just the effect of watching my aural spring clean on the monitor in front of me. Maria told me she was a college student studying anthropology. This was a part-time job. The training had taken a month to get the technique just right. "Why on earth do you do this all day?" I asked her. "I like to do something different," she said "something out of the ordinary." Apparently most clients are male, in their thirties or older. When I asked why, my therapist laughed. "The men are less good at the cleaning out," she told me. "Women are better at it"...

...Ear cleaning in Japan is traditionally a family activity. My friend in the next booth Miho told me her father had an especially good technique when she was a little girl, resting her head on his lap while he dug away with a small wooden scoop. Later she showed me one of the scoops in a chemist's shop. It was about 10cm long with what looked like a miniature powder puff on the end that is used to brush away the dust. "You can't buy these outside Japan," she told me. "When I lived in London I had to get people to send them to me"...