Foreign Butler Cafe in Shibuya

  • Profiles of the Day
    • More at Japan Probe Friends...

    foreign-butler

    Anybody been to the cafe in Shibuya with foreign “butler” staff?

    Just stepping over the threshold, Japanese woman can forget for a few hours that they are in Shibuya, one of the capital’s most crowded areas, and enter a world where a handsome man rushes to the tinkle of her bell, goes down one knee and asks: “Yes, my princess?”

    The cafe offers a variety of homemade food, sweets and drinks, as well as photo shoots in which a favourite butler holds the woman in the air — and English lessons.

    Since opening in mid-2006, Butlers Cafe has attracted around 2,000 frequent customers.

    Yuki Nozaki, a 23-year-old childminder, and kindergarten teacher Aki Nakamura, 24, say they come at least once a month to enjoy a fleeting moment of romance.

    “At first I was really shy about the concept of this cafe, but all the butlers are very cute, cheerful and sweet and, above all, the fact that they’re foreigners helps us to escape from reality,” Nozaki said.

    “Even now after visiting so many times, we feel excited when the door opens. I need this kind of excitement in my life,” she said.

    foreign-butler-cafe

    More information, such as menu prices and photos, can be found at the official website of the butlers cafe. They are also hiring foreign men to work as butlers (just click on the Brad Pitt “WANTED” poster).

    This butler cafe:
    View Results
    Related Posts with Thumbnails