Three more days to Christmas...have you been naughty or nice? ^^ It doesn't really matter...cos Akiba's more than happy to welcome you anyways!

Irrashaimase, Goshujinsama~ ^_^ Have you been keeping up with our A87 Cafe & Bar news and blogs? The girls have been updating their blogs with pictures and tidbits about their 'adventures', so do get acquainted with them~ They'll be happy to hear from you ^_^

Okaerinasaimase, goshujinsama, ojousama! ^_^ Before we get into the column proper, do vote for the Akibanana CM girl, ok? And the girls have already started blogging and uploading their pictures, so do check out what's going on with the girls and the A87 cafe!

All right, let's get into Akiba Weekender proper!

Before we start off the Akiba weekender column, have you checked out the latest review of Misty Heaven maid cafe? If you haven't click here and check out the fabulous review, and visit the maids when you're in Akiba! ^_^

Akiba's well on its way to celebrating the next holiday, and the maid cafes are busy holding Christmas parties..and also lives, and selling anniversary DVDs!

We feature Cure Maid Cafe's Macross F Cafe for this week! In addition, a sneak peek at the 6th anniversary celebrations for Pinafore, and also, the girls offer you to write those New Year postcards! ^^

A bit early, but Happy Halloween!!! We've got a nice list of events happening at MaiDreamin, together with presents at Maid Hair Salon Obu, as well as news of an anniversary event!

Hello! 31 October is quickly but surely creeping up on us...Akiba isn't missing out on the action as well, and a couple of our favourite maid cafe hangouts are holding Halloween party events that you won't want to miss ^^

The Akiba-kei have a penchant for canning everything. It all started 16 years ago when electronics store Chichibu denki decided to bring sell the first canned food product - the oden in a can or the oden-kan from the Tohoku prefecture to Akihabara. The oden-kan was sold in vending machines outside the shop and they were said to warm many a pair of hands and filled many a stomach during cold wintery days when people had to wait in the queue.

Pinafore 2 is the much-improved version of the iconic store that put Akiba maid cafes on the map with Densha Otoko in 2005.

A truly Akiba-kei shrine is one that marries moe and IT. One of the sacred spots of the Holy Land is this little shrine at Pinafore maid cafe, made famous by the movie Densha Otoko where the protagonist frequents in the story. The Japanese pray by bowing and then clapping twice before bowing again. At the moe shrine, the reward for your devotion is a rare appearance of the moe goddess.