NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General) will air the episode "Welcome Home to Akihabara Maid Cafe" from 10:00 PM on December 12th. The setting for this episode is a long-established maid cafe in Akihabara. It has been about 20 years since it opened, and it seems that the number of female and family customers has been increasing recently, but why did it come to this place? We spent three days observing this slightly mysterious space.
We are greeted with "Welcome home," and once inside, an extraordinary experience awaits. This is a maid cafe in Akihabara. It used to be mainly catered to men, but now there are many female customers as well.
There's a first-year working adult who talks to the maid about his work-related worries, a mother who comes to tell the maid that she's had a baby, and a university student who comes to write a report because it's more relaxing than his own room. They don't just enjoy chatting with the maids, but each of them spends their time there in a way...
This documentary program focuses on a single location each time, observing the various human dramas that occur there over a period of 72 hours. It listens to the stories of people who meet by chance, capturing the current era.
