Sengoku Maid Café and Bar Mononopu, run by Parthenon Pro, Inc., will hold its Bakumatsu Event starting November 23. (Bakumatsu refers to the close of the Edo period, when the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate came to an end.)

The establishment opened in July of this year as a maid café and bar with a Sengoku Jidai (“Warring States Period”) theme. “Warrior maids” serve customers donning maid costume/kimono outfits with armor. In the three months since opening, foreign tourists, groups of female history buffs, couples and families have come to visit.

The business expects a “bakumatsu boom” with Ryomaden (meaning “The Legend of Ryoma”), the historical drama to air on NHK next year, so it put together the Bakumatsu Event to “draw a lot of Bakumatsu period enthusiasts.” At the event, the maids will serve customers in “cosplay reminiscent of the Bakumatsu period” and a special menu will be offered.

Business hours are from 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and the event will last until November 30.

This article has been created in collaboration with
Akiba Keizai Shimbun

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