The guide was very well-informed and provided interesting information. We did not enjoy the maid cafe experience, especially after the content of the tour explored the darker side of Akihabara. The guide seemed to have a relationship with the cafe and did not have to pay for food/drinks, which left us wondering if she and the cafe had an arrangement to funnel tourists through it. The cafe experience should have been presented as optional, and the cafe experience should have been fully explained before our group was taken there.

The guide was very well-informed and provided interesting information. We did not enjoy the maid cafe experience, especially after the content of the tour explored the darker side of Akihabara. The cafe experience should have been presented as optional.

I really wanted to like the tour, as we just came from the other Context Tour (Architecture with Hugo), but the quality/knowledge of the tour guide was well below standard this time. Hide was very nice but the whole tour was just him taking us to store after store for us to look at. There was never a thorough explanation of how these stores fit into the Otaku culture other than the fact that it was a part of it. So truly, what we got was nothing that was described on the website at all. We learnt nearly nothing more than what we would have if we went to those stores ourselves. If anything this tour should be made less expensive than the architecture tour.

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