Fucked Up Japan

LittleTGV is a quaint new Akiba cosplay cafe for trainspotters where all the staff are dressed in various train attendant uniforms. Having opened on my birthday in February 2008, it’s part of the same chain responsible for LittlePSX, LittleMSN and LittleBSD. The names are all deceptively geeky so that only a particular subculture will “get” the reference. Luckily, I am a multitalented geeks, so I can let you in on the secret… TGV is the “Trans Grande Vitesse”, the French equivalent of the Shinkansen / Bullet train. Gaming otaku will know PSX refers to the original Sony Playstation, while only serious computer geeks will get the Berkeley Software Distribution reference.

I think they could try to at least try to be consistent in their uniforms though. The cutest part of the cafe has to be the N-guage model railroad….

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