Maid cafes do not generally involve any "hanky panky" except in the customers' imaginations. They are basically just regular cafes/restaurants with bubbly overdressed waitresses.

If you walk around Akihabara you will see many maids in the street trying to pull tourists into their cafes and you can gauge content/English ability by talking to them. Quite a few of the cafes have routines in English since so many foreign tourists are interested in the concept.

I knew they didn't do any "hanky panky" at those cafes. My only issue is how much I would enjoy them, since I speak little to no Japanese at all. I'm trying to pick up some of the basics, to be polite, but will be nowhere near coversation level when I go. I should also have a couple of apps on my phone that I will be using.

Since it was brought up earlier, I'm in Shinjuku and going to Disney, let me know if this is correct please. I get on at Shinjuku Sta(S1) and go to (S4) change to the Yurakucho line(Y14) and go to the end (Y24) and I should be close to or at Disney. I was just looking at a map and wondering if I'm reading it right.

Not quite. Disney is at Maihama station, and the only way that you can get there is on the Keiyo Line.

The easiest and cheapest way to do it is to take JR the whole way. Go from Shinjuku to Tokyo via the Chuo Line (about 13 minutes), then take a VERY long walk within the station (it will take between 5 and 10 minutes to make the transfer) to the Keiyo Line platform and ride that directly to Maihama (somewhere between 15 and 17 minutes)

Thanks, I'll see if I can figure that out on the map.

That's the cheapest way but it's not the easiest way. As I noted above, the easiest way is to take the Rinkai line from Shinjuku to the end of the line at Shin-Kiba and then have a very easy transfer to the Keiyo line for two stops to Maihama. The Rinkai line ride is longer but probably the trip takes about the same total time since you eliminate the long walk.

Yurakcho line to Shin-Kiba would also work but requires an additional transfer since it doesn't pass through Shinjuku.

I think the walk at Tokyo station from Chuo line to Keiyo line is more like 10-15 minutes.

I can't find the Chuo line on the map I'm looking at(see below). Is that a nickname for the line?

So the one I mentioned earlier is a doable route? Just have a couple of transfers to deal with.

Here is the map I've been looking at, it's #3 on the thread.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan......-tokyo.html

That's a subway map. JR is a train, not a subway.

I don't think that the Tokyo transfer is nearly as bad as Richard believes it to be, but I guess you will have to make the call for yourself (you could always try both and then let us know which was better! ;))

I actually did find it on the map after I post that. I also went to the Disney website, to see how they say to get there and they agree with Chuo-Tokyo Sta-Kieyo. If you do the math, from the website it is about a 10 min walk. But since I now know where the Chuo line is, I will most likely go that way do to the fact that if I do get lost, it might be easier to ask directions. Thanks

(you could always try both and then let us know which was better! )

I've tried both, and the transfer at Tokyo station is ridiculously long - a good ten minutes at least from the Yamanote platform, and it can be quite crowded. I go out of my way to avoid that particular transfer.

Here is the Chuo Line to Keiyo Line transfer in full:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD296WBrASM

He got the Keiyo platform in seven and a half minutes.

Another advanced option for those with a better grip on the train system is to take the Yamanote line to Yurakucho, exit the station, and walk to the Tokyo station Keiyo platform via the Tokyo International Forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSgQHCRS2Y

This cuts the walking time by half, but it may cost a little more on account of having to exit the train line once.

He got the Keiyo platform in seven and a half minutes.

That's still a rather long transfer. And in that video Tokyo station is practically deserted compared to most times I've tried it.

I am assuming that he is a young guy travelling aline, and that would be interested in the sights within Tokyo Station along the way.

Under those terms, it's really not that bad.

I must have missed all those sights, maybe you can enumerate them.

I have said my piece. You may have the last word.