I raise you the slightly hidden world of "tits on toast" from Australia. In regional cities/towns, you can go to certain local pubs early in the day (10AM - 12PM) and get a cheap breakfast served by topless waitresses.
If the waitresses get enough tips, they allegedly remove everything.
The breakfast is usually terrible (cold canned beans on toast with an egg).
In certain areas yeah, but painting all the regions with that brush is strange. Most of the country couldn't handle anything of the sort and the place would be raided by the police in a day. Despite how many pretend play it up to be, Australia is an incredibly conservative country.
The stuff you'll find in mining towns is far worse and basically the wild west. Barstaff will pour you out a beer using their bare asscheeks for a tip. Always wondered what the health authorities think of that.
[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/11/27/Topless-doughnut-sho...
Spends considerable time in a topless pancake restaurant if I remember correctly.
I have knowledge of the existence of multiple in almost all of what I listed.
https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-ikebukuro...
This article reviews three different boy's love cafés, in close proximity to one another.
I'm not sure how derive the conclusion that there is only one used underwear vending machine; a simple image search reveals many different models:
https://www.techinasia.com/japan-used-panty-vending-machines...
This article concludes that the most extreme stories about one at every corner are an exaggeration, but one can definitely find them.
As for the cafés without underwear: there is definitely more than one, though they've been on a decline.
Of the 3, only the first one is overtly Yaoi. I don't know the second one, but it doesn't seem like one, and the Butler cafe is definitely not Yaoi.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-pan_kissa
After the boom in the 80s (30+ years ago), are there really any left, with the glass floor and everything?
And akiba is short for akihabara.
The underwear vending machine are out, and hidden now, mostly Akiba from what I hear on whispers, not in public. Maybe even one in Nakano broaddway...
And Kissa's in general are in decline, not just no pantsu kissas.
Just one example: All the different "café con piernas" cafes in Chile, which are very similar to Japanese maid cafes.
You seem to have reduced my rather wild and spectacular examples to something so mundane as: “Cafes that cater to lonely straight men or misogynistic businessmen exist”, especially when most of my examples have nothing to do with “straight men” or “misogynistic businessmen”.
Bars where one buys a good conversation along with the meal, cafés where the waiters roleplay as one's doting sibling, renting a parent, used underwear from vending machines, maid cafés, maid cafés where the maids are all cross-dressing males, cafés where the attractive male waiters make out with each other for the viewing pleasure of the customer base, cafés where the attractive female waiters wear no underwear, short skirts, and the floors are mirrored — well, that's the joie de vivre that has a big “only in Japan” sticker on it.
The second place with distance is the U.S.A. that at least has cafés where the attractive female waiters wear skimpy outfits, cheerleaders, and bikini car wash — but the rest of the world that has nothing that comes close to this well-inspired madness.