Western Japan worship?

Whilst Tokyo’s convent-themed maid cafe St. Grace Court may — or indeed may not — allow its staff a peek into the cloistered and less commercial life of their real life counterparts, those who really take such kind of cosplay seriously can now do so at Kyoto’s Ryugenji Temple.

A far cry from more ‘conventional’ Japanese cosplay it has to be said, with the “one-day nun experience workshop” allowing its participants to experience a simplified and far less arduous version of Buddhist nun ascetic training — all for the suitably modest sum of only 8,000 yen (64 dollar).

With Knee-length nylons deemed unnecessary.