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Tokyo's Cat Cafes

Posted by samzenpus on from the meow-meow-kitty-meow dept.

If you are ever in Tokyo on a long trip and feel the need for a little cat companionship there is now a place for you. Cat Cafes are becoming more and more popular with cat fanciers, the elderly and people who don't quite dare take that leap into the furry community. For $9, a person can sit for an hour and sip hair-laden tea while one of the resident cats ignores or rubs itself against you. Some cat cafe rules include: customers may not hold or stroke a cat if it resists, you must let napping cats lie, and you can't bring cat nip or cat food to the cafe.

5 comments

  1. so if i'm blind... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    can I bring my seeing eye dog?

    1. Re:so if i'm blind... by petermgreen · · Score: 1

      I dunno what this cafe's policy is but in general guide dogs (at least here in the uk) are very well behaved due to a combination of good training and carefull selection of dogs to train.

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      note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
  2. "the furry community." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.

  3. Hmmm by Fotograf · · Score: 1

    cats or Cats?

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    God's gift to chicks
  4. I'd wish by pickle_in_being · · Score: 1

    I'd wish that every Cafe would be a Cat5 cafe, where you can plug in your laptop to have instant internet acces! Every seat comes with a cable!