The concept of cat cafés bloomed in Japan after the first cat café, Cat Flower Garden, started in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. Given the time and space constraint in Japan, cat cafés provide the convenience of petting a cat with no responsibility of ownership. At the same time one can enjoy the relaxing environment with the cats between sips of your drink.
Charges for entering the cat cafés are by minutes. For example I took a 60 minutes normal course which cost ¥ 1,000 (and a ¥ 200 drink is included).
Love Cat Café is a home to 17 cats and like any other cat cafés, strict rules regarding the handling of cats are implemented. House pets and outside food are not allowed in the café and it is a non smoking café. Guests are not allowed to use flash cameras, wake any sleeping cats or carry any obviously unhappy cats.
Interior of the café (pictures taken from http://www.loveneko.jp/pc/index.html)
The entrance
Hand croosing Karin
Niece "is that fish?"
Huh? Huh?
Barron "I am watching you"
Chuu~~! ♥
Doozing off.. zZzzz..
Links for Love Cat (らぶねこ) Café:
http://www.loveneko.jp/pc/index.html
http://loveneko2008.blog105.fc2.com/
