Cat Cafe?!?!?!?! YES!!!!
This article from the National Post has introduced me to one more place I must visit before I die – a cafe where I can relax with a cup of hot chocolate and a cat.
No, I’m not messing with you fellow cat obsessives, this is an actual reality.
Takafumi Fukui, a 34-year-old former employee of a TV games show company, quit his day job and opened the Cat Cafe Calico – a cafe with 14 cats in residence – in March.
Mr.Fukhui’s idea was to create somewhere for people to relax, especially cat lovers who get a bit of short shrift due to the tight housing regulations in Tokyo.
For 800 yen (about £3) an hour patrons of the Cat Cafe Calico can access a big room where the 14 well-groomed cats hang out. Mr.Fukhui obviously understands the potential odour and hygiene issues that might arise from having 14 cats in one enclosed space so air fresheners are on hand and the litter trays are placed are out of sight.
While Japan isn’t in my top ten of places I want to visit (yeah, yeah, everyone else reckons it’s the bomb but Mongolia and the Yucatan Peninsula hold more interest to me), I can honestly say it’s just got a hell of a lot more intriguing..