If you ’ve ever wanted to sip a loving cup of tea while nuzzling a lounge lizard , or enjoy an espresso to the pulsation of flyspeck tapping goat hooves , take a gander at these creature cafes that have crop up in East Asia . While the computerized axial tomography cafe is taking the cosmos by tempest , there are numerous other specie of beast you could visit outside a snuggling zoological garden .
Cat (neko) cafés, first opened in Taiwan in 1998, then in Japan in 2004 (only Tokyo has 39 of these now!). Now you can find these places in more than 20 countries.
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The Sakuragaoka Goat café, Tokyo, Japan, opened in 2009
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The few Reptile cafés of Japan, with lizards, snakes and turtles, among others
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Thanks Nature Café, the world’s only sheep cafe in South Korea, opened in 2011
Bunny (usagi) cafés, hopping across Japan since 2011
Owl (fukurou) cafés, started in Japan in 2012
Kotori, Tokyo’s parrot cafes, with parakeets, cockatoos, sparrows and other birds
viaJoanne Wan
A Black cat café, opened in September 2013 in Himeji, Japan
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Bonus: Penguin bars of Tokyo, Japan. There are at least four of them since 2013.
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