Greetings!!! Last weekend was sooo much fun and so random! I wanted to hang out with a friend and she came up with the awesome idea to look for a pet cafe. I told her I was in! I also asked her if this had to do with animals or if our friendship was going to take a leap - I wasn't too sure what a "pet" cafe was... So I looked it up and apparently they're pretty popular here in Tokyo. They are cafes that have dogs or cats lying around the place for you to pet, hold, or just sit by. Kinda strange I know. Unfortunately I couldn't find a dog cafe but there are cat cafes a plenty! I'm allergic but had to check it out just to see what the fad was. We went to Ikebukuro (home of my first planetarium!) and walked towards Sunshine City. She found a building she said that was supposed to have the cafe.When we get there we're standing in a store for cat stuff. There's a ticket seller for the Cat Playground - 600Y. We decided to check it out. We get our ticket, walk inside and a cat streaks past us. Then we look around. Umm, what? This wasn't what we were expecting. Doraemon is sitting in the front of a colourful train. There are a few enclosed cars behind him with glass windows and cats lounging in bright rooms with cat perches, hammock, and the like. It was pretty cute. Then we check out the other room. This one has MORE cat perches up to the ceiling. There are bridges running the length of the ceiling with holes to the next room for the cats to walk. There are chairs to sit with the cats. And in the back there are little cat sized rooms entitled "In the Kitchen," "In the bedroom." They had fake rooms set up with cats sleeping in them!!! Soooo cute! There was also this super cute grey fluffy one sleeping in an egg shaped container. When you scratched his head he turned his head towards you and arched and looked really pleased but NEVER opened his eyes! Hahaha!!! Adorable! There were so many cats! And surprisingly the place didn't smell at all and I had NO cat hair on me when we left, even though they had lint rollers for us to leave.
We were pretty disappointed b/c we hadn't found the cat cafe. We walked some more and I saw another sign for a cat! Had we found it? Nope! It was a place with big squashy chairs, books, and large tables in the back to hang out in. You could get drinks from the hot vending machine, and oh yeah - Look at cats! This place charges 200Y/10 min to hang out here. There were quite a few peeps chilling, one guy was even sleeping. Again, hardly any cat hair even on the cloth couches. Every so often the "cat wranglers" would relocate the animals to another perch. They would just stare as if asking "What the hell was that for? I was comfortable!"
And yes, we stayed for 50 minutes (1000Y!!!) to check it out AND play the greatest/worst game over! It's a German game called Viva Topo! The instructions were terrible and I wish I could have taken pics of them. Essentially, you have to move your 5 mice around the board to paradise before the cat can get you. The fat cat moves along the board with the mice depending on the roll. The mice have to collect cheese (obviously :) when they "run away to their friends and relations." But we're still not sure how to win. I got all my mice to paradise first but my friend got the most cheese...so we both won? Or lost? LOL! Who knows!!!
The BEST instruction - To start: Whoever likes cheese the most can roll first. AHAHAHAH!!!! I'm using that in my classes to see who can go first :)
After all this searching we still didn't find the right one. HOW many cat places are there in Tokyo?
The weekend continues...
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