#325: Cat Cafe (Semiweekly-pedia of Japan)

#325: Cat Cafe (category: theme cafe)

A cat cafe or a neko cafe ("neko" means "cat" in English) is a cafe-style facility offering customers experience to spend time with many cats. In recent years, this type of theme cafe has become very popular in many countries.

It is said that a cat cafe was originally invented in Taiwan in 1998. After that, it has spread throughout Japan in 2000s. Neko-related business has boosted Japanese economy and is called "Nekonomics".

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