Tokyo cat cafes told to close early

For around Y1,500 (Pounds12.56) an hour, customers can sit in a room amid cats
that are eating, chasing stuffed mice or simply laying around. Drinks cost
the customer extra.

Cat cafes have been compared to a more traditional form of late-night
entertainment in Tokyo, with owners identifying the animals by name, giving
them a profile and customers identifying their favourite creature – in much
the same way as patrons of hostess clubs have a preferred woman to wait on
them.

Operators of the cafes say the curfew on displaying animals is misguided as
cats are by nature nocturnal creatures.

“They sleep when they want to and they play when they want to,” said Norimasa
Hanada, the owner of the Neko no Iru Kyukeijo 299 cat cafe in the Ikebukuro
district of Tokyo.

“It makes absolutely no sense to limit the time,” he told the Yomiuri
newspaper.

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