The Hapineko Café in Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district. Writer Gideon Brower visited Tokyo recently and brings us this story of Tokyo’s Animal Cafes. The Hapineko Café, in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand Sensoji Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I ...

BANGKOK — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

In the U.S., hanging out in a cafe with animals is such an exotic concept that people can’t get enough of it. A pop-up cat cafe in New York last year had lines down the block. Online reservations for ...

BANGKOK - Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the U.S., hanging out in a cafe with animals is such an exotic concept that people can’t get enough of it. Denver now has a cat cafe. A pop-up cat cafe in ...

If you love dogs and want to have one in your life or let your dog have a little more love and interaction, a café in western Tokyo can help. Rescue Dog Cafe Tachikawa — about 25 minutes from Yokota ...

Akihabara district in Tokyo is an “otaku” paradise – best known as a travel magnet for the legions of self-styled nerds who love “manga” Japanese comics – as well as electronics, video games and ...

On the top floor of @home cafe in Tokyo’s geek-friendly Akihabara district, in a low-ceilinged, brightly lit room that smelled of a poorly ventilated deep fryer, a coterie of frilly aproned maids were ...

BANGKOK – Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...