“Reptile cafe” opens in Yokohama
A “reptile cafe,” offering customers the rare experience of observing exotic creatures while sipping Chinese tea, opened in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, in July, the latest addition to a rising number of Japanese cafes featuring animals, typically cats and rabbits.
At the “Reptile Cafe/Yokohama Subtropical Teahouse (爬虫類カフェ 横浜亜熱帯茶館） ” located in the port city’s Naka Ward, customers are able to observe around a dozen different species, totaling 40 in number. Kept in tanks and cages, they include a 1-meter-long lizard and a 1.7-meter-long snake.
“Unexpectedly, we have many female customers,” said Mutsumi Nagano, the 42-year-old manager of the cafe.
The customers are also able to pet land turtles, who the manager says are friendly, in a partitioned-off area, but customers are required to wash their hands on entering and leaving the area.
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