On one of our days in Tokyo, we travelled to Ikebukuro and took the chance to visit a mini cat petting-zoo place called Nekobukuro. It’s on the eighth floor of the Tokyu Hands department store, the rest of the floor taken up with a pet shop. You pay 600 yen to enter and you are confronted with at least a dozen roaming cats of all kinds of breed. There are cat toys everywhere, ramps and climbing apparatus for the cats to get about and shelves high up on the walls for them to escape should they feel a bit stressed. Against the walls, and behind glass, some of the cats are having rest days flopping about in a big mocked up train carriage. The sight of three big hairy foreigners coming to visit what looks like the best cheap first-date venue ever must have scared the poor cats witless but they seemed to be OK with us. One of the highlights was a massive cream cat at least twice the size of all the others, apparently a Maine Coon. I really wanted to see a Scottish Fold (cute! folded ears!) but I guess he was having a quiet day out of sight, somewhere.Of course, I took a load of pictures. (The missing Scottish fold is on Flickr, too.)
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