One of the special attractions about Japan is their animal restaurants. For example, we never saw a capybara when we visited the San Diego Zoo last month, but heard about the Yokohama Capabara Cafe and Petting Zoo. Has an admission fee of 4800 Yen. The exchange rate today is 157Y to the $, so the actual cost is $21 just to enter. Checked and learned that this attraction is has permanently closed. Owner Shiramizu passed away and the capybaras were re-homed.
Here is a video featuring all kinds of animal cafes in Tokyo. Some of them reported by Google AI:
- Hedgehog cafes: Cafes like the Chiku Chiku Cafe allow visitors to hold and feed hedgehogs. Other locations, like the HARRY cafes, have expanded to include hedgehogs and other small animals.
- Owl cafes: In some Tokyo cafes, visitors can interact with and pet owls, including large and small varieties. The experience often involves gentle touching and holding the birds, but only under staff supervision.
- Alpaca cafes: Tokyo's Alpaca Fureai Land allows customers to have lunch alongside alpacas or even take them for a morning walk.
- Micro pig cafes: Cafes like Mipig Cafe feature miniature pigs that customers can pet, and some locations also function as a training place for pigs that are preparing for adoption.
Capybara cafes: In Tokyo, the Capybara Cafe allows customers to reserve time to interact with capybaras.- Other animal cafes: Japan also features cafes with rabbits, reptiles, meerkats, and various birds like parrots and canaries.
- Takeo Cafe in Asakusa features both insect cuisine and live displays.
- Rockstar Reptile Cafe in Osaka: a video. This is a sleeping chameleon.
I've been to Yokohama many dozens of times. I've visited the traditional tourist places, but Yokohama is a city of surprises.
- Second-largest city in Japan. You would have picked Osaka or Kyoto.
- Not quite sure exactly where Tokyo ends and Yokohama starts.
There is a Cup of Noodles Museum and the Yokohama Ramen Museum.- Sankeien Garden is a gem.
- Here is the world's largest Chinatown with 600 restaurants and shops.
Night life? Try the Noge District.- Yokohama Cosmo World has the world's largest ferris wheel.
- Was home of the first Japanese sumo match in 1869.
Today began with an excellent breakfast in the Club Lounge. Then lunch in the room of cold soba and sashimi.
Gazing out at the horizon, I noticed Tokyo Tower in Roppongi next to Tokyo Skytree in Akasaka.
- Tokyo Tower was built in 1958, Skytree in 2012.
- Tokyo Tower is 1092 feet tall, while Skytree is 2080 feet, the tallest structure in Japan.
- The tallest are Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 2722 feet, and Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 2233 feet.
- Jeddah Tower, also known as Kingdom Tower, in Saudi Arabia, has finally re-started completion, with a planned opening in 2028 at 3307 feet. It will house a Four Seasons hotel.
- Construction was stopped in 2017 during Saudi Arabian purge, when the chairman of the Saudi Binladin Group was arrested.
- Then came the pandemic.
- All seems well now.
- The 2030 World Expo will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for six months beginning on October 1. Jeddah is 594 miles from Riyadh.
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