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ike a cat paw, or the sleeping cat with a fluffy head rested against the main window. In any case, Neko JaLaLa Cat Café was easy to find.
The café is nestled in a quiet area away from the booming electronic stores on Akihabara’s main streets and it looks more like a small house than a café. But even so, there are plenty of reasons why this cat café deserves recognition.
This café provides humorous English (actually more like “Engrish”) bios of the cats. One bio emphasizes the size of a cat by saying something like, “He’s big like a cheeseburger, big like Tokyo Tower!”
JaLaLa is also unique because it has customized pillows, curtains, and even key chains that feature the cats. The pillows and curtains decorate the café and the key chains are sold for about 500 yen near the front counter. And that's not all!
The day I was there, customers were presented with a small souvenir on the way out, a JaLaLa calendar featuring…guess who?
While paying, I couldn’t help but to admire the huge cat sprawled across the front counter, sleeping in the same position as when I had arrived. The cat looked completely at ease as it rested, unknowingly attracting passerbys and drawing visitors into JaLaLa.
