One Tokyo-based cafe allows its customers to pet both cats and capybaras while enjoying a brew. Capy Neko Cafe, 'neko' being the Japanese word for cat, mixes the unique combination of animals ...

The cat cafe didn't originate in Japan, but it's taken hold in a country where many houses are too small to keep a pet. A cat joins its owner reading a book at a Tokyo cafe. (AP Photo/Katsumi ...

Elsewhere, there's the Cat Cafe Temari no Ouchi in Tokyo Japan, which has been designed to give a forest feel. There are "tree-shaped beds", one commentator said on Tripadvisor, and "the music is ...