Soineya Cuddle Cafe Akihabara
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Recently the Western press picked up on Japan’s first “Cuddle Cafe” or “sleep together shop” in Tokyo’s electronics & nerd culture center of Akihabara.
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| Signs to establishments next to Soineya |
The glowing write ups taken from a Japanese source seemed to promise something like a spotlessly-clean dentist’s surgery for unloved salary-men to grab 40 winks in the soft arms or accommodating lap of a young, immaculately pyjama-clad Japanese lovely.
In 2004, the “female lap pillow” debuted in Japan, complete with a mini skirt and soft, rounded knees. It sold for $90 and became so popular, a number of “knockoffs” were made.
Men found the female pillow soothing, and for $90 could have a “female” lap to lay their head in forever. The trend was short lived.
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