Interesting Facts!! #28 - Cuddle cafes

28. Japanese cafes - Cuddle cafes

If Maid cafes make you uncomfortable, get ready to be hurled into an even more uncomfortable environment - unless your cool with cuddling up with a strange woman. A new type of café in Japan has opened which is offering a different type of service: cuddling. Hold on a second please, this is not a sex cafe, since prostitution is illegal in Japan, there is only spooning and cuddling in this place.

Located in the Akihabara section of Tokyo, Soineya (the first “co-sleeping specialty shop” in Japan) opened on September 25,2014 , offering cuddling services ranging from lying together, to foot massages, all at different price ranges. Soineya (literally, “sleep together shop”).

This is Soineya's service menu:

Admission fee: 3000 yen (US $40)

Standard Course

• 20 min – 3000 yen ($40)
• 40 min – 5000 yen ($65, only 3000 yen for first time visitors)
• 60 min – 6000 yen ($77)
• 2 hrs – 11000 yen ($142)
• 3 hrs – 16000 yen ($206)
• 4 hrs – 20000 yen ($258)
• 5 hrs – 25000 yen ($322)
• 6 hrs – 30000 yen ($387)
• 10 hrs – 50000 yen ($645)

“Shimei-ryo“ (fee to pick the girl you want to sleep with) – 1000 yen ($13) + 500 yen ($6.50) per hour

Optional Course

• Customer sleeps in girl’s arm (3 min) – 1000 yen ($13)
• Girl pats customer on the back (3 min) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Customer pets girl on the head (3 min) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Customer and girl stare at each other (1 min) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Girl changes clothes (1 time) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Girl gives customer foot massage (3 min) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Customer gives girl foot massage (3 min) – 2000 yen  ($26)
• Customer sleeps with head on girl’s lap (3 min) – 1000 yen  ($13)
• Girl sleeps with head on customer’s lap (3 min) – 2000 yen  ($26)

So basically, you’re paying about 6000 yen ($77) an hour to lie in bed with a complete stranger. The website doesn’t specify what customers are and are not permitted to do during the standard course, but it’s probably safe to assume your options are limited to “close your eyes and be quiet.”

So please, it is good to experience new things but if you are extremely uncomfortable with this don't push yourself. 

-The more you know~