Japan’s beloved cat cafes are inspiring people like Caitlin Unsell to replicate the businesses abroad. Unsell spent two years in Sapporo teaching kindergarten. “At that time there were no cat cafes in the U.S. yet and I knew so many people would love them. I told myself as soon as I returned to Seattle I would open one!” Unsell gets her kitties through the...
Blue Bottle Coffee started in the early 2000s in Oakland. In its early days, the coffee beans were roasted with a tiny six-pound batch roaster. Those freshly roasted coffee beans were then hand-delivered to customers. Almost 15 years later, Blue Bottle Coffee, now considered one of the major third-wave coffee roasters, has been so successful it opened a number of cafés in California and...
In 2004, the Japan’s first cat cafe, Nekonojikan, meaning “cats’ time” in Japanese, was opened. It is located in the Tenjinbashisuji Shotengai in Osaka, the longest shopping arcade in Japan. This unique cafe is definitely for cat-lovers. The interior is just like a regular Japanese house with a cosy tatami-mat room with a kitchen next to it, but as the name suggests, there are...
