Cat cafes have proved popular, but at the Mipig Cafe in Tokyo, 2- to 4-month old piglets roam among the customers enjoying coffee. They like to sleep on customers laps.

The Mipig Café in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 such pig cafes the operator has opened around Japan. The first one opened in Tokyo in 2019. Two more are in the works for later this year.

TOKYO (AP) — Felines at Japan's popular "cat cafes" are now allowed to stay up until 10 p.m. to interact with customers. The Environment Ministry's animal rights panel said Wednesday that the ...

TOKYO — First there were cafés that allowed pets. Then came cat cafés, where lattes took second place to feline interaction. The latest craze in Japan: The pig café. “It was wonderful. Very ...

- January 30, 2024 Customers play with a micro pig at a mipig cafe, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Tokyo. The Mipig Café in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 pig cafés that have opened around Japan.

TOKYO — First there were cafés that allowed pets. Then came cat cafés, where lattes took second place to feline interaction. The latest craze in Japan: The pig café. “It was wonderful. Very ...

Customers pay 2,200 yen ($15) for the first 30 minutes in the company of the pigs. A reservation is required. Customers play with micro pigs at a mipig cafe, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) — First there were cafés that allowed pets. Then came cat cafés, where lattes took second place to feline interaction. The latest craze in Japan: The pig café. “It was wonderful ...

Customers play with a micro pig at a mipig cafe, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Tokyo. The dozens of people at Tokyo’s Mipig Café on a recent morning were taking selfies and breaking into huge ...