From sweet to strange, there are any array of coffee shops to choose from when you set out next

Crazy cafes

From sweet to strange, there are any array of coffee shops to choose from when you set out next

Goat cafe l Sakuragaoka Café, Tokyo, Japan Most of us have heard about cafes that allow pets, but never have we heard of one housing a goat. Trust Tokyo to give you something that you have never thought was possible. Sakuragaoka Café in Tokyo’s Shibuya district is where many people head to so that they can spend quality time with two goats that stay here, Owner Rena Kawaguchi bought the animals three years ago. Sakura and Chocolat call the cafe their home and interact with the customers daily. Hamrock cafe l Mahika Mano, Tokyo, Japan Who doesn’t like to lounge on a hammock? This coffe shop banks on it. They have combined the two to offer a relaxing experience to their customers. Mahika Mano allows customer to sway as they sip on their coffee and eat. Located in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, Mahika Mano doesn’t have a single chair. It may come as a bit of a shock to those who haven’t seen a coffee shop minus chair. But things only get comfortable once you get over your initial shock. To ensure that people dont get too comfy, there’s a 90 to 120 minutes time limit so that everyone gets a chance to sway happily. They implement the policy depending on the crowd. Earthquake cafe l Disaster Café, Lloret de Mar, Spain A 7.8 earthquake is something that most of us would do anything to avoid. However, many coffee lovers head to disaster cafe to experience that. You better be good at abalancing or else you are likely to pour hot coffee all over your clothes. The cafe looks ordinary, but there’s a lot of fun stuff inside. And you always have to be on your toes because you never know when disaster may actually strike. Cat Cafe l Cafe des Chats, Marais district, Paris At this cafe in Paris, customers pet their feline friends lovingly. People who come here to sip coffee and grab a bite, enjoy the company of the resident cats too. The cats make their way around the cafe in a leisurely manner weaving between the chairs and tables. In all, 12 stay cats have made this cafe their home. Leggy cafe l Café Con Piernas, Chile A popular coffee shop theme — Café con piernas (Spanish for ‘coffee with legs’), has women dressed in revealing clothes and heels serving coffee. There are many such joints in Chile. However, not all cafes have women dressed in bikins, many of them have stuck to the tradionat mini skirts with the heels. These cafes serve only coffee, nothing alcoholic will find its way to the menu. Three well known café con piernas chains in Chile are Cafe do Brasil, Cafe Caribe, and Cafe Haiti. Dumpster Cafe l Dumpster Cafes, Netherlands Here’s a great cafe idea. It doesn’t require too much space and is pretty cost effective, People have found the FOUNDation Project’s creations admirable. They have built cafes out of trash containers and other material that is considered waste, The cafes are extremely eco-friendly. Organised by Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten, two designers hailing from the Netherlands, the FOUNDation Project was created for a small festival in Utrecht. But the idea was later applied to other cities as well. Maid Cafe l Cure Maid Café, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan Though the first maid cafe — Cure Maid Cafe — was established in 2001, many such joints have mushroomed around the world since then. You can now find many such cafes across China, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Canada, and US. They offer many services like maid kneeling by the table to stir cream and sugar into a customer’s coffee, and some cafés even offer spoon-feeding services to customers. Some even let the customer indulge in a video game battle or card game with the maids at work. Pay-It-Forward Cafe l Corner Perk, South Carolina Seen the movie Pay It Forward where you do something for someone and then that person does the same for someone else to create a chain of good deeds? The story of this cafe is equally inspiring. A customer paid owner Josh Cooke her bill and left $100 extra to pay for all those who ordered after her until the money ran out, The lady preferred to remain anonymous, but the word of her deed spread about. Since them people leave money to pay of others’ food and drinks. Some people don’t even buy anything when they come in; they just stop to donate. Wooden Stick Starbucks l Starbucks, Fukuoka, Japan While there’s nothing special about walking into a Starbucks, this one is definitely one-of-a-kind cafe. This joint is decorated with over 200 wooden sticks. Located in Fukuoka, Japan, this coffee shop is very popular with locals. Movie cafe l Wormhole Coffee Shop, Chicago, US The Wormhole Coffee Shop, Chicago, knows the importance of cult classics, and that’s probably why they have made it the theme of their cafe. Memorabilia from may epic movies like Back to the Future and Star Wars can be found at this joint.