Cafe where you can stare at employees for 1000 yen (6 photo)

This is a cafe called Soineya in Japan where customers are allowed to hug strangers for a fee in an attempt to soften the effects of the country's strict social norms. And if you look at the rules of life and everyday life of the Japanese - it definitely makes a lot of sense.





The Japanese dream is to lay your head on someone's lap

In Japan, it is not customary to touch each other, it is very difficult and there is no time to get close to people, and in school they forbid you to have romances, so by the age of 20, many people simply have no experience and social skills are practically lost. So they have to open establishments to help lost people fight loneliness.



The establishment is innocent, but the ad with a photo of a bed looks like an invitation to a motel in the red light district

A study has shown that 45 percent of women and 25 percent of men aged 16 to 24 are not interested or even inclined to sexual contact. And a Cabinet Office survey in 2022 showed that more than a quarter of Japanese people in their 30s do not plan to marry. 34 percent of all households are made up of single people.

More and more people in Japan are turning away from intimate relationships.

For a higher price, the cafe allows overnight stays, with strict restrictions on touching. So the cafe owners don't even worry about customers pestering anyone. They don't need to.

Cuddle Cafe Price List

Here's a rough list of the services and prices you can get at Soineya Cafe.

A 20-minute nap at the cafe costs 3,000 yen, while a full 10-hour overnight session costs 50,000 yen.





32,000 to sleep next to someone like this...

For an extra 1,000 yen, customers can lay their heads on the waitress' lap or cuddle with her for three minutes. The same rate also allows them to gaze into her eyes for one minute or pat her back soothingly.

The cafe says its goal is to provide customers with "a simple yet comfortable way to sleep next to someone."



The cafe's advertising materials feature these photos

Since this is Japan, you can be sure that the rights of the girls on the staff are really respected, the Japanese will not allow themselves anything on top of what they paid for. So here you can't stroke their hair, meet after work and all that stuff.

Does it help or make things worse?

As one of the customers of this cafe said, when he talks to girls in real life, he doesn't know what they are thinking. Even if they smile sweetly, they can lie or criticize him behind my back.



The cafe has these corner beds with soft walls

And here, for some reason, he can relax. Although it's pretty strange, how can he be sure that the little girl you pay money to doesn't think even worse things about you, because she's forced to talk to you for money, and those other girls on the street talk for free of their own free will.

Japanese society has treated cafes quite warmly, because this very society largely consists of loners who order such services. If a cafe can help you throw off the burden of loneliness for a while, it's a useful cafe. And it will help prevent people from going to extremes or becoming maniacs.



There was a cafe with a similar theme in Osaka, but it was more expensive.