A cat café is a theme café whose attraction is cats that can be watched and played with.
== Etymology ==
Cat café has been officially recognized in the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English since August 2015.
== History ==
The world's first cat café, "Cat Flower Garden" (貓花園), opened its doors in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998. The Taiwanese cat café eventually became a tourist destination, attracting tourists from Japan as well as all over the globe. Although the origin of cat café is in Taiwan, the concept blossomed in Japan, where the first one named "Neko no Jikan" (lit. "Cat's Time"...