What's A 'Nap Cafe' I Hear You Say?

.....Well, one just opened in Tokyo (of course!).  The concept of having coffee in a cafe is nothing new....most of us do that most days, if not more than once a day.   But a daytime snooze in a cafe, in the city....well, that's something else.   Read on to discover more about this new experience and the benefits of sleeping on the go...😴

Grab a decaf. Hit the hay. Have an espresso.

The worst part about being out and about in the world is that, at any given moment, you don't have access to a bed. (Ever felt like you really wanted to take a nap in the middle of some mundane activity? Yeah, exactly.)

But, lest you spend the rest of your days cloistered at home with easy bed access, a new cafe in Japan is trying to make the world a better place. For a limited time only, the Harajuku district in Tokyo will be home to a nap cafe. The dimly lit eatery features 10 beds—each outfitted with headphones and a special light for optimal snoozin' and cruisin'.

The nap cafe—which is taking over the Nescafe Harajuku for the time being—is a partnership between Nescafe and France Bed Co., which provided all of the cafe's $9,000 mattresses. The occasion for the cafe's opening was World Sleep Day, which took place March 17. Per Mental Floss, the location will remain REM-enabling until March 26, at which point regular ol' coffee will revert back to being the cafe's way to make you feel refreshed and alive.

But while the naps last, there are rules. Customers are required to buy at least one food item to qualify for naps, and there's a two-hour limit on the dozing off. (Any longer and you'd have to call it a sleep cafe anyway.) Nescafe Harajuku is, however, giving nappers a presleep cup of decaf coffee and a post-nap jolt of real java.

Nescafe Harajuku's nap cafe is not Japan's first experiment with the form. Back in 2012, a series of cafes that encouraged napping popped up throughout Tokyo. Nap cafes are still something of a novelty, though, perhaps because the mass of clientele undeterred by sleeping around dining strangers was too scant to start a global trend. But for those driven purely by a love of naps, you have five days left to enjoy Nescafe's offerings. Sweet dreams.


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