いぬカフェRio浅草店 — Restaurant in Tokyo

We were walking along Asakusa during winter this year and this lady was holding a dog standing outside. It's a dog cafe!

Since we were cold and we love dogs we decided to give it a try.

I had been to dog cafe before and had lukewarm experience, so I roughly knew what to expect but hoped it would be different.

We misunderstood the pricing, it ended up more expensive than we thought it would be, but I put the blame on ourselves. However, I was not very happy about how they handled the registrations and checkouts because the time starts while you were still preparing (change shoes etc) and the time didn't stop for unexpected circumstance like long wait during checkouts.

Since we didn't really enjoy the experience, we checked out before an hour, but a group went in just as we wanted to do so and we had to wait for them to do the registration. So we stood there and by the time we got our turn, we thought we still had time but apparently not, the clock was different, we exceeded a few minutes but had to pay a full extra hour for waiting in line because they didn't have a separate check out.

The experience. There were a lot of dogs there, they were cute, but they were bored from too many interactions. Most of them preferred to be left alone, and when we were there there was a fight (which was fine because it was handled right away). If you love dogs, visit shelters instead to give your affections to those that really need and want them instead of exhausted cafe dogs. I learned my lesson, I thought I wanted to try the one in Japan, but it was the same.

The place was clean, brightly lit, with a lot of space for dogs. I assume we were there during non peak period, so on peak period things could be worse.

It was expensive and way beyond our expectation in term of prices because of a few things I...

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