{"id":3606,"date":"2012-10-04T23:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/why-japan-is-just-the-best\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T09:02:15","slug":"why-japan-is-just-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/04\/why-japan-is-just-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan Is Just The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/lifestyle\/view\/japans-first-cuddle-cafe-lets-you-sleep-with-a-stranger-for-y6000-an-hour\" target=\"_blank\">from Japan Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Japan\u2019s first &#8216;cuddle cafe&#8217; lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Steven Simonitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin: 0px 4px 16px 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url('http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/img\/image_edgelt.gif),%20url(http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/img\/image_edgert.gif),%20url(http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/img\/image_edgelb.gif),%20url(http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/img\/image_edgerb.gif'); background-color: #cdcdcd; width: 204px; float: right; line-height: 15px; background-position: 0% 0%, 100% 0%, 0% 100%, 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat\" class=\"article_image\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 2px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; display: block\" class=\"article_image_inner\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/images\/size\/x\/2012\/09\/cuddlecafe.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline: none; text-decoration: none; color: #131313\" class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"Japan\u2019s first 'cuddle cafe' lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/images\/size\/200x\/2012\/09\/cuddlecafe.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block; width: 200px\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Japan\u2019s first 'cuddle cafe' lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0TOKYO \u2014 Sometimes, after a long, stressful day, there\u2019s nothing more comforting than crawling into bed with your significant other and falling asleep in their arms.But what if you don\u2019t have anyone to cuddle with in the first place? If you\u2019re in Japan, you might think to go to a soapland or some other kind of brothel, but then you\u2019d have to deal with all that sex when you really just want to close your eyes and rest in the warmth of another\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! Before you resign yourself to another lonely night of shedding tears on your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakimakurapillow.com\/s1\/evangelion-rei-ayanami.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rei Ayanami dakimakura<\/a>, why not stop by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/soineya.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soineya<\/a>, Japan\u2019s first \u201cco-sleeping specialty shop,\u201d where customers can pay to sleep in the arms of a beautiful girl\u2014with no strings attached.Soineya (literally, \u201csleep together shop\u201d) opened its doors on Sept 25 in none other than Akihabara, Tokyo\u2019s electronics district, hub of otaku culture and birthplace of other eccentric establishments like maid caf\u00e9s. Soineya defines itself as a \u201cco-sleeping specialty shop,\u201d which we\u2019re going to denominate \u201ccuddle cafe\u201d because it has a better ring to it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the homepage, Soineya hopes to offer patrons \u201cthe simple and ultimate comfort of sleeping together with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/lifestyle\/view\/japans-first-cuddle-cafe-lets-you-sleep-with-a-stranger-for-y6000-an-hour\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Japan Today<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Japan Today Japan\u2019s first &#8216;cuddle cafe&#8217; lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour By Steven Simonitch \u00a0TOKYO \u2014 Sometimes, after a long, stressful day, there\u2019s nothing more comforting than crawling into bed with your significant other and falling asleep in their arms.But what if you don\u2019t have anyone to cuddle with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}