New sleep cafe opens in Japan, offers free coffee and luxurious naps to visitors

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Now you can nap in a $9,000 bed and enjoy mood lighting and soothing music with your coffee for a limited time in Tokyo.

 

 

Japan is never short of ideas when it comes to new themes for restaurants and cafes. So far, we’ve seen amazing eateries styled as elementary school classrooms, fairytale Disney settings, and historic inns loved by samurai, but now there’s a new place that promises to take visitors away to another world, and this time the destination is the world of sleep.

 

It’s all part of a new collaboration between Nescafe and France Bed to help mark World Sleep Day, which is held on the Friday before the March Equinox every year. The limited-time cafe has opened up at Nescafe Harajuku, which has transformed its premises into a dimly lit wonderland for the event, with a total of ten electronic reclining beds from France Bed for customers to try.

 

 

 

Three varieties of electric reclining beds will be available for customers to rest on, including the luxury double-sized “Bosutesso BO-08â€, which retails for 980,000-yen (US$8,694).

 

â–¼The “Gran Max GX-04C 3Mâ€, which retails for 420,000 yen

 

And the single mattress “RP1000DLXâ€, which has a built-in recliner and can be used on a bed frame or by itself on tatami or wood floors, with a price tag of 118,519 yen.

 

Each bed will come with a smartphone-controlled Phillips “Hue†light, set to “relax†mode, and a Sony Hi-Res corresponding walkman and headphone set, to help visitors drift away to the land of sleep, no matter what time of the day or night they visit.

 

 

While there’s no obligation to try the sleep experience when visiting the cafe, customers who’d like to participate are required to order at least one food item from the cafe’s regular menu. Before customers drift off, staff will serve up a free cup of Nescafe decaffeinated coffee, and upon waking, customers will be given a cup of regular coffee to help perk them up before they step back out into the real world.

 

 

The Nescafe × France Bed Sleep Cafe will only be around until 26 March, so if you’re looking for a break while you’re in the Harajuku area, be sure to pop by soon. With a two-hour sleep limit for each customer, it’s the perfect place to stop and recharge during a long day of sightseeing around the city!

 

Cafe Information

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Address: Tokyo-to, Shibuya-ku, Jingumae 1-22-8

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Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. (last order 8:30 p.m.)

Website (Japanese)

 

Source, images: PR Times

 

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/03/20/new-sleep-cafe-opens-in-japan-offers-free-coffee-and-luxurious-naps-to-visitors/

 

[Ruby]

Oh hell yes, i need one of these near me 

[scarlette007]

Yeah. To fall asleep completely and lose awareness in the presence of strangers isn't very safe. I'll pass.

[Jstarfully]

Yeah. To fall asleep completely and lose awareness in the presence of strangers isn't very safe. I'll pass.

 

Literally every single person in that cafe and all those passing by who can see through the door would have to have bad intentions for something bad to happen.

[sakurahanabira]

Yeah. To fall asleep completely and lose awareness in the presence of strangers isn't very safe. I'll pass.

 

this is Japan, though.

[scarlette007]

Literally every single person in that cafe and all those passing by who can see through the door would have to have bad intentions for something bad to happen.

Actually theft is a swift act and happens all the time is crowded and not so crowded areas even in daylight so the very fact that people will now be sleeping makes theft/pickpocketing super easy.

 

Theft is international. To think it is only a "Western" crime is ridiculous.

[Jstarfully]

Actually theft is a swift act and happens all the time is crowded and not so crowded areas even in daylight so the very fact that people will now be sleeping makes theft/pickpocketing super easy.

 

Theft is international. To think it is only a "Western" crime is ridiculous.

 

Oh THEFT.

I thought you meant something like really horrible. Like sexual assault or murder or something ooops my dark imagination will be back over here then :P

[scarlette007]

Oh THEFT.

I thought you meant something like really horrible. Like sexual assault or murder or something ooops my dark imagination will be back over here then :P

... That's extreme. Theft/pickpocketing/criminal mischief is more on point to what I was thinking.

[PeachyHearts]

I gotta go there~

[030413]

Actually theft is a swift act and happens all the time is crowded and not so crowded areas even in daylight so the very fact that people will now be sleeping makes theft/pickpocketing super easy.

 

Theft is international. To think it is only a "Western" crime is ridiculous.

 

I've heard many stories of Japanese men passing out drunk on the streets in Japan and waking up to having everything in there pocket. Of course theft occurs in Japan but I would say it could be less prevalent than in other cultures/societies.

[yunhae_yunhae]

I NEED ONE OF THESE, would genuinely spend my lunch hours in one of them

[blank_stare]

I'm not worried about theft or rapist or whatever. It's the germs on the bed?! How will you clean the mattress? I mean yeah, there's a cover on it but what if there's a stain that leaks onto the bed?