If your kids are noisy or running around in restaurants or cafés, you will definitely be the recipient of disapproving looks.
But parents want to socialize with friends by drinking tea.
There is a place in Japan that their wishes can come true.
That's a kid’s café. Most have a play area like this one.
You can pay a certain fee and then your children can have a great time playing.
One café has a price system in which one adult orders a meal and the child can play free for one hour.
There is usually an adult supervising the play area and monitoring the kids for safety or rules.
So parents don’t have to watch their kids all the time, can socialize with their friend and just enjoy themselves having lunch.
Some cafés have magazines for adults or they even get their nails done.
A kid’s café offers a variety of meals for kids too.
It usually unlikely that regular restaurants will offer baby food.
The photo above shows baby food for older babies.
It has risotto and fruits neatly arranged in a way adults also try some.
Some cafés offer birthday parties.
My son celebrated his third birthday at a kid’s café.
Birthday cakes can be ordered in advance.
The staff lights the candles on the cake and brings it to your table.
The birthday song is played and everyone sings.
My son played so much in the play area and enjoyed being the birthday boy.
He was so happy.
Information
Some good kid’s cafés in Tokyo
・ Skip Kids (10 stores in Aoyama, Yokohama, and other locations)
http://skip-kids.co.jp/
・ Dear Kid’s Café (Kamishakujii)
http://www.dearkids-k.com/
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