When we went to Japan our youngest was pig mad.

I’m talking pig clothes, pig themed bedroom, and endless visits to farms to see pigs. We’d recently been to Kew Little Pigs, which is based in Kew just outside London, where they breed micro pigs and allow the public to visit them , groom them, and play with them. The team there told us about the MiPig cafe in Tokyo, because they supply the piglets.

And as soon as we heard about it, we knew we had to go!

Visiting The MiPig Cafe, Tokyo

MiPig is a micropig cafe in the heart of Harajuku. There is another one in Osaka apparently, but we didn’t visit that one.

You book in advance (you can sometimes book by walking in on the day but there are often no slots left. they weren’t accepting walk ins on the day we visited) and you can either sit in the main room where you ‘share’ the pigs with other guests, or you can choose one of the 3 private rooms.

These are named after the homes of the 3 little pigs: the brick room, the stick room, and the straw room. And each private room is allocated 2 piglets. Ours were called Anakin and Padme.

We were seated and then the pigs were brought into the room. We left them to get acclimatised to the environment while their carer told us how to hold them and treat them. We didn’t pick the pigs up at any point. When they climbs onto our laps that was their choice, which I thought was a nice approach.

We were each given a blanket to place over our legs, in case any of the piglets had an accident and to protect our legs from their trotters.

We spent a full hour with the pigs, watching them play with each other, stroking them, and holding them. One of them even fell asleep in my lap! I had originally booked a 30 minute session (and thought that would be enough) but pig boy could have stayed here all day. We ended up staying for an hour.

How To Book The MiPig Cafe

You book the MiPig cafe directly through their website. This is both the easiest and the cheapest way to book – there’s no need to use a 3rd party for this experience. Use this link.

You don’t pay in advance, you pay as you leave based on the duration of your stay. It’s 1,100 yen entry fee plus 1,100 yen for each 30 minutes you stay. This means a 1 hour session costs 3,300 yen (£17) per person.

For the private rooms you pay an extra 500 yen (£2.84) per person, per half hour.

Reservations can be made up to 60 days in advance.

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