Visitors to the indoor alpaca petting zoo pay 1,000 yen to spend 30 minutes with the animals. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – The quiet of early morning streets in one downtown Tokyo neighbourhood is broken by joggers, parents with children in strollers – and a pair of alpacas out for their daily constitutional walk.
After a round of brushing and combing, the woolly natives of South America are ready for their day: spending time with visitors who pay 1,000 yen for 30 minutes petting them, hugging them and burying faces in their fleece. Manager Shinya Ide says the secret to the five-year-old alpacas’ appeal is that looking at them is comforting, and petting them even more soothing.
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