Cat’s Paradise. The Most Amazing Places to Visit for All Cat Lovers out There

Do you love cats? If you do, then you will definitely appreciate these places that are designed to make all cat-loving people feel at home. You may be surprised, but there are actually lots of different attractions, cafes, museums and theme parks to feed your cat obsession. You probably know about Japan’s Hello Kitty theme park because it’s considered to be the ultimate attraction for most cat lovers. No doubt that the Japanese have the highest per capita cat ownership in the world, but that doesn’t mean that the rest doesn’t take part in this cat addiction movement.

Hello Kitty theme park

This is a must-see place for all fans of Hello Kitty and cats in general. It also goes by the name Sanrio Puroland and attracts more than a million visitors each year. The park hosts musicals, rides, and Hello Kitty’s house.

 

The Supreme Cat Show, Birmingham, UK

The world’s most luxurious cat show takes place once a year in November at the National Exhibition Centre. Here you can see the most beautiful cats that are showed to a jury and judged in the ring.

 

Festival of the Cats, Ypres, Belgium

Festival of the Cats, or Kattenstoet, takes place once in every three years on the second Sunday of May. The celebration features a parade, lots of floats and loud music, numerous stilt walkers and other costumed people. The festival’s culmination is marked with a performance in which a jester throws toy cats from the Cloth Hall belfry down to the crowd.

 

Moscow Cats Theater, Moscow, Russia

This unique and peculiar theater was founded in 1990 by Yuri Kuklachev and his son Dmitri. The troupe includes about 120 cats who take part in various performances and stunts, such as teetering on a rocking horse or walking a rope.

 

Kuching Cat Museum, Kuching, Malaysia

The place welcomes its visitors with an enormous cat face which serves as the entrance to the museum. Frankly, it is quite enough to set the tone for this quirky attraction. Inside you can find exhibitions, artifacts and artworks celebrating cats, who are considered to be lucky animals in Malaysia.

 

Dominique and his flying house cats, Key West, US

Dominique LeFort and his lovely house cats usually perform for the visitors of the Sunset Celebration, which is a nightly arts festival at Mallory Square Dock. During the show, the cats jump through flaming hoops and cross tightropes.

 

Kattenkabinet, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This museum has a an impressive collection of cat-centered art peaces, such as paintings, posters and furniture. There is also a gift shop where you can buy something memorable.

 

Stray Cat Hostel, Istanbul, Turkey

The Stray Cat Hostel is one of Istanbul’s most famous attractions. Its interior is full of cat-themed decorations, and you can also see real felines chilling out everywhere. The Stray Cat also offers a free staying for artists who want to perform or create something within the hostel.

 

Feline Historical Museum, Alliance, US

The museum has the world’s largest exhibition devoted to cats. It includes a cat library, cat artworks and historical artifacts, for example, the ribbon of the first ever cat show winner, which was awarded in 1895.

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Cat Town Cafe, Oakland, US

This is the first cat cafe ever to open in America. It’s a hybrid between drinking and cat zones, although these two parts are separated by a corridor with closed doors on either end. It even has different bathrooms for the people who have entered the cat zone and those who have not.

 

The Algonquin, New York City, US

This historic hotel is located at 59 West 44th Street in Manhattan. One of its previous owners, Frank Case, was known for his kind attitude towards homeless cats. One of them even lived in the hotel lobby. Now the tradition is still alive with a new cat called Matilda.

 

Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, London, UK

This cat cafe located in London is home to about ten cats who contribute to warm and cozy atmosphere of this place.

 

Inthar Heritage House, Shan State, Myanmar

This house was created within the project aimed to bring Burmese cats back into the environment of their native habitat. The cats living here were chosen from UK and Australia as breeding stock for reintroduction into Myanmar.

 

Tashirojima (Cat Island), Miyagi, Japan

Nowadays, the cat population outnumbers the amount of people living on this island. Cats can be found literally anywhere. The locals love them so much that all dogs were banned from the area.

 

The Cat Museum, Siauliai, Lithuania

This Lithuanian museum has a cat exposition of more than 10,000 art pieces, including cat statues made from crystal, wood, and amber. All furniture within this museum has a cat theme as well.

 

Gotokuji Temple, Tokyo, Japan

The white cat figures are quite recognizable, aren’t they? But the most unbelievable fact is that this is a Buddhist temple which has now become a public shrine to felines.

 

Largo Di Torre Argentina, Rome, Italy

These ancient ruins are also a large cat sanctuary. It’s home more than 300 homeless cats and visitors are welcome to adopt them.

 

Have you been to any of these places? Would you like to visit them in the future?