Asia is 🍌🍌🍌 for animal cafes: dog, cat, rabbit, goat, sheep, micro-pig, even snake. The latest craze to sweep Japan, epicenter of $10 lattes with a side of heavy petting, is the owl cafe. (You can thank Harry Potter for that one.) At Owl Family in Fukuoka’s Kawabata Arcade, guests pay ¥1500 (about $13 USD) for an hour with a rotating cast of feathered beauties, including barn, elf, and snowy owls. They look healthy and the staffers handle them with care, but they’re still nocturnal birds of prey. So it’s no surprise that many ornithologists and wildlife conservationists don’t condone keeping the endangered creatures in domestic captivity—let alone a gimmicky mall environment where people can take selfies with a raptor perched on their head. Fukuro No Mise, a similar cafe in Tokyo, has a two-month waiting list, indicating that the trend isn’t going away anytime soon. Your call whether to partake, but in hindsight, we wish we hadn’t.

4-211 Kamikawabatamachi, Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan; +81-6-6360-6205.