Japan hotel offers mini beds for stuffed toys, appealing to travellers with plush fellows
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Growing numbers of young people in the country are no longer travelling alone. Instead, they are hitting the road with carefully dressed plush toys.
Some place them in backpacks with transparent windows, while others carry them in their arms.
Many social media users have shared their travel adventures with plush toys, most of them young people or fans of popular cartoon characters.
Two fluffy felines take a cat nap in one of the mini beds on offer at a hotel in Japan. Photo: QQ.com
One traveller always takes Chiikawa, a shy and tearful white hamster from a Japanese manga series, on his trips across Asia.
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