Welcome to Aoshima, the Japanese Cat Island that boasts 120 cats.
Cat lovers dreams have come true in the small fishing village of Aoshima in Japan – where cats outnumber the human inhabitants 6-1.
This tiny island is home to only 22 people but there are over 120 cats! The story goes that the islanders raised silkworms to produce silk for their fishing nets. But mice eat silkworms, so cats were kept in order to keep the mice population down!
Would you visit Aoshima? Let us know in the comments! Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe to Uzoo on YouTube for more animal videos!
They don’t eat the cats, do they?
No, I don’t think so!
Defo not! Cats are off limit in Japan. 🙂
Thank you, Marc. I simply shudder when I hear the unthinkable occurs in some countries.
Have a sweet day.
I know 🙁 but Japan is cat heaven 🙂 they even look after their stray cats. Pigeon feeding? So yesterday!!! Feed your stray cats and it will keep pigeons at bat haha
This is certainly a dream for us…not to go to Aoshima, but to have so many cats around us. This post made us smile, we love to see the expressions of each one of them 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 <3
Thank you 😀
Sweet 🙂 Is there some cat haiku on way?
We may need one! Do you want to write one? 🙂
Sure! Would you like me to post it here?
Yes please 😀 send it to marc@katzenworld.co.uk with your website url and I’ll publish it on purrsday poetry ^^
That’s the name of or new poetry section btw haha
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I would love to visit the island…….and I’m so happy the islanders and visitors take such good care of the cat population……..it’s heart warming.
Pam
I want to go too 😀
I’d love to go but doubt if I will get there.
I thought of this island with all your pictures of cats on your Japan trip!
Those cats are beautiful! What a dream it would be to have so many kitties around! We always talk about how much we’d love to be in the middle of a room full of puppies, but I’d be happy on Aoshima too! 😀
Wow! I wonder if the simultaneous purring has a calming effect on the humans 🙂 I wouldn’t mind visiting, it would be amazing.
I cannot believe that is REAL, as it is so amazing. That is a place I would go to and NEVER WANT TO LEAVE! Wow. Cats everywhere! What more can you ask for? I love it!
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I want to move here…
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I want to move here…
What a wonderful picture! Yes, I would visit that island. HECK, I’d like to live there! [?]
Many of these cats look like me. Perhaps I should join them. But then, would I have to hunt for food? Because I much prefer being fed.
The link is broken. I wanted to do a post of this last year but couldn’t get permission from the photographer. Where did you get the permissions? The images aren’t watermarked and there are no citations.
Hey Layla
My friend from Uzoo posted this story. I’ll ask her from whom she got those!
Thanks,
Marc
I fixed the url to their channel! 🙂
Dude – the humans and I world move there in a heartbeat!?
My kind of place!
This is Heaven!!!!
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Thank you for sharing. What an amazing place.
Are the groups of cats tossing the one into the air? Some kind of game? 🙂