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Tokyo’s amazing 2D Cafe looks like an illustration, but it’s an actual restaurant you can eat in!

Tokyo’s amazing 2D Cafe looks like an illustration, but it’s an actual restaurant you can eat in!

Tokyo has no shortage of eateries that take inspiration from the 2-D media world.
There’s a permanent Sailor Moon musical restaurant and cafes for both the Pokémon franchise and Square Enix Cafe video game realms, plus limited-time pop-up venues like the Ranma 1/2 Cafe.
But the brand-new 2D Cafe in Tokyo’s Shin Okubo neighborhood isn’t called what it is because it’s a salute to settings and characters fans have seen on the screen of their TV.
Instead, it makes the real, three-dimensional world look like a flat illustration.
When it comes to food and drink, the 2D Cafe takes a more conventional approach.