Nakata open café for World Cup fans

Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata has opened a football cafe in Tokyo to offer fans a venue to gather and cheer for the the Japan team during 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Since fans must stay up late at night to watch the games Japan will play in, live, the casual cafe offers cozy sofas and chairs as well as high speed internet connections and X-box game facilities.

Nakata opened a similar cafe as a business during the 2002 World Cup which was held in Japan and South Korea.

Four years ago the “Nakata.net cafe” in Tokyo offered fans various information through the internet and big screen TVs as 150,000 soccer fans from around the world came to Japan in during the one-month the matches were held.

Nakata has been deeply involved in everything about the cafe from designing interior and the exterior to choosing the food menu.

The cafe hopes to attract non-Japanese customers as well by putting all 64 live games on screens.

Nakata, who has a web diary of the same name as the cafe said on March 28 that he hope the football cafe will be a meeting place between Japanese and Non-Japanese football fans where they can share their passion for football.

The cafe was open on Tuesday (April 25) and will close July 16 — nearly a week after the final match of the World Cup is held.

So if you are in Toyko in June please do go and check it out.