FANCY strolling the streets of Japan as a cat? Now you can with a new online map — called cat street view — which allows tourists to explore the streets of the city Onomichi from the perspective of a feline.

    Tourism bosses hope that cat’s eye map tool will increase tourism to the city, which is famous for its estimated 150,000 feline inhabitants.

    “We decided to focus on cats because they know everything about the city, including the back streets,” a tourism spokesman said.

    So far, the map just covers two streets, but they are going to expand its reach by using a camera attached to a stick that hovers eight inches (20.3 cm) above the ground.

    The map lets you explore the city as Lala, a fluffy kitty with emerald-colored eyes, who lives with a local hair salon owner.

    Users wander the streets as if they are eight inches above the ground — the height of a cat — and are able to see the city from a cat’s perspective.

    It’s exactly the same as using Google Street View, but everything is further down, and you can see what it is like to be one of the many cats that inhabit the city.(SD-Agencies)