Cat Cafés in Fukuoka: Tenjin, Nishijin, Kitakyushu, Kurume and Ainoshima Cat Island

Fukuoka’s first cat café, Neko Cafe Keurig, opened in Daimyo on 20 March 2008 with ten rescued cats. It’s still there, and it has taken in about 1,000 cats since. Fukuoka Prefecture now has 45 cat cafés in our directory: 13 in Fukuoka City, 12 in Kitakyushu, and the rest spread across Itoshima, Dazaifu, Iizuka, Kurume, Yame and other towns. About half are rescue cafés where you can adopt a cat. There’s no cat café around Hakata Station or Canal City, though: from Hakata, Tenjin and Akasaka are about five minutes away on the subway’s Airport Line.

We checked every café below in November 2026, against its own website and social accounts, booking pages and newest Google reviews, for prices, hours, age limits and adoption terms. Many close on irregular days, so look at the café’s page before you go. At the end we cover Ainoshima, the cat island 17 minutes by boat from Shingu.

How Fukuoka’s Cat Cafés Charge

The chains charge by time. Cat Cafe MOCHA charges ¥1,045 for the first 30 minutes on weekdays and ¥1,210 at weekends and on holidays, then ¥220 per 10 minutes, with a daily cap of ¥3,520 on weekdays and ¥3,850 at weekends (the Chikushino branch charges by the 10 minutes from the start). Coorikuya (空陸家), which sits inside pet shops, charges ¥715 to ¥880 for 30 minutes or ¥1,980 for free time, with a drink bar. Both keep young pedigree cats and don’t rehome them.

Independent and rescue cafés cost about ¥1,200 to ¥1,500 an hour. Some include a drink, and others ask for one drink order on top. A few are cheaper: Kokura Nekocyaya in Kitakyushu starts at ¥700 for 30 minutes, Nekotaro in Iizuka asks about ¥500 an hour, and Ben-Ben in Moji charges ¥500 with no time limit.

Adoption terms vary a lot. Keurig rehomes its cats for free; Kaipooh charges from ¥10,000 after a two-week trial and a home visit; Pucoconchi charges ¥10,000 to ¥28,000; Cafe Gatto charges ¥3,000 at the start of a trial and ¥30,000 when the adoption is finalised; and ANELLA CAFE charges ¥77,000 to ¥99,000. Most ask that the whole household agrees, that pets are allowed where you live and that the cat stays indoors, and some, like Cafe Gatto and Nha Con Meo, only rehome to people living within about an hour’s drive.

Check the age limit before you bring children. Pucoconchi doesn’t admit under-10s, Kokura Nekocyaya in principle admits no one of junior-high age or younger, Cafe Gatto admits only junior-high age and up, and Neko Cafe Bineko generally turns away children aged 10 and under. At MOCHA, children below junior-high age come with a guardian, up to three per adult. Families do best at ANELLA CAFE (preschoolers free), PARK72 Neko Cafe and Kaipooh (from age 5).

Bring socks. Many cafés have you change into slippers, and some won’t let you in barefoot or in tights. The other rules are much the same everywhere: don’t pick up the cats, don’t wake sleeping ones, don’t use flash and don’t feed them anything but the café’s treats.

Read the reviews too. In 2025 and 2026 visitors complained about smell or cleaning at Coorikuya’s Fukuoka Higashi, Fukuoka Nishi, Koga and Yume Town Iizuka branches and at a few independent cafés. We list every café and say plainly where there are problems.

Fukuoka City Cat Cafés at a Glance

Tenjin and Daimyo

Tenjin and Daimyo have a chain café you can pay for by the 10 minutes and Fukuoka’s original cat café.

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Cat Cafe MOCHA Tenjin Daimyo is on the third floor of the NEO Daimyo Building in Daimyo 1-chome, about four minutes from the Solaria exit of Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station and seven or eight minutes from Akasaka subway station. It has 17 young pedigree cats, which crowd round at the 10:30am and 7:30pm feeding times. You pay ¥1,045 for the first 30 minutes on weekdays and ¥1,210 at weekends and on holidays, then ¥220 per 10 minutes, up to ¥3,520 a day on weekdays and ¥3,850 at weekends. The drink bar is included, and there are no bookings. Children below junior-high age come with a guardian, up to three per adult. It’s open daily from 10am to 8pm, with last entry at 7:30pm. In 2026 some reviewers said the cats were hard to touch unless you bought treats, and others complained about the staff.

Neko Cafe Keurig Daimyo is on the ground floor of the WATT Building in Daimyo 1-chome, about five minutes from Akasaka Station. It opened on 20 March 2008 with ten rescued cats as Fukuoka’s first cat café. Today about 30 rescued and surrendered cats live there, many of them older, and they’re rehomed free of charge after a questionnaire and an interview. You pay ¥1,250 for 30 minutes or ¥1,500 for an hour, then ¥200 per 10 minutes, with unlimited soft drinks and snacks; cat treats come from a ¥100 capsule machine. There are no bookings, and it’s open every day from noon to 9pm, the latest of any cat café in central Fukuoka. The room is small and gets crowded, and in summer 2026 some reviewers mentioned a smell.

Neko Cafe Keurig The Loft Tenjin, its second branch, opened in September 2009 on the fourth floor of the Jolis Building in Imaizumi 1-chome, two or three minutes from the south side of Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station. About 30 rescued cats live in an attic-like room whose big windows look onto the trees of Kego Shrine. Prices and adoption work as at Daimyo, and it’s open from 11am to 8pm on shorter hours. The building entrance is easy to miss, and in autumn 2026 some reviewers complained about the ventilation and smell.

In Nakasu, the small bar Neko-chan Bar Sherbets has a cat as its “manager”, but it’s a bar that mostly takes bookings, not a cat café.

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Ohori Park, Nishijin and Sawara

A few stops west of Tenjin on the Airport Line, rescue cafés and independent cafés cluster together.

ANELLA CAFE Fukuoka Ohori, three or four minutes from exit 4 of Ohorikoen Station, opened on 12 February 2025. Rescued dogs and cats live together there, and it’s also a supported-employment workplace where staff with disabilities care for the animals. You pay ¥800 for 30 minutes, then ¥400 per 15 minutes; elementary-school children pay ¥400 for 30 minutes and preschoolers are free. There are no bookings. It opens at noon on weekdays and 11am at weekends and on holidays, until 6pm. You apply to adopt through LINE, and after an interview and screening the fee, which covers medical costs, is ¥77,000 to ¥99,000.

Neko Cafe Bineko is in a renovated 48-year-old house in Minato, Chūō Ward, 15 minutes on foot from Ohorikoen Station or three minutes from the Kyūyu Center bus stop. Reception and drinks are on the ground floor and the cats are upstairs: pedigrees, many of them long-haired, including Munchkins, Scottish Folds and Ragdolls. An hour costs ¥1,400 with a drink, and 20-minute extensions ¥300. Book by phone; children aged 10 and under are generally not admitted. It’s closed on Thursdays and Fridays, closes at 5pm on other weekdays and 7pm at weekends, and is often quiet on weekdays.

Neko Cafe cota is on the second floor of the Maruei Nishijin Building, three minutes from exit 7 of Nishijin Station towards Tenjin. It opened in July 2017 and has 13 cats, including Kotarō, a tabby “manager”, a Norwegian Forest Cat and a Minuet. By day an hour costs ¥1,300 with a drink, then ¥150 per 10 minutes. From 7pm it’s ¥1,200 with no time limit until closing at 8:30pm, the best-value evening in the city. Under-4s aren’t admitted, and children up to junior-high age need a guardian. The cats “retire” at five and are rehomed to approved owners. It’s closed on Thursdays. In 2026 several reviewers mentioned a smell.

Itonya-go, in Hara 3-chome, Sawara Ward, is a rescue shelter run by the Fukuoka Animal Welfare Association and opened to visitors as a café. About 25 cats taken from public shelters and hoarding cases live in two rooms, and all of them are up for adoption. Adults pay ¥1,300 an hour, school-age children ¥800, and a day pass is ¥2,500, with free drinks. You need socks, which it also sells. Muromi and Fujisaki stations are nearly 20 minutes away on foot, so the bus is easier. It’s closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays and otherwise open from 11am to 7pm.

Kaipooh, a minute or two from Jiromaru Station on the Nanakuma Line, has rescued cats named after manga characters, and you can read manga in the cat room. Adults pay ¥700 for 30 minutes, ¥1,300 for an hour or ¥2,500 for two hours, with free drinks. Children must be at least 5 to enter the cat room. Adoption follows a two-week trial (up to four weeks) and a home visit by staff, and costs from ¥10,000. It’s known for having no smell and has a 5.0 rating on Google. It’s closed on Tuesdays and on some Wednesdays, and otherwise open from 11am to 7pm.

Hogo Neko Cafe Ami in Jinmatsuji, Jōnan Ward, is a small rescue café below a grooming salon, with lots of kittens. It costs ¥800 for 30 minutes or ¥1,400 for an hour, with no drink order needed. About four guests fill it, and it’s best reached by bus from the Nanakuma Line. It’s closed on Mondays and Thursdays and posts its opening days on Instagram.

Hakata, Higashi Ward and Nishi Ward

In November 2026 there was no cat café around Hakata Station, Canal City, KITTE Hakata or Amu Plaza; the one near Canal City in Sumiyoshi has closed. If you’re staying in Hakata, the quickest way to a cat café is the subway to Tenjin or Akasaka.

ANELLA CAFE Hakozaki in Harada, Higashi Ward, 19 minutes on foot from JR Hakozaki Station and with five parking spaces, opened on 17 July 2026 as the second ANELLA CAFE in Fukuoka. It costs ¥1,000 for 30 minutes, ¥200 more than Ohori, and ¥500 for elementary-school children, seniors and people with disabilities. Some of the rescue dogs chase small children, so follow the staff’s lead.

Coorikuya Plus Fukuoka Higashi is inside the Coo&RIKU pet shop, nine minutes from Hakozaki-Miyamae Station on the Hakozaki Line. It costs ¥880 for 30 minutes with the drink bar, ¥165 per extra 10 minutes or ¥1,980 for free time, with no bookings. It has a big tree-shaped cat tower and sunken kotatsu-style seats, but complaints about smell and cleaning ran from 2024 to 2026, and its 3.3 Google rating is the lowest in the city.

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PARK72 Neko Cafe is part of PARK72, a golf-simulator and dining-bar complex in the Atrea Mall on Island City. It has at least 13 cats, including Munchkins, Minuets, Ragdolls and Siberians, and costs ¥750 for 30 minutes on weekdays and ¥850 at weekends, with lower prices for children. Everyone orders a drink, and you can book through Hot Pepper. It’s closed on Mondays, is praised as clean, and is far from any station, so take a Nishitetsu bus or drive.

Coorikuya Plus Fukuoka Nishi is inside a pet shop in Fukushige, Nishi Ward, 24 minutes on foot from Meinohama Station, with free parking. It costs the same as Higashi, but reviews in September and November 2026 complained strongly about the smell and dirty floors.

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Around Fukuoka City: Itoshima, Kasuga, Dazaifu, Koga and Fukutsu

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Hogo Neko Cafe take9 is by the sea in Keya, Shima, Itoshima, and its cats are rescues cared for with the NPO PawPeace Itoshima. The cat room costs ¥1,300 for adults and ¥800 for elementary-school children, with no time limit on weekdays and one hour at weekends and on holidays. Its speciality is paw-shaped taiyaki baked to order. It takes no bookings, and since January 2026 it has been closed on Thursdays and Fridays. There’s a bus from Chikuzen-Maebaru Station towards Keya, but a car is easier.

Creme Chantilly, formerly Rabicatn, is about 15 minutes on foot from JR Minami-Fukuoka Station in Kasuga. It has rescued cats and rescued rabbits; you can touch the rabbits briefly inside their pen at treat time. Weekdays are by booking. In 2026 reviewers said an hour cost about ¥2,000 including the required drink, and in October one complained about cleaning.

Neko Cafe Manbou in Shime has about ten cats, mostly rescues. Booked through Jalan, an hour costs from ¥1,500 and free time with a drink from ¥1,900, and weekday visits are by booking through Jalan. A loft has tatami mats and manga.

Neko Cafe NYAON is on Route 385 in Mukaizano, Dazaifu, about 14 minutes on foot from JR Mizuki Station (and about 3 km from Dazaifu Tenmangū). About 15 cats live there, mostly Scottish Folds, and it also breeds cats. An hour costs ¥1,200 for adults plus a drink, and it’s open from noon to 6pm except on Wednesdays. In 2025 some reviewers complained of a smell.

Cat Cafe MOCHA Chikushino, next to JR Tenpaizan Station, and Cat Cafe MOCHA Fukutsu, eight minutes by bus from JR Fukuma Station, are both on the second floor of AEON malls, and Chikushino stays open until 9pm. Fukutsu has 20 pedigree cats, and one reviewer was helped by staff using a translation app.

In Koga, Coorikuya Fukuoka Koga is attached to a pet shop and costs ¥715 for 30 minutes with the drink bar or ¥1,980 for free time; in summer 2026 reviewers complained about a smell and broken equipment. Also in Koga, Cafe Gatto is a rescue café in a farmhouse built in 1921, where cats lounge on the veranda. The cats live in nine groups by FIV and FeLV status, and you can watch them through an acrylic wall from the café space. Book the cat room online by 6pm the day before; it’s for junior-high age and up, and first-timers watch a video and take a short quiz before going in. Opening days are posted month by month, and in November 2026 its lunches and cakes were suspended.

Kitakyushu and Kokura

Kitakyushu’s cat cafés are spread across Kokurakita and Kokuraminami wards, Moji, Tobata, Yahatanishi and Wakamatsu. Only Kokura Nekocyaya is within walking distance of Kokura Station; for the rest, the nearest stations are JR Jōno, Kurosaki, Moji and others.

Kokura Nekocyaya is on the fifth floor of the Bazaari Kokura building in Uomachi, a minute from Heiwadōri monorail station and ten minutes on foot from JR Kokura Station. It opened in the early 2010s, making it one of Kitakyushu’s oldest cat cafés, and many of its cats are older cats once taken to the city’s animal centre. Since 2012 it has also hand-raised the centre’s kittens as a milk volunteer, and about 20 of its cats are looking for homes. Visits cost ¥700 for 30 minutes, ¥1,200 for an hour or ¥2,000 for two hours, each with a drink. In principle no one of junior-high age or younger is admitted, though a first 30-minute visit is allowed if they stay calm and quiet. It’s open from 11am to 9pm and closed on Mondays except public holidays.

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Pucoconchi, three minutes on foot from JR Jōno Station, opened on Cat Day, 22 November 2021, and reopened after a renovation on 3 January 2026. About 60 rescued cats live there, including cats with paralysed hind legs and amputees, and about 500 have been rehomed so far. Visits cost ¥900 for 30 minutes or ¥1,300 for an hour, with drinks extra. Under-10s aren’t admitted and there are no bookings. A counter café behind a large acrylic wall lets people with cat allergies watch from outside. Adoption costs ¥10,000 for a kitten, ¥25,000 for a male and ¥28,000 for a female, including vaccines, tests and neutering. It’s open daily from noon to 5pm, with an evening session from 7pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends and holidays.

Neko Cafe Sachineko, two minutes from Jōno Station, opened in February 2025. About nine rescued cats live there, and it helps with adoptions. Booking is through Jalan, from ¥1,000 for 45 minutes. It serves homemade quiche and apple pie and sells work by local makers. It’s closed on Fridays and the first Wednesday of the month, and otherwise open from 11am to 5pm.

Coorikuya Kokura is inside a pet shop in Kuzuharahigashi, Kokuraminami Ward, seven minutes from JR Shimosone Station. It costs ¥715 for 30 minutes, ¥1,320 for an hour or ¥1,980 for free time, with the drink bar.

KotaKan, on the second floor of a building three minutes from Tokuriki-Kōdanmae monorail station, is home to 13 cats and two dogs. In August 2026 it announced that weekend opening would resume in September. It’s open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 5pm.

In Moji, Cat Mon Bi Cafe is 16 minutes on foot from JR Moji Station and has 22 cats, a mix of rare breeds and rescues. It charges by time plus one drink order: ¥880 for 30 minutes on weekdays or ¥1,100 at weekends and on holidays. You can’t pick the cats up, but they may climb onto you. It’s closed on Fridays. Near Mojikō Retro, Ben-Ben is an old coffee shop crammed with antiques and Showa-era curios, with a cat room upstairs where ¥500 buys unlimited time. It’s cash only, and some reviewers mention a strong smell. Lien in Yanagimachi is a rescue facility with a pet hotel and a home for elderly dogs and cats, plus a meet-and-greet room you can walk into. It moved at the end of 2025, and through 2026 reviewers said the rooms were smaller, the smell was strong and many cats had colds.

In Tobata, Ribbon, six minutes on foot from JR Kyūshū-Kōdaimae Station, opened on 21 December 2025. It’s run by the NPO Japan Animal Caseworker Association, which also runs the Morinonekosan cat shelter in Moji. All the cats are looking for homes, and on some Sundays dogs join them. An hour costs ¥1,200 and two hours ¥2,000, and opening days are posted on Instagram each month.

In Yahatanishi Ward, Hogo Neko Cafe Nekoyasumi opened on 4 August 2026 in the shopping arcade five minutes from Kurosaki Station. Everyone orders a drink, and you can use the café space on its own. Hogo Neko Cafe Furufuru, about eight minutes from Einomaru Station on the Chikuhō Electric Railway, has about 24 rescued cats. It costs from ¥500 for 20 minutes or ¥1,300 for an hour (with a drink from 60 minutes), and the cat room is for age 10 and up. It’s praised as clean and is open from noon to 6pm, Friday to Monday.

In Hibikino, Wakamatsu Ward, Kotemaru is home to rescued cats, some of them injured in traffic accidents. It costs ¥800 for 30 minutes or ¥1,500 for an hour with a drink, and it’s closed on Mondays and Thursdays. You’ll need a car.

Just west of Kitakyushu, in Ashiya, Onga District, Jam-ya is a café known for its salads and jams, with a room of rescued cats next door. The cat room opens in the afternoon, and on weekdays the one-hour fee buys unlimited time; opening days and times are posted on Instagram each morning. In Kanda, Hidamari no Shippo is run by the Hanafusa animal hospital, and all its cats are looking for homes. It costs ¥600 for 30 minutes with a drink.

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Chikuho: Iizuka, Tagawa and Miyawaka

Hogo Neko House Nekotaro in Iizuka is a volunteer-run home for rescued cats. It opens on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 3pm, and about ¥500 an hour includes cat treats and a small gift. Also in Iizuka, catsalon Nekochigura Hotel & Cafe is a cat-only grooming salon and hotel with a café booked through LINE, at ¥2,200 per person with free drinks. Coorikuya Yume Town Iizuka opened in July 2023 on the second floor of the Yume Town mall, but in 2025 and 2026 reviewers kept complaining of a smell and of no staff in the cat room.

Hogo Neko Cafe Taichan in Tagawa opened in May 2026, and its 20-year-old cat Azuki is a regular on its Instagram. In Miyawaka, Fukuhiro is a Japanese-style café with rescued cats as well as ponies and goats, and a ¥500 to ¥550 seat charge per person. Sources disagree on whether weekdays need a booking, so check before you go.

Kurume, Yame, Ukiha and Ōmuta

In November 2026, the only place to spend time with cats in Kurume city was Crepe to Neko no Ie. Part of the manager’s home has been turned into a shelter and adoption room for rescued cats, open every day from 1pm to 6pm, with no entry fee; you donate what you like, and volunteers tell you each cat’s story. Neko Cafe Nekoru in Jōjima closed on 30 August 2026 because of road widening, and a rescue café with a cat hotel was being fitted out in Jōnan-machi. Nishitetsu limited expresses take about 32 minutes from Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) to Nishitetsu Kurume.

Nha Con Meo opened in Kurume in July 2012 and moved to Honmura, Yame, on 25 December 2023. A volunteer shelter is on the ground floor and the cat café upstairs, and it serves Vietnamese food and coffee (the name means “cat house” in Vietnamese). Every cat except the staff cats can be adopted, but only by people living within an hour’s drive of the café. Visits are by booking only, with no same-day bookings.

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Also in Yame, in the old merchant streets of Fukushima, Esaki is a townhouse café that doubles as a pottery studio and a small theatre, where two shop cats, Hinata and Konatsu, greet visitors. There’s no charge for the cats; you just order Yame tea drinks or cake. It’s closed on Mondays.

Ukiha Neko Cafe 28〇 (Nyao) in Ukiha opened in August 2021 after a crowdfunding campaign and has about 18 cats, from rescues to pedigrees. It costs ¥1,400 for 30 minutes or ¥1,800 for an hour with a drink, and 30-minute extensions ¥600. Before going in you hear the rules and sign a consent form, and you drink at the counter after leaving the cat room. Opening days change each month.

In Ōmuta, TERANCH is a meet-and-greet room in temple grounds, run by Sumineko Ōmuta, which rescued cats from a hoarding case in 2024. It announced that it would be closed for renovation during November 2026.

Ainoshima, Fukuoka’s Cat Island

Ainoshima (相島), 7.5 km off Shingu in Kasuya District, is the place people mean when they talk about cats in Fukuoka (it isn’t the Aishima off Hagi in Yamaguchi). It’s a fishing island where cats were kept to stop rats chewing the nets, and visitors have come in large numbers since CNN named it one of the world’s cat-spotting places in 2013.

Getting there. The town ferry Shingū takes 17 minutes from Shingu fishing port and costs ¥480 one way for adults and ¥240 for children of elementary-school age and under (there are no return tickets). The ticket machines take transport IC cards, WAON and nanaco. There are six round trips a day from March to October and five from November to February, when the last boat back leaves the island at 5pm. Boats can fill up at weekends and on holidays, and bicycles aren’t carried then. Each spring and autumn a smaller substitute boat of about 80 seats runs while the ferry is serviced, and islanders board first. To reach the port, take the Marinx community bus, timed to the boats, from JR Fukkōdai-mae Station (about 20 minutes from Hakata) or Nishitetsu Shingu Station; it takes 10 to 15 minutes and costs ¥100. There’s a pay car park at the port.

The cats. In 2021 more than 230 unneutered cats lived on the island. The island’s own cat group, the NPO SCAT and the Fukuoka Nekotomo no Kai began neutering them in October 2020 with help from the Doubutsu Kikin foundation, and over four days in March 2021 vets operated on 150 cats on the island; six in ten of the females were already pregnant. More than 300 cats have been neutered in all, and each has a sakura-petal notch in one ear. The colony is slowly shrinking, to about 200 cats in 2023 and about 180 in autumn 2024, and the islanders have chosen to see it through.

Manners. Feeding used to be banned across the island, but the island’s signs now allow cat food only, put down on a dish rather than from your hand, with anything uneaten taken away. Don’t give human food. Cat food isn’t reliably on sale on the island, so bring your own if you want to feed. Don’t pick cats up or move them to another spot, don’t leave a cat on the island or take one away, keep out of yards and the harbour work areas, take your rubbish home and don’t block the narrow lanes.

Spending the day. Most cats are within a kilometre of the ferry landing and the fishing harbour, and they’re most active when the first boats arrive and in the late afternoon; at midday in summer and in rain they hide. By the port, the Shima no Eki Ainoshima building has a tourist office, the Maruyama Shokudō seafood restaurant (closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a café that rents electric kick scooters, and there are toilets and a clinic on the island. In October 2025 a Kyushu Olle walking course opened past the 254 stone burial mounds (a national historic site) and the Megane-iwa sea arch. Take the 9:20am boat out and the 1:50pm boat back, and you have half a day for cats and a walk. Our Japan cat café guide covers Japan’s other cat islands too.

Fukuoka Cat Cafés That Have Closed

• Cat Cafe Meow in Daimyo closed on 20 October 2025; its Nishijin branch ran from February 2023 to 31 May 2024.
• Hogo Neko Cafe MOCA in Koga closed on 30 April 2026, almost 16 years after opening on 5 May 2010. It now cares for injured and sick cats.
• Neko Cafe Nekoru in Jōjima, Kurume, closed on 30 August 2026 because of road widening, and hopes to reopen.
• MOMO, an adoption café in Yakuin, has said it is “relocating” since 2024 without reopening, and CatCafeOBC near Canal City has closed.
• Neko Cafe flat tail in Iizuka has been closed since March 2024, and Neko no Oyado Ariyoshi Komuten in Iizuka is now a cat-only boarding hotel, not a café.
• Midori no Shippo, a rescue café in Tobata (opened 2018), has closed; the same NPO opened Ribbon in December 2025. Nekohachi in Kokurakita Ward has been closed since spring 2026.

Browse every café on our Fukuoka Prefecture cat café map. If you’re new to cat cafés, start with what a cat café is. Heading on to Kansai? See our Osaka and Kyoto guides.