Cat Cafes in Osaka: Umeda, Namba, Tennoji and Rescue Cafés

Osaka is where Japan’s cat cafés began. Neko no Jikan opened in Kita ward in 2004 and is widely credited as the country’s first, and it is still open. Today the city has more than 60 cat cafés, and nearly half of them are rescue cafés, many in renovated wooden houses in the backstreets of Nakazakicho, Tenma and Tanimachi. The chains are there too, by the stations at Umeda, Shinsaibashi and Tennoji, along with cafés with cats among model railways and a cat-themed bathhouse where you can stay the night.

We checked every café below against its official site, Instagram or Google listing in October 2026. You can browse all of them on our Osaka cat café map.

How Osaka Cat Cafés Charge

Chains charge by the 10 minutes. MOCHA and MOFF charge for a first block of 30 minutes, then by the 10 minutes, with a daily cap. MOCHA includes the drink bar; MOFF asks you to order a drink. They are the cheapest way to drop in for half an hour.

Most other cafés sell fixed courses, from 30 minutes to three hours, usually with a drink: an hour costs about ¥1,100 to ¥2,000. For a long visit, look for a weekday free-time plan.

The cheapest are neighbourhood and rescue cafés. Cafe&Bar Manul’s cat room costs ¥550 an hour plus an order, HOGOKEN CAFE ¥990 with no time limit, and Goo, Tenten and Mori no Nekoya ¥1,000 to ¥1,200 an hour.

House rules are stricter than in most cities. Most cafés want you to wear socks (several sell them at the door), many don’t let you pick the cats up, and some turn away visitors who have just been to another animal café, have stroked street cats, or are wearing strong perfume or have been drinking. Several are cash only.

Osaka Cat Cafés at a Glance

Umeda, Nakazakicho and Tenma

Cat Cafe MOCHA Umeda, on the second floor of a building two minutes from exit 1 of Higashi-Umeda station, is the easiest walk-in in the north, with 31 pedigree cats. The first 30 minutes cost ¥1,100 on weekdays and ¥1,400 at weekends, then ¥220 per 10 minutes, up to ¥3,520 or ¥3,850 for the day, with the drink bar included. Children aged 6 and up are welcome with an adult, and it is open every day from 10am to 8pm.

Neko Cafe Nearnya, on the sixth floor of a building five minutes from Hankyu Osaka-Umeda, has more Google reviews than any other cat-only café in the city. Its 22 cats cover about 13 breeds. An hour costs ¥1,500 with a drink, up to ¥3,400 for three hours. It began as a café for solo visitors, and they are still a big part of its crowd. It is cash only, takes no bookings, admits children from elementary school age with an adult, and is closed on Thursdays.

Neko no Jikan, three minutes from exit 1 of Nakazakicho station on the Tengo-Nakazaki-dori shopping street, is the café that started it all in 2004, with a tatami room. An hour costs ¥1,200 on weekdays and ¥1,300 at weekends. Preschool children are welcome only on weekday mornings from 11am to 1pm. It is open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm.

Nakazakicho’s backstreets have some of Osaka’s best rescue cafés:

• Cafe Uriel. About six minutes from Nakazakicho, with rescues up for adoption. ¥1,650 for an hour with free drinks, and on weekdays from 5pm you can stay until closing for ¥2,750. Open until 9pm on weekdays. Children can’t hold the cats.
• SweetHome Uriel and Villa Uriel. Its sister houses, where your group has a private room with adult and older rescue cats, at ¥2,000 per person per hour. Book online.
• Gurugurudo Umeda. A renovated house three minutes from Nakazakicho with pedigree cats, ¥1,650 for an hour with a treat. Its couples’ plan, which welcomes same-sex couples, adds 30 minutes free.

Around Tenma and Ogimachi, a few minutes further east:

• Save Cat Cafe. A rescue café three minutes from JR Tenma that works with Osaka Neko Net, and rehomed several cats a month in 2026. Ninety minutes with a drink cost ¥1,600, or ¥2,200 to ¥2,900 with cake or curry. Only guests aged 10 and over are admitted, rising to 15 and over from 2027. Closed on Mondays.
• Cat Space. A rescue café in an old house four minutes from JR Tenma, from ¥1,700 an hour with a drink, a treat and a toy. Under-6s generally aren’t admitted. Closed on Thursdays.
• Manga Cat Cafe Tatsuki. Adoption-focused rescues and well over a thousand manga, five minutes from Nakatsu station. ¥1,200 an hour on weekdays with a drink. Closed on Thursdays.
• SCAT WORKS. About 20 rescues, all up for adoption, two minutes from Osaka Tenmangu station, with a coworking space and a grooming salon. ¥1,870 for an hour with a drink. Cashless only.
• HOGOKEN CAFE Tenjinbashi. Mainly a rescue dog café with a cat room at the back, three minutes from Ogimachi: ¥990 with a drink and no time limit.

A little west, nekotto, seven minutes from JR Fukushima, books its cat room to one group of up to five at a time, ¥2,000 per person for an hour, and has a counter where you can watch the cats through the window without booking. Our listing records that nekotto planned to leave this address at the end of October 2026, so check its website before you go.

Namba, Shinsaibashi and Nippombashi

Cat Cafe MOCHA Shinsaibashi, three minutes from exit 5 of Shinsaibashi station between the two Daimaru buildings, has 19 pedigree cats and is open every day from 10am to 8pm. The first 30 minutes cost ¥1,188 on weekdays and ¥1,518 at weekends, then ¥220 per 10 minutes, with drinks included.

Neco Republic Osaka, two minutes from exit 7 of Nagahoribashi station, is a rescue café built like a public bathhouse, with a cat footbath, and it is the only place in Osaka where you can sleep over with the cats: the whole house can be booked as an inn for up to six people. A visit costs ¥220 per 10 minutes on weekdays and ¥275 at weekends, plus an unlimited drink for ¥385. Children are welcome with an adult.

Cat Tail, on the second floor of a building about five minutes from Shinsaibashi, Namba and Yotsubashi stations, has about 20 cats, many of them Minuets known for sitting on laps. An hour costs ¥1,500, up to ¥3,050 for three hours, and it is open every day until 8:30pm. Children under 8 aren’t admitted, and the café is registered to sell cats.

Late-night choices are around here too. Gurugurudo America-mura, five minutes from Shinsaibashi, has a dozen or more cats, many of them large breeds, with a Balinese bamboo cat tower, chai and lassi, and stays open until 10pm (8pm on Mondays). Neko no Eniwa, three minutes from Kintetsu Nippombashi, is a rescue café with about 30 cats, all up for adoption, open from 1pm to 10pm and closed on Thursdays. An hour there costs ¥1,400, and children under 12 aren’t admitted.

More cafés in Minami:

• Cat Cafe Mikazuki. Ten cats behind a street-level glass front six minutes from Nankai Namba, with an English website. ¥1,750 an hour for LINE members on weekdays. Age 6 and up. Its cleaning is contracted to a disability employment center.
• Cat Cafe Nekohos. Kittens and young cats near Shinsaibashi, rated 4.9 by more than 280 visitors. ¥880 per 30 minutes plus an order, up to ¥3,300.
• Nekocafe RagDoll. Pedigree cats on the fifth floor of a building near Nankai Namba, rated 4.7 by more than 670 visitors. No bookings and no phone enquiries; check its Instagram for opening days and evening drinks nights.
• Neko Cafe Manekineko. Fourteen cats, including Munchkins and Norwegian Forest cats, right by Nippombashi station. From ¥1,300 an hour on weekdays, age 5 and up, cash only. Closed on Thursdays.
• Hogo Neko Cafe neu. A rescue café in an old house in a back alley five minutes from Matsuyamachi station, with about 20 cats up for adoption and vegan food. ¥1,800 an hour, no age limit, open until 9pm on weekdays.
• Hogo Neko Cafe Motchari. A small rescue café three minutes from Tanimachi 6-chome station, ¥2,000 an hour with a drink and snacks. Book on LINE at weekends.
• Neko Cafe Nyaon, Shinsekai. A coffee specialist with six cats, a minute from Ebisucho station, ¥1,600 an hour with a drink, open until 9pm.

Tennoji, Abeno and Tsuruhashi

Cat Café MOFF Tennoji MIO, on the sixth floor of the Tennoji MIO building above Tennoji station, is the best choice for families: children under 3 are free, strollers and wheelchairs are welcome, and there is no minimum age, although under-13s need an adult. Its 22 cats include Ragdolls, LaPerms and Siberians. It costs ¥900 for the first 30 minutes, then ¥250 per 10 minutes, up to ¥2,100 on weekdays and ¥3,100 at weekends, plus a drink order. The cats can’t be held.

• Diorama Shokudo. Rescue cats among a model railway, three minutes from JR Teradacho. ¥2,000 an hour with a drink, with English-speaking staff and wheelchair access. Book ahead.
• Hogoneko Cafe Nyanpuccino, Tezukayama. About six rescues in a small room a minute from Himematsu on the Hankai tram, run as a disability employment workplace. ¥1,430 an hour on weekdays, with children at ¥880 and under-3s free. Book online.
• Cat Cafe micia-micio. Rescues up for adoption and a tatami room upstairs, three minutes from Showacho station. Closed on Wednesdays.
• CATS WELCARE Abeno. An NPO’s adoption café for cats rescued from hoarding cases, open on Wednesdays and weekends. Book by phone.
• Hogoneko Cafe Tsuruhashi. A rescue café a minute from exit 5 of Tsuruhashi station, open every day, with a rescue dog café downstairs.
• Aphrodite. A tiny café near Tsuruhashi with about ten pedigree cats, booked by the hour for one group at a time, ¥1,320 per person. Closed on Wednesdays.

Neko to Cafe, near Momodani, ranks highly on Google, but in October 2026 Google showed it as temporarily closed while the café was crowdfunding to stay open, so check its Instagram before you go.

Kyobashi and the East

• Nyacle. A rescue café in an old house a minute or two from JR Kyobashi’s south exit, with 15 to 20 cats and a room for cats with FIV; it says it found homes for 85 cats by June 2025. ¥1,700 an hour with a drink. Younger children come only in private-hire slots. Book on LINE.
• Nekocafe Tenten. Five minutes from Midoribashi station, with some of the lowest prices in the city: ¥1,100 an hour with a drink, or ¥2,200 for unlimited time on weekdays. Only guests of junior high school age and up are admitted, and its Google rating, 3.6, is low for the city.
• Hogoneko Salon Goo. More than 20 rescues two minutes from Keihan Sekime station, ¥1,000 an hour with a drink. Walk in.
• Hogoneko Salon Nyannya, Midoribashi. A home-style shelter for cats and kittens rescued from Osaka Castle Park. Afternoons; closed on Wednesdays.

Juso and the North

• Nekono-ki. An adoption café run by a certified NPO, five minutes from Hankyu Juso, where you are allowed to hold the cats. From ¥1,000 for 30 minutes with a drink, and children under elementary school age are free. Closed on Tuesdays and on the first and third Wednesdays.
• Mori no Nekoya. About 20 rescues five minutes from Hankyu Awaji, rated 4.8. ¥1,200 an hour. Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Qsmet. A shelter-style café with about 50 rescues across two sites near Kamishinjo, from ¥1,000 for 30 minutes, cash only. No preschool children.
• maren. Exotic Shorthairs near Hankyu Mikuni, in one-hour sessions booked on LINE. It opened in October 2026.
• Tansoku Home. Short-legged cats and dogs, including dachshunds and a corgi, five minutes from Hankyu Juso.
• catteria cloud nine. A book café with five to seven older cats near Higashi-Mikuni, open only in the evenings.

The Bay and the West

• Neko no Hakobune, Tempozan. A rescue café with a model railway next to the Kaiyukan aquarium, open every day. An easy add-on to an aquarium visit.
• Cafe&Bar Manul. Rescues in a tatami room two minutes from Chidoribashi station, at ¥550 an hour plus an order, the cheapest in the city. The cat room is open until 10pm, and karaoke is free after 6pm.
• häntä. A rescue café three minutes from Hanshin Dekijima for street cats and cats with special needs, with an FIV room and cat yoga. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
• CATS WELCARE Dome-mae. The NPO’s second adoption café, five minutes from Dome-mae Chiyozaki, on Wednesdays and weekends, with parking for two cars.

Several Osaka cafés mix cats with other animals or sell them. Noah’s Ark near Ogimachi, with more than 1,200 reviews, has about 40 cats from breeders on the first floor and tanuki and wallabies upstairs; Animeal in Shinsaibashi is a petting zoo with a few cats; and Fairy Room has a fennec fox and genets as well as cats. The two Coorikuya branches, in Shinsaibashi and Tennoji, are linked to the group’s pet shops and are the lowest-rated cat cafés in the city on Google.

Osaka With Children

• Welcoming families: MOFF Tennoji MIO (under-3s free), Neco Republic, Nekono-ki (under elementary age free), Nyanpuccino (under-3s free) and neu, all with an adult. Neko no Jikan takes preschoolers on weekday mornings.
• Age 5 to 8 and up: Manekineko (5+), MOCHA and Mikazuki (6+), Cat Space (6+), Cat Tail (8+).
• Older children only: Save Cat Cafe (10+, 15+ from 2027), Neko no Eniwa (12+), Tenten (junior high and up).

If you are staying in Osaka, Namba and Shinsaibashi put you within walking distance of a dozen cafés, and the Midosuji line runs north to Umeda and south to Tennoji. Here are places to stay near Namba station on Booking.com.

Closed Osaka Cat Cafés

• Nyanbell, the Exotic Shorthair café in Higashi-Shinsaibashi, closed at the end of September 2026.
• Mikeneko Chaya in Dotonbori closed in December 2023.
• Neko no Hako in Nishinakajima closed in December 2019.

For the rest of the country, see our guide to cat cafés in Japan, and if you are new to cat cafés, our guide to what a cat café is.