Right by Shinjuku station, two cat cafés take walk-ins: MOCHA, two minutes from the southeast exit, and Coorikuya, a minute from Shinjuku-sanchome station. For rescue cafés and quieter rooms, go a stop or two north to Okubo and Takadanobaba, where you’ll find Nyanchu~ru, open until 10pm, BAKENEKO Cafe with its walls of manga, and Nyankoto with 16 or more cats. ANELLA CAFE, a rescue dog and cat café, moved to Yotsuya in October 2026. Shinjuku also has places with cats that aren’t cat cafés at all: Cafe Arles, a 1978 coffee shop with resident cats, and two bars with cats in Golden Gai and Kabukicho.
We checked every place below in November 2026 against its official site, booking page and newest reviews, including prices, opening hours and age limits. You can see them all on our Shinjuku cat café map. Our Tokyo guide covers the rest of the city, and our Ikebukuro guide covers the next big cluster north.
How Shinjuku Cat Cafés Charge
Prices work very differently from one café to the next, so the best choice depends on how long you want to stay.
By the 10 minutes. MOCHA charges ¥297 per 10 minutes on weekdays and ¥385 at weekends and on holidays, with the drink bar included and a daily cap of ¥3,960 or ¥4,620. A 30-minute visit is cheap, and a long afternoon stops at the cap.
By the half hour or hour. Coorikuya charges ¥715 for 30 minutes, and BAKENEKO Cafe and Nyankoto charge about ¥1,500–1,600 for an hour. Both also sell three-hour packs and weekday passes with no time limit. Nyanchu~ru charges ¥500 to enter plus ¥500 per 30 minutes.
Food and drink only. Cafe Arles and 4C’s Bar Rosso in Golden Gai have no time charge: you pay for what you order (and, at the bar, a ¥1,000 table charge per person). The cats are the owners’ own, so they may be asleep or out.
Shinjuku Cat Cafés at a Glance
Café | Where | Price | Ages | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MOCHA Lounge Shinjuku | Shinjuku southeast exit, 2 min | ¥297 / 10 min | 13+ | Not needed |
Coorikuya Shinjuku Sanchome | Shinjuku-sanchome, 1 min | ¥715 / 30 min | All (with an adult) | Not taken |
Cafe Arles | Shinjuku-sanchome, 5 min | Food and drink only | 20+ (smoking) | Not needed |
4C’s Bar Rosso | Golden Gai | ¥1,000 charge + drinks | 20+ | Not needed |
Cats in the Box | Kabukicho | Members only | 20+ | Members only |
Nyanchu~ru | Shin-Okubo, 5 min | ¥500 + ¥500 / 30 min | Not stated | Not needed (online) |
Coorikuya plus Okubo | Okubo, 1 min | ¥1,980 all day | All (with an adult) | Not taken |
Nyankoto | Takadanobaba, 2 min | ¥1,600 / hour | Ask | Recommended |
BAKENEKO Cafe | Nishi-Waseda, a few min | ¥1,500 / hour | 6+ (school age) | Possible |
ANELLA CAFE Yotsuya | Akebonobashi, 7 min | ¥1,000 / 30 min | All | Not taken |
Shinjuku-sanchome and the Southeast Exit
Between the southeast exit of Shinjuku station and Shinjuku-sanchome, the cafés are a few minutes’ walk from the trains. Neither cat café here takes bookings: you’re seated in order of arrival.
Courtesy of Cat Cafe MOCHA via prtimes.jp
Cat Cafe MOCHA Lounge Shinjuku opened in October 2017 as the chain’s biggest shop, on the sixth floor of the Shinjuku Pegasus-kan building, two minutes from the southeast exit of JR Shinjuku station and a minute from exit E9 of Shinjuku-sanchome station, opposite the Otsuka Kagu furniture showroom. Its large room is home to 36 pedigree cats, among them Scottish Folds, Munchkins, Ragdolls, Maine Coons and Norwegian Forest Cats, fed at 10:30am and 7pm. Only guests of junior-high-school age (about 13) and older are admitted. There is a workspace with Wi-Fi, chargers and manga, and the drink bar is included. Treats cost ¥550, and only a limited number are sold. It’s open every day from 10am to 9pm, with last entry at 8:30pm. In September 2026 MOCHA also started selling a book of five day tickets for ¥17,600, valid at 18 shops in and around Tokyo.
A minute from exit C1 of Shinjuku-sanchome station, Coorikuya Shinjuku Sanchome fills the third and fourth floors of a building above the Coo&RIKU pet shop with jungle-themed rooms. It costs ¥715 for 30 minutes, ¥1,320 for an hour or ¥1,980 for as long as you like, with drinks included. There’s no minimum age and under-3s are free, but children below junior-high age must come with an adult family member. The cats are young ones from the pet shop downstairs, and they are for sale. It is rated just 3.0 on Google, and reviews in 2025 and 2026 often complain about a cramped room, a smell, and no staff in the room. It’s open from 11am to 8pm on weekdays and from 10am at weekends and on holidays, with last entry at 7:30pm.
About five minutes from Shinjuku-sanchome station, on a side street in Shinjuku 5-chome, Cafe Arles is a kissaten, an old-style Japanese coffee shop, that opened in 1978. It isn’t a cat café, but many people come for its shop cats, which wander the room or sleep on the chairs. In October 2026 visitors met the long-time cat Jirocho, about 16, and a new kitten, and staff say the cats are most active around 2pm. There’s no entry fee: you order kissaten classics such as omurice, napolitan spaghetti or a cream soda, with a meal costing around ¥1,000, and every order comes with a free banana and corn snack. Smoking is allowed at every seat, though, so under-20s can’t go in under Japanese law. It takes cash only, and reviews in October 2026 included complaints about smoking near the cats and about the staff. It’s open from 11:30am to 9pm and closed on Sundays.
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Shinjuku-sanchome and Gyoen
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Golden Gai and Kabukicho: Bars With Cats
After dark, Shinjuku has two bars where you can drink with cats. Both are bars, not cat cafés, so they’re for over-20s only.
Up a narrow staircase on the G1 lane of Golden Gai, 4C’s Bar Rosso is a wine and whisky bar that opened in 2014. Its cats, named after black grape varieties, roam the counter, the stairs and guests’ laps. There’s no time charge: you pay a ¥1,000 table charge per person and order drinks, and you can buy treats for the cats. The bar is entirely non-smoking because of the cats. They sometimes go out for walks, so they may not be in. It opens around 5 or 6pm and closes around 2am, or 5am on Fridays and Saturdays, and it’s closed on the first Sunday of each month. It’s about three minutes from exit E1 of Shinjuku-sanchome station.
On the seventh floor of the Metro building in Kabukicho, BAR Cats in the Box is a cat bar with about ten cats, including Gonzo, a rescue. It became known abroad after a CNN New Year broadcast at the end of 2023. In October 2026, though, it announced that it admits subscription members only. It has no price list online: reviewers in 2026 reported a ¥3,000 entry fee and bills of ¥14,000 to ¥20,000 for one or two people for about an hour, and it is rated 2.8 on Google. If you go, check prices and how to get in on its official LINE account first. It opens at 8pm and stays open until morning.
Okubo and Shin-Okubo
About ten minutes’ walk north of Shinjuku station, just before Shin-Okubo’s Koreatown, are two more cafés.
Nyanchu~ru is a rescue café on the ground floor of the Westwood building in Hyakunincho, about five minutes from Shin-Okubo station and ten from Shinjuku. It costs ¥500 to enter plus ¥500 per 30 minutes, and it’s open every day from noon to 10pm, so you can drop in before or after dinner. You can walk in or book online through Hot Pepper. All the cats are rescues looking for homes, and adoption runs from a talk with staff to an interview, a trial stay and formal adoption. Treats are ¥500 a bag, and a capsule-toy machine, badges and a donation box raise money for the cats. It reopened with new staff around September 2026.
A minute from JR Okubo station on the Chuo-Sobu line, Coorikuya plus Okubo opened in July 2018 in the chain’s “plus” format, which bills in 10-minute steps after the first 30 minutes, with drinks included, and caps a visit at ¥1,980 for unlimited time. It has Wi-Fi and power outlets for long stays. The cats take a break from 1:30pm to 2pm, and bookings aren’t taken. As at Sanchome, the cats come from the group’s pet shops. It’s open from 11am to 8pm on weekdays and from 10am at weekends and on holidays.
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Takadanobaba and Nishi-Waseda
Two stops from Shinjuku on the Yamanote line, Takadanobaba and nearby Nishi-Waseda on the Fukutoshin line have two cafés for a slower visit.
Two minutes from the Waseda exit of Takadanobaba station, on the second floor of the Swan building, Nyankoto has 16 to 19 cats, mostly pedigrees such as Exotic Shorthairs, Persians and Norwegian Forest Cats, and several seniors over ten. An hour costs ¥1,600 with one bottled drink, extra time is ¥350 per 15 minutes, and a three-hour pack or a weekday pass with no time limit costs ¥3,500. At snack time, 2:30pm and 4:30pm, you can feed the cats ¥150 treats yourself. It has an English menu and explains the rules in English, so it’s a good pick if you don’t speak Japanese. Booking is recommended, online, by phone or on LINE. It’s open from 1pm to 8pm on weekdays and from noon at weekends, and closed on Tuesdays unless Tuesday is a holiday. Its old website let children of elementary-school age and under in with a guardian, but a July 2026 review said under-13s were turned away, so ask when you book.
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On Suwa-dori, a few minutes from Nishi-Waseda station, BAKENEKO Cafe is a rescue café that opened in August 2021. Its mascots, Kohada the Scottish Fold and Nameko the Siberian, live alongside rescue cats. There are more than 2,000 manga and unlimited soft drinks. It costs ¥1,000 for 30 minutes, ¥1,500 for an hour, ¥2,400 for two hours, ¥3,000 for three or ¥3,000 for a weekday pass, and if you overstay you move up to the next pack automatically. Students get 20% off, and elementary-school children pay half price with a guardian; younger children aren’t admitted. Don’t wear perfume, which can harm cats, and bring socks (they’re also sold there). It’s open from 11am to 8pm (last order 7pm) and closed on Mondays and Wednesdays. It sometimes closes for a day or changes its hours, so check the calendar on its website before you go. You can book online through Hot Pepper.
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Yotsuya: ANELLA CAFE
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On the first two floors of a building across from the Ministry of Defense, ANELLA CAFE Shinjuku Yotsuya is an adoption café for rescue dogs and cats. Its earlier Shinjuku branch closed in September 2026, and it reopened here on 9 October 2026. Dogs and cats have completely separate areas, and the cat area has cat trees and a cat wheel. It costs ¥1,000 for 30 minutes and ¥400 per extra 15 minutes, ¥500 for 30 minutes for elementary-school children, seniors and visitors with disabilities, and nothing for preschoolers. It doesn’t take bookings and accepts cash only. It’s open from noon to 6pm on weekdays and from 11am at weekends and on holidays. To adopt, you pass a screening on its LINE account, meet the animal at the café and have a phone interview before taking it home; the adoption fee is ¥77,000 to ¥99,000. The nearest station is Akebonobashi on the Toei Shinjuku line, seven minutes away; Ichigaya is eight minutes and Yotsuya about ten.
Shinjuku With Children
Age rules vary more than anything else here:
- No minimum age: ANELLA CAFE (preschoolers free, elementary-school children half price) and both Coorikuya cafés (under-3s free; under-13s with an adult family member).
- Elementary-school age and up: BAKENEKO Cafe (half price, with a guardian).
- Check first: Nyankoto (ask when you book) and Nyanchu~ru (no age rule published).
- 13 and up only: MOCHA Lounge Shinjuku.
- 20 and up: Cafe Arles (smoking at every seat), 4C’s Bar Rosso and Cats in the Box.
A Short Trip Away
Three stops from Shinjuku on the Marunouchi line, Miagolare is a rescue café three minutes from exit 3 of Shin-Nakano station, on the third floor of a building with no elevator, where about 15 rescue cats wait for homes. An hour costs ¥1,400 with free drinks, then ¥500 per 30 minutes, or ¥4,000 for the day, cash only. Preschoolers aren’t admitted, and it’s closed on Thursdays. Three minutes from JR Nakano station, on the Sun Mall shopping street, is Coorikuya plus Nakano Sun Mall.
Harajuku and Shibuya have three MOCHA branches, and at Capyneko Harajuku you can meet capybaras and adoptable cats in the same room. Our Tokyo guide has the details.
If you’re staying in the area, the hotel towers on the west side are about ten minutes’ walk from MOCHA, and the Chuo line runs to Nakano and Kichijoji while the Yamanote line runs to Ikebukuro and Shibuya. Here are places to stay near Shinjuku station’s west exit on Booking.com.
Closed Shinjuku Cat Cafés
Many older guides still list places that have gone:
- Cat Cafe Calico Shinjuku in Kabukicho closed on 22 October 2020. A crowdfunding campaign to move and reopen raised more than ¥22 million, but it never reopened in Shinjuku, and its cats moved to the Kichijoji branch before being rehomed. Calico Kichijoji is open.
- Coorikuya Shinjuku East Exit closed in November 2024 and merged into the Sanchome branch.
- Shinjuku Higashiguchi no Neko no Cafe, the coffee stand in the building with the giant 3D cat billboard by the east exit, was cat-themed and never had live cats. It closed in August 2024.
- Cat Cafe Cloud Takadanobaba opened in autumn 2023 and closed in 2024.
- Pussyfoot, a Golden Gai bar with cats, closed in 2023.
- Die Katze, a tea room in Shinjuku 1-chome with shop cats, is reported to have closed in 2025.
If you’re new to cat cafés, our guide to what a cat café is explains the etiquette, from washing your hands at the door to letting the cats come to you.
