Cat Cafes in Singapore: Bugis, Little India, Joo Chiat and Beyond

Singapore’s first cat café, Neko no Niwa, opened on Christmas Day 2013 above Boat Quay. It has long since closed, but The Cat Cafe in Bugis, which followed in mid-2014, is still running, and by the end of 2014 the city had four or five. Our directory lists 20 open cat cafés in Singapore, and nearly half of them are a short walk from Bugis, Jalan Besar or Farrer Park MRT stations, in the shophouse streets of Kampong Glam and Little India.

They come in two kinds, and it’s worth knowing which you’re walking into. Some are rescue lounges, where most of the cats are waiting for a home and your entry fee pays for their care. Others are pedigree cafés run by licensed catteries, where the resident cats are Ragdolls, British Shorthairs and Munchkins, and the business also sells kittens. We start with how Singapore’s cat cafés work and what they cost, then go area by area, and finish with adopting a cat and the rules for keeping one in an HDB flat. Every price, closing day and age rule below comes from the café’s own website, booking page or social accounts as of October 2026, unless we say otherwise.

How Cat Cafés Work in Singapore

Most cat cafés charge by time. An hour usually costs S$12 to S$22, often with a drink, and the pedigree cafés on Desker Road and in Balestier charge about S$30. Many sell day passes for remote workers and students, and a few are art-jamming studios that charge per painting session instead. A cat café that keeps cats on show needs an animal exhibition licence from the Animal & Veterinary Service (AVS), renewed every year, and selling kittens needs a separate pet shop licence. Many cafés keep food out of the cat room or serve only drinks and packaged snacks.

Most take online bookings and cap the number of guests per session, so book for weekends; walk-ins are usually fine on weekdays. Age rules vary more than anywhere else we cover: Fluffydolls admits only ages 12 and up, Meownistry of Meow only 10 and up, and Meomi, Catopia and CATEA only 7 and up, while others welcome any age as long as an adult supervises. House rules are much the same everywhere: socks on, hands sanitised, no picking up cats, and treats bought only at the café.

If you’re looking for a halal cat café, as of October 2026 none in Singapore was certified by MUIS. Catopia, Cat Paradise and Kitten Sanctuary serve no food at all, and several others sell only drinks and packaged snacks.

Singapore Cat Cafés at a Glance

Prices are in Singapore dollars and were checked in October 2026. Cafés change their prices and hours often, and many post changes only on Instagram, so check before you go.

Bugis and Kampong Glam

The Cat Cafe is on the third floor of a shophouse on Victoria Street, about two minutes from Exit C of Bugis MRT, up a flight of stairs with no lift. Open since mid-2014, it is Singapore’s longest-running cat café, and it is home to 13 permanent residents, all adopted from local shelters, from a Siamese of about 21 to Tommy, who has lived there since it opened. The first two hours cost S$22 with a canned drink, each extra half hour S$5.50, and a day pass S$50 with two drinks; babies under 1 are free. All ages are welcome, with under-12s supervised. The counter serves pies, wraps, baked rice and desserts, and unguided art jamming with the cats costs S$40 for two hours. It opens from 3pm on Mondays, 10am to 9pm Tuesday to Friday, and 10am to 10pm at weekends and on public holidays. If you’re staying a few nights, here are places to stay near Bugis and Kampong Glam on Booking.com.

Bussorah Street and Masjid Sultan in Kampong Glam. Photo: Josep M. Gracia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Meomi Cat Cafe on North Bridge Road, at the edge of Kampong Glam near Arab Street, has also been open since 2014. It is small and homely, its owners introduce each of their seven or eight cats, and children must be over 7, with photo ID. Meomi publishes no prices; a September 2026 guide by TheSmartLocal listed S$15 for the first hour with a drink, then S$6 per half hour. Its hours vary, and in October 2026 it was closed from Tuesday to Thursday, so message it on Instagram or Facebook before you go.

Two cat lounges here double as places to work. Fuzzies, on the third and fourth floors of a shophouse on Arab Street (stairs only), opened in May 2024 with about ten rescued cats who live there permanently. It is the cheapest cat café in the city by the hour, at S$8 on weekdays and S$12 at weekends, with free-flow hot drinks and snacks, more than 60 board games and Nintendo Switch consoles included; a weekday day pass costs S$30 for students and S$50 for everyone else. Shoes come off at the door, children under 10 need a paying adult, and it’s open every day from 11am to 11pm.

Meownistry of Meow on Jalan Klapa, about ten minutes’ walk from Bugis MRT, opened in May 2023 as a co-working lounge that fosters rescued cats for community feeders and independent rescuers. It usually has 9 to 20 cats, nearly all of them up for adoption. The rescuer handles each adoption, with a home visit and a home trial of at least two weeks, and the fee is generally S$250. Entry is S$12 for the first hour and S$8 for each hour after, or S$38 for a day pass, with free-flow drinks, board games and lockers. Children under 10 aren’t admitted, cat treats can only be bought there, and it’s open daily from 11am to 10pm.

Little India and Jalan Besar

Three cat cafés sit within a few doors of each other on Desker Road, about five minutes from Jalan Besar MRT and eight from Farrer Park. All three are pedigree cafés run by breeders. Catmosphere, on two floors at number 68, opened in 2025 and was set up by the founder of the Genetique Cats cattery. Its dozen or so pedigree cats run from Bengals and Devon Rex to a Munchkin, a Russian Blue and a Scottish Fold. Its sister Cattraction, at number 105, opened around the turn of 2026 and adds an outdoor play area. Both charge S$30 for an hour with a drink, S$50 for two hours or S$100 for a day pass, with a two-for-one deal for students on weekdays; children pay the adult rate, and both open daily from 11:30am. Their resident cats aren’t for sale, but kittens are sold through the group’s cattery.

Gem Cat Café at number 112 has run since 2022 and is home to about 15 British Shorthairs in a range of coat colours. An hour costs S$22 with a soft drink or gelato, and from Tuesday to Friday a one-hour booking comes with a second hour free. It’s closed on Mondays. Its owner’s cattery, Gem Stone Village, sells British Shorthair, Ragdoll and Devon Rex kittens on the same street. Across the road from Jalan Besar MRT, Meow Meow Wonder is a pet shop that sells kittens and has a play lounge of resident pedigree cats, at S$18 an hour or S$9.90 for a 20-minute taster, with a drink; it’s open daily from noon to 9pm.

For something calmer, Catopia is an art-jamming studio and cat hotel upstairs on Dunlop Street, three minutes from Exit B of Rochor MRT. Its ten or so resident cats wander among the easels, led by Jasper, a rescued domestic cat, and joined by a Maine Coon, a Persian and a Bengal. A two-hour painting session costs S$32 to S$40 with a drink, paid in cash or by PayNow, and no food is served. Visitors must be at least 7, and 7- to 11-year-olds need a paying adult; socks are required, and perfume is discouraged. It’s closed on Mondays and opens from 11am to 6pm the rest of the week.

Balestier

Fluffydolls Catfe on Balestier Road, about ten minutes’ walk from Novena MRT, moved here from Desker Road in June 2025 to sit next to its own cattery. It is the quietest of the pedigree cafés: about 20 cats, mostly long-haired Ragdolls, British Longhairs, Siberians and Maine Coons, from breeders in the UK, Italy and Ireland, and house rules that ask you to give only two or three strokes on the back and let the cats come to you. An hour costs S$30 on weekdays and S$35 at weekends, or S$48 and S$58 for two hours, with a drink. Since March 2026 only visitors aged 12 and over have been admitted. It also runs pilates classes followed by half an hour with the cats, for S$50. The resident cats aren’t for sale; the cattery next door sells kittens separately.

A little further east, QQ Cats & Cafe opened in July 2024 and has the fullest menu of any cat café in Singapore, with pizza, pasta, British pies, beer and wine downstairs and about 20 cats of mixed breeds, including Munchkins, in a play area upstairs. QQ posts no standard rate; visitors in 2026 reported about S$15 an hour. On weekday lunchtimes from Tuesday to Friday, a main course and a drink with 20 minutes in the cat room cost S$15.80. Children must be at least 3, under-10s need a paying adult, and it’s closed on Mondays.

Geylang and Joo Chiat

Cat Paradise, on the second floor of a shophouse on Joo Chiat Road about ten minutes’ walk from Paya Lebar MRT, is a cage-free adoption centre run as a cat café. Rescued cats from independent rescuers roam freely alongside seven residents who aren’t for adoption. An hour costs S$12, each extra weekday hour S$8, and a weekday day pass S$25. Sessions are limited to six people, so book online. Children under 14 need a paying adult, socks are required (S$2 at the door), and it’s open daily from 11am to 7pm. The adoption fee, S$200 to S$250, goes to the rescuer.

Further along Joo Chiat Road, in the Peranakan heritage district, Pat-A-Cat is a small upstairs lounge whose owner rescues cats and kittens from worksites and from owners who abandoned them; every cat is up for adoption. It’s open from 1pm, Wednesday to Sunday, and by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays. It publishes no prices, so message it first.

In Geylang, behind bus stop 81049 between Aljunied and Paya Lebar MRT stations, Kitten Sanctuary & The Cat Museum is a volunteer-run non-profit with a neonatal kitten nursery. The Cat Museum, formed in 2014, now shares its space. From about April to September it is full of kittens; the rest of the year about 25 teenage to senior cats live there, all up for adoption. Visits are 90-minute sessions for a S$25 donation, on Saturdays at 11:30am and 3:30pm and on Sundays at 3:30pm. Every child up to 16 needs a ticket and an adult. Adoption costs S$80 for a kitten, and adopters must be at least 25, employed and living in their own home or on a two-year lease.

The Block Bouquets, upstairs on Geylang Road between Kallang and Aljunied stations, began as a shop for flower bouquets built from plastic bricks and turned into a cat café in 2026, with about a dozen rescued or adopted cats. A bouquet-building session with the cats costs S$35.90, or S$29.90 in a separate cat-free room, and it’s closed on Mondays. SGCatHouse, a pedigree cattery whose cat lounge was on Geylang Road, closed its store at the end of July 2026 to look for a new location. Browse them all on our Singapore map.

Orchard, Redhill, Thomson and Kovan

ME Games Orchard, on the fourth floor of Orchard Gateway above Somerset MRT, is an indoor-camping games café with a cat lounge, opened in December 2023. Its eight cats are rescues and long-term residents. An hour of cat petting and board games costs S$16.80 with a welcome drink, or S$10.80 for half an hour, and walk-ins are always welcome. Children under 2 can’t go into the cat area, and 2- to 10-year-olds need an adult. It opens from 11am until 10pm, or 11pm from Friday to Sunday.

Wildflower Studio in Enabling Village, five minutes from Exit A of Redhill MRT, is an art-jamming studio that fosters and socialises rescued community cats. It had fostered 522 and rehomed 435 by October 2026. A semi-guided art jam with the cats costs S$48 for two and a half hours, and a relaxed paint-at-your-own-pace session S$20 for the first hour. The cats nap from noon to 2pm, when there are no sessions. Children must be at least 5, and child and adult both pay. Nearly all the cats can be adopted, and Wildflower follows the Cat Welfare Society’s guidelines, including mesh on every window.

CATEA, a few minutes from Upper Thomson MRT, opened in mid-2024 as a Chinese teahouse where a handful of Ragdolls wander among the tables. There’s no entry fee: each guest orders at least one tea, from S$16 a pot, or S$26 to S$32 a person for gongfu tea, with no GST or service charge. At peak times a single tea buys up to an hour at the table. Children must be at least 7, and under-14s need an adult. It’s closed on Mondays, opens in the afternoon on weekdays and stays open until 10pm from Friday to Sunday.

Beside Kovan MRT, Cat on Canvas is a family-run painting studio where the owners’ cats nap beside the easels. A 1-hour-45-minute session costs S$58 with a canvas, paints and a drink, or S$90 for an adult and a child sharing a canvas, and every session is by appointment.

Mandai

NekoTown moved in 2026 to Mandai Wildlife WEST, on the walkway in front of the Bird Paradise entrance, so you can combine it with the bird park; you don’t need a park ticket to visit. It has 28 resident pedigree cats, mostly British Shorthairs and Longhairs, Ragdolls and Munchkins. An hour costs S$16 on weekdays and S$22 at weekends and on public holidays (half an hour from S$12), with a drink or ice cream to collect afterwards. Children 12 and under need an adult, up to three children per adult, and it’s open daily from 10am to 7pm. NekoTown is also an AVS-licensed cattery that imports pedigree kittens from breeders in the UK, Ireland and Australia and sells them, by appointment, from its Geylang Road premises. The Mandai Khatib shuttle runs from Khatib MRT for S$2.50.

Adopting a Cat in Singapore

For 35 years, from 1989, cats weren’t allowed in HDB flats, where about 80 per cent of residents live. That changed with AVS’s Cat Management Framework, finalised in May 2024: households may keep up to two cats in an HDB flat and three in a private home, and every pet cat must be microchipped and licensed. Licensing opened on 1 September 2024, and since the transition period ended on 31 August 2026, keeping an unlicensed cat has been an offence, with fines of up to S$5,000. A pilot that began on 3 August 2026 lets approved fosterers keep up to six cats in an HDB flat.

A cat at the foot of an HDB block in 2009. Photo: Kcdtsg, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Adoption fees are modest. The SPCA charges S$80 for a local adult cat and S$100 for a kitten, including vaccinations, sterilisation and a microchip, and cat café rescues ask S$80 to S$250. Almost every rescue requires mesh on every window and the main gate before the cat comes home, and many do a home visit or a trial period first. Cat Paradise, Meownistry of Meow, Kitten Sanctuary, Pat-A-Cat and Wildflower Studio are the places to meet cats that need homes.

You’ll also see community cats in most housing estates. The government estimates there are about 13,000 free-roaming cats in public areas, and since 1 September 2024 they have been managed under a trap-neuter-rehome-or-release programme run with the Cat Welfare Society and other groups: more than 4,600 had been through it by July 2026. A cat with the tip of one ear clipped has been sterilised. Many are looked after by volunteer feeders, so leave them be.

Whichever area you’re in, a Singapore cat café is an easy hour out of the heat. Browse all of them on our Singapore cat café map, and if you’re new to cat cafés, our guide to what a cat café is covers the etiquette in more detail.