Bangkok’s cat cafés go back to the early 2010s. Purr Cat Café Club on Sukhumvit 53 was in the Thai press in January 2013, Caturday opened by Ratchathewi station around 2014, and B Cat Café in Phuket Town the same year. Purr has since closed, but the idea spread across the country. Our directory now lists 220 places in Thailand where you can spend time with cats, from shopping-mall cat rooms and family-run townhouses to a temple garden with about 200 rescued cats, and they’re found in more than 40 provinces. About 60 are in Bangkok.
We checked every café below against its Google listing, recent reviews, its own pages and Thai press and blogs at the start of November 2026. Prices are in Thai baht. Hours change often, and many cafés post them only on Facebook, Instagram or LINE, so check before a long trip across town.
How Cat Cafés Work in Thailand
There are two ways to pay. Many cafés charge an entry fee of 100 to 250 baht that includes a drink, and usually socks or a plate of food for the cats, often with no time limit. Others charge nothing to get in: you order a drink, typically 50 to 100 baht, and sit with the cats as long as you like. A few sell time instead, such as Happie Cat Cafe near Sam Yan from 60 baht for 20 minutes, or Mohu Mohu at 25 to 30 baht per 10 minutes.
Bring socks, or buy them. Shoes come off at the door almost everywhere, and many cafés hand out socks or sell them for about 20 baht. You’ll be asked to wash or sanitise your hands, and many rooms have a lint roller by the exit.
Treats are part of the visit. Most cafés sell lickable treats, chicken strips or wet food for 20 to 60 baht, and the cats know it: hold up a packet and you’ll be surrounded. Don’t bring your own treats or toys, and ask before you pick a cat up, as many cafés forbid it.
Check the age limit before bringing children. Many cafés welcome all ages, but some don’t: Cat’s Ozone in Bang Khae and Wila Cafe and Meow Cafe in the North admit no one under 12, and Mohu Mohu no one under 7.
Some places charge foreigners more. At Wila Cafe in Chiang Mai, international visitors pay 100 baht with a drink and treats while Thai customers just order a drink, and Pet’s Paradise charges adults 150 baht but Thai citizens 70. The higher prices usually include a drink, so it’s less of a markup than it looks.
Rescue cafés and breeder cafés look alike. Many Thai cafés keep pedigree cats, especially Scottish Folds, British Shorthairs, Munchkins, Persians and Maine Coons, and a few are linked to catteries. Cat Meow 4289 near Pattaya calls itself a Maine Coon breeder and offers kittens for sale. If you’d rather support rescue work, look for cafés such as Asok Pethouse, Catsanova and Wat Suan Kaeo around Bangkok, Pet’s Paradise in Chiang Mai, Top Cat in Phuket and the Rescued Cats cafés on Koh Samui.
Watch how the cats are kept. In January 2026, Bangkok’s Bang Khen district closed Just Cat Café after a video showed staff hitting and throwing cats. The district found it had no business licence, police filed animal-cruelty charges, and the cats were taken in by a rescue. Most cafés are clean and caring, but some reviews in 2026 described thin or sneezing cats and strong smells at a few, which we mention below. If the cats look unwell, it’s fair to leave.
Thai Cat Cafés at a Glance
Area | First visit | Rescue cats | Something different |
|---|---|---|---|
Central Bangkok | Caturday Cat Cafe | Asok Pethouse, Mohu Mohu | Chico Cafe’s Siamese cats |
Greater Bangkok | Mori Cat Cafe (Rangsit) | Wat Suan Kaeo | About 200 cats in a temple garden |
Chiang Mai | Cat’s Alley Cafe | Pet’s Paradise | Mali’s 80 cats until midnight |
Pattaya | Sunshine Cat Cafe | Dog’C Blog Felicita’ | Cat Sky Bar’s sea-view terrace |
Phuket | B Cat Café | Top Cat Café | Doo Cat Cafe’s 80-plus cats |
Koh Samui | CatWorld | Rescued Cats (2 cafés) | Cat yoga at CatWorld |
Hua Hin | Cat A Way Cafe & Bar | Lynx Pawradise (Pran Buri) | A bar with cats after dark |
Bangkok
Bangkok’s cat cafés are spread across the whole city, and many of the best are in residential sois far from the Skytrain. The ones below are the easiest to reach by BTS or MRT, with the suburbs after them. Browse them all on our Bangkok map.
Siam, Ratchathewi and Sam Yan
Caturday Cat Cafe, a few steps from exit 2 of BTS Ratchathewi, is the city’s best-known cat café and the one most visitors start with. It opened around 2014 and has about 17 resident cats, among them Maine Coons, Munchkins and other long-haired breeds. Everyone pays 200 baht at the door, and the whole amount goes towards food and drinks from a menu of coffee, cakes, brownies and light meals. Treat sticks cost about 40 baht, shoes come off at the door, and staff don’t let visitors pick up or carry the cats. It’s closed on Mondays and opens at noon on weekdays and 11am at weekends. Here are places to stay near Siam and Ratchathewi on Booking.com.
Near Chulalongkorn University, Happie Cat Cafe is on Chula Soi 11, about 500 metres from exit 2 of MRT Sam Yan. More than 60 cats live there, mostly British Shorthairs and Scottish Folds, and it’s one of the few cafés that encourages you to hold them. Time is sold in short blocks, from 60 baht for 20 minutes plus a drink, so it works for a quick stop. It’s open every day from 10am to 9pm. On the other side of the campus, in Banthat Thong, Clover Cat Cafe on Soi Chula 20 is decorated like a friend’s living room, with board games, a craft corner and Scottish Folds among its cats. In September 2026 entry cost 119 baht with no time limit, not including a drink, and a 199-baht package added a drink, a pouch of wet food and a Polaroid photo.
In Dragon Town on Soi Chula 5, Soo Family Cafe & Cattery fills three floors: a café on the ground floor, Shiba Inus and a puppy room on the second and cats on the third. 250 baht buys the whole day, and you can come and go. It shares its address and prices with Shibainu Story, a Shiba Inu breeder that sells puppies, so it’s best thought of as a breeder’s café.
A short walk south-west, in Bang Rak, Mohu Mohu Cat Café on Naret Road is a Japanese-run café whose cats were almost all abandoned and then rescued and vaccinated. It’s a few minutes from exit 3 of BTS Chong Nonsi or exit 1 of MRT Sam Yan. Instead of an entry fee, it charges for time: 25 baht per 10 minutes on weekdays and 30 baht at weekends, and you pay whichever is higher, that or your bill for Japanese food, desserts and drinks. Children under 7 aren’t admitted, booking is required at weekends and on holidays, and it’s closed on Tuesdays. Nearby, between Hua Lamphong and Sam Yan, Polly’s Cat Cafe is a budget room above a restaurant on Kit Phanit Alley, formerly called Mao Meow, where 179 baht buys a drink and unlimited time with young, playful cats. It takes cash or Thai bank transfer only.
Up at Victory Monument, Candy Cat Cafe Victory Hub is on the third floor of the Victory Hub mall, reached from the BTS by the skywalk, with entry from 100 baht for 30 minutes. Its cats are often dressed in outfits, and reviews in July and August 2026 objected to a meerkat kept in a small cage.
Sukhumvit
Asok Pethouse Cat Cafe, on the second floor of P.S. Tower on Sukhumvit Soi 21, a short walk from BTS Asok and MRT Sukhumvit, is the most central rescue café. Most of its cats are waiting for adoption and come through rescue partners such as PAWS Bangkok, with separate rooms for kittens and cats that need special care. The 250-baht entry can be spent in full on breakfast, meals, drinks or merchandise, and you can stay as long as you like. It’s open every day from 8am to 8pm.
Further out, Cat.ffee is a small upstairs room between BTS Phra Khanong and BTS On Nut; in autumn 2026 it charged 175 to 179 baht with a drink, two treats and no time limit. In Ekkamai, Chico Cafe on Soi Ekkamai 19 is a Japanese-owned garden café and gift shop that has kept Siamese cats, called Wichien Maat in Thai, for more than 13 years. The cat room costs extra, admits children of primary-school age and up, and closes around 4:30pm. The café is closed on Tuesdays.
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Ari, Chatuchak and Huai Khwang
Catnip House on Phahon Yothin 37/1, about 400 metres from BTS Sena Nikhom or Ratchayothin, has more than 50 cats, Maine Coons among them, and charges 200 baht for a drink and unlimited time. Next to Chatuchak Weekend Market, Catsmile Cafe is on the second floor of the Mixt Chatuchak mall, close to MRT Kamphaeng Phet and BTS Mo Chit, and keeps a fennec fox, rabbits and pet pigs alongside its cats. In autumn 2026 entry cost 199 baht on weekdays with a drink and chicken to feed the animals; one review that October described thin, sneezing cats. Catsmile’s original branch in Ratchayothin has been temporarily closed since about September 2026.
Two neighbourhood spots are an easy add-on in Ari and Chatuchak. Black Cat Cafe on Soi Ari 1, a short walk from BTS Ari, is a tiny coffee shop with two resident cats and a kitten and no entry fee. Portcha Cafe by Bang Khen market, a few minutes from BTS Sena Nikhom, is a matcha bar whose seven cats greet you at the door.
In Huai Khwang, Love Meow Cat Cafe is two minutes from exit 3 of MRT Sutthisan. Its 21 cats can be visited for 200 baht with a drink, socks and no time limit, and it also grooms cats. It’s closed on Thursdays.
Thonburi
Across the Chao Phraya, Duemdum Coffee at Bake & Koff Studios in Khlong San, right by Khlong San station on the BTS Gold Line, one stop from ICONSIAM, is a speciality coffee shop with a small gang of rescued street cats and no entry fee. In Bangkok Yai, Lucid Chill House is a vintage wooden house near MRT Itsaraphap where seven or so cats wander between the tables, and Gume Cat Cafe near MRT Tha Phra asks only that you buy a drink. Both suit a quiet afternoon. Further west, Indicat Cat Café near MRT Sirindhorn, known for the comic posts on its Facebook page, charges 200 baht for adults and 150 for children for the cat room upstairs.
Na-Korn-Nom in Taling Chan is a milk-and-dessert café with a room full of cats, Maine Coons among them, open from 4pm to 11:30pm, so it’s the one to try in the evening.
The Outer Districts
Some of Bangkok’s biggest cat rooms are in the suburbs, best reached by taxi or Grab. On Phetkasem Road in Nong Khaem, Chill Cat Cafe has more than 60 cats, charges 150 baht with socks or 200 with socks, cat food and a drink, takes walk-ins only and cashless payment only, and admits children from 5. Cat’s Ozone Cafe in Bang Khae is famous for its chubby cats; 200 baht includes a drink and about 90 minutes, and nobody under 12 goes in.
In the east, Paws Up Cafe in Suan Luang has more than 30 orange British Shorthairs in a Japanese-themed room, free to enter, next to a large halal restaurant serving Thai and Japanese food. In Min Buri, เหมียวบ้านเป็ด Cat Cafe is another halal café, with more than 50 cats, mostly Scottish Folds; in August 2026 entry was free with a drink or cat food. PoMoTo Cafe near Suan Luang Rama IX park mixes 30 to 40 cats with craft workshops and a cactus garden, and recommends booking through LINE at weekends.
Catsanova in Bang Kho Laem is a non-profit shelter where every cat is up for adoption, visited by reservation for 200 baht on a tour with a cat sitter. In November 2026 Google listed it as temporarily closed, so message it on Facebook before going.
Around Bangkok: Rangsit, Nonthaburi and Samut Prakan
North of the city, around Rangsit and its universities, Mori Cat Cafe opposite Rangsit University is open from noon to midnight. 200 baht buys a drink, socks, cat food and a joke “cat slave” certificate, with no time limit and a student discount. Klick Cat Cafe charges nothing beyond a drink of 40 to 60 baht. Cat Cafe Rangsit, about 500 metres from Lak Hok station on the SRT Red Line, charges 100 baht with a drink and a treat, but several reviews in 2026 described thin, sick-looking cats and a strong smell. Bai Maew Cat Cafe near Rangsit University, which still shows up in searches, has closed for good. See our Pathum Thani map.
In Nonthaburi, the cat garden at Wat Suan Kaeo is unlike any café: about 200 vaccinated, sterilised cats live outdoors on the temple grounds, with a few more in a café house, and you can visit free from 8am to 4pm, buy treats for 20 baht and ask the staff about adoption. Payment is in cash or the donation box, and a golf cart takes you in from the car park. See our Nonthaburi map.
In Samut Prakan, Cats Tale Cafe is run by young people from the local community and has 21 cats of several breeds, and Siamese Cat Café, whose owner is Vietnamese, has 16 rescued cats and Vietnamese food. In Phra Pradaeng, across the Chao Phraya from Bangkok’s Rama III area, Catster by Kingdom of Tigers at Biztown Rama III–Suksawat is a shelter café: 100 baht covers self-service drinks and snacks, the kittens and cats can be adopted, and it stays open late, until midnight at weekends. It’s closed on Wednesdays. To the west in Nakhon Pathom, Boxgallery behind Nakhon Pathom railway station charges nothing beyond an order, and the second branch of Chill Cat Cafe is near Mahidol University in Salaya.
Chiang Mai and the North
Chiang Mai has around 20 cat cafés, more than anywhere outside Bangkok, and they’re popular with both students and travellers. See our Chiang Mai map.
Mali Cat Cafe & Bar at the top of Nimmanhaemin Road, in front of the U Nimman hotel, calls itself the largest cat café in Nimman, with about 80 cats, many of them British Shorthairs, Scottish Folds, Munchkins and Sphynx. An hour costs 250 baht with a drink, two hours 350 and three hours 450. You leave your shoes in a locker, put on socks and wash your hands, and it’s open every day from 9am to midnight. Here are places to stay near Nimman on Booking.com.
For a calmer visit, Cat’s Alley Cafe on Soi Mahidol 2 in Nong Hoi, south of the Old City, has around 14 cats that were abandoned or strays, no entrance fee and more than 1,000 Google reviews. Order one item from a menu of coffee, bingsu and simple Thai dishes; the cat zone closes at 6pm. In the Old City, Pet’s Paradise Cat Café on Ratchapakhinai Road is run by a young couple with about ten neutered former street cats, some of them up for adoption, who can leave through a back door when they want a break. Adults pay 150 baht with a drink, Thai citizens 70 and children 50. Also in the Old City, Fatcat Cafe CNX on Singharat Road sits next to a laundromat, so you can visit eight chubby cats while your washing runs; an hour with a drink costs 100 baht. Reviews in 2026 disagree on its minimum age, so check before taking children.
North of the moat in Chang Phueak, Wila Cafe has about 27 cats, many of them Scottish Folds, admits no one under 12 and charges international visitors 100 baht with a drink and treats. Tipsy Cat Cafe & Bar in Santitham is an evening cocktail bar with a Japanese owner and about ten cats. Near the university, Por Phu Cat Cafe in the Lan Din project, a few minutes from Baan Kang Wat, charges 150 baht with a drink, with floor seating over two floors. Out east, Popo’s Cafe near Central Festival is named after its orange cat Popo and has no entry fee or time limit.
Outside the city, Sukjai Cat Cafe near Maejo University has more than 30 cats for 120 baht with a drink and up to an hour. In Mae Rim, เฟอฟู has young ferrets as well as cats, and The Maze Cafe has 70 to 80 cats, most of them strays the owner took in and nursed, with no entry fee beyond a drink. On the road to Mae Kampong, Cats Station Café in Doi Saket is a friendly stop with former strays and good fried rice.
Several Chiang Mai cafés that still appear in older guides have closed: Catmosphere on Huay Kaew Road didn’t reopen after COVID, and Cool Cat Cafe, Cat Brothers Cafe and Catera in San Sai are closed for good.
Further north, CAT ‘n’ A CUP on Phaholyothin Road in central Chiang Rai has more than 25 cats, including two Sphynx, and no entry fee beyond a drink or cake. In Lampang, Meow Cafe charges 100 baht with coffee and cat food, admits no one under 12 and is closed on Tuesdays.
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Pattaya, Bang Saen and the East Coast
Cat Sky Bar Cafe is on the third floor of Royal Garden Plaza on Beach Road, in room D3, with a terrace looking over the sea. In October 2026 entry was 250 baht with a drink and chicken for the cats, and children under 13 must come with an adult. It’s open from 11am to 11pm. In North Pattaya, a few minutes from Terminal 21, Sunshine Cat Cafe is devoted to British Shorthairs, with more than 20 of them and some kittens; 200 baht buys a drink and an hour, and the staff speak English. Maine Coon Cat Cafe in Central Pattaya charges 170 baht with a drink and cat food, and Narak Pets Cafe on Thappraya Road, towards Jomtien, has a resident raccoon. See our Pattaya map. Here are places to stay near Pattaya Beach on Booking.com.
Dog’C Blog Felicita’ in South Pattaya takes in dogs and cats whose owners could no longer keep them, nurses sick ones back to health, rehomes them and checks adopters. About 100 dogs share the garden, and the cats have their own room. Cat Meow 4289 in Bang Lamung, by contrast, is a Maine Coon breeder that offers kittens and exotic pets for sale, with coatis, meerkats and snakes in a separate zone.
Half an hour north, in the student town of Bang Saen, Mali Cat Cafe, opposite Burapha University, is the Chiang Mai café’s sister branch, with 30 to 40 cats. An hour with a drink costs 150 baht, and students pay 80. Recent reviews describe sick-looking cats at two other cafés in the area, Cat in the Forest in Bang Saen and its branch at Central Si Racha. In Si Racha, Catfeine House & Cafe has been open since 2015 and calls itself the town’s first cat café; it now opens only at weekends and on public holidays. See our Chon Buri map.
Further along the coast, Rayong has three small cafés, and in Chanthaburi, Thrrmda Bar & Eatery in the old Chanthaboon Waterfront Community has a cat room and a rooftop over the river.
Phuket
Phuket’s cat cafés are in two clusters: Phuket Old Town, and Rawai and Nai Harn in the south. See our Phuket map.
B Cat Café on Thep Krasattri Road opened in 2014 as the island’s first cat café. It’s a restaurant up front, serving Thai and Western dishes, with about 22 cats, pedigree and rescued, in a room at the back. In October 2026 a visit cost 225 baht including any drink. Also in the Old Town, Cat Space Cafe on Chumporn Road has more than 30 cats, including Maine Coons and Sphynx, and a 300-baht package with food, a drink and an ice cream. Cat’s Cafe by JB moved from Patong to Phuket Road in mid-2026 and has about 20 cats, half of them Maine Coons; socks and cat food are free.
Between town and Patong, Top Cat Café in Kathu is home to about 35 rescued cats, the oldest 19 years old, some of them left behind by foreign owners during COVID. Entry is 200 baht. Down south, Doo Cat Cafe in Rawai, on the way to Nai Harn beach, has more than 80 cats, many of them rescued, and a parrot room. Order something from the menu, from 179 baht, or pay 150 baht to go in. Neko Cat Cafe on Soi Saiyuan, the first cat café in the south of the island, has about 15 cats and a minimum order of 135 baht. In Patong, the small cat room at Up To You Cat Café got several reviews in 2026 about smells and scruffy cats.
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Koh Samui and Krabi
The Dog and Cat Rescue Samui Foundation, which has cared for the island’s street animals since 1999, runs two cat cafés. Rescued Cats is at its main shelter in Taling Ngam on the quiet south-west coast, and Rescued Cats 2 opened in 2026 in a lane a short walk from Chaweng Beach. At both, drinks are self-service for a donation, and cats can be adopted. In Bo Phut, near Fisherman’s Village, CatWorld is the island’s largest cat café, with more than 20 cats, cat yoga and a cat hotel; 90 minutes with a drink costs 350 baht for adults and 250 for children. Nearby, Cats Cafe is a co-working space with rescued cats, kittens and dogs, where you donate or order. See our Koh Samui map.
In Krabi, Dindangcatcafe is a breakfast café and homestay at the foot of the Din Daeng Doi viewpoint, about 20 minutes from Ao Nang. Its owner serves halal food, runs roti and cooking classes, rents a room for sunrise stays and shares the place with eight cats.
Hua Hin
Cat A Way Cafe & Bar, in an old shophouse on the main road between Soi 49 and 51, has about ten former street cats. 129 baht buys a soda or two scoops of ice cream with no time limit, and from 5pm it turns into a bar, with a DJ on Wednesdays. It’s closed on Tuesdays. Half an hour south in Pran Buri, Lynx Pawradise Café is part of a sanctuary for stray cats and dogs, where about 36 cats live in a garden and you pour yourself a drink and donate what you like. See our Hua Hin map.
Isan, the Central Plains and the South
Cat cafés in the rest of Thailand are mostly small and local, but worth a stop if you’re passing.
- Khon Kaen. Healjai Cat Cafe charges 59 baht with no time limit and is open until 10:30pm, and the cat floor at Loading Matcha Cafe near Khon Kaen University costs 30 baht with a drink. See our Khon Kaen map.
- Korat and Khao Yai. Huanom Cathub in Nakhon Ratchasima says it has more than 50 cats of 11 breeds, for 25 baht and a drink. Near Khao Yai, Cat Cafe Khaoyai in Pak Chong sells tickets from 169 baht with a drink and is closed on Tuesdays.
- Udon Thani. Meow Time Cafe, open since December 2024, has more than 20 pedigree cats for 99 baht with a juice.
- Ayutthaya. Madame Meow has 22 cats in a one-unit shophouse, for 100 baht with a drink, and is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
- Chiang Khan. Le Moon Home Cafe on the Mekong lends bicycles free.
- Hat Yai. The Colony Cafe has six or seven cats upstairs and no entry fee.
Closed Thai Cat Cafés
These still appear in older lists, and sometimes on Google:
- Purr Cat Café Club on Sukhumvit 53 and Cat Human Cafe in Bang Khae have closed for good.
- Year of The Cat Cafe in Bangkok Noi closed on 29 September 2024 after ten years.
- Just Cat Café in Bang Khen was closed by the district in January 2026 after a cruelty video.
- CatNip Cafe on Narathiwat Soi 8, not the same place as Catnip House, was temporarily closed in November 2026.
- Candy Cat Cafe Saphan Khwai and ONCE Cat Cafe in Samut Prakan have closed for good.
- Bai Maew Cat Cafe and 888 Cat Café in Rangsit have closed for good.
- Catmosphere, Cool Cat Cafe, Cat Brothers Cafe and Catera in Chiang Mai have closed.
- Cat’s Cafe by JB has left Patong for Phuket Town, but its old address still turns up.
Browse everything on our Thailand cat café map, and if you’re new to cat cafés, start with what a cat café is. For how it all began, see our history of the world’s first cat café, which opened in Taiwan.
