Hogo Neko Cafe Neko no Kura

Takeo, Saga · 9 mi / 14 km

Rescued Cat Cafe Myao in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, operates as a dedicated adoption-focused cat cafe where visitors can spend time with rescued cats while considering giving one a forever home. Run by Kidera Sekiyu Corporation, this unique establishment combines a welcoming cafe atmosphere with meaningful animal welfare work, housing up to 30 rescued cats at a time who are waiting to find their adoptive families. The cafe takes its adoption process seriously, allowing guests to interact with multiple cats to find the right match while ensuring each cat goes to a suitable home. The Takeo location is part of the Myao family of cafes, offering a barrier-free accessible environment so all visitors can comfortably enjoy time with the resident cats. A thoughtful destination for cat lovers seeking connection and perhaps a new feline companion.

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Hasami, Nagasaki · 11 mi / 17 km

Cafe Chipie is a rescue cat cafe in the hills of Nakaogo, Hasami, set in an old-style building that once housed a pottery kiln workshop. The cafe side, the larger of the two rooms, has antiques and cat goods and serves coffee with homemade cookies, and can be used without visiting the cats. A door separates it from a cat room of about six tatami mats with a large number of friendly rescued cats, sometimes including kittens, and the cafe rehomes its cats. Cat visits are a two-hour package with two drinks, visitors can move freely between the rooms, socks are required, and cat treats are sold. The owner also keeps snakes and other reptiles that visitors can sometimes handle. It opens from noon to 6 PM five days a week. The access road is narrow and parking is hard to find.

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Saga · 15 mi / 25 km

ANELLA CAFE Saga is a rescue dog and cat cafe in Nakanokoji in central Saga, about 24 minutes on foot from JR Saga Station. Part of the nationwide ANELLA chain, it has separate areas for rescued cats and dogs, so visitors can start with the cats and move to the dogs on request. The animals are waiting for new homes, and the cafe also holds regular adoption events. Visits are charged per 30 minutes with optional extensions, with lower rates for elementary school children, seniors and visitors with disabilities, and preschoolers enter free. The cafe is open every day. It is also a welfare workplace where staff with disabilities help care for the animals, and it offers dog grooming. There is no dedicated parking, so visitors use nearby coin parking.

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Saga · 16 mi / 25 km

Cat Cafe Coron is a rescue cat cafe on the second floor of a building in Chuohonmachi, central Saga. It opened in 2009 and is run by a certified veterinary nurse. Around ten cats live in the room, all of them rescued strays or abandoned cats who are socialised there while they wait for adopters, and the cafe posts kittens and adult cats looking for homes. Visits are charged by time course, and groups of three or more get cat treats. Children are welcome from elementary school age, with an adult up to junior high school, and socks are required. Coron also runs a cat-only hotel, home cat-sitting visits and cat therapy. It is closed on Mondays and opens earlier on weekends and holidays.

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Saga · 17 mi / 27 km

Myao in Hyogo-Minami, Saga, is a rescue cat cafe that shares a building with Flat Plus, a new-car subscription shop run by the local fuel company Kidera Sekiyu. The cat room takes up most of the floor, and up to about 30 cats live there, from two-month-old kittens to calm adults. All of them are taken in from the prefectural health centres through the company's rescue programme, and the cafe describes itself as an adoption facility in cafe style. Visitors register at a ticket machine, pick a drink and then spend one hour with the cats on weekdays or 40 minutes on weekends and holidays, paying a contribution that goes to the cats' care. Children under elementary school age cannot enter the cat room, but can watch through the glass walls. Adoption requires at least two visits before a trial. It is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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Kanzaki, Saga · 20 mi / 32 km

Nyankuru Naisa is a rescue cat adoption facility in Kanzaki, run by the local welfare company Mirai Care Group. It opened in January 2026 and doubles as a workplace where people with disabilities, and others looking for a way back into work, help care for the cats. The name plays on the Okinawan phrase for "it will work out". Around ten rescued cats live in the room, and up to seven visitors can come in per hour. Entry is free, and visitors are asked for a voluntary contribution per hour towards food and medical care, with reduced amounts for visitors with disabilities. Visitors sign a waiver before going in, and children must stay with their parents and keep quiet. Adoption involves at least three visits, an application, a review and a trial period. The facility opens on weekdays only, with last entry at 4:30 PM.

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