Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Love Neko Cat Cafe
This location has permanently closed.
Love Neko was a cat cafe in room 503 of the Daiichi Kitanoya Building at Minami 2-jo Nishi 5-chome in central Sapporo, near Odori Station, and was known as Hokkaido's first cat cafe. Its cats included Ragdolls, Chinchilla Persians and American Shorthairs, it served its own Pakistani curry, and the usual cat cafe rules applied: shoes off, hands washed and no picking up the cats. From March 2025 it charged ¥700 for 30 minutes or ¥1,500 for an hour, with an optional drink bar. Google Maps now lists it as permanently closed; the closing date is not known.
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