Cat Cafes in China

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Pingxing ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Shijie (Parallel World) is a charity cat cafe outside Shoujingmao station on Line 10 in Fengtai, Beijing. It grew out of a stray-animal rescue station set up in 2018 by a student of the Capital University of Economics and Business, and almost all of its roughly 60 cats were rescued or abandoned. Two rescued corgis also live in the shop. Visitors buy an untimed entry ticket, with packages that include a drink and cat treats, and entry income goes to the rescue work. Cats can be adopted after a screening process with a refundable deposit and an in-person meeting.

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Wo ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌​​⁠He 32 Zhi Mao (Me and 32 Cats) is a cafe on the ground floor of a residential block in Tiantongyuan West District 1, Changping, open since 2018. The shop has two floors fitted with cat trees and beds, and its own cats, many of them rescued strays, wander through the seating area alongside a few dogs. It serves coffee by day and drinks in the evening, with a food menu that includes pasta and braised pork rice. The owners also take part in small-scale rescue of stray animals.

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Chai ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​⁠Miao Pu is a cat and dog cafe on the tenth floor of the Jinjie building (Building A) on Jinjie South Road in central Shunyi. More than ten American Shorthair cats share the room with three Shiba Inu dogs, and staff introduce each animal before visitors go in. Visits are paid by package, with free drinks and snacks, and freeze-dried treats can be bought to feed the animals. Parking is in the Hualian mall garage nearby.

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Mao ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌⁠Fu Gong is a cat cafe on the second floor of the BOM Xifanli block in the Jinma Building, next to Liudaokou station on Line 15 in Haidian. Around 20 cats of many breeds, including Ragdolls, British Shorthairs and Siamese, live in the room, and staff help visitors find the friendlier ones. Entry packages come with a drink or cat treats and free snacks and water. The cafe is popular with students from the nearby universities.

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Miao ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌⁠Gongzhu is a cat cafe beside exit A of Gaomidian South station on the Daxing line, on the fifth floor of a two-level duplex unit in Daxing. About 20 cats, including Ragdolls, British Shorthairs, golden Chinchillas and short-legged Munchkins, share the space with three Shiba Inu dogs. Entry packages include freeze-dried treats and cat sticks for feeding, and staff hand out shoe covers and lint rollers. It has been featured in Daxing district guides to new leisure spots.

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Mu ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌⁠Wei is a cattery and cat cafe on the second floor of the Zuanhe Center on Jiaoda East Road in Haidian, near Beijing Jiaotong University and the Xizhimen area. It breeds show-quality Abyssinian cats, and the walls are lined with the cats' trophies and rosettes; Siamese and other breeds also live in the small, quiet room. Visitors can sit with the cats over a drink. The cattery sells kittens with pedigree papers.

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Da ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​⁠Hua Mao is a cat cafe in a courtyard house on Mao'er Hutong, a few steps west of Nanluoguxiang in Dongcheng. The space has a loft level and a small open-air yard, and the cats are mostly Maine Coons, Devon Rexes and Ragdolls, known for being calm with visitors. Visits are charged by time, with unlimited drinks included, and cat treats can be bought to feed them. Staff hand out shoe covers and disinfectant at the door and remove cat hair from clothes on the way out.

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Fengling ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​⁠Shufang (Wind Chime Study) is a small teahouse and reading room in a family home in the hutong right beside the red wall of the White Pagoda Temple in Xicheng. About eight cats, mostly Devon Rexes and silver Chinchillas, live there with a few dogs, including an elderly local favourite. A set price covers a pot of tea of the visitor's choice and time with the animals, and coffee is also served. The second-floor roof terrace looks straight onto the White Pagoda.

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Rou ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​​​​⁠Dian She is a Beijing cat cafe brand that first opened in Sanlitun SOHO. Its Zhongguancun branch is on the second basement level of 5°LAB Zhongxinchang, a youth-oriented mall with anime and collectibles shops on Haidian Street, linked by the underground passage to Zhongguancun and Haidian Huangzhuang stations on Line 4. The chain's cafes keep cats of many breeds, such as Munchkins, Maine Coons and Oriental Shorthairs, in a room separate from the drinks area, and visits are sold as timed packages that include a drink.

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Gudao ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​⁠Mao Ne is a cat cafe and restaurant in a two-storey courtyard house on Xiaoju'er Hutong, off the north end of Nanluoguxiang in Dongcheng. Around 30 to 40 cats live there, including British Shorthairs, Siamese, Exotic Shorthairs and Ragdolls, along with French Bulldogs, call ducks, a parrot and a pair of marmots. Visitors order drinks and light meals, can read or have tea under the trees in the courtyard, and watch the sunset from the upper floor.

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Taihou ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​​⁠Cat Cafe is a coffee shop in a converted farmhouse courtyard in Taihou Village, Wangxinzhuang Town, in the orchard country of Pinggu district. Opened in October 2022, it turned an ordinary rural guesthouse into a cat-themed cafe where resident cats roam the small yard and rooms while visitors drink coffee. The Pinggu district library has set up a lending book station inside, and the cafe is a stop on local rural tourism routes.

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Xuedinge ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​⁠(Schrodinger's) Cat Cafe is inside the Beijing Wildlife Park at Yufa in southern Daxing, in the Mengbao Kindergarten area where the park shows its young animals, near the blue-and-white 'Blue Town' buildings. Resident cats include Toygers and Abyssinians, and young animals from the park's nursery are sometimes brought in by keepers, so visitors never know which animals they will meet. A drink is included with the visit. Park admission is needed to reach the cafe.