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Cat Cafes in China
There are 468 cat cafes in China.
Danmu Desert Cat Cafe
Qingyuan, Guangdong
Danmu is a desert-themed coffee shop with a cat cafe on the fifth-floor rooftop of Shunying Times Square in Qingcheng, Qingyuan; it is reached through the terrace outside the Haidilao restaurant. The Moroccan-style sand-coloured setting is popular for photos, and visitors can spend time with the cats for the price of a coffee.
Miao Xing Cat and Dog Cafe
Liuzhou, Guangxi
Miao Xing is a cat and dog cafe in a street-front shop of the Wanda Huacheng complex on Kangshun Road, beside the Chengzhong Wanda Plaza in Liuzhou. Dogs, including a Samoyed, have the ground floor and cats such as Ragdolls and Golden and Silver Shaded British Shorthairs have the upper floor, so the two are kept apart. Each animal has a name tag. Visitors buy a drink package to play with the cats or dogs, and the kitchen also serves simple meals.
Kakou Cat Cafe
Liuzhou, Guangxi
Kakou is a cat cafe in a seventh-floor unit of the Lanse Gangwan (Blue Harbour) building on Liuxin Street in Chengzhong, Liuzhou, near the north end of the Liujiang Bridge. Visitors order coffee or other drinks and spend time with the resident cats, and families with children visit at weekends. The shop breeds and sells cats.
Xiamen Cat Museum
Xiamen, Fujian
The Xiamen Cat Museum is the centrepiece of Dingaozai Cat Street, a lane of cat murals, sculptures and small shops opposite Xiamen University near Nanputuo Temple in Siming. Inside the castle-like building are displays of cat art, posters and handmade cat toys, and more than twenty pedigree cats, including Exotics, British Shorthairs and Persians, live in a vintage tram carriage that visitors can enter at set times in the afternoon and evening. An entry ticket covers time with the cats, and a cat-themed cafe serves drinks, snacks and set meals.
You Mao Garden Cafe
Xiamen, Fujian
You Mao Garden Cafe is a garden cafe in a village courtyard at Liuying in Hongtang Village, Dongfu, Haicang, below Tianzhu Mountain. Apart from one house cat, the cats are rescues, and they wander through the flower garden and the cafe and are used to people. The cafe serves coffee, desserts, snacks and meals with a minimum spend per person, and sells cat-themed crafts and runs handicraft workshops. It is best reached by car or taxi from Dongfu station on Line 2, and there is a car park opposite.
Miao Miao Shan Cat Rescue Cafe
Xiamen, Fujian
Miao Miao Shan is a stray-cat rescue cafe on the third floor of Building B2 in the Lianfa Huamei Space creative park in Xiamen, above a coffee shop. It started as a hillside shelter and campsite for nearly a hundred strays at Tianma Mountain in Houxi and has since moved here. The two-level space has climbing frames on both floors, and the cats include rescued and disabled cats as well as a few Ragdolls; a rescued Samoyed also lives here. Visitors buy an entry pass or a drink package with cat treats, and many of the cats are available for adoption.
- Adoptable cats
Tangmiao Cafe
Shenzhen, Guangdong
Tangmiao Cafe is a bright orange coffee shop on the ground floor of a residential block in Yuanling New Village, Futian, about 400 metres from Exit C of Tongxinling station on Lines 3 and 6. The owners set aside a separate room for rescued stray cats, which visitors can go in to stroke, and the rest of the cafe is decorated with cat murals and ornaments. It opened in 2021 and is known for its cakes and coffee; there is also a small courtyard and a large room used for work and parties. Diners enter through the east gate of the estate on Yuanling 1st Street.
Naikou Cat Cafe
Shishi, Fujian
Naikou is a cat cafe on a tree-lined old lane, Lianchi Road, in Fengli, Shishi, with a glass shopfront and wooden floors. Visitors pay an entry fee or buy a cat package with a drink and a small snack platter, then relax on the sofas while the cats, including a young ginger, wander around. It is closed on Mondays.
REDOLL Cat Cafe Changning
Shanghai
This branch of the REDOLL cat cafe chain is on the sixth floor of the Cloud Nine (Longzhimeng) shopping mall on Changning Road, above Zhongshan Park station on Metro Lines 2, 3 and 4. REDOLL began as a cattery in 2014 and its cafes are stocked from its own CFA-registered breeding cattery, with breeds such as Maine Coon, Ragdoll, Golden Shaded British Shorthair, Devon Rex, Napoleon and Abyssinian. Visitors put on shoe covers and disinfect their hands, and an entry ticket covers time with the cats. Bead-art (pindou) crafts and cat merchandise are also on offer. Cats are sold here, after staff check the buyer's home and experience.
Shanghai City Cat Island
Shanghai
Shanghai City Cat Island is the city's stray-cat management and adoption centre, set in a converted former kindergarten inside Shengzhai Park in Gucun, Baoshan, with the main park entrance at Shenglian Road and Taihe West Road. Several hundred neutered and vaccinated former strays live in a free-roaming, cage-free compound of about 1,765 square metres, alongside a care unit for kittens and older cats. Entry is free after registering on site, with a daily visitor limit; a small cat science hall charges a fee that goes to food and neutering. The centre runs adoptions, volunteer days and public education on responsible pet keeping. The second phase is open only to booked workshop groups at weekends.
- Adoptable cats
Miao Le Ge Mi Cat Cafe
Shanghai
Miao Le Ge Mi is a cat cafe on the second floor of the Qiyuan Life Plaza on Wenhui Road in Songjiang University Town, reached by the stairs beside the ground-floor tea shops near the exit of the university's third-phase dormitory area. About a dozen cats of different breeds and temperaments live in the room, including British and American Shorthairs. The cafe serves coffee, desserts and light drinks, and doubles as a place to study or play board games while the cats wander between the tables.
San Qian Mao Yuan Cat Cafe Changzhou
Changzhou, Jiangsu
San Qian Mao Yuan is a cat cafe and cattery in a street-front building on Dongxiatang, across the canal from the Qingguo Lane historic quarter in Tianning, Changzhou, with parking at the door. The ground floor is a quiet tea and dessert area, and the cats live upstairs in a room with booth seating, a bar counter and a small balcony. Around a dozen cats include Maine Coons, Golden Shaded British Shorthairs, American Shorthairs, Ragdolls, British Blues and Exotic Shorthairs, and staff introduce each one's temperament. Visitors pay a cat-room entry fee with no time limit, wash their hands and put on shoe covers. Children under 14 are not admitted. Cats are also sold here.
Check each cafe's website for current hours, booking requirements and age restrictions before visiting.