Cat Cafes in China

Kunming, Yunnan

Miaodao ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌⁠Xiaonaimao is a cat cafe in Room 1116 on the 11th floor of the Nanping Times Building on Baoshan Street, in the Nanping pedestrian shopping area of central Kunming, a floor shared with other cat rooms. The space is small but holds some twenty to thirty cats, including a large Ragdoll, and three dogs. The cats are used to visitors and come over to be stroked. Visits have cost about 34 yuan per person.

Guilin, Guangxi

Riguangji ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌​​‌​⁠is a cat cafe and handicraft studio in the Jiumeng Hotel building at 3 Renmin Road, near the Binjiang Road riverside in Xiufeng, central Guilin; the brand also has a handicraft and cat shop on Shegong Lane. The room is quiet, with an outdoor garden, and the cats include Ragdolls, Maine Coons, Siamese, a calico and British Shorthairs, all well fed and calm. Cat treats such as lickable sticks and freeze-dried snacks are sold separately for feeding. Visits have cost about 40 yuan per person.

Guilin, Guangxi

Shiguang ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌⁠(Time) Cat Cafe is a small cat cafe at 21-1 Lanjing Lane, one of the old lanes of Xiufeng District in central Guilin. The room is clean and cosy, with plenty of scratching posts and toys, and the cats, Ragdolls among them, are friendly and used to being stroked. Free cat treats are handed out for feeding, staff explain how to handle the cats, and lint rollers are left by the door. Visits have cost about 28 yuan per person.

Mianyang, Sichuan

Qiangqiang ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌⁠Mao is a long-running cat cafe on the pedestrian street of the Wanda Plaza by Mianyang railway station in Fucheng District. The brand describes itself as the first independent cat cafe in Sichuan and has a second shop in Mianyang. The Wanda shop looks small from outside but spreads over three floors, with cats on every level and photos of the resident cats on the walls and stairways. Coffee and afternoon tea are served. Visits have cost about 31 yuan per person.

Mianyang, Sichuan

Moka ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌​​‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​⁠Xiaozhen (Mocha Town) is an American-style cat cafe and afternoon tea room in the Fuyi Building on Anchang Road in Chengbei, Fucheng District, Mianyang, which also runs as a quiet music bar. More than thirty cats of different breeds live here. Visits are sold as packages that include a drink, and cat food for feeding is bought separately. Visits have cost about 32 yuan per person.

Guiyang, Guizhou

XIBO ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​⁠Ximao is a cat cafe in Shop 2-27 of Zone A of the Vanke Feicui Tianjiao development on the Bapima Red Street in Guanshanhu, Guiyang, about 400 m on foot from exit C of Guanshan West Road metro station. It is a quiet room where visitors spend time with the resident cats. Visits have cost about 43 yuan per person.

Guiyang, Guizhou

Maoyu ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​​⁠is a cat cafe on the second floor of Zone H in phase 2 of the China Resources International Community on Xingzhu West Road in Guanshanhu, Guiyang, near the Olympic Sports Center. Besides the resident cats, which are calm and affectionate, the shop has board games and an instant camera for photos. Visits have cost about 48 yuan per person.

Guiyang, Guizhou

Xianxue ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌⁠(Holding Snow) is a coffee shop with a separate cat room on the second floor of Building B of the Zhongshan Building on Fushui South Road, near Xiaoshizi in Nanming, Guiyang; the lift is beside the A Qin Jia barbecue restaurant, and a metro station is close by. Dozens of well-fed cats, kittens among them, live in the cat area, which is furnished with a fireplace and oil paintings. The menu covers coffee such as matcha lattes, alcohol-free mocktails, puddings and cakes. Visits have cost about 40 to 50 yuan per person.

Chongqing

Sanlou ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​⁠You Mao (There Are Cats on the Third Floor) is a cat cafe at 1 Qinglong Street by the Yiqiaotou bridgehead in Hechuan, a district in the north of Chongqing municipality; it has been listed among Hechuan's cafes since at least 2019. More than twenty cats live here and mix freely with guests. Coffee, drinks and desserts are made to order, there is a minimum spend per person, and desserts cannot be taken away. Parking nearby is hard to find. Visits have cost about 28 yuan per person.

Chongqing

Jiu ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌​⁠Zhi Mao (Nine Cats) is a cat cafe combined with a games lounge on the fourth floor of Building 18 on Xijie, the student street of Chongqing's University Town in Shapingba, in the same building as the Meili Huayuan Hotel. The resident cats each have a name and wander among the tables while guests play board games, console games or murder-mystery role-play games, watch films in private screening rooms or join hanfu costume parties. Visits have cost about 31 yuan per person.

Chongqing

Miaowu ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌⁠is a cat cafe upstairs from a skewer barbecue at the Bingguocheng development on Yiwu Avenue in Hechuan, in the north of Chongqing municipality, next to the north gate of Chongqing College of Mobile Communication; it has been described as Hechuan's first cat cafe and is popular with students. The cats are gentle, climb onto visitors' laps and can be stroked freely, and the owner introduces each cat's breed and character. The shop serves drinks. Visits have cost about 20 yuan per person.

Chongqing

This ⁠‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​⁠branch of Dundun Cat Coffee is on the third floor of Building 17 in the Binhu night market at the Xiexin Center in Yongchuan, opposite the Ferris wheel by the lake; the brand also runs shops near People's Square and Aiqing Square in Yongchuan. Visitors spend time with the resident cats over coffee and drinks. The business is registered as a pet sales shop, and cats are sold. Visits have cost about 46 yuan per person.