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Anime Cafés Tokyo November 2026: Best Dates & Lotteries

Anime cafes Tokyo: Akihabara at night
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简答: The best anime cafés in Tokyo in November 2026 are the Demon Slayer collaborations at ufotable Cafe (Mugen Train phase 2 from 3 November) and ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe Ikebukuro, plus the Haikyu!! café at and GALLERY Ikebukuro and Yurakucho (3 November–6 December). Book ahead: ufotable seats go by weekly lottery, and Haikyu!! seats cost ¥330 on TableCheck.

The anime cafe Tokyo November 2026 line-up is led by Demon Slayer and Haikyu!!: ufotable Cafe starts its Mugen Train phase-2 collaboration on 3 November (end date not yet announced), and the Haikyu!! café at and GALLERY Ikebukuro and Yurakucho runs from 3 November to 6 December 2026. Most seats are booked in advance, by weekly lottery at ufotable and by a ¥330 TableCheck reservation at and GALLERY.

Last checked: 1 November 2026

No English roundup of the anime cafe Tokyo November 2026 line-up lists these with dates, prices and booking rules, so here it is. Below you get each café in our house format, a plain-English guide to how lotteries, seat fees and goods limits work, what to do without a Japanese phone number, and a half-day Ikebukuro route. Every date and price was checked on 1 November 2026 against each venue’s official page; anything we could not confirm was left out.

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Confirmed November collabs in Tokyo

¥330

and GALLERY seat booking per person

70分钟

Haikyu!! café sitting

Wed 18:00

ufotable weekly lottery opens

Anime cafe Tokyo November 2026: dates at a glance

咖啡馆日期(2026)地点订位价格
Demon Slayer Mugen Train phase 2, ufotable CafeFrom 3 Nov (end TBA)Nakano (between JR Nakano and Koenji)Weekly LivePocket lottery, max 2See official menu
Demon Slayer monthly programme, ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKUROAll month; AGF drinks 1–19 Nov; new kuji from 20 NovGrandscape Ikebukuro 2F, East Exit 10 minFull lottery on ufotable TicketCafé kuji ¥750
Haikyu!! × and GALLERY3 Nov–6 DecIkebukuro (East Exit 1 min); Yurakucho (Bic Camera 7F)TableCheck, ¥330 pp; walk-ins if seats freeFood ¥1,200, drinks ¥850
Ranma ½ × IchikakuyaUntil 23 NovIkebukuro, 涩谷, Akihabara, Shinjuku and moreNo booking mentionedRamen ¥1,380

Status: all four anime cafe Tokyo November 2026 entries are confirmed by the operators. Menus, novelties and goods can sell out early, and the operators say content may change without notice.

The November 2026 Tokyo anime cafés, one by one

1. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train phase 2 at ufotable Cafe (Studio café)

Anime cafe Tokyo: a small café front lit up at dusk in Japan
ufotable Cafe Tokyo is a small studio café, which is why seats go by weekly lottery. Pictured: a café front in Japan. Photo: Faheem Ahamad / Pexels

重点: ufotable, the studio behind Demon Slayer, runs its own cafés. Its 2026 collaboration “~Musunda En~” follows the full-series TV rerun that began on 5 April 2026, changing menus and goods as the story moves on. Phase 2 of the Mugen Train arc was announced on 28 October and runs from Tuesday 3 November 2026; ufotable has not yet published an end date. The ufotable Cafe site also lists an Uzui Tengen birthday event from 31 October to 23 November.

  • 地点: ufotable Cafe Tokyo, Nagata Building 1F, 1-38-11 Nogata, Nakano-ku. It sits roughly midway between JR Nakano and Koenji stations, about 10 minutes’ walk from each (Gigazine).
  • 氛围: a small studio café with themed food and drinks that come with limited novelties, and goods tied to the arc on screen that week.
  • 票价: menu and goods prices are on the ufotable Cafe menu and goods pages; we could not confirm them in text on 30 October. Booking itself is through LivePocket (rules).
  • 官方连结: ufotable Cafe Demon Slayer collaboration 与 28 October announcement

💡 Japan Pro 小提示: Set an alarm for Wednesday 18:00 Japan time. That is when each week’s lottery opens, and it closes at midnight on Thursday. If you lose, the Monday 20:00 first-come sale for cancelled seats is your second chance.

2. ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO (Studio flagship)

Rows of gashapon capsule-toy machines in a Tokyo shop
Capsule toys and random goods are part of every collab-café visit. Photo: Ominae / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

重点: ufotable’s biggest café, opened in August 2026 in Grandscape Ikebukuro. It shows new illustrations on the 1st of every month; November features Sanemi and Genya Shinazugawa, sold as big acrylic stands. From 1 to 19 November it runs an “AGF collab” with commemorative drinks for Animate Girls Festival 2026 (7–8 November at nearby Sunshine City). From 20 November it adds Witch on the Holy Night café kuji, with details due on 9 November.

  • 地点: Grandscape Ikebukuro 2F, 1-30-3 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku. About 10 minutes’ walk from the East Exit of Ikebukuro Station (JR, Tobu, Seibu).
  • 氛围: a big LED screen at the door, monthly photo spots, and side-by-side pair seats with displays for your own goods, a first for ufotable.
  • 票价: café kuji (lottery goods) ¥750 a go. The menu matches other ufotable Cafe branches. Credit card only, for both booking and table orders.
  • 官方连结: ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO

💡 Japan Pro 小提示: No seat? The big capsule toy is limited to 150 a day and open to anyone without a reservation, one go per person. Come early in the day.

3. Haikyu!! × and GALLERY Collaboration Cafe (Collab café)

Anime cafe Tokyo food: a plate of Japanese curry rice in a Tokyo café
Collab menus lean on café comfort food: the Haikyu!! café’s Kageyama curry is ¥1,600, and every dish comes with a random coaster. Pictured: curry rice in Setagaya. Photo: Gu Ko / Pexels

重点: a nationwide Haikyu!! café ahead of the 2027 film Haikyu!! VS Little Giants, running from Tuesday 3 November (a holiday) to Sunday 6 December 2026. Tokyo has two branches. The menu is themed on the Karasuno players, from Hinata’s egg-on-rice-style parfait to Kageyama’s black pork curry.

  • 地点: and GALLERY Ikebukuro, LABI1 LIFE SELECT Ikebukuro 7F, 1-5-7 Higashi-Ikebukuro, 1 minute from Ikebukuro Station East Exit. Or and GALLERY Bic Camera Yurakucho 7F, linked to JR Yurakucho (Kokusai Forum exit) and Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line exit D4.
  • 氛围: 70-minute sittings at 11:00, 12:30, 14:00, 16:00, 17:30 and 19:00. Each food or drink comes with a random paper coaster (six designs).
  • 票价: seat booking ¥330 per person (includes a random postcard). Food ¥1,200–¥1,600, drinks ¥850 or ¥1,500 with a drink charm. Goods from ¥550.
  • 官方连结: Haikyu!! × and GALLERY Collaboration Cafe

💡 Japan Pro 小提示: Bookings close at 10:00 the day before, and you can hold up to three slots. Goods are only for café guests, one transaction per visit, so decide what you want before you sit down.

4. Ranma ½ × Ichikakuya (Ramen collab)

A bowl of Ichikakuya iekei ramen, the shop running the Ranma ½ collaboration
Ichikakuya iekei ramen, the base of the Ranma ½ collaboration bowl. Photo: 毒島みるく / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

重点: not a café but the easiest anime collab in town: the Yokohama-style ramen chain Ichikakuya is serving Ranma ½ bowls until Monday 23 November 2026. The four themed bowls are named for Ranma, Akane, Shampoo and Ryoga, plus Calpis drinks. The menu is served from 10:00 to 23:00.

  • 地点: the full menu and goods are at 10 branches, including Sunshine-dori and Ikebukuro West Exit, Shibuya Center-gai, Akihabara flagship and Shinjuku Yasukuni-dori. Find addresses on the Ichikakuya store list.
  • 氛围: a normal busy ramen shop. Every collab order gets a coaster; dine-in orders get a random paper coaster from 16 designs.
  • 票价: ramen ¥1,380 each; drinks ¥500, only with a collab ramen. Goods from ¥550, with a random clear card per ¥3,000 spent.
  • 官方连结: Ranma ½ × Ichikakuya collaboration

💡 Japan Pro 小提示: No booking is mentioned anywhere, which makes this the best fallback if you lose every lottery. Go mid-afternoon to skip the lunch rush.

Anime cafe Tokyo November 2026: how do lotteries and bookings work?

Ikebukuro lit up at night
Ikebukuro after dark: cafés here take bookings into the evening. Photo: Ray Tsang / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Collab cafés in Japan sell a short run of themed food, random novelties and limited goods, so demand is managed hard. These are the rules you will meet, from this month’s official pages.

  • Lotteries: ufotable Cafe Tokyo runs a weekly LivePocket draw: apply Wednesday 18:00 to Thursday 24:00, results by email from about 12:00 Friday. The Ikebukuro flagship is lottery-only, through ufotable Ticket.
  • Seat fees: and GALLERY charges ¥330 per person to book on TableCheck. Food and drinks are paid separately.
  • 时段: expect fixed sittings with a last order. Haikyu!! sittings are 70 minutes and are not extended if you are late. Arrive 10 minutes early.
  • Late rules: 15 minutes late usually means you lose the seat, at both and GALLERY and ufotable Ikebukuro.
  • Random novelties: coasters, postcards and charms are handed out at random. You cannot choose the character.
  • Goods limits: per-visit caps are normal. At the Haikyu!! café: 12 each of trading badges and mini stands, 14 clear cards, 3 of each open item.
  • Group size: ufotable caps bookings at two people.

No Japanese phone number? What you can still do

  • Register on LivePocket, TableCheck or ufotable Ticket a few days before the booking window. Some sign-ups ask for a phone number, so test yours early.
  • Book in your name exactly as it is in your passport. Both and GALLERY and ufotable Ikebukuro check the name against ID and accept a passport.
  • Walk in: and GALLERY seats people without a booking when there are free or cancelled seats.
  • Pick the no-booking options: the Ranma ½ ramen at Ichikakuya, and the capsule toy at ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO.
  • Carry a credit card. ufotable Ikebukuro takes nothing else; and GALLERY also takes cash, IC cards and PayPay.

For our full booking playbook, see 如何预订日本餐厅.

A half-day Ikebukuro route for anime cafe Tokyo November 2026

Anime cafe Tokyo route: a rainy Ikebukuro side street lit with neon at night
Three of November’s collabs are within walking distance of Ikebukuro’s East Exit. Photo: Fabula / Unsplash

Ikebukuro has three of this month’s collabs within walking distance of the East Exit, so it makes the best half day.

  1. 11:00, Haikyu!! café at and GALLERY Ikebukuro, 1 minute from the East Exit. An early sitting gives you the best chance before goods and novelties sell out.
  2. 12:30, Ichikakuya Sunshine-dori for a Ranma ½ bowl if you still have room, or just the goods.
  3. 13:30, ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO at Grandscape Ikebukuro, about 10 minutes from the station. Photo spot and capsule toy even without a seat.
  4. 15:00, the shops of East Ikebukuro and Sunshine City. 我们的 Ikebukuro guide has the anime stores and the route.

Prefer Harajuku? Combine a Shibuya or Harajuku afternoon with the Ichikakuya Shibuya Center-gai branch, and see our Harajuku guide. For more fan spots, read our 最好的东京动漫景点 和 秋叶原 guides; Ichikakuya’s Akihabara flagship carries the Ranma goods.

秋叶原动漫店:Radio 会馆外的购物人潮

In Akihabara, Radio Kaikan has ten floors of hobby shops, from figures to trading cards. Photo: Viridiana Rivera / Pexels


Collab cafés: know before you go

Diary the windows

ufotable lotteries open Wednesdays 18:00; and GALLERY bookings close 10:00 the day before.

Passport name

Book in your passport name; mismatches can be refused at the door.

准备好信用卡

ufotable Ikebukuro is credit card only.

No cosplay

and GALLERY asks guests not to come in cosplay.

Budget for goods

Trading goods are random; caps per visit stop bulk buying.

Check X on the day

Menus and rules can change mid-run; venues post updates on X.

Anime cafe Tokyo November 2026 FAQ

Which anime cafés are open in Tokyo in November 2026?

Confirmed for November 2026: the Demon Slayer Mugen Train phase-2 collaboration at ufotable Cafe (from 3 November; end date not yet announced), the monthly Demon Slayer programme at ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO, the Haikyu!! café at and GALLERY Ikebukuro and Yurakucho (3 November–6 December) and the Ranma ½ ramen collaboration at Ichikakuya (until 23 November).

How do ufotable Cafe lotteries work?

Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka branches use a weekly LivePocket lottery. Applications open Wednesdays from 18:00 and close Thursdays at 24:00; results are emailed from about 12:00 on Friday. Cancelled seats go on first-come sale on Mondays from 20:00. Bookings are capped at two people.

Is there a Haikyu!! café in Tokyo in 2026?

Yes. The Haikyu!! × and GALLERY Collaboration Cafe runs from 3 November to 6 December 2026 at and GALLERY Ikebukuro (1 minute from Ikebukuro Station East Exit) and and GALLERY Bic Camera Yurakucho. Booking is ¥330 per person on TableCheck.

Can tourists without a Japanese phone number visit a collab café?

Often, yes. and GALLERY seats walk-ins when there are free or cancelled seats, Ichikakuya’s Ranma ½ menu needs no booking, and the big capsule toy at ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO is open to people without a reservation. Booking sites need an account, so register a few days early and bring your passport.

Do I need ID at a Tokyo anime café?

At booked cafés, often yes. and GALLERY and ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO both check that the name on the booking matches your ID, and both accept a passport. Book in your name exactly as it appears in your passport.

Is there a Ranma ½ café in Tokyo in November 2026?

The Ranma ½ collaboration this autumn is with the ramen chain Ichikakuya, until Monday 23 November 2026. Four Ranma ramen cost ¥1,380 each at selected branches, including Ikebukuro, Shibuya and Akihabara, with goods sold at 10 stores.

资料来源与核查方式

All anime cafe Tokyo November 2026 dates, prices and booking rules were last checked on 1 November 2026 against the official pages: ufotable Cafe、其 reservation rules 和 公告; ufotable CHARACTERS Cafe IKEBUKURO; the Haikyu!! × and GALLERY site; and the Ranma ½ × Ichikakuya page with the organiser’s press release. We left out planned November cafés we could not confirm on an official page.

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