ufotable Cafe Tokyo: How the Weekly Lottery Works, What Is On, and Whether You Can Just Turn Up

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ufotable Cafe Tokyo, run by ufotable, the studio behind the Demon Slayer anime, is in Nogata, Nakano City, and in Tokyo it is reservation-only. Bookings are a weekly LivePocket lottery, open from Wednesday 18:00 to Thursday midnight, with results by email from about noon on Friday; any cancellations are offered first-come from Monday 20:00. Bookings are limited to two people. I run private anime tours in Akihabara most weeks, and this is the booking guide I give Demon Slayer fans.

The café shares its address with Machi★Asobi CAFE Tokyo, ufotable's other café brand. The current collaboration, checked 8 November 2026, is below.

The café on the map. Tap it for directions.

How do you book ufotable Cafe Tokyo?

Through the weekly lottery on LivePocket, linked from ufotable's reservation page. The Tokyo café, like those in Nagoya and Osaka, takes reserved guests only; the Tokushima and Kitakyūshū cafés are free entry. Each store announces the lottery on its X account every Wednesday.

Schedules can shift with the collaboration calendar, and the official page says to check the store's X account, or the LivePocket page if you do not use X. For how other Tokyo collab cafés handle booking, see anime collab cafés in Tokyo; for the Akihabara day, my Akihabara anime tour plans the floors around your series.

What collaborations are on at ufotable Cafe Tokyo?

Checked again on ufotable's page on 8 November 2026: the Demon Slayer full-series rebroadcast collaboration, "Musunda En", is now in a new phase running 3–23 November. Its earlier Mugen Train phase (6 October – 1 November), the Tales of 30th-anniversary collaboration, the Halloween event and Obanai Iguro's birthday event have all ended, with no replacement announced yet for those slots.

Can you visit without a reservation?

For the café, no: Tokyo is reservation-only. For goods only, the official page says goods-only customers are admitted from 30 minutes after each seating starts, with café guests served first, so expect to wait. The café also asks people not to wait in nearby convenience stores, parks or residential streets.

This is the honest section. A weekly lottery with a two-person limit means you may not win on the week you want. If your Tokyo dates are fixed, enter every week that overlaps them, and have a plan B. Goods-only entry is the fallback, and Akihabara's shops carry plenty of Demon Slayer goods; animate Akihabara puts it on the Jump floor, animate Akihabara.

Where is ufotable Cafe Tokyo?

At 1-38-11 Nogata, Nakano City, Tokyo, in the Nagata Building, according to ufotable's reservation page. It is a residential neighbourhood, which is why the café is strict about queuing and waiting nearby. Check the store page for directions before you go.

Nogata is not near Akihabara, so plan it as its own outing. ufotable's other cafés in Nagoya, Osaka, Tokushima and Kitakyūshū run their own collaborations; Tokushima and Kitakyūshū do not need reservations.

Frequently asked questions

A lottery for the café, a sure thing in Akihabara

If you want a day that does not depend on a lottery, Adventure in Akihabara with Anime is my private half-day walk, three to four hours, planned around the anime you name and never shared with other guests. The price is on the tour page.

About the author. I am Yuuki, a Japanese teacher and Akihabara anime tour guide based in Tokyo. I run private anime tours here most weeks, rated 4.96★ on Airbnb across 171 reviews. I have watched over 1,500 anime series, which is either a qualification or a warning depending on your point of view.

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Sources · checked 4 October 2026

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