Owl No Mori

Since this place obvious is a popular spot, I recommend you to come as early as possible, worst case they put you in a waitlist for 2 hours or more. I think the place was a bit noisy, but the hostess was very kind and informative. Never experienced such thing before, so over all a good, fun and different experience. Unfortunately I felt some of the owls was very distressed and I feel sorry for some of them. There was 6 big ones you weren’t allowed to touch, and they were also very aggressive if you got near them. But overall, absolutely something you should check out when in Tokyo :)

One of Japan’s many specialized cafés where you get to pet animals while having your coffee or drink. In this case it is specialized in owls and you are allowed to pet them for an hour for a small entrance fee in which a soft drink or alcoholic beverage is included. Except for this drink of your choice the place does in fact not serve anything, so don’t come here expecting anything sweet or food to go with your drink.
There are many different species of owls in the café and you are allowed to pet most of them. It was a wonderful experience holding them in your hand and stroking their feathers. I did not think owls would be so comfortable around humans or enjoy being lightly stroked, but they seem to really like it.
They have several staff at hand to make sure that the owls are handled right and that will help you out if needed.
The only thing that concerned me was that there was quite loud music and lights/​a tv in the room with owls. I would think that this is not very calming to the owls and I don’t quite understand the need of them. But other than that the owls seemed to be in good health and did not appear to be stressed like a previous reviewer mentioned she had seen.
The owner also seem to have set up a policy of not having to many guests at a time to make the experience more enjoyable both for human and owls. Keep in mind that this place is quite small and is gaining in popularity, so don’t expect to be able to get in right away. We came there at four a clock and ended up getting a time slot to get in first at 19:30.
So my recommendation is to get there early, get a time slot and then wander around in the area and enjoy all the other sights meanwhile.

The place is very cramped and noisy. Some of the owls are obviously stressed and staff did nothing about it even when I asked them to address it. Animal cafes should be about education and conservation but I was told that their owls are from breeders rather than rescue owls. The welfare of the owls are clearly not a priority.
If you’re interested in visiting an owl café, Akiba Fukurou which is very close by is a much better option. We only get a sneak peak but they only allow very limited number of people in at a time and the environment is clean and quiet. They were strict about not even letting us look in as we didn’t have a booking. They are at least making an effort in ensuring the environment is not disruptive for the owls. Give your money to them instead if you’d like to meet owls.

Its an owl café!
Yip, exactly what you’re picturing. A café full of owls that you can share a drink with, hold, watch, photograph and interact with.
For the first 5 minutes or so I was sitting with mouth open thinking how cool it was, but then I spent the next 20 minutes feeling uneasy about the treatment of the owls. Are they really taken care of? Are they treated well? Not sure…
For the novelty of it I would say go and have a look but its not somewhere you would go again and again to.