pokecafe.shop
pokecafe.shop is a private, invite-only tool one group uses to coordinate who wants a table at the Pokémon Café and when. It is not a booking service and it does not take requests from the public.
What this is
This domain hosts a small private tool. People who have been invited to it record which café they want, how many are coming, and which dates would work. It keeps that in one place instead of in a group chat, so that whoever is doing the booking is working from one list rather than from scrollback.
Everything behind the sign-in is private. It holds the details of a handful of named people, so it is closed to search engines by design and returns nothing at all to a visitor who has not been invited.
What this is not
- It is not a booking service. It does not make reservations for members of the public, it has no sign-up, and there is nothing here to buy.
- It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Pokémon Café or any related company.
- It does not sell, resell or transfer reservations, and it is not a proxy booking service. The café's own terms prohibit that, and this site agrees with them.
What is here for anyone
What is here for anyone is the writing: dated, first-hand notes on how the café's own reservation system actually behaves — when seats appear, how long a hold lasts, when cancellation closes, and why a booking cannot be changed.
The short version, each of these set out with its evidence and its date on the pages below:
- Seats are released a month at a time, at a published instant — not drip-fed. Between releases the calendar covers roughly the next month.
- Picking a slot starts a fifteen-minute hold. The reservation is not yours until the rest of the form is finished inside it, including a code the café emails you.
- Online cancellation closes at 22:00 Japan time on the day before — not midnight. A same-day booking cannot be cancelled online at all.
- A booking cannot be changed. Not the date, the time, the seat or the party size. Cancelling to rebook puts your seat back in the public pool, where it can be gone within the hour.
- The café's terms prohibit proxy booking, resale and commercial use, and say a reservation found in breach may be voided with no refund.
Have you been invited?
If you are one of the people this tool is for, sign in with the address the invitation went to. Nothing is created automatically and an uninvited address is refused.