Demon Slayer Handmade Club ufotable Cafe 2026 Guide

Last updated: April 2026.

Photo: takeya manai (N708) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Storefront of ufotable Cafe Tokyo on the Nagata Building ground floor in Nogata — the Tokyo lottery venue for the Demon Slayer Handmade Club 2026 run, three minutes from Nogata Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.

ufotable Cafe is launching a brand-new Demon Slayer collaboration on April 28, 2026 — the "Handmade Club" (ハンドメイドクラブ), a craft-themed takeover that runs through May 31 at all 7 ufotable Cafe and Machiasobi Cafe venues across Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokushima, and Kitakyushu. The hook is a pour-your-own-sauce menu where you finish the plate yourself, 5 brand-new seasonal cloth patterns (Strawberry Festival, Fireworks, Autumn Harvest, Halloween, Christmas) drawn from character costume motifs, and ribbon rolls plus actual fabric you can take home for your own crafts. Lottery booking opens through LivePocket for the Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Machiasobi Tokyo cafes; Tokushima, Bizan, and Kitakyushu stay walk-in. Machiasobi vol.30 on May 16 and 17 in Tokushima adds a separate workshop slot at the Amico Building. This guide covers the official source page, every venue, the lottery flow in plain English, and what is worth your craft budget.

Planning the Tokyo cafe day around it? Klook sells the Tokyo Subway 24-hour Ticket from 800 yen in English with QR-ticket delivery — it covers the Marunouchi-to-Seibu Shinjuku transfer that gets you to Nogata Station. Walk three minutes from the south exit and you are at the cafe door.

At a Glance

What Is the Demon Slayer Handmade Club?

This is a craft-themed cafe takeover, not a story-arc rerun. Where the spring "Bonds Tied" collaboration kept its drinks tied to the TV broadcast schedule, Handmade Club leans into ufotable's design side — the studio's own animators have drawn a new "minicara" set of the Demon Slayer cast in handicraft poses, with the costume motifs of each character translated into 5 reusable cloth patterns you can buy at the cafe. The conceit is that you finish the dish yourself, pouring sauces or arranging toppings the way a craft project asks you to glue, stitch, or fold.

The official source is the ufotable Cafe news page for "Demon Slayer Handmade Club 2026", which confirms the April 28 to May 31 run and the venue list. The dedicated event page at ufotable.co.jp/kimetsu/event/handmadeclub2026/ is where the menu, goods, and drink lineup are kept up to date as new items drop. Collabo-cafe.com's coverage of the event mirrors the lineup with sell-out flags as the run progresses.

Visitors who attended the spring "Bonds Tied" rerun report that the Tokyo location had a small "coming soon" panel teasing the cloth patterns ahead of the launch — the Strawberry Festival design in particular reportedly catches the light because the print is described as using a glossy ribbon weave rather than flat cotton. If you only have one cafe slot in Tokyo this trip, the Handmade Club run is timed exactly for Golden Week travelers and is worth defending on your itinerary.

What Is on the Menu? (Pour-Your-Own Plates)

The headline format is a "kake-jibun" plate — you receive the dish nearly finished and apply the sauce, dressing, or topping yourself at the table, the same way a craft kit asks you to make the last move. ufotable confirmed on the official menu page that each plate ships with two sauces to choose between, and that the actual food specs may shift as restock happens during the 5-week run.

Because the menu page may evolve, treat the food prices below as the early-run figures from past ufotable Cafe collaborations — confirm at the cafe register before you sit down.

Every cafe order earns you a printed novelty. The placemat is per-visit, the coaster is per-drink, and the food card is per-plate. Stack two drinks and a plate to leave with three exclusive pieces of art — that is the math the regulars are doing.

Where Are the Seven Venues?

The collaboration runs across 7 venues in 5 cities. Three locations require advance lottery reservations through LivePocket. Four locations stay walk-in for the entire run — the same access pattern ufotable used for the spring rerun.

For most overseas visitors the Tokyo cafe in Nogata is the obvious pick — three minutes on foot from a Seibu Shinjuku Line station that runs an express direct from Shinjuku in 15 minutes. The walk takes you past a tiny shotengai with two ramen shops and a 100-yen coin laundry; the cafe is on the ground floor of the Nagata Building, and the line forms outside on collaboration days.

If your itinerary already covers Kansai, the Osaka cafe is an 8-minute walk from Namba and lines up well with a Den Den Town shopping afternoon. The Tokushima cafe is the deep-cut: it sits in ufotable's hometown, the staff are sometimes the production crew themselves, and there is no lottery to fight.

Hopping between cities to compare cafes? A [Japan Rail Pass via Klook](https://www.klook.com/en/activity/24172-jr-pass-japan-rail-pass-japan/?aff_id=1251547&aff_label=demon-slayer-handmade-club-mid) covers the Shinkansen between Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kitakyushu — the four bullet-train cities with ufotable venues. A 7-day pass at 50,000 yen clears its cost as soon as you do Tokyo to Osaka and back.

How Do I Book the Lottery?

The lottery uses LivePocket, the same Japanese ticketing platform ufotable has run for past collaborations. Bookings open in two stages.

graph TD
    A[Want to eat at the Handmade Club cafe?] --> B{Which city?}
    B -->|Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka| C[Lottery required]
    B -->|Tokushima or Kitakyushu| D[Walk-in, no booking]
    C --> E[Step 1: Primary lottery on LivePocket]
    E --> F{Won a slot?}
    F -->|Yes| G[Pay and receive QR ticket]
    F -->|No| H[Step 2: Secondary first-come for cancellations]
    H --> I[Refresh LivePocket Monday 18:00 JST]
    D --> J[Arrive at cafe, sign the wait list at the door]

Step 1 — Primary Lottery. Submissions open every Thursday at 18:00 JST on LivePocket and close Sunday at 23:59 JST. Pick a 90-minute slot, pick a venue, and submit up to 2 guests per ticket. Results arrive by Monday 12:00 JST and unsuccessful entries pay nothing.

Step 2 — Secondary First-Come. Cancelled or unfilled slots open at Monday 18:00 JST on the same LivePocket page, first-come, no lottery. Stock disappears in under five minutes for the Tokyo cafe.

Walk-in venues. Tokushima, Bizan, and Kitakyushu use a paper wait list at the door. Show up before opening and you are typically in for the first session of the day — no app needed.

The booking move that works most reliably: Set a phone alarm for 17:55 JST every Thursday, sign in to LivePocket beforehand, and have the venue and date pre-selected. Submit at 18:00 sharp for a weekday lunch slot — those compete the lightest. Saturday dinner slots typically fill within two minutes of the lottery opening, per repeat-bookers' reports on Japanese fan sites.

What Goods Should I Buy?

The cloth patterns are the headline souvenir. ufotable confirmed 5 seasonal designs drawn from character costumes, sold as ribbon rolls and pre-cut fabric you can use for your own crafts at home — the franchise's first foray into an actual handmade-supplies lineup.

The fabrics and ribbons are also available for pre-order on the global ufotable webshop — useful if your slot fills before you can walk in. The Strawberry Festival cloth product page and the Halloween cloth listing both ship internationally with a clear English checkout.

Cafe diners get first stock access. Merch-only visitors are admitted 30 minutes after each session begins, the same rule as the spring rerun, so the lottery winners scoop the popular patterns before walk-up shoppers see them.

What Is the Machiasobi vol.30 Workshop?

Machiasobi (マチ★アソビ) is the twice-yearly anime festival held in Tokushima City — ufotable's home turf. The May 2026 edition, vol.30, runs May 16 and 17 and lists the Handmade Club workshop among its program, hosted in the Amico Building 4F special booth (アミコビル4F) in central Tokushima. ufotable confirmed in a public X post that the booth is fully reservation-only for the workshop slots — no walk-up admission, even on the festival floor.

According to the Machiasobi vol.30 official site, this edition is the largest yet, with over 100 events programmed across the city. Pair the workshop with a full afternoon at the ufotable Cafe Tokushima and a stop at Machiasobi Cafe Bizan for one of the densest single-day Demon Slayer itineraries available in Japan this year.

The Tokushima trip is also the easiest place to snag the cloth patterns without a lottery — the walk-in venues stock the same merch as the lottery cafes. If your travel window overlaps with vol.30, this is the smarter route.

Need a Tokushima base for the festival? Booking.com lists Tokushima Station hotels from 6,500 yen a night — within a 10-minute walk of both ufotable Cafe Tokushima and the Amico Building. Booking the night before vol.30 saves you the morning Shinkansen rush.

Why Japanese People Love This

Demon Slayer's domestic fandom moved past pure character merchandise years ago. The genre Japanese fans now call "tezukuri suru oshikatsu" (手作り推し活) — literally "fan activity you make by hand" — has been spreading across Twitter and Instagram for the past two years, with fans sewing their own itabag pouches, knitting hashira-themed scarves, and decorating mask wires with character ribbons.

Handmade Club leans directly into that scene. By selling actual fabric and ribbon — not just a finished plushie — ufotable is giving Japanese fans the materials to keep making things long after the cafe run ends. The pour-your-own-sauce plate format is the same idea on a tiny scale: even the meal becomes a craft you finish yourself. That is why this collaboration feels different from a typical anime cafe rerun and why the early reaction on Japanese fan sites has been about the cloth patterns, not the food.

How Does Handmade Club Compare to the Spring "Bonds Tied" Rerun?

If you cannot lock in a slot, the Animate Cafe chain keeps an easier first-come booking system and runs a Demon Slayer collaboration most months. For the fabric-first goods angle, Handmade Club is the only ufotable run this year with that hook — the rerun did not stock craft supplies.

FAQ: Demon Slayer Handmade Club

Ready to lock in your craft-cafe day? Browse Tokyo collab cafe experiences on Klook — bookable in English with free cancellation, plus the city's anime walking tours that pair with a Nogata cafe afternoon. Combine the Handmade Club visit with a Demon Slayer pilgrimage walk in Asakusa for a full fan day.

More Collab Cafe Guides

• Demon Slayer Rerun Cafe at ufotable 2026 — The companion "Bonds Tied" collaboration through May 6
• How to Book Anime Collab Cafes in Japan — Reservation walkthrough for every major chain
• JJK 5th Anniversary Sweets Paradise 2026 — The other big spring 2026 cafe rollout
• Tokyo Anime Collab Cafes Spring 2026 — Everything else open this season
• Animate Cafe Guide Japan — The chain with the easiest first-come booking
• Lawson Ticket Anime Cafe Booking — Backup booking platform when LivePocket is blocked
• Osaka Anime Cafes Complete Guide 2026 — The Kansai sister itinerary