JJK Sweets Paradise 2026: 9-Store Complete Guide

Last updated: April 2026.

Jujutsu Kaisen x Sweets Paradise 5th Anniversary Cafe — 9 stores across Japan, April 2 to April 29, 2026

The Jujutsu Kaisen cafe is back at Sweets Paradise for the series' 5th anniversary, and this time it is the biggest rollout yet: 9 stores across Japan, 6 character food plates from 900 yen, 7 character drinks at a flat 770 yen each, and a 2,800 yen Anniversary Sweets Set with exclusive bromide cards. The event runs April 2 through April 29, 2026, with Group A stores (Shinjuku East, Osaka Tennoji Mio, Hiroshima Parco) opening on April 2 and Group B stores (Yokohama, Saitama, Sendai, Nagoya, Kyoto, Fukuoka) opening April 11. Every collab menu item earns you a random coaster; every cafe visit earns you a paper placemat; every 2,000 yen of merch spend earns a random postcard. This guide covers all 9 venues, the app-only reservation flow in plain English, and the pricing table you need before you budget your Tokyo or Osaka trip.

Visiting more than one cafe city? Klook sells the Osaka Amazing Pass from 2,800 yen in English — it covers unlimited rides on the subway and admission to 40+ attractions on a single day, and it pays for itself before lunch if you are also doing Dotonbori or Umeda Sky Building. Tokyo-only plans? The Tokyo Subway 24-hour Ticket starts at 800 yen and covers the ride from Shinjuku East to the Sweets Paradise Shinjuku branch plus any extra stops.

At a Glance

What Is the 5th Anniversary Cafe?

This is Sweets Paradise's third Jujutsu Kaisen collab — the chain has run two earlier rounds in recent years, and this spring 2026 event is the biggest yet, tied to the anime's 5-year milestone. The key difference: every character now appears in a newly drawn "long apron" look designed exclusively for this event, with the art used on coasters, placemats, postcards, and the merch lineup. The food and drink menu is themed around 8 main characters — Itadori Yuji, Fushiguro Megumi, Nanami Kento, Kugisaki Nobara, Gojo Satoru, Sukuna, Zenin Maki, Inumaki Toge, Panda, Geto Suguru, Mahito, and Choso — with a plate or drink per character.

Why the 5th anniversary is a big deal in Japan. Jujutsu Kaisen launched on TV in October 2020 and became the highest-grossing anime of its year, with the "Jujutsu Kaisen 0" feature film crossing 13.8 billion yen at the Japanese box office. Five years on, the series now sits in the same weight class as One Piece and Demon Slayer for domestic café tie-ins, and Sweets Paradise is the most accessible entry point since every branch is in a major shopping district — no animation-studio pilgrimage required.

The official Sweets Paradise event page is the canonical source for store dates and menu. Collabo-cafe.com's coverage mirrors the menu with photo references and tracks sell-out updates in real time.

Where Are the 9 Stores?

The collab runs at 9 Sweets Paradise branches, covering every major region from Sendai down to Fukuoka. Group A (3 stores) opens on April 2; Group B (6 stores) opens on April 11. All 9 stores close together on April 29.

The 9 collab stores span Sendai to Fukuoka — Group A (orange pins) opens April 2, Group B (blue pins) opens April 11

For most international visitors, the Shinjuku East or Osaka Tennoji Mio store is the go-to. Both are in top-10 tourist districts, both are 3 minutes from the main station, and both are in Group A so they open earlier with a longer 28-day window. If you are traveling between cities on a JR Pass, Sendai Parco, Nagoya Spiral Towers, Kyoto Kawaramachi OPA, Hiroshima Parco, and Fukuoka Parco all sit within a 5-minute walk of their Shinkansen station, which means a single-day detour is realistic.

Hitting Osaka plus Kyoto in one trip? The Osaka Amazing Pass on Klook bundles the subway plus admission to 40+ attractions from 2,800 yen. For the Fukuoka Parco branch, the Fukuoka Tourist City Pass from 2,500 yen covers the subway, the Nishitetsu bus, and JR within the city on one card.

What Is on the Menu? (Full Prices)

Sweets Paradise works differently from a studio cafe like ufotable. You pay the buffet fee at the door — this includes all the dessert buffet, pasta, salad, curry, and soft drinks for a standard 90 minutes — and then you order the character collab items as paid add-ons on top. The buffet fee is around 2,000 to 2,400 yen depending on branch and weekday or weekend. The collab items below are the add-on prices, not the full bill.

Food Menu (all 9 stores, full run)

The full character menu — 6 food plates from 900 yen, 7 drinks at 770 yen each, plus the 2,800 yen Anniversary Sweets Set

Drinks Menu (all 770 yen each)

Seven drinks, one per character, all priced flat at 770 yen. Order any two and you earn two random coasters from the 12-design pool.

• Maki's Banana Caramel Milk — Creamy banana milk with a caramel swirl, cold
• Inumaki's Tea Set — A pot of Japanese green tea served with two salted rice crackers (Inumaki's speech pattern)
• Panda's Panda Float — Vanilla ice cream float in a black-and-white two-tone glass
• Geto's Curse-Manipulation Soda — Purple butterfly-pea soda that shifts color when you add the included lemon
• Mahito's Idle Transfiguration Tea — Butterfly-pea blue tea that changes color with citrus, echoing Mahito's shape-shifting curse technique
• Choso's Blood Grape Drink — Deep red Concord grape juice over ice
• Hot Drinks (Cafe Ole or Milk Cocoa) — Your choice of hot drink, both 770 yen

Anniversary Sweets Set

• Jujutsu Kaisen 5th Anniversary Sweets Set — 2,800 yen — A limited-quantity platter with five mini desserts, themed on the anniversary key art, and it comes with two ticket-style bromide cards picked at random from an 8-design pool. This set sells out fast at Group A stores in the opening week, so it is the reason many fans book the earliest slot available.

How Do I Book a Seat?

This is the part overseas visitors get stuck on. All 9 Sweets Paradise collab stores require an advance reservation through the official Sweets Paradise app. There is no web form, no Lawson Ticket fallback, no phone line. Walk-ins are accepted only if the branch has empty seats at the door, which is rare during collab weeks.

Step 1 — Download the app:

• Search "スイーツパラダイス" (Sweets Paradise) on the iOS App Store or Google Play
• The app is Japanese only, but the reservation flow uses pictures and numbers
• Create an account with email and a Japanese phone number (you can use a hotel phone number)

Step 2 — Reserve your slot:

• Bookings open 5 weeks before your desired date, at midnight JST
• Reservation closes at 8:00 PM JST on the day before your visit
• Pick your store, date, 90-minute slot, and party size (1 to 4 people per booking)
• There is no reservation fee — you pay the buffet fee plus any collab add-ons at the restaurant

Step 3 — On the day:

• Arrive 10 minutes before your slot
• Show the app's QR code at the door
• Pay the buffet fee at the register, then order collab items from the staff
• Your 90 minutes starts when you sit down

The booking strategy that works: Open the app at exactly midnight JST, 5 weeks before your target date. Select the latest lunch slot or earliest dinner slot on a weekday — those move slowest. Saturdays and Sundays at the Group A stores (Shinjuku, Osaka, Hiroshima) sell out in under 3 minutes in the first 2 weeks. Group B stores have more slack because they opened a week later and have the same 18-day window. If your first choice is full, try the same date at a Group B branch in another city — Nagoya Spiral Towers is the easiest walk-up because Shinkansen day-trippers rarely book there in advance.

What Does the Novelty System Give You?

Sweets Paradise runs the most generous novelty system of any collab chain. You earn three different items without paying extra.

• 1 random coaster for every collab food or drink item ordered (not per visit — per item). Coasters come in 13 designs (one per character), distributed randomly. Order 3 items, get 3 random coasters.
• 1 paper placemat automatically handed out when you sit down. There are 2 designs and you choose which one.
• 1 random postcard for every 2,000 yen (tax included) of merchandise purchased at the counter. Postcards come in 4 designs. Buy two 2,000 yen merch items, get 2 random postcards.

This three-tier system is why regulars stack visits. Japanese fans commonly book 2 or 3 slots across the 4-week run to complete the coaster set through trades, since a solo visit with 3 collab items only covers 3 of the 13 designs. If you are trading on X (formerly Twitter), search the hashtag #jjk_supapara to find fans swapping coasters outside each branch on the opening weekend.

Why Japanese Fans Love This

Sweets Paradise collabs sit in a specific cultural niche: they are the "affordable everyday" tier of Japan's character cafe economy. A ufotable or good-smile company cafe costs 3,000 to 4,000 yen per person with reservation stress; a pop-up studio cafe runs 2,500 yen with a Lawson Ticket lottery. Sweets Paradise keeps the character food but wraps it inside the all-you-can-eat buffet that the chain is already famous for, so the same 2,800 yen to 3,500 yen per person covers both the buffet and the character experience.

For a five-year-old franchise like Jujutsu Kaisen, the 5th Anniversary event also doubles as a reunion. Fans who watched the 2020 debut are now in their mid-20s, they have disposable income, and they want to re-live the series in real life — the "long apron" newly drawn art explicitly nods to this growing-up audience by putting the characters in casual adult clothing instead of the school uniform look.

Planning a Tokyo cafe day around Shinjuku? Check hotel rates near Shinjuku Station on Rakuten Travel — business hotels in the Shinjuku East area start from about 7,200 yen per night and put you 5 minutes from the Sweets Paradise branch and inside the JR Yamanote Line loop for every other Tokyo spot.

What Jujutsu Kaisen Merch Should I Pick Up?

The cafe sells exclusive acrylic stands (1,800 yen each, 13 designs), can badges (660 yen each, 13 designs), and a 3,300 yen tote bag with the 5th anniversary art. These are cafe-only items and they sell out fastest on opening weekend. If the branch is sold out of your favorite character when you visit, the mainstream Jujutsu Kaisen merch is easy to find online.

• Browse Jujutsu Kaisen figures and merch on Rakuten — Japan's largest marketplace, ships worldwide with proxy services
• Jujutsu Kaisen on Amazon Japan — Prime shipping within Japan, international forwarding via services like Tenso

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to plan your Japan anime cafe trip? Browse Tokyo and Osaka anime experiences on Klook — from character cafe day tours to regional transit passes, all bookable in English with free cancellation. Pairing the JJK Sweets Paradise with a Demon Slayer ufotable visit in the same trip covers both studio-run and chain-run collab cafes on one itinerary.

More Collab Cafe Guides

Many anime collaborations run in Tokyo and Osaka the same month as the JJK 5th Anniversary event. For what else is open, read our roundup below or start with the reservation guide if this is your first character cafe.

• How to Book an Anime Collab Cafe in Japan — Step-by-step reservation guide for every major chain
• Tokyo Anime Collab Cafes Spring 2026 — What else is open this season
• Demon Slayer Cafe Tokyo 2026: Kizuna ufotable Guide — The other big 5-city spring cafe event
• Animate Cafe Guide Japan — The largest chain of anime cafes, easier booking flow
• Lawson Ticket and Loppi Guide — The backup booking method used by other chains

Image Credits

• Hero, menu, and venue map images: Japan Pop Now editorial illustration, April 2026. Original composite graphics; no Jujutsu Kaisen character art or Sweets Paradise brand assets reproduced.
• Store list and dates cross-checked against the official Sweets Paradise Jujutsu Kaisen 5th Anniversary page.
• Menu items and prices sourced from Collabo-cafe.com's Jujutsu Kaisen 5th Anniversary listing and the Famitsu announcement article.
• Character descriptions based on the TV anime broadcast on MBS and TBS, 2020 to present.