CastSpace Opens VRChat Concept Cafe Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~
Casting livers as cafe staff rather than streamers gives CastSpace a recurring offline-adjacent format where VRChat users who do not follow its talent can meet them, and the company says feedback from each session will feed back into the world and its feature set.
Key Facts
- Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~ is scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2026, with a start time of 24:00.
- The VRChat concept cafe is free to enter through a Group Instance tied to VRChat group ETST.3074.
- Each session of Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~ is planned to last about one hour.
- The first run is envisioned for approximately 12 visitors and 4 staff members.
- CastSpace plans to hold Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~ regularly at about once a month after launch.
Reporting from 2 sources: ASCII.jp, PANORA.
CastSpace Inc. will open Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~, a virtual concept cafe run inside VRChat, on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 24:00. The company's affiliated livers act as cafe cast members, greeting visitors, guiding them to seats, serving drinks and food, posing for cheki-style commemorative photos and a group photo before the session ends. Each session runs about one hour. The first run is planned for roughly 12 visitors and 4 staff members in the world. Entry is through a VRChat Group Instance tied to group ETST.3074, and the participation fee is free. The venue is an original world built for the event, where the sky and surroundings change with the time of day and seasonal decorations shift across repeats. CastSpace plans to run the cafe about once a month after launch, timed to character anniversaries and seasonal events, and will use it as a test bed for its and U-Stella Group Holdings' future VRChat productions.
The event is part of a push beyond live streaming and video posting into activities that use the VRChat space itself, organized by CastSpace Inc., the Shibuya-based VTuber agency whose representative director is Tsubasa Ito, with U-Stella Group Holdings LLC.
The stated aim is a space visitors can enjoy for the situation itself, described in the announcement as "like having tea with your favorite talent at a nighttime villa resort," rather than the strong story immersion conventional events pursue. Communication with cast members is limited to the event's holding time, which the company frames as an experience that can only be had "at that time, in that place."
Two versions of the event name are circulating. ASCII.jp uses "Hoshifuru Chakai ~Eternal Stella~," while PANORA renders the same event as "Starry Tea Party ~Eternal Stella~" throughout its version of the announcement.
The world's planned features include:
- A commemorative photo function built around cheki-style instant photos
- Interactions for serving drinks and food
- Cast-only exclusive items
- Productions that guide visitors along the route from entry to the main space
- Welcome voices and narration by cast members along that route
CastSpace says it wants VRChat users who do not yet know its talents to learn about their activities, which the company expects to lead to new encounters.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.