More importantly, the recent report revealed that the Si-based anodes with pomegranate-like structure can tackle the main challenges associated with structural degradation and instability caused by the large volume change for LIBs. Similarly, Fang et al. reported that a homogeneous composite of SnO2 anodes, where 3–9 nm SnO2 nanoparticles are embedded in about 50 nm diameter primary carbon nanospheres, can exhibit a high capability and excellent cycling and rate performance, holding great potential as a high-rate and stable anode material for lithium storage. Here, our design is inspired by the structure of a pomegranate and above reports. Cu particles decorated pome-granate-structured SnO2@C (denoted as SnO2@C/Cu) composites as anode materials for LIBs have been prepared by a simple hydrothermal reaction coupled with wet-chemical reduction. These SnO2@C/Cu anodes provided with the unique architectures exhibit outstanding lithium battery performance with a capacity of 660 mAh/g tested at 600 mA/g after 50 cycles and good rate performance at room temperature. Compared with the pure SnO2@C, SnO2@C/Cu anodes exhibited obviously better low- temperature electrochemical performance including reversible capacity, cycling performance, and rate performance. In addition, new insights on the impedance analysis for enhanced mechanism are provided.