Japan Restaurants Scraper (Tabelog)

Restaurant data from Tabelog (食べログ) — Japan's biggest restaurant guide — by prefecture, neighbourhood and cuisine, in a clean English schema: ratings, review counts, bookmark counts, budgets, addresses, phone numbers and opening hours.

This Actor scrapes tabelog.com listing pages (and optionally each restaurant's detail page) and returns structured JSON: restaurant name with kana reading, cuisine genres, the famous Tabelog rating (0-5 scale, where 3.5+ already means excellent), review and bookmark counts, lunch/dinner budget ranges as parsed yen values, nearest station, street address, published business phone, opening hours and coordinates.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Kakaku.com Inc. or Tabelog. This Actor collects publicly available factual business data only — it never collects review text (copyrighted works), reviewer names or any other user data, and it never bypasses logins or CAPTCHAs. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with the source site's terms and the laws that apply to you (including GDPR/APPI where relevant); the published business phone numbers are included as business contact information, not personal data — verify your own legal basis before using them for outreach.

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Who is this for?

• Market research and location intelligence — density, ratings and price points of restaurants by neighbourhood and cuisine (e.g. every ramen shop around Shinjuku station with rating and budget).
• Travel, food-tech and recommendation products — English-schema Japanese restaurant data with the Tabelog rating, the metric travellers actually trust.
• B2B suppliers and services — lead lists of restaurants by area and genre with published business contact details and budget positioning.

Sample output (dataset item)

{
  "restaurantName": "道産子 新宿西口店",
  "restaurantNameKana": "どさんこ",
  "genre": ["居酒屋", "海鮮"],
  "rating": 3.28,
  "reviewCount": 100,
  "bookmarkCount": 4626,
  "budgetDinner": { "raw": "￥3,000～￥3,999", "minJpy": 3000, "maxJpy": 3999 },
  "budgetLunch": null,
  "address": "東京都新宿区西新宿1-2-7 小杉ビル B1F",
  "prefecture": "東京都",
  "prefectureEn": "Tokyo",
  "prefectureCode": "13",
  "nearestStation": "新宿西口駅",
  "phone": "03-3342-2958",
  "businessHours": "月・火・水・木 16:00 - 23:45 L.O. 料理23:10 ドリンク23:30; 金・土 14:00 - 23:45 ...",
  "closedDays": null,
  "latitude": 35.6926975,
  "longitude": 139.699659,
  "url": "https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1304/A130401/13051074/",
  "tabelogId": "13051074",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "source": "食べログ (Tabelog, tabelog.com)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://tabelog.com/",
  "license": "Publicly available data — unofficial tool; users are responsible for compliance with the source site's terms",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25T09:12:44.000Z"
}

In cheap list-only mode (detailFetch: false, the default) each listing page request yields 20 records with name, genres, rating, review/bookmark counts, budgets, nearest station and URL; address/phone/hours fields are null.

Input example

{
  "prefecture": "Tokyo",
  "area": "shinjuku",
  "genre": "ramen",
  "minRating": 3,
  "maxItems": 40,
  "detailFetch": true
}

• prefecture (required): "Tokyo", "東京都" or JIS code "13" — all 47 prefectures.
• area (optional): a Tabelog area code copied from any tabelog URL — A1304 (district), A130401 (sub-area), C13104 (ward/municipality) or a full path like A1304/A130401/R5184 (station) — this works for every neighbourhood in Japan. Convenience English slugs are built in for a few famous areas (shinjuku, shibuya, ikebukuro, ...). Unknown free text is refused with guidance instead of guessing the wrong neighbourhood.
• genre (optional): a Tabelog genre slug as seen in listing URLs (ramen, sushi, izakaya, cafe, yakiniku, italian, ...). A wrong slug fails with an explicit 404, never silent wrong data.
• minRating (optional): client-side rating floor.

Pricing

Pay per result — see the pricing tab. A listing-only run is cheap (20 records per upstream request); detailFetch: true costs one extra upstream request per restaurant and fills the business-info fields.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Live from public tabelog.com listing and detail pages at run time. Every record embeds the source, source URL, a license note and the retrieval timestamp.

Is this an official Tabelog/Kakaku.com service? No. Unofficial, independently built and maintained, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kakaku.com Inc. Tabelog is a trademark of its owner.

Does it collect reviews? No, by design. Review text is a copyrighted work and reviewer identities are personal data — the parser deletes the review array from the page's structured data before reading anything, and automated tests assert that no review text, reviewer name or review-shaped field can ever appear in the output. Only the numeric facts survive: the rating value, the review count, the bookmark count.

Why did my run stop before maxItems? The Actor enforces a hard per-run request budget (maxApiRequests) with strictly serial requests ≥1.2 s apart — polite by construction. The run summary (RUN_SUMMARY key-value record) reports complete: false with the reason whenever a budget truncated the result set. Raise maxApiRequests or narrow the query.

What if tabelog.com blocks the datacenter IP? The Actor performs no block evasion (no header spoofing, no CAPTCHA solving, no rotation tricks). If the runtime IP is refused it fails visibly with the HTTP status. Setting proxyConfiguration (e.g. Apify automatic proxy) usually resolves it.

Is the whole of Japan covered? Yes — any prefecture, and any neighbourhood/station/municipality via its Tabelog area code. What one run returns is your query's result set subject to maxItems and the request budget, both reported honestly in the run summary.

Search terms this Actor answers

tabelog scraper · Tabelog API · Japan restaurant data · Japanese restaurant database · Tokyo restaurants dataset · Japan restaurant ratings · ramen restaurants Tokyo data · Japan food guide scraping · restaurant leads Japan · 食べログ データ · Shinjuku Shibuya restaurant list · Japan restaurant market research

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Data source: tabelog.com public pages. Unofficial; not affiliated with Kakaku.com Inc. Factual business data only — no review content, no user data. Users are responsible for their own compliance with the source site's terms and applicable law.