Gurunavi Japan Restaurant Scraper

Scrape restaurant data from Gurunavi (ぐるなび), one of Japan's largest restaurant guides and reservation platforms, covering every prefecture. Get names, genres, lunch and dinner budgets, station access, advertised set courses with prices, photos and online-reservation availability straight from the search results, and, with detail pages enabled, full addresses, GPS coordinates, phone numbers, opening hours, closed days, seating, private rooms, smoking policy, accepted cards and e-money, and more.

HTTP-only. No browser, no API key, no login. Gurunavi ships its search results as structured JSON inside the page, so the scraper reads clean data instead of guessing at CSS classes.

What you can do with it

• Lead generation – build lists of restaurants by area and genre for B2B sales (POS, payments, delivery, staffing, supplies).
• Market research – compare budgets, course prices and genre mix across neighbourhoods or cities.
• Location intelligence – geocoded restaurant points (with includeDetails) for mapping, site selection and competitor analysis.
• Data enrichment – match Gurunavi records to your own database by name, phone or address.
• Travel and food apps – keep restaurant catalogues fresh.

How it works

1. Pick a prefecture (all 47 supported), optionally a sub-area (e.g. 新宿, 梅田, 博多) and a genre (izakaya, sushi, ramen, yakiniku…).
2. Choose a crawl mode. Gurunavi caps any single search at roughly 10,000 results, so the default splits the prefecture into its sub-areas and paginates each one; subareas-genres goes one level deeper for exhaustive coverage.
3. Or paste your own Start URLs – any https://r.gnavi.co.jp/area/…/rs/ search page, filters included. Each one is paginated for you.
4. Set Max restaurants and, if you want the rich fields, tick Scrape detail pages.

Results land in the run's dataset, one item per restaurant, with ready-made table views for Overview, Location & contact, Facilities and Courses.

Proxy

The default is Apify's datacenter proxy pool, which served Gurunavi listing and detail pages fine in testing and is the cheapest option. Gurunavi does redirect some IP ranges to its corporate site (www.gnavi.co.jp); if that happens the Actor logs a clear "Redirected to www.gnavi.co.jp" warning and falls back to browser-impersonated requests. If a run still comes back empty, switch the proxy to Residential with country Japan and re-run.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
prefecture	string	tokyo	Prefecture slug (e.g. tokyo, osaka, kyoto, fukuoka, hokkaido).
area	string	–	Sub-area name (Japanese) or code such as areal2115. Partial matches allowed.
genre	string	all	One of izakaya, japanese, sushi, roastmeat, western, buffet, curry, chinese, continental, hotpots, ethnic, noodle, beerandcuisine, cafe, entertainment, casual, others.
crawlMode	string	subareas	subareas, prefecture, or subareas-genres.
startUrls	array	–	Gurunavi search URLs. Overrides the fields above.
maxResults	integer	100	Unique restaurants to collect.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Fetch each restaurant page (one extra request per restaurant).
requestDelaySecs	number	1	Pause after each request.
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel requests.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter	Switch to Residential (Japan) only if runs log the www.gnavi.co.jp redirect.

Example:

{
  "prefecture": "tokyo",
  "area": "新宿",
  "genre": "izakaya",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output

Listing fields (always present): shopId, urlShopNo, url, name, nameSub, category, lunchBudget, dinnerBudget, access, subAccess, info, memberType, suspended, attractivePoints, photo, photos, courseCount, minCoursePrice, courses[] (name, price, discountPrice, menuCount), vacancyDaysAvailable, instantBookingDays, isPromoted, prefecture, areaCode, sourceListUrl.

Detail fields (with includeDetails): displayName, nameReading, phone, phoneReservation, reservationUrl, openingHours, description, priceRange, acceptsReservations, genres, paymentAccepted, images, postalCode, prefectureName, city, streetAddress, address, latitude, longitude, amenities, accessFull, parking, hours, closedDays, budgetText, creditCards, eMoney, cancellationPolicy, totalSeats, seatingNotes, partyMax, charter, privateRoom, smoking, children, foreignLanguage, wifiPower, restroom, otherFacilities, menuServices, takeout, dressCode, scenes, sellingPoints, businessType, nearestStation, areaName, genreText.

Example item:

{
  "shopId": "g123456",
  "urlShopNo": "g123456",
  "url": "https://r.gnavi.co.jp/g123456/",
  "name": "個室居酒屋 なんとか 新宿店",
  "category": "居酒屋",
  "lunchBudget": 1000,
  "dinnerBudget": 4000,
  "access": "JR新宿駅 徒歩3分",
  "courseCount": 2,
  "minCoursePrice": 3800,
  "courses": [
    { "name": "2時間飲み放題付き 全8品", "price": 4500, "discountPrice": 3500, "menuCount": 8 }
  ],
  "vacancyDaysAvailable": 12,
  "instantBookingDays": 9,
  "isPromoted": false,
  "phone": "080-1234-5678",
  "phoneReservation": "050-1234-5678",
  "address": "東京都新宿区新宿3-1-1 ビル5F",
  "latitude": 35.6903,
  "longitude": 139.7005,
  "hours": "月～金 17:00～23:30 (L.O.23:00)",
  "openingHours": ["Mon-Fri 17:00-23:30"],
  "closedDays": "年中無休",
  "totalSeats": 120,
  "creditCards": ["VISA", "MasterCard", "JCB"],
  "smoking": "全席禁煙"
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the dataset, or pull it through the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged only for restaurants actually saved to the dataset. A run with includeDetails makes about twice the requests but costs the same per restaurant. Start with a small maxResults to check the fields you need, then scale up.

Tips

• Sub-area names are matched as substrings, so 新宿 also matches 新宿西口. Use the areal… code from a Gurunavi URL for an exact pick.
• Use crawlMode: "prefecture" for a quick sample of a whole prefecture, subareas for full coverage, and subareas-genres when a single sub-area still exceeds ~10,000 restaurants (central Tokyo and Osaka).
• phoneReservation is Gurunavi's 050 forwarding number shown on the page; phone comes from the page's structured data and is usually the restaurant's own line.
• Prices and budgets are in Japanese yen. A course's discountPrice is the price after the advertised discount.

Related scrapers

Looking for other Japanese restaurant data? See the HotPepper Gourmet, Tabelog and Retty scrapers by the same author for review scores, coupons and cross-platform matching.

Legal

This Actor collects publicly available business information. You are responsible for using the data in line with Gurunavi's terms and applicable law, including Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information where relevant.