Tabelog in English,
on a map.

TabeDog is an English map of Japan's restaurants built on Tabelog ratings. Search near you or in any city, filter by cuisine, price, opening hours and whether a place is open right now, and see hours, prices and payment methods in English. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with Tabelog or Kakaku.com.

Tabelog has a partial English site, but most of its listings, reviews, hours and payment details are Japanese only and the English map search is limited. TabeDog shows Tabelog's ratings on a full English map with those details translated, so foreigners can use the same scores Japanese diners rely on.

Tabelog scores run from 1 to 5 but almost nothing scores above 4. The average restaurant is around 3.0 to 3.2. A 3.5 puts a restaurant in roughly the top 3 to 5 percent in Japan and usually means a queue. Above 3.7 is a destination; above 4.0 is one of the best restaurants in the country. The scale is deliberately harsh, which is why it works.

Google ratings in Japan cluster between 4.0 and 4.5 for almost everything, so they cannot tell a great restaurant from an average one. Tabelog weights reviewers by their track record and compresses scores, so a difference of 0.2 is meaningful. Japanese diners choose where to eat by Tabelog score, not Google stars.

Trust the Tabelog score over the sign. Restaurants with English touts and big photo menus near major stations and sights typically rate 3.0 or below; the places locals queue for rate 3.4 and up and are often a street away. TabeDog shows them on the same map with the score, so the difference is obvious.

Yes. Searching the map, filtering by cuisine, price and hours, and seeing restaurant details is free. TabeDog Premium (¥500 a month, cancel any time) adds saved restaurant lists, AI restaurant recommendations, AI search in plain English and curated local guides.

TabeDog Premium is ¥500 a month and includes four things: saved restaurant lists that appear as pins on the map, AI recommendations that pick top-rated Tabelog restaurants near you for what you feel like eating, AI search that understands requests like "late-night ramen near Shinjuku that takes cards", and curated local guides of the restaurants Japanese diners actually go to in each city and neighborhood.

For eating like a local, an app built on Tabelog ratings beats one built on Google reviews, because Japanese diners choose restaurants by Tabelog score and Google rates almost everything in Japan 4.0 to 4.5. TabeDog is the only English app that shows Tabelog ratings for every restaurant in Japan on a map with hours, prices and payment methods, which is why travelers and residents use it as their everyday Japanese food app.

Japanese diners search Tabelog by area and cuisine, sort by score, check the Hyakumeiten (Top 100) lists, and book popular counters weeks ahead. They rarely use Google Maps ratings. TabeDog gives you the same workflow in English: search near a station, filter by cuisine and score, see what is open, and save the places you want to a list.

All of Japan. Tabelog lists every restaurant in the country, so TabeDog works anywhere from Sapporo to Okinawa. The city guides on this site cover Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, Hiroshima, Okinawa, Kanazawa and Nara in detail.

Yes. TabeDog shows each restaurant's opening hours and marks whether it is open at this moment, and shows whether it accepts credit cards, IC cards, QR payment or cash only, pulled from its Tabelog listing. Both matter in Japan, where many small restaurants are cash only and close when they sell out.