Who runs it
TabeDog is built and run by Joseph L. It is a small independent project, not a company with a sales team, and it has no relationship with any restaurant it lists: nobody can pay to be ranked higher.
Where the data comes from
Ratings, review counts, prices, hours and payment methods come from each restaurant’s public listing on Tabelog, Japan’s largest restaurant review site. Every restaurant in the app and on these pages links to its Tabelog listing so you can check the source.
Map searches are fetched live and kept for about 15 minutes. A restaurant’s address, hours and payment methods are kept for up to 90 days. The top-rated lists on the city and cuisine pages refresh once a day and show the date they were taken.
TabeDog is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Tabelog or Kakaku.com, Inc. Tabelog is a trademark of Kakaku.com, Inc.
How we rank
We don’t. The order on every list is Tabelog’s own score, highest first. We add things Tabelog’s English site makes hard to see at a glance: a map, what’s open right now, and filters for price and card payment. The city and cuisine guides are written by hand from those rankings and from eating in these places.
What it costs
The map is free. Premium is ¥500 a month and adds saved lists, AI recommendations, AI search and local guides. See the Terms, Privacy Policy and 特定商取引法に基づく表記.
Contact
Corrections, data requests, press or anything else: hi@jajabuilds.com. If a restaurant’s details are wrong, tell us and also report it on its Tabelog page, since that is where the data comes from.