Top 50 Cuisines in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest cuisines in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 142 cuisines tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Japanese cuisine, Italian cuisine and Chinese cuisine lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 64,094,296 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 4,451,337, and the largest, Japanese cuisine, reaches around 24,091,806 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each cuisine, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Japanese cuisine	24,091,806	13.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
2	Italian cuisine	21,527,054	8.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
3	Chinese cuisine	18,475,436	10.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
4	Korean cuisine	18,281,430	13.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
5	French cuisine	17,436,683	11.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
6	Thai cuisine	12,719,568	12.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
7	Vietnamese cuisine	10,909,003	11.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
8	Vegetarian cuisine	10,790,472	7.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
9	Mexican cuisine	10,384,190	7.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
10	Middle Eastern cuisine	10,217,591	13.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
11	Spanish cuisine	9,083,146	10.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
12	Indian cuisine	8,490,461	7.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
13	Latin American cuisine	8,200,536	9.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
14	Greek cuisine	8,014,166	10.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
15	German cuisine	7,900,825	9.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
16	Yakiniku	3,768,570	55.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
17	Asian cuisine	2,904,768	8.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
18	Mediterranean cuisine	2,437,158	3.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
19	New Mexican cuisine	2,380,751	14.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
20	spicy food	2,098,372	4.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
21	southern food	1,787,966	7.8%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
22	Cantonese cuisine	1,216,354	11.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
23	Turkish cuisine	1,017,365	4.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
24	British cuisine	771,998	3.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
25	Hong Kong cuisine	755,227	15.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
26	Cuisine of the United States	588,627	1.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
27	Philippine cuisine	545,942	8.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
28	Indonesian cuisine	517,755	5.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
29	Portuguese cuisine	469,453	4.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
30	Taiwanese cuisine	468,052	7.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
31	Arab cuisine	467,984	2.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
32	Peruvian cuisine	430,220	2.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
33	Malaysian cuisine	331,337	3.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
34	Lebanese cuisine	298,056	2.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
35	Szechuan cuisine	251,223	8.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
36	Brazilian cuisine	249,941	3.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
37	European cuisine	231,092	1.3%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
38	Global cuisine	215,980	0.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
39	African cuisine	202,543	1.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
40	Pakistani cuisine	195,523	2.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
41	Ethiopian cuisine	177,484	4.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
42	South Asian cuisine	159,141	2.7%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
43	Cajun cuisine	156,985	2.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
44	Syrian cuisine	155,068	1.2%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
45	Polish cuisine	136,762	2.9%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
46	Romanian cuisine	136,394	3.6%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
47	Tamil cuisine	135,275	2.4%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
48	Fusion cuisine	132,325	1.1%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
49	Punjabi cuisine	130,397	2.5%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages
50	Bengali cuisine	122,414	3.0%	Cuisine	Food & Beverages