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Top 100 Restaurants in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest restaurants in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 252 restaurants tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. A&W Restaurants, Hard Rock Cafe and Shake Shack lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 6.8M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 179k, and the largest, A&W Restaurants, reaches around 2.9M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 A&W Restaurants 2.9M 30.8 54.4% Restaurants
2 Hard Rock Cafe 2.1M 30.5 49.7% Restaurants
3 Shake Shack 1.8M 38.6 52.8% Restaurants
4 Jollibee 931k 32.9 67.1% Restaurants
5 Pepper Lunch 511k 42.3 77.7% Restaurants
6 Seattle's Best Coffee 500k 35.8 66.9% Restaurants
7 Panda Express 498k 39.3 50.9% Restaurants
8 Din Tai Fun 468k 35.9 62.7% Restaurants
9 Genki Sushi 465k 37.8 65.6% Restaurants
10 Sakae Sushi 424k 39.4 61.1% Restaurants
11 Costa Coffee 360k 30.5 66.5% Restaurants
12 Sizzler 351k 24.3 69.4% Restaurants
13 Outback Steakhouse 348k 29.3 53.5% Restaurants
14 Din Tai Fung 330k 35.9 79.3% Restaurants
15 Chick-fil-A 318k 31.5 55.7% Restaurants
16 Pepes 308k 36.5 41.9% Restaurants
17 Luke's Lobster 267k 43.4 61.7% Restaurants
18 Waffle House 266k 29.6 65.4% Restaurants
19 Freshii 216k 40.3 70.0% Restaurants
20 White Castle (restaurant) 216k 36.7 53.4% Restaurants
21 Dairy Queen 187k 26.7 69.6% Restaurants
22 Cinnabon 177k 23.7 69.9% Restaurants
23 H&M Home 172k 34.9 69.1% Restaurants
24 Red Lobster 168k 31.9 49.8% Restaurants
25 Tony Roma's 166k 33.2 51.5% Restaurants

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each restaurants by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest restaurants in Japan?

A&W Restaurants currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.9M people in Japan.

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