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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
26 Lawry's 156k 39.4 67.3% Restaurants
27 Chipotle Mexican Grill 148k 32.2 50.7% Restaurants
28 Panera Bread 146k 31.7 65.3% Restaurants
29 Checkers 102k 29.1 52.3% Restaurants
30 IHOP 96k 34.8 53.0% Restaurants
31 Whittard of Chelsea 95k 37.7 62.2% Restaurants
32 Little Caesars 93k 26.6 58.0% Restaurants
33 nandos 91k 28.5 72.5% Restaurants
34 Arby's 90k 28.5 66.6% Restaurants
35 Dollar General Market 87k 38.0 67.6% Restaurants
36 Buffalo Wild Wings 86k 31.0 43.1% Restaurants
37 Hardee's 79k 30.4 56.3% Restaurants
38 Applebee's 77k 28.0 54.5% Restaurants
39 Shakey's Pizza 76k 30.0 52.9% Restaurants
40 Promart 68k 27.8 88.6% Restaurants
41 Ruby Tuesday (restaurant) 64k 41.2 90.8% Restaurants
42 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 62k 34.2 75.3% Restaurants
43 California Pizza Kitchen 62k 25.6 59.7% Restaurants
44 Texas Roadhouse 61k 35.9 57.6% Restaurants
45 Zaxby's 61k 32.2 51.7% Restaurants
46 Benihana 60k 44.1 56.7% Restaurants
47 Wagamama 60k 35.4 69.9% Restaurants
48 Mang Inasal 57k 27.9 78.2% Restaurants
49 Fatburger 54k 40.1 54.0% Restaurants
50 Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar 53k 37.0 67.3% 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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