Tabelog Japan Restaurant Rating Scraper

Extract restaurant listings from Tabelog (食べログ), Japan's largest restaurant-rating platform with over 800,000 restaurants nationwide.

What does this actor do?

Provide one or more Tabelog search/listing URLs and this actor paginates through all results, extracting the full data set for every restaurant on the page. Supports any combination of prefecture and cuisine category — ramen in Tokyo, sushi in Osaka, yakiniku in Fukuoka, and anything in between.

Extracted fields per restaurant:

Field	Description
restaurant_id	Tabelog internal restaurant ID
name	Restaurant name
tabelog_score	Tabelog aggregate score (0.00–5.00)
review_count	Total number of customer reviews
saved_count	Number of users who bookmarked the restaurant
prefecture	Prefecture (e.g. tokyo, osaka)
area	Tabelog area code (e.g. A1303)
genre	Cuisine genre(s)
nearest_station	Nearest train/metro station with distance
budget_dinner	Dinner budget range (e.g. ￥2,000～￥2,999)
budget_lunch	Lunch budget range
award_badge	Award label if present (Tabelog Award, 食べログ百名店, etc.)
detail_url	Full URL to the restaurant detail page
thumbnail_url	First restaurant photo URL

How to use

1. Go to tabelog.com and search for the area and cuisine you want
2. Copy the listing URL from your browser (e.g. https://tabelog.com/tokyo/rstLst/ramen/)
3. Paste it into Start URLs and set Max Items (leave blank for unlimited)
4. Run the actor

URL patterns supported

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/rstLst/ramen/           # Tokyo ramen
https://tabelog.com/osaka/rstLst/sushi/           # Osaka sushi
https://tabelog.com/kyoto/rstLst/izakaya/         # Kyoto izakaya
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130101/rstLst/   # Specific area

The actor automatically paginates through all pages (60 results per page).

Use cases

• Restaurant market research across Japanese cities
• Food-tech and delivery platform competitive analysis
• Lead generation for F&B suppliers and equipment vendors
• Travel planning and restaurant recommendation datasets
• Academic research on Japan's restaurant industry

Notes

• Tabelog is a Japanese platform — all data (names, genres, addresses) is in Japanese
• Award badges include Tabelog Award recipients and 百名店 (Hyakumeiten) designations
• The address field is not available on listing pages; use detail_url to fetch full address information from individual restaurant pages
• tabelog_score uses Tabelog's weighted scoring system (not a simple average)