Nation-wide restaurant guides

• Don't forget to start with the comprehensive bento.com restaurant listings, with over 1000 restaurants in Tokyo/Yokohama on the Tokyo Food Page and over 400 shops in Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe on our Kansai Food Page
• Chowhound Japan Board
• Starbucks Locator
• Ramen shop reviews from Rameniac
• Restaurant reports in French and English at Secret Japan
• Halal restaurants and food stores
• Kinen style No-smoking database (J)
• Asahi Beer restaurants (J)
• Reviews from Satonao's "Gourmet Inn" (J)
• ASK-U restaurant guide (J)
• Tabelog restaurant guide (J) (national)

Tokyo-based guides

• Japan Times reviews by Robbie Swinnerton
• Ramen Adventures ramen blog
• Go Ramen ramen blog
• Chef moz is part of the Open Directory Project
• Metropolis magazine restaurant reviews
• Curry shops (J)
• Suplex curry database (J)
• Ethnic rest search (J)
• Suplex ramen database (J)

Tokyo Shopping Links

• Also check out the Tokyo Food Page imported food shopping guide
• And the Tokyo Food Page imported beer guide
• Tokyo cheese shop guide from the Tokyo Food Page
• Kristin Yamaguchi's exhaustive list of shops selling foreign food and ingredients on eGullet
• Yuko Sato's favorite Tokyo cheese shops (in Japanese)

Japanese restaurants and shops outside Japan

• John Marist's Worldwide Sushi Restaurant database (mostly US/Canada)
• More worldwide listings from the Sushi World Guide
• Japanese food in Vienna