What a Japanese restaurant menu carries and charges, from the 54 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Japanese.
Menu length
71 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 25 to 176
Sections
11
on the median menu
The typical dish
$18.90
the median of each menu’s median price, across 52 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 54 menus: 44 to 126Median 71Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Edamame$869%, 37 menus. Middle half $6.80 to $10, across 34 menus pricing it
Agedashi tofu$1459%, 32 menus. Middle half $11 to $16, across 31 menus pricing it
Miso soup$550%, 27 menus. Middle half $4 to $6.70, across 24 menus pricing it
Takoyaki$12.3046%, 25 menus. Middle half $9.50 to $14, across 23 menus pricing it
Chicken karaage$15.9041%, 22 menus. Middle half $11.10 to $20, across 19 menus pricing it
Teriyaki chicken$2639%, 21 menus. Middle half $16.90 to $28, across 18 menus pricing it
Gyoza$12.9537%, 20 menus. Middle half $10 to $14, across 20 menus pricing it
Tempura$18.9035%, 19 menus. Middle half $16.50 to $27.25, across 19 menus pricing it
Salmon sashimi$23.3532%, 17 menus. Middle half $16 to $25, across 17 menus pricing it
Sashimi$2632%, 17 menus. Middle half $22 to $40, across 17 menus pricing it
Tempura prawn$1830%, 16 menus. Middle half $14.05 to $19, across 14 menus pricing it
Steamed rice$430%, 16 menus. Middle half $3.35 to $4.90, across 14 menus pricing it
Chicken katsu$24.8026%, 14 menus. Middle half $16 to $26, across 13 menus pricing it
Unagi don$22.5526%, 14 menus. Middle half $19.90 to $25.50, across 14 menus pricing it
California roll$1424%, 13 menus. Middle half $12 to $16, across 13 menus pricing it
A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.
The sections they use
Dessert30%
Donburi24%
Drinks20%
Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.
Your own menu
Give us your menu and we will set it against places like yours, dish by dish, with how many menus each answer rests on. It is free.
We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.