r/JapaneseFood on SubMouse

About r/JapaneseFood

In its own words:

*Quality* photography, discussion, videos and recipes related to Japanese cuisine. Recipes and your homemade dishes are especially welcome.

Community guide

r/JapaneseFood (#754, about 1.4 million subscribers) — *Quality* photography, discussion, videos and recipes related to Japanese cuisine. Recipes and your homemade dishes are especially welcome. A recent sample averaged 21 posts a day (~52% image, ~29% gallery, ~9% text). Its public rules include: No hateful or discriminatory speech; Post only Japanese food; Do not post blurry, low resolution, poorly lit photographs, partially eaten food; Do not post commercial promotional images; Japanese food should be the focus of the content. It is listed under “Lifestyles”.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed. Match posts to: No hateful or discriminatory speech; Post only Japanese food; Do not post blurry, low resolution, poorly lit photographs, partially eaten food; Do not post commercial promotional images. Recent samples are image-heavy; titles should explain why the media belongs here.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Photo, Restaurant, Homemade, Question.

The community was created on Apr 6, 2010, which makes it 16 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,205 subscribers (+0.09%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 7 by size. It sits just behind r/agedlikemilk (#752) and ahead of r/Twitter (#754) in our ranking.

What sets r/JapaneseFood apart

r/JapaneseFood is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 52% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 22% across the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (11:00 UTC) sees about 5.5× as many posts as the quietest (00:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/JapaneseFood went up from 1,405,926 to 1,413,574 subscribers (+7.6K, +0.54%). That is about 150 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/JapaneseFood, from 2023 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

I Painted a Picture of Sushi and Wanted to Share Hereu/Foolizard · Mar 5, 2025 · image
Instead of cooking, we went to the Japanese supermarket before closing. All this food for $30 only!u/BeardedGlass · Jan 1, 2025 · gallery
My biggest regret in Tokyo. “Just a quick bite I said”.u/SushiAssassin- · Jun 1, 2024 · gallery
eating my way through kyotou/evesoop · Feb 8, 2025 · gallery
I painted my local ramen shop in watercoloru/onewordpoet · Aug 21, 2024 · image
What I ate during my 10-day Tokyo tripu/smoked_hamm · Dec 20, 2024 · gallery
Some of the food I had in a hospital in Japanu/japanese_work · Feb 13, 2024 · gallery
I painted this watercolor of the new Udon shop near me and they gave me a meal in exchange for a copyu/onewordpoet · Aug 15, 2024 · image
How do in replicate this deep, savory curry I had in Japan?u/VanillaFlavoredCoke · Apr 5, 2025 · image
Some food from my latest trip to Japanu/TPYogi · Dec 9, 2024 · gallery

What r/JapaneseFood talks about

Looking at the titles of 144 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “japanese”, “tokyo”, “ramen”, “sushi” and “rice”. Other frequent themes are curry, food, homemade, chicken, kyoto and japan. Recurring phrases include “japanese food”, “noodle soup”, “making sushi” and “katsu curry”. By format, 52% are images, 29% are galleries and 9% are text posts.

japanese 17
tokyo 10
ramen 10
sushi 10
rice 8
curry 7
food 7
homemade 6
chicken 5
kyoto 5
japan 5
miso 4
soup 4
making 4
help 4
ate 4
bowl 4
pork 3

Popular post flairs: Photo (61), Restaurant (29), Homemade (22), Question (17), Recipe (11), News (2).

Activity and best time to post

r/JapaneseFood gets about 21 new posts a day. The public archive holds 46,849 posts and 346,376 comments in total, about 7.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (25 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (16). Posting peaks around 11:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.

Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026

Images 52%Galleries 29%Text posts 9%Videos 6%Links 4%

Rules of r/JapaneseFood

The moderators of r/JapaneseFood list 12 rules. In short:

No hateful or discriminatory speech
Post only Japanese food
Do not post blurry, low resolution, poorly lit photographs, partially eaten food
Do not post commercial promotional images
Japanese food should be the focus of the content
Do not create a post linking directly to products for sale as a post.
No memes
No T-shirt posts
Recipes need to have a photo
Posts should be in English or Japanese, or have subtitles or translations in one of those languages.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/JapaneseFood and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does r/JapaneseFood have?

r/JapaneseFood has 1,413,574 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #753 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,648 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

When was r/JapaneseFood created?

r/JapaneseFood was created on Apr 6, 2010, so it has been around for 16 years.

Is r/JapaneseFood still active?

Yes. r/JapaneseFood gets about 21 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 46,849 posts and 346,376 comments. In a sample of 144 recent posts we counted 102 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/JapaneseFood?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 11:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/JapaneseFood?

The community describes itself as: “*Quality* photography, discussion, videos and recipes related to Japanese cuisine. Recipes and your homemade dishes are especially welcome.” Recent post titles often mention japanese, tokyo, ramen, sushi and rice. Most posts are images (52%).

Is r/JapaneseFood SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/JapaneseFood as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/JapaneseFood?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/JapaneseFood accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “No hateful or discriminatory speech”; “Post only Japanese food”; “Do not post blurry, low resolution, poorly lit photographs, partially eaten food”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/JapaneseFood?

Communities with similar topics include r/pasta (1.3M), r/smoking (1.1M), r/recipes (3.6M), r/cookingforbeginners (2.2M) and r/slowcooking (4.8M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/JapaneseFood.

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