About the Japanese on this page
Some Japanese is left here on purpose. **Source titles** are given as published, so you can find the original. **Addresses are shown in Japanese as well as romanised**, because Japanese is what works in a taxi or a map app. Shop names keep the Japanese alongside for the same reason. Everything else — hours, closing days, prices, seating, how to get there, and the articles — is in English, translated from the Japanese edition rather than machine-translated on the fly.
FINDING
Monja has not gone abroad
Okonomiyaki and takoyaki are everywhere. Monja is almost nowhere. Searching 20 countries and territories in English and the local language, we could confirm shops in only five: Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and the United States. Even so, it has not stopped. On 7 August 2026, Moheji of Tsukishima opened its first shop in South Korea, in Seoul.
EXPLORE
Where to start
- WORLD MAPFind it on the world map
World → country → city → shop. In Japan, from prefecture down to ward. Follow the dots to the shop's page.
- TSUKISHIMATsukishima (dedicated map)
The 57 shops on Monja Street, block by block from the 1st to the 4th.
- JAPANAll of Japan
16 prefectures, by region, separating specialists, chains and long-established shops.
- RANKINGRankings
Twenty axes, each with its basis stated first. Not ordered by Google rating.
- HISTORYHistory and culture
From monjiyaki to Tsukishima. Why you build a ring, what the little spatula means, the real difference from okonomiyaki.
- TARASHI-YAKITarashiyaki, Oarai
A regional dish running since the Taisho period. Only a few shops can still make it. Treated as its own subject.
- SIMILARRegional dishes close to monja
Isesaki monja, dondon-yaki, nikuten, issen-yoshoku. 6 of them, each with sources.
- BUSINESSIf you want to open one
How the money works, the types of location, the figures we could confirm and the ones we could not.
- DATA LABData
Distribution by prefecture, price bands, what shops accommodate, chain sizes. All calculated from this database.
WORLD MONJA MAP
On the map
Each dot is a shop. Tap one for its details. The buttons below filter by type.
Map data from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). 131 points. Where each coordinate came from is written on the shop's page.
Not shown on the map: TEN-YA (no point placed, because the location is not confirmed from a primary source)
THIS MONTH
This month
Chosen from what we could confirm moved in the past month: openings, closures, relocations, new formats. Not promotion — only things that actually happened.
- 01
Tsukishima Monja Moheji Seoul
On 7 August 2026 the first shop in South Korea opened in Jongno, Seoul. It happened while this database was being built, and shows that monja's move abroad is going on right now. Opening hours and closing days are not yet confirmed from primary sources.
- 02
Okonomiyaki Michi
A shop serving Oarai's tarashiyaki. A regional dish only a few shops can still make, and the first thing this database checks every month.
HOW WE WORK
What this database promises
事実と評価と見立てを混ぜない。住所や営業時間は出典のURLごと各店のページに出す。「ここが弱点だ」のような判断は、編集部の見立てと書く。
Google評価順に並べない。レビュー10件の5.0と5,000件の4.5を同じに扱わないため、点数を根拠にしたランキングは作っていない。使えるようになるまでは作らない。
掲載順を金で売らない。将来スポンサー枠を作る場合は「PR」と明記して分離する。
実在店舗の料理写真・店舗写真を1枚も置いていない。権利を確認できない写真を使わないためである。料理の画像は画像生成AIで作ったもので、どれも特定の店の料理ではない。altと本文の両方にそう書いている。
足りていないことを隠さない。月島以外の個人店、レビュー点数、海外の網羅性、開業費の実数。何が足りないかを ABOUT に書いている。