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.
DATA LAB
Monja in data
All figures are calculated from what this database holds. These are not industry-wide statistics. The bias in what is recorded — toward Tsukishima and the large chains — shows through as it is.
- 132Shops listed
- 124In Japan
- 0Tsukishima
- 8Outside Japan
- 16Prefectures
- 21Countries and territories searched
- 50Confidence A
- 131With coordinates
DISTRIBUTION
Entries by prefecture
Entries in this database. It leans to Tokyo because every cooperative member shop in Tsukishima is included.
PRICE
Distribution of average spend (Tsukishima)
The average-spend band each shop declares to the cooperative.
A blank band means the shop does not publish a figure.
BLOCK
By block on Monja Street
Block information exists only for cooperative members.
CAPABILITY
What shops can accommodate
A mechanical count of the cooperative's own tags. This is what the shops declare, not something we have verified.
“Foreign languages” means the shop declares that overseas visitors are very welcome.
MENU
Menu styles
組合公式の食事タグから。
1店が複数の系統に入る。
CHAIN
Shops per brand
運営会社の公式店舗一覧に載っている数。
もんじゃの全国分布は、ほぼこの表で説明できる。
PUBLIC STATS
Against official and industry statistics
このデータベースの外にある数字。年と出所を添える。
Registered monjayaki shops over time Broadly flat across the decade 2005–2014
NTT Townpage (Townpage Database, published February 2015)／Over the same period registered okonomiyaki shops fell by about 30%. Monja did not fall.
Monjayaki shops per 100,000 people, by prefecture 1st Tokyo / 2nd Okinawa / 3rd Gunma (2014)
NTT Townpage (Townpage Database, published February 2015)／Five prefectures in Kyushu and Shikoku had no listing at all. Okinawa coming second suggests a route separate from the mainland line. We will follow this at the next update.
Member shops of the Tsukishima Monja Promotion Cooperative 48 (as listed on the cooperative's site on 12 August 2026)
Tsukishima Monja Promotion Cooperative, official site／The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries states 54. Whether the difference is one of publication date or a real decline is not established.
Average spend at Tsukishima shops (as declared to the cooperative) ¥2,000–3,000 is the most common (25 of 47 shops)
Tsukishima Monja Promotion Cooperative, "average budget" on each member page／¥1,500–2,500 at 9 shops, ¥3,000–4,000 at 8. Spend per head can be taken to sit in this range.
Size of the eating-out market ¥12.4686 trillion (2012)
SME Support Japan, J-Net21 market data for okonomiyaki restaurants／**No official statistic for the size of the monja market alone could be found.** This figure is the eating-out industry as a whole, not monja. It is given for reference. The J-Net21 page was last content-checked in September 2013.