Privacy Policy

Best Restaurants Tokyo runs on a short privacy list because the site itself is small. There are no member logins, no newsletters to subscribe to and no comment threads underneath the articles about Shinjuku dining or Tsukiji market walks. What processing happens comes from hosting and from counting anonymous page views, and the sections below describe it plainly, without legal padding.

What This Site Collects

Two things touch a visit here, and neither involves signing up for anything. First, the host keeps routine server records: which pages loaded, what kind of device made the request and roughly which city it came from. Second, an analytics service counts traffic so the site can tell whether readers are more interested in the omakase tour write-up or the Shibuya ramen class page. Both produce figures about crowds, never about individuals, since no account, profile or enquiry form exists anywhere on these pages.

Nothing identifying is gathered as a matter of design. With no registration, no mailing list and no feedback box, there is simply no field on this site where a name or email address could be typed. The traffic counts described above roll up into totals, so a person reading up on sushi classes in Asakusa cannot be picked out of them. Should someone write to the contact address directly, that email is the sole exception and is treated below.

Google Analytics

Why run analytics at all? To learn which articles earn attention and which outbound listings get clicks. If the page for the Tsukiji food walking tour sends a steady stream of readers onward to a live booking page, while another guide goes unopened, the writing should reflect that. Figures are only ever read as totals across many visits, not as a trail belonging to one browser.

The analytics tool may set cookies in a browser to tell one anonymous visit from another. That data is processed under the tool provider's own privacy policy, and this site has no access to any identities behind it. Anyone who would rather not be counted at all can block cookies or use the browser's private mode, which removes the tool from the visit without affecting any page, from the guides to the tour listings.

How Traffic Figures Work

A deliberate absence shapes this site: no logins, no subscriptions, no comment section. Because nothing is registered, no personal profile is stored anywhere, and a reader comparing the Shinjuku bar hopping tour against the Golden Gai dinner option does so anonymously. Loading pages is the whole interaction. No marker links one article read to the next, so there is no browsing history of any individual to protect or hand over.

Links To Booking Pages

Every external link on this site ends its responsibility at the point of the click. Links lead to tour listing pages, Google Maps, restaurant reservation systems and the purchase page for our own guide, The Tokyo Food List. Each destination operates under its own policy once a visitor lands: its own cookies, its own measurement tools, its own terms. Any details a reader types there, whether an email for a booking confirmation or card details for the Omakase Sushi and A5 Wagyu tour, sit with that operator rather than with this site.

Affiliate links appear across the tour pages, including the Shinjuku food tour and the Omakase Sushi and A5 Wagyu Premium Foodie Tour. Each carries a referral marker so the operator can attribute a booking back to this site. The amount a reader pays stays exactly what it would be otherwise. Messages sent to info@bestrestaurantstokyo.com receive a reply and nothing more: no mailing list, no forwarding, no third party.

Hosting And Delivery

Pages here are delivered as static files through Cloudflare. To serve pages and filter hostile bots, Cloudflare handles request information such as IP addresses and browser details as part of its normal pipeline. Static hosting narrows what could ever go wrong: no reader database, no stored submissions and no stored credentials, which removes most of the targets a site with user accounts would be protecting.

Your Choices

Blocking cookies in a normal browser changes nothing here: the pages render, the search works and every booking link opens exactly as it would otherwise. Private browsing is equally fine. An opt-out add-on halts analytics collection on its own, since the guide content does not rely on tracking to load. Readers who prefer a fully blocked setup lose no feature of the site.

Changes To This Page

Should practices shift, this same address carries the revised wording rather than a replacement page posted somewhere new. Nothing on the site is aimed at children, and no information is gathered from anyone under thirteen. Write to info@bestrestaurantstokyo.com with a question about any of this and the reply comes back in plain language, without jargon.