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Is It Worth the Queue? Japan's Most Famous Food Lines, Judged by 19,474 Japanese Comments
Queueing is the largest silent tax on a Japan itinerary, and Japanese comment sections are merciless about which lines are real. Across 13 threads and 19,474 comments we have translated and aggregated — Osaka's most famous okonomiyaki, Tokyo's viral cake shop, a reservation-only luxury sushi restaurant, Nara's mochi-pounding spectacle, an Arashiyama cafe caught reselling supermarket cakes, and the hamburg-steak counter Japan's bluntest reviewer called "pass-out-level" good — the verdicts sort into seven rules you can apply to any queue you walk past. Four of them will get you out of a line. Three will tell you to stay.
