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90 Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles that earn more on your cards

Los Angeles has 90 Japanese restaurants in our listings: 61 take a dining program and 36 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: Beverly Hills (7), Old Pasadena (4), and Sawtelle (4).

90 restaurants

  • Drunken Fish

    up to15%

    Japanese · $$$$ · Sawtelle

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Upside9%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more

  • Sama Hand Roll

    up to15%

    Japanese · Historic Core

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Upside9%

  • Takuma

    up to14%

    Japanese · $$ · Fairmount Villas

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xUpside8%+10 more

  • The Bar by Seabutter

    up to14%

    Japanese · $$$$ · San Fernando Valley West of 405

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xUpside8%+10 more

  • Jade Beverly Hills

    up to13%

    Japanese · $$$ · Golden Triangle

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xUpside7%+10 more

  • Saloon Osaka

    up to12%

    Japanese · $ · Downtown

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Resy creditHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+11 more

  • CoCo Ichibanya - Sawtelle

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$$ · Little Osaka

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Gram Cafe & Pancakes

    up to12%

    Café · $$ · San Gabriel Valley

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Iki Toro

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$$$ · City Center

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Kanpai Japanese Sushi Bar & Grill

    up to12%

    Asian · $$ · Westchester

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Kogane

    up to12%

    Asian · $$$$ · San Gabriel Valley

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    IHG Dine & Earn8xUpside6%SkyMiles Dining5x+5 more

  • MAFIA SUSHI - LA

    up to12%

    Sushi · $$$ · Downtown Los Angeles

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Maki Shabu

    up to12%

    Hot Pot · $$$$ · NoHo Arts District

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Poki Go

    up to12%

    Hawaiian · $$$ · San Gabriel Valley

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Sato Ramen House

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$$ · Old Pasadena

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Yumami

    up to12%

    Asian · $$$$ · Lincoln Heights

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Zen Toro Restaurant

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$$$ · San Fernando Valley

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Amandine Patisserie Cafe - Downtown LA

    up to12%

    French · $$ · The Broadway Theater District

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • Bengara

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$ · The Arts District

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • CoCo Ichibanya - Koreatown

    up to12%

    Japanese · $$$ · Koreatown

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • Hibachi Papi Bar & Grill

    up to12%

    Bar/Club/Lounge · $$$ · Hollywood

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • K's Bistro by Kanpai

    up to12%

    Asian · $$ · Westchester

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more
Restaurants
90
Neighborhoods
55
Cuisines
23
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
36

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Los Angeles

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. Rakuten Dining (42 restaurants) and TrueBlue Dining (41) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 90 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

All the best cards for dining

14 dining programs that pay in Los Angeles

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

22 cuisines in Los Angeles

Japanese in 55 Los Angeles neighborhoods

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

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