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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 6,547 restaurants

Best restaurants in Kyoto

The 10 most notable restaurants in Kyoto, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Hyotei

    35 Nanzenji Kusakawacho

    319 m from Keage Station, rail

    Michelin-starredlisted by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.063, percentile 100 of 6,547

  2. 2

    ビッグボーイ 宇治店

    六地蔵奈良町72-9

    113 m from Rokujizo Station (Kyoto City Subway), metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.98 of 6,547

  3. 3

    スターバックスコーヒー 松井山手店

    "1, 京都府京田辺市松井ケ丘3丁目2"

    215 m from Matsuiyamate Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.97 of 6,547

  4. 4

    ジョリーパスタ木幡店

    木幡正中46-21

    476 m from Kohata Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.95 of 6,547

  5. 5

    ジョリーパスタ 桂店

    西京区上桂北村町28-5

    679 m from Kami-Katsura Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.94 of 6,547

  6. 6

    ジョリーパスタ 伏見店

    伏見区下鳥羽渡瀬町134

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.92 of 6,547

  7. 7

    ジョリーパスタ 向日店

    鶏冠井町清水7

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.91 of 6,547

  8. 8

    ビッグボーイ 宇多野店

    右京区宇多野長尾町15

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.89 of 6,547

  9. 9

    松のや 藤阪店

    津田北町1丁目3189-2

    574 m from Fujisaka Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.88 of 6,547

  10. 10

    松のや 松井山手店

    山手西2丁目1-1

    558 m from Hokuriku Shinkansen Matsuiyamate Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.009, percentile 99.86 of 6,547

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).