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The best Japanese restaurants in Shanghai

Our Shanghai list ranks 8 Japanese restaurants, each named by between two and four independent published guides and ordered here by Google rating weighted for review volume. 橼舍鮨青木 (Sushi Aoki) leads them at 4.1 from 288 Google reviews, in Huangpu (Yifeng Rockbund) — outside the Top 101 city-wide. The commonest style descriptors we hold on them are Sushi omakase, Edomae sushi omakase, Ginza-style edomae sushi, among others.

8 ranked named by 2–4 guides each ordered by rating × review volume checked 24 August 2026 How this is built

Read this ranking as a visitor's shortlist. Google is blocked in mainland China, so the review counts below come almost entirely from foreign visitors and are very small. The guides that qualified these restaurants are Chinese and reliable; the numbers that order them are not a verdict from Shanghai's own diners. Why we still publish it.

Shanghai qualifies on two guides, not three. Its ranking platforms resist automated reading, so agreement between three guides we can actually read is structurally rarer here. Everything after that step — the formula, the weighting, the check date — is identical to every other city. The full reasoning.

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    橼舍鮨青木 (Sushi Aoki)

    Huangpu (Yifeng Rockbund)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 5288 reviewsscore 3.93
  2. 2

    鮨·大山 (Sushi Oyama)

    Xuhui (Donghu Rd)4 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.5 out of 54 reviewsscore 3.84
  3. 3
    滩万 (Nadaman)

    滩万 (Nadaman)

    Pudong (Shangri-La Lujiazui)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 4.1 out of 59 reviewsscore 3.84
  4. 4

    鮨太郎·巓 (Sushi Taro Itadaki)

    Xuhui (Hengshan Rd)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 5.0 out of 51 reviewscore 3.84
  5. 5

    鮨直輝 (Sushi Naoki)

    Multiple (Gubei; Huangpu)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 5.0 out of 51 reviewscore 3.84
  6. 6

    Sushi Yano

    Xuhui (Hengshan Rd)2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.7 out of 53 reviewsscore 3.84
  7. 7

    鮨一 (Sushi Ichi)

    Unspecified2 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 3.3 out of 53 reviewsscore 3.83
  8. 8

    KUROGI上海

    North Bund (Hongkou)3 guidesoutside the Top 101 city-wide
    Google rating 1.0 out of 51 reviewscore 3.83

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7 more Shanghai restaurants filed under Japanese have no Google listing we could match with confidence, so they carry no rating and are not ranked here. They are on the Shanghai list, at the bottom.

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Every restaurant here qualified on published guides and was ordered by its Google rating, weighted for review volume. The method, in full. No restaurant paid to appear.