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byFood

Japan's one-stop food platform for booking food tours, cooking classes, and restaurants.

🇯🇵 Tokyo · Founded 2019 · 11–50 people

Series B+TravelFood & BeverageOnline Travel Agency

byFood.com is Japan's one-stop platform for foodie travelers, letting them book food experiences like cooking classes and food tours, make restaurant reservations without using Japanese, and order gourmet products from local businesses. It is operated by Tablecross Inc., a company that aims to solve the UN's No Hunger SDG while sharing Japanese food culture with the world. A portion of profits from bookings, reservations, and orders funds its Food for Happiness project, which supports NPOs and NGOs helping children globally.

Open to

  • Market entry partners
  • Distribution & resellers
  • Hiring

Open to travel agency partnerships for distribution of food experiences and restaurant bookings, and currently hiring for roles such as content writers and marketing specialists.

Products and services

Servicelive

Food Experience Bookings

Food experiences

Who it's for: Foodie travelers visiting Japan

  • Cooking classes and food tours across Japan
  • Online experiences and VIP Gourmet Concierge for custom-tailored trips
  • 550+ food experiences from hosts nationwide
Servicelive

Restaurant Reservations

Bilingual reservation system

Who it's for: English-speaking visitors to Japan

  • Bookings without needing to speak Japanese
  • Covers thousands of restaurants from Hokkaido to Okinawa
  • Course menu partnerships offering English menus and bilingual hosts
Productlive

Gourmet Marketplace

Online gourmet products

Who it's for: Travelers and food lovers

  • Gourmet products ordered directly from local Japanese businesses
  • Blog and YouTube content on Japanese food culture

Customers

byFood connects foreign travelers to Japan with local restaurants, food tour hosts, cooking class instructors, farms, fisheries, and breweries across the country.

Traction

550+Food experiences
350+Blog posts
150+Hosts
100M+YouTube views
20941Restaurants listed

Funding

$4.1Mtotal raised
  • SeedUndisclosed
  • Series A2023Led by Shoku no Mirai No.1 Investment Limited Partnership$2.24M
  • Series B2025Undisclosed
InvestorsJTB Corp.Kemuri VenturesVeltra CorporationPR TIMES Inc.

Team