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It’s probably out of scope for you, but what always ticks me off a bit with these rankings is that they usually mostly care about restaurants. I think that’s only half the story.
To give an example, HappyCow rates Tokyo the fifth most vegan friendly city in the world basically because it’s huge and in a metropolitan area with 40 million people there’s going to be a few vegan restaurants. But I lived in Tokyo for a bit, and normal shopping is a completely different story. There is no uniform labelling, you can’t even count on allergens, or on listed ingredients (lots of hidden fish, the bone char sugar problem, etc.). Also, vegan food is mostly seen as a part of the health food niche anyway so there aren’t many meat alternatives products, and labels aren’t seen as important. So if you’re not eating all your meals at restaurants I wouldn’t say it’s particularly vegan friendly.
In comparison the tiny city in Germany where I currently live has zero vegan restaurants. But literally any supermarket has a decent selection of products clearly labelled as vegan, not just alternatives (although they have a ton of those too) but just normal products. There literally are Japanese brands that sell clearly labelled vegan versions of some of their products here that are not vegan in Japan. In terms of actually living here as a vegan, it’s significantly easier than in Tokyo. And tbh the next city that has vegan restaurants is maybe half an hour by train and that’s actually not too different from what I used to travel within Tokyo to get to restaurants.
That's a great point! We try to address it with shared experiences on city page, that will potentially impact the ratings moving on, so that people may raise the exact concerns you've shared about Tokyo. At the moment, as we've just started - there are not many reviews of places and close to 0 experiences shared, so it's not impacting the ratings, but the core idea is to resolve this. That's why we're also trying to get more vegan-friendly stores, organisations, animal sanctuaries or vegan organisations etc. that may also impact the ratings, however it's quite hard to gather the information in a good way for now.
I'd appreciate if you may share your experience living in Tokyo and/or your current city (let me know if it does not exist yet -> we may add it with 0 places for now or with your favourite supermarket) - this will help a lot. IN the end of the day - the platform is for people not to promote the city or place. Huge thanks for the comment - really appreciate this feedback :)