The best Japanese restaurants on the Gold Coast

Japanese on the Gold Coast goes deeper than the sushi train. Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach carry the ramen bars and izakaya rooms — a long-standing Japanese visitor market built them — and the southern beaches have quietly adopted the poke-and-donburi lunch as their own.

Every Japanese venue on the map. Worth clicking each one: the better rooms here have a habit of sitting upstairs, or behind a door on a side street.

Where this shortlist sits: Miami (3) · Palm Beach (3) · Varsity Lakes (2) · Broadbeach (1)

Little ItoshinRestaurants · MiamiMr ItoshinRestaurants · MiamiSushi HonbaRestaurants · Burleigh WatersSushi PointRestaurants · Palm BeachSushi & TempuraRestaurants · Varsity LakesSushi Train Christine CornerRestaurants · Varsity LakesZuroZuroRestaurants · Burleigh HeadsSushi TrainRestaurants · MiamiTokyo KitchenRestaurants · Palm BeachYoruRestaurants · Mermaid BeachCafoo IzakayaRestaurants · Palm BeachHanasaki TeppanyakiRestaurants · BroadbeachMaster SushiRestaurants · BundallMatsuzaka TeppanyakiRestaurants · 300 Marine Parade · LabradorMisono Japonese Steak houseRestaurants · 158 Ferny Avenue · Surfers Paradise

Listings drawn from the Pixel Gold Coast map — verified profiles first, then the most complete listings. Run one of these places? Claim your profile.