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493.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.3K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
493.5Kmembers
6.3Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

63% 37%
Text 63% Question 37%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 490 Recommendations 306 Advice 202 Quick Tips 104

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Offer to buy your bartender a drink. It completely changed nightlife in Japan for me.

↑ 6.3K 💬 241 text 2025

Tourists, please don't pollute the Japanese restaurant system by introducing tipping. It causes lots of issues. Please read.

↑ 4.2K 💬 396 text 2025

So we landed at Narita and had a baby

↑ 4K 💬 493 text 2025

With the recent viral video of "Punch the Monkey," this is a reminder that to never visit/support a Japanese zoo or animal cafe.

↑ 3.9K 💬 395 text 2026

Wife left her phone on the bullet train

↑ 3.7K 💬 117 text 2025

The biggest tip I can give to anyone going to Japan

↑ 3.4K 💬 255 text 2025

Eat fiber.

↑ 3.3K 💬 630 text 2025

Please check the car type when you book your Shinkansen seats

↑ 3.2K 💬 278 text 2025

As a retail worker, please at least try to use some Japanese.

↑ 2.7K 💬 321 text 2025

Less common tips from a Japan resident. AKA what I tell friends and family when they visit Japan.

↑ 2.6K 💬 287 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/JapanTravelTips, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/JapanTravelTips have?
r/JapanTravelTips has about 493.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 6.3K upvotes, which is 13 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/JapanTravelTips?
"Offer to buy your bartender a drink. It completely changed nightlife in Japan for me." reached 6.3K upvotes and 241 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/JapanTravelTips.
What subreddits are similar to r/JapanTravelTips?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/JapanTravelTips?
Of the posts we hold, 63% are text posts and 37% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/JapanTravelTips?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 07:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (863 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (729 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/JapanTravelTips?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/JapanTravelTips has 1.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/JapanTravelTips, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.