- CEO
- Akio Sugihara
- Full Time Employees
- 777
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Internet software/Services
- Address
- Hibiya Mitsui Tower Tokyo TY Japan 100-0006
- IPO Date
- Dec 12, 2008
- Business
- Gurunavi, Inc. Gurunavi, Inc. (2440.T) provides web-based restaurant information services and sales promotion support to restaurants through personal computers, smartphones, and other digital platforms primarily in Japan. The company operates its core Gurunavi website, which delivers detailed restaurant data including search, reservations, reviews, and promotions to over 60 million monthly users; it also offers related platforms such as Gurunavi Delivery for home delivery, Gurutabi for local information, Let's Enjoy Tokyo for outing media, and LIVE JAPAN PERFECT GUIDE for inbound tourists, alongside administrative outsourcing, welfare services, food-related market research, restaurant management support including recruitment, training, equipment, interiors, ingredient procurement, customer management software, and ICT solutions like Gurunavi Pay for cashless payments. Gurunavi, Inc. maintains operations in Japan with additional Internet-based PR and marketing services extended to restaurants in China; it was founded on October 2, 1989, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, at locations including Toho Hibiya Building and Hibiya Mitsui Tower. In recent developments, the company formed a capital and business alliance with SHIFT Inc. SHIFT Inc. whereby SHIFT acquired a 4.10% stake to support digital transformation initiatives, including launches of third-party delivery services, mobile order enhancements, food order management systems, and quality control for software testing aimed at building a comprehensive food service platform covering eat-in, to-go, delivery, and EC functionalities. Gurunavi, Inc. continues to expand its restaurant support ecosystem through IT-based platforms and offline infrastructure with around 1,000-person support teams, focusing on efficiency improvements like menu analysis, reservation optimization, and repeat customer strategies while capturing inbound demand via foreign-language versions and collaborations such as with Japaholic media for Taiwan and Hong Kong markets.