McDonald's Holdings Japan

Restaurants · Franchising · Shinjuku, Tokyo

McDonald's Holdings Japan is the holding company for McDonald's in Japan, where the first restaurant opened in Ginza, Tokyo in 1971. The business now has about 3,000 restaurants nationwide, both franchised and directly managed, and serves about 1.4 billion customers a year.

Its restaurants follow McDonald's QSC & V principles and a global restaurant management system, with a food management system covering sourcing through restaurant operations. About 200,000 crew are trained through Hamburger University. The company is headquartered in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, and had 2,808 consolidated employees as of December 31, 2025.