• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 8, 2026 →
• address350 Longwood Av, Boston 02215

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Is Sakura Japan clean?

Sakura Japan is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Sakura Japan?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️flagged at inspection
• ⚠️Clean condition-Hands and Arms (P)critical
• ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Outside Receptacles (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)

Sakura Japan inspection and administrative history

Sakura Japan has 53 inspections on record going back to September 1, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sakura Japan vs Longwood

Longwood runs 79% clean across 199 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 18 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 199 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

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• ✓ Chutney's
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How Boston grades restaurants

Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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