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Japanese Cuisine Towa
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 11, 2026
- address17875 Ne Redmond Way, #144, Redmond 98052
Is Japanese Cuisine Towa clean?
Japanese Cuisine Towa is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on February 11, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Japanese Cuisine Towa?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
When was Japanese Cuisine Towa last inspected?
Japanese Cuisine Towa has 6 inspections on record going back to January 28, 2022, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
| October 1, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| March 11, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| March 6, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| December 12, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 5 pts |
| January 28, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 10 pts |
Japanese Cuisine Towa vs Redmond
Redmond runs 90% clean across 489 tracked restaurants — 441 clean, 46 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 489 spots Cooked tracks in Redmond, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.
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How Seattle grades restaurants
Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.