Tanaka is the fourth most common Japanese surname.

Tanaka may also refer to:

Tanaka, a district of Nagano Prefecture, Japan Tanaka Station, a railway station in Tanaka district, Nagano Prefecture, Japan Tanaka (restaurant), a Japanese restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Tanaka Business School, part of Imperial College, London Uonuma-Tanaka Station, a railway station in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Echigo-Tanaka Station, a railway station in Tsunan, Nakauonuma District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Kashiwa-Tanaka Station, a train station in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan Tanaka Power Equipment, makers of small internal combustion engines and associated machinery Tanaka Seisakusho (Tanaka Engineering Works), which became Toshiba, a Japanese conglomerate Tanaka Memorial, an alleged Japanese war planning document Tanaka, a Japanese village merged with Kashiwa, Chiba Tanaka Memorial Biological Station on the island of Miyake, Japan Tanaka (relief) contours technique

Given name Tanaka is a Shona word meaning "we are good" which is used as a given name in Zimbabwe: Tanaka Chinyahara Zimbabwean professional footballer

See also Tanaka formula (disambiguation) Tanakan, a trade name for EGb176, a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba. Tanakh, a canon of the Hebrew bible Thanaka, a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark, also known as Tanaka