Ramen Spots in Tokyo Area

Area

Tokyo
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ramen

Tokyo Ramen Street

4.0

253 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Tokyo Station No.1 street B1

This is a concentration of restaurants specializing in ramen located on First Avenue Tokyo Station, just after heading out from JR Tokyo Station’s Yaesu Underground Central Exit. Tokyo Ramen Street opened in 2009 with four shops including the famous Osaki (in Tokyo) tsukemen shop Rokurinsha that consistently attracts long lines. After that, it welcomed new shops from Tokyo’s famous restaurants, and is growing as an established gourmet spot where one can try various kinds of ramen. Businessmen as well as Japanese tourists and people on business trips visit as well.

While all delicious (but any ramen in Japan is delicious), this area is definitely much smaller than I expected. In reality it is only a small handful of ramen restaurants in one area, I am more...
Mutekiya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Toshima-ku Minamikebukuro 1-17-1

A ramen restaurant in Ikebukuro that only has counter seating. Mutekiya offers a menu which will satisfy both your stomach and soul, including the popular Honmaru X, a rich tonkotsu-based shoyu (soy sauce) ramen with plenty of back fat; and the One Pound Doka-Mori Chashumen, which comes with a mountain of thick-cut chashu roast pork. The restaurant also serves novel ramen varieties like the crab miso noodles, made with crab miso shipped direct from Sakaiminato in Tottori; the carefully devised karamen spicy noodles, and the mabodofu-like mazesoba. Another nice thing about Mutekiya is its large selection of toppings, such as ajitama marinated soft-boiled eggs and fried garlic.
Rokurinsha

4.0

645 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Tokyo Station No.1 Street Tokyo Underground Northern Tokyo Ramen Street

A hot and rising star in the world of tsukemen (noodles accompanied by a broth for dipping) and is located adjacent to Tokyo Ramen Street just past Tokyo Station’s Yaesu Exit. Rokurinsha established the now-popular style of ultra-thick noodles served with an ultra-thick dipping soup, and is one of the most lined-up for restaurants in Japan. The meat-based dipping soup also incorporates seafood flavors to create a delicious broth you will want to enjoy down to the last drop. Once your noodles are finished, you can request that additional broth be added to the thick dipping soup, watering it down just enough to turn it into an excellent standalone soup.

Ate here twice for lunch and waited about 45 min each time. When you get close, the line attendant will invite you to order through a ticket machine (had English on the buttons). The service fast...
Japanese Soba Noodles Tsuta

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo 1-14-1

This restaurant is so popular, it has to issue numbered tickets early in the morning. Featured on television shows and in other media, Tsuta was the first ramen shop to be awarded a Michelin star. From truffle oil to dried tomatoes, Tsuta uses only the highest quality ingredients from around the world. Every item on the menu has been created and prepared with care and attention to detail, such as the shop's signature soy sauce soba. Tsuta refuses hold still and continues to research and refine the flavor of its dishes on a daily basis.
Tokyo Station Ikaruga

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Tokyo Station No.1 Street Underground 1F Tokyo Ramen Street

A ramen restaurant in Tokyo Ramen Street, part of the underground South Street area of the First Avenue Tokyo Station mall. Ikaruga's first location beyond the original in Kudan, the restaurant can be identified by its round paper lanterns inscribed with Ikaruga in Japanese on them. The clean restaurant, decorated in Japanese modern style, seats 24 customers at a time total including its two tables. Like many ramen restaurants, you order by using a vending machine out front to purchase a meal ticket that you hand to one of the counter staff; in addition to Ikaruga's signature ramen, you can also choose from among a selection of toppings and side dishes. Ikaruga's popular ramen uses a light, foul odor-free shoyu (soy sauce) broth made with pork bones and seafood that goes well with the restaurant's straight, medium thick noodles.
Nakamoto (Kamiitabashi Main Shop)

4.0

50 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Itabashi-ku Tokiwadai 4-33-3 Asaka Building 201

A ramen restaurant located close to the Kami-itabashi in Tokiwadai, Itabashi City. The most popular item on the menu is the Moko tanmen noodles; the restaurant also serves a variety of other miso tanmen and ramen noodle dishes with spiciness levels ranging from 0 to 10. Other menu selections include donburi rice bowls topped with tanmen noodles, set meals, and takeout bento boxes.

With my family we went there and we were absolutely surprise by the quality of the food and the service.
Soranoiro NIPPON

4.0

140 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Tokyo Station No.1 Street Tokyo Ramen Street B1F

A ramen shop selected as a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand Restaurant and winner of numerous awards which is renowned for offering a one of a kind flavor. The shop’s signature vege soba is made entirely and only with vegetables, from the topping to the soup stock and noodles. Providing diners with 250 milligrams of vegetables per serving, it is extremely healthy and has become highly popular with women and international tourists. Of course, Soranoiro NIPPON also offers ramens made with other ingredients besides vegetables.

Wonderful ramen, and several gluten-free options! Me and one of other in my group are celiac, and this was where we ate our first night in Tokyo. They have the standard chicken shio gluten-free ramen...
Kaotan (Minamiaoyama Shop)

4.0

28 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Minato-ku Minamiaoyama 2-34-30

A ramen restaurant opens late into the night which has been operating for over 26 years. Due to its location, many of the customers who pass through its noren curtains are seeking to cap off their night with a bowl of ramen on the way home from a party. Kaotan is renowned for its delicious ramen as well as its reasonable prices.

Good, piping-hot ramen. My husband insisted we visit to compare from 30 years ago. Still the same. Go-Moku and gyoza is the schnizzle. Try it.
Eifuku-cho Taishouken

4.0

96 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Suginami-ku Izumi 3-5-3

Opened in 1955, Eifuku Taishouken has been serving delicious ramen for over 50 years. The restaurant's lovingly prepared niboshi dried sardine-based broth is made with a blend of three varieties of niboshi from Nagasaki, Yamaguchi, and Ibaraki. Eifuku-cho Taishouken's ramen is prepared with great care paid to even the smallest details, from the ingredients to the methods of preparation; the shop's ramen is so delicious, you'll want to drink every last drop while it's still piping hot, and this tasty flavor is something you'll never tire of.

平日の１１：３０から３０分並んで、入店。煮干しが効いたスープに大盛りの麺の中華麺￥１，１３０を注文。チャーシューも美味しくいただきました。ごちそうさまでした。
Motenashi Kuroki

4.5

47 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kandaizumichou 2-15 Quadruple Building 3 Building 1F

This ramen shop opened in Kanda Izumi-cho in 2011. The basic menu consists of items such as salt buckwheat noodles with a clear amber soup made using various salts blended by the owner and miso buckwheat noodles from blended miso. It is easy to see their commitment to cooking without flavor enhancers and to directly purchasing Tsuyahime rice from Yamagata Pref. They also have seasonal dishes using seasonal ingredients, and they prepare special daily items like tsukesoba (soba served with separate hot soup) depending on ingredient availability. However, please remember that there are a limited number of these special dishes.

ランチタイムには列が出来ない日など無いというくらいに人気のラーメン店です。但し、店の前の清州橋通りは車の往来が多く、歩道も狭いため、近くにある『青島食堂』ほど列は長くありません。基本的に昼食時の営業で、夜間に営業する日もありますが、不定期であることが多いです。夜間の営業日は電話等で確認するか、店の前に営業日の掲示があるためそれを確認するといいでしょう。 10席程度のカウンター席のみで、店内もあま...
Min Min Ramen

4.5

24 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Hachioji-shi Narahara Machi 437-1

シンプルにうまいしょぱ過ぎないし、油っこくないし、とんこつなんだか魚介なんだか複雑過ぎるスープでもなし、ザ、中華そばです故に、老若男女とファミリー多しトイレがあまり綺麗じゃないのが難点かな？
Rokurinsha Tokyo Solamachi Branch

4.0

84 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Sumida-ku Oshiage 1-1-2 Tokyo Sky Tree Town/Sola Machi East Yard 6F

This tsukemen (noodles served with dipping sauce) restaurant is located on the sixth floor of Tokyo Solamachi in the Tokyo Skytree Town. Characteristic for its ultra rich soup that has been cooked for a very long time with thick, chewy noodles, this restaurant brought a new taste to the world of tsukemen, and has become famous for having some of the greatest lines of customers in Japan. When crowded, the Solamachi branch offers a special line just for single customers, much to the delight of those eager to reduce their waiting times.

The noodles is simply amazing. The dipping broth is so mouth watering and yummy. However, the portion is huge. Even a small bowl can be shared by 2 small eaters. The wait staff are friendly and...
Tachibanaya

4.0

18 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Nishitama-gun Hinoharamura Motoshuku 5574

This ramen restaurant can be reached by walking west from the Hinoharamura Yakuba-mae bus stop and taking a left at the intersection. The longstanding establishment opened in 1946 and continues to serve noodles made by hand according to a unique method invented by the original owner based on a traditional technique learned from a Chinese master. The restaurant offers shoyu (soy sauce) and shio (salt) Chukamen-style ramen; as well as soba and udon noodles both zaru-style (served on a draining basket) and in hot broth with shiitake mushrooms. Other menu selections include a landlocked masu salmon combo meal, and fish broiled with salt.

檜原村含め、初めて伺いました。バスに少し長く乗って本宿役場前のバス停で降り、悩まずすぐ到着できました。お店では、暑かったため冷やし中華を食べましたがなかなか美味しいでした。ヤマメ塩焼きも食べまして、これまた美味しかったです。また来たいですね。
T's Tantan (ecute Ueno Branch)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Ueno 7-1-1ecute Uenouchi

T's Tantan is a cheerful vegetarian noodle shop that uses no meat, seafood, dairy products, eggs, or other animal products and yet serves a hearty, flavorful Tantanmen (Chinese-style noodles in Szechuan-style broth) and other noodle dishes. Its wide-ranging menu includes not only Tantanmen with black, yellow, or white sesame but also, exclusively at the Ueno branch, soy meat Shogayaki (stir-fry soy meat with ginger).
Kiraku ramen shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Shibuya-ku Dogenzaka 2-17-6
Mendokoro Hanada Ikebukuro Restaurant

4.0

64 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Toshima-ku Higashi-ikebukuro 1-23-8 Higashi-ikebukuro ISK Building 1F

This ramen restaurant takes pride in its rich miso broth, said to be the best in Tokyo. The establishment is so highly ranked, even in the highly competitive ramen battleground that is Ikebukuro, Hanada's name instantly comes to the fore when discussing tasty miso ramen in the area. The restaurant's signature dish is, of course, its miso ramen. After purchasing a meal ticket and handing it over, customers are asked if they would like extra vegetables or garlic and if they would like to add a side order of rice. The restaurant's extra thick noodles go well with the broth and have a slightly hard, chewy texture. Topped with crisp vegetables, the establishment's hearty miso ramen is truly exquisite. Situated along a small, nondescript narrow lane a five minute walk from Ikebukuro Station traveling towards Sunshine-dori Avenue, the restaurant can be identified by its yellow sign out front.

Are ready for a flavor explosion with Mendokoro Hanadas miso soup noodles？ This dish is a masterpiece of culinary art, with a rich and savory miso broth that will have you slurping up every last...
Matsuba

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Toshima-ku Minami-nagasaki 3-4-11
Hirugao (Tokyo Station Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Tokyo first street B1 Tokyo ramen street

A Setaga-ya brand shio ramen restaurant chain, Hirugao has numerous locations across Japan and around the world. The popular location in First Avenue Tokyo Station's Ramen Street is particularly busy and always has a line of customers waiting outside its door. Located in the heart of Tokyo, salary men are its primary customers. So-called office ladies and other women also often dine here. The restaurant's signature shio-tama ramen, shio (salt broth) ramen with a hard-boiled egg, is notable for its shellfish adductor muscle-based seafood broth. The chewy thin-style noodles are exclusive to Hirugao.
Yoroiya

4.5

431 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-36-7

A ramen restaurant located near the Senso-ji Temple. In Asakusa, the birthplace of Japanese ramen, Yoroiya's owner creates good, old-fashioned ramen with a dedication to quality and flavor. The Japanese-style shoyu (soy sauce) ramen is made with a Japanese-style broth created from a chicken and pork base with konbu kelp, katsuobushi bonito flakes, and niboshi dried sardines and accented with a touch of yuzu. Also recommended are the zaru ramen, specially made flat noodles served in a dashi broth with the added depth of seafood and soy sauce; and the Japanese-style gyoza pot stickers, stuffed with chicken meat and made without garlic. Yoroiya also offers limited time dishes, ensuring there's always something new to enjoy here.

To let others know incase you share my characteristics - I am queer/trans, overweight, tattooed, use a walking stick with limited mobility, white british. I found the seats comfy and could access the...
Kugatsu-do

4.0

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Shibuya-ku Jinnan 1-15-12 Sato Building 2F

A ramen cafe based on the concept of healthy ramen where you can eat both ramen and cafe-style sweets. Kugatsu-do's signature ramen broth is made without any chemical seasonings and is rich in savory umami flavor provided by healthy, natural ingredients. Choose between assari (light) ramen, a shoyu (soy sauce)-based ramen with a rich seafood flavor; and hearty kotteri (thick) ramen flavored with a chicken and vegetable-based stock. Kugatsu-do's lineup of sweets, not too sweet and created with an emphasis on quality and healthy ingredients, were selected based on how well they go with ramen. The popular sakura dessert features a rich matcha green tea mouse topped by ice cream with colorful cherry tree blossoms mix in; people love the bitterness of the matcha and the smooth texture.

Run by 3 youngsters with modern deco. Modest set up with limited seating. They run the business with 1 chef 1 kitchen assistant and 1 floor staff. Be prepared to queue. There is english menu...

Gourmet / Alcohol Ramen

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