Tamaru, a Ramen Shop in Meguro
Tamaru is a ramen shop you won’t find in any guidebook. A local recommended it to me, so I went to check it out. The front It’s small. It turned out to be right across from Zuyurumen Ikeda. The 75…
Tamaru is a ramen shop you won’t find in any guidebook. A local recommended it to me, so I went to check it out. The front It’s small. It turned out to be right across from Zuyurumen Ikeda. The 75…
Ryogoku is famous as the home of the Kokugikan, the sumo arena. Lately I’ve been wandering around different parts of Tokyo at night, to learn my way around. There are still a lot of places I don’t …
I went to Higomons, a Kumamoto ramen shop and the seventh and last ramen place at Shinatatsu. Kumamoto is a place name in Kyushu. Of all the regional ramen styles, the first one to make it to Shinjuku was Keik…
Kibi, the chuka soba shop from Kanda, was another place I’d wanted to try for a long time. It’s the kind of classic chuka soba that ordinary folks have loved for generations, and I was curious what…
My tour of the ramen shops at Shinatatsu is now past the halfway mark. This time it’s Asahikawa Ramen Saijo, from Asahikawa in Hokkaido. The place is known for its “legendary” shio ramen. The…
Tsukemen Tetsu is a ramen shop in Shinatatsu, Shinagawa. My office is nearby, so I’ve had plenty of chances to drop by Shinatatsu, and this place always had the longest line, which kept nagging at me. Th…
This is another one of Tokyo’s famous ramen shops. It became popular with a very unusual concept: kuro miso (black miso) ramen. It shows up on TV and in magazines all the time. Recently they also opened …
Hakata Tenjin is a popular ramen shop that’s been opening branches all over the city at a crazy pace lately. There seem to be more than a dozen of them already. It focuses on busy neighborhoods like Ikeb…
On the way back from my trip to Kamakura, I stopped by Yoshimuraya, said to be the originator of Yokohama iekei ramen. I almost never have a reason to go to Yokohama, so I figured if I didn’t go on a tri…
I’d enjoyed my meal at the Ikebukuro branch, but I still found myself wanting to try the main shop. My headphones had broken too, so I headed out to Nakano. The building The line is seriously long. Toda…
Whenever I get together with friends in Tokyo, it’s always Shibuya or Shinjuku. That’s because they’re easy to get to. Even among people who work in Tokyo, a lot of them live in Saitama, west…
Despite the name, Nakameguro is actually a fair way from Meguro. It’s closer to Ebisu and Daikanyama, and like Daikanyama it’s a quiet, stylish neighborhood. A small river called the Meguro River r…