Chuka Soba Aoba in Nakano
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…
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…
I’ve been working my way through every ramen shop in Ikebukuro that’s supposed to be famous, and Menya Musashi is going to be the last one. If you count the not-so-famous places too, there are tons…
Mutekiya is one of those famous shops that always ranks near the top among Ikebukuro’s ramen places. These days I’m working my way through pretty much every ramen shop in Tokyo that’s worth a…
Aoba is one of Nakano’s long-established famous shops. I kept meaning to go but never found the time, so I just hadn’t made it. Then I heard there’s an Aoba branch in Ikebukuro, so I dropped …
I’ve made up my mind to eat a lunch special every Saturday. The main idea is to visit places that are closed on Sundays or in the evening, or that are famous for their lunch sets. This time I went to Men…
Nippori, Uguisudani and Ueno are actually well known as Tokyo’s rough neighborhoods. Apparently Shinjuku and Ikebukuro used to have that vibe, but these days it has mostly shifted over toward Ueno. I don…
I heard there was a ramen shop with a fun concept in a place called Oimachi, so I went to check it out. Apparently the soup is tomato-based. I was so curious what it would taste like that I just had to go. The…
Ikebukuro is the fiercest ramen battleground in Japan. There are countless shops, and hardly a single one of them isn’t a famous name. Out of all of them, I went to Nakamoto, which is supposedly the hot …
Not many people realise it, but Meguro has quite a cluster of ramen shops. I think it’s because the area is full of salarymen working late into the night. It’s not quite Shinjuku or Ikebukuro, but …
Shinagawa is a neighborhood with next to nothing for tourists to see. But the Shinkansen stops here and there are quite a few big companies, so it’s grown into a secondary city center. My office is nearb…
Santouka, an Asahikawa-style ramen from Hokkaido, is hands down top-level in taste even among the chain-style ramen shops that have been popping up everywhere lately. Personally I think it beats Ippudo’s…
I spotted this place while passing through Shibuya. I heard it was newly opened, so I wandered in without thinking much… but it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. The storefront The table I order…