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Ramen Street is an area in the underground mall of the
Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is ...
railway station's Yaesu side that has eight restaurants specializing in
ramen is a Japanese dish, Japanese noodle dish. It consists of served in a broth; common flavors are soy sauce and miso, with typical toppings including , nori (dried seaweed), menma (bamboo shoots), and scallions. Ramen has its roots in Chinese ...
dishes. Some of the restaurants at Ramen Street include Rokurinsha, which specializes in '' tsukemen'', Kanisenmon Keisuke, specializing in crab ramen dishes, and Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, specializing in prawn ramen dishes.


Overview

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is ...
is located in the
Marunouchi Marunouchi () is a commercial district of Tokyo located in Chiyoda between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. It is also Tokyo's financial di ...
business district of
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, Japan, and Ramen Street is located on the basement floor of the underground mall. Tokyo station also has an area called "Kitchen Street" that purveys foods. Additionally, an unrelated and unofficially-named "Ramen Street" exists on the top floor of
Kyōto Station is a major railway station and transportation hub in Kyōto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan ...
in Kyoto, Japan that has some ramen restaurants.


Restaurants

As of January 2017, eight ramen restaurants are located at Ramen Street,Crossley-Baxter, Lily (January 31, 2017)
"Tokyo Ramen Street – A One-Stop Noodle Shop"
Tokyo Cheapo.
and in 2011 it had four restaurants. All restaurants use a ticketing system, where consumers purchase a ticket from a central vending machine to select their order, after which the ticket is given to wait staff to order food. In 2013, prices varied between approximately 850–1000
yen The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar (US$) and the euro. It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the e ...
. The restaurants at Ramen Street serve a great deal of commuters, along with general travelers and train company personnel. Rokurinsha restaurant is one of the most popular restaurants at Ramen Street, and sometimes has long lines of people waiting to be served that overflows outside of the restaurant, with waiting times that can sometimes range from 40–60 minutes. Rokurinsha is well-known for specializing in '' tsukemen'', a dish in
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consisting of separate servings of noodles and soup or broth, whereby the noodles are dipped in the soup. Other restaurants at Ramen Street include Kanisenmon Keisuke, which specializes in crab-based ramen dishes (Kanisenmon means "specializing in crab" in
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), Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, which opened in 2009 and specializes in prawn-based ramen dishes, and Kagari.


See also

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Food court A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. I ...
* Food hall *
List of noodle restaurants This is a list of notable noodle restaurants, which are restaurants that specialize in noodle dishes. Noodle restaurants * Afuri * Ajisen Ramen * Bakmi GM, Indonesia * Boxer Ramen, Portland, Oregon, U.S. * Hapa PDX, Portland, Oregon * Ichi ...
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Ramen shop A ramen shop is a restaurant that specializes in ramen dishes, the wheat-flour Japanese noodles in broth. In Japan, ramen shops are very common and popular, and are sometimes referred to as ramen-ya or ramen-ten . Some ramen shops operate in s ...
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Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum The is a food court which opened in 1994, located in the Shin-Yokohama district of Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The "museum" , or rather, food court, is devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup and features a small recreation of Tokyo in the ...


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