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Ramen Street is an area in the underground mall of the
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
Ramen Street is an area in the underground mall of the Tokyo Station
Tōkyō Station (, ) is a major 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 not far ...
railway station's Yaesu side that has eight restaurants specializing in ramen
is a Chinese noodle dish popularized in Japan. It includes served in several flavors of broth. Common flavors are soy sauce and miso, with typical toppings including , nori (dried seaweed), menma (bamboo shoots), and scallions. Ramen h ...
dishes. Some of the restaurants at Ramen Street include Rokurinsha, which specializes in ''tsukemen
''Tsukemen'' (, English: "dipping noodles") is a ramen dish in Japanese cuisine consisting of noodles that are eaten after being dipped in a separate bowl of soup or broth. The dish was invented in 1961 by Kazuo Yamagishi, a restaurateur in Tokyo, ...
'', Kanisenmon Keisuke, specializing in crab ramen dishes, and Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, specializing in prawn ramen dishes.
An unrelated, unofficially-named "Ramen Street" also exists on the top floor of Kyōto Station
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in Kyōto
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.
Overview
Tokyo Station
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is located in the Marunouchi
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business district of Tokyo
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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.
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
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. The restaurants at Ramen Street serve a great deal of commuter
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s, 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
''Tsukemen'' (, English: "dipping noodles") is a ramen dish in Japanese cuisine consisting of noodles that are eaten after being dipped in a separate bowl of soup or broth. The dish was invented in 1961 by Kazuo Yamagishi, a restaurateur in Tokyo, ...
'', a dish in Japanese cuisine
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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 (カニ専門 ''kani senmon'' "specializing in crab"), Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, which opened in 2009 and specializes in prawn-based ramen dishes, and Kagari.
See also
*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 Vendor, vendors and provides a common area for self-serve di ...
* Food hall
A food hall is a large standalone location or department store section where food and drinks are sold.
Overview
Unlike food courts made up of fast food chains, food halls typically mix local artisan restaurants, butcher shops and other food- ...
* List of noodle restaurants
This is a list of notable noodle restaurants, which are restaurants that specialize in noodle dishes.
Noodle restaurants
* Afuri, Shinjuku, Tokyo
* Ajisen Ramen
* Bakmi GM, Indonesia
* Boxer Ramen, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
* Hakata Gensuke, Au ...
* 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 ...
* Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum
The contains ground-floor exhibits on the history of ramen, and a ramen-themed food court on its basement levels. The museum opened in 1994, and is located in the Shin-Yokohama district of Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
The museum's ground level p ...
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