Ramen Spots in Kyoto Area

  • Menbakaichidai
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    4.5
    1050 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Kamigyou-ku Minamiseyachou 757-2
    This ramen shop is located in Kamigyo Ward of Kyoto City. This unique Negi Onion Ramen is made with spring onions harvested right in Kujo, Kyoto and heaps of the shop's own spring onion oil. Also called, Fire Ramen, flames erupt when pouring the spring onion oil onto the ramen. Making this a multi-sensory experience of entertainment and taste, which many enjoy.

    Fire ramen is simply a fun experience. The ramen is tasty but not spicy, the portions are filling, and the beer is very cold (if you like beer). Fire remen is an experience, and we will take that...

  • Menya Gokkei
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    4.0
    83 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Ichijoujinishitojikawarachou 29-7
    This ramen shop is in the ramen mecca of Ichijoji in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City and is a frequent haunt of ramen fans. Featuring a rich broth, they use noodles of medium thickness that have some give from the Kyoto noodle maker Men-ya Teigaku. They close shop as soon as the soup runs out.

    Despite the title of my review, there is also broth made of seafood but I didnt taste it yet. But the chicken original versional ramen is very delicious. I can eat it without difficulty although the...

  • Tenka Ippin Main Shop
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    4.0
    103 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Ichijoujitsukudachou Maison Shirakawa 1F
    Tenka Ippin started its life as an outdoor ramen stand in 1971. It owes its continuing popularity to its broth, which is rich but with a clean aftertaste. The restaurant has grown and now has many branches, but the original branch has some unique menu items, and you will find yourself wondering which of the many varieties to choose.

    I had a stopover for lunch here during my time in Kyoto. I must admit that Tenkaippin is among the best that serves good ramen. I went to this place twice! I just love it.

  • Kyoto Takabashi Honke Daiichi Asahi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Shimogyou-ku Higashishiokoujimukaihatachou 845
    "A five-minute walk from Kyoto Station. This ramen restaurant is located a short distance south of the Takakura-dori Street and Shiokoji-dori Street intersection and is open from 5:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. the following morning. So popular lines of customers form outside its door from early in the morning, this long-standing establishment has been in business for more than 50 years. Particularly recommended is the ""Tokusei Ramen"" as well as the menma boiled bamboo shoots ramen, chashu sliced roast pork ramen, yakiton grilled pork, and gyoza pot stickers. The restaurant also offers a reasonably priced student discount ramen for people of high school age and younger. The restaurant's ramen is available for takeout and can also be ordered shipped from the official website."
  • Wajo Ryomen Sugari
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kannondouchou 471-1
    Wajo Ryomen Sugari, about two minutes' walk from Shijo Station on the Kyoto Metro Karasuma Line, serves a much-talked-about tsukemen (noodles with dipping sauce). The restaurant looks like an insignificant traditional machiya-style house from the outside, but inside, it has spacious counter seating. Whole wheat noodles, good sources of vitamins and dietary fiber, are dipped in savory broth made with pork bones and seafood and no chemical additives. The concept underlying the restaurant is three benefits. The use of natural ingredients insures peace of mind, safety, and cleanliness, so it benefits the buyer. Warm-hearted customer service benefits the seller. Rehabilitating an old machiya townhouse benefits the community.
  • Muteppo Ramen House (Kyoto Main Shop)
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    3.5
    29 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kidugawashi Umedani Higedani 15-3
    Muteppo Ramen House is the main restaurant of a popular ramen chain that was founded in Nara in 1998. It is unusual in that it looks like a log house from the outside. Its thick, rich pork bone broth, made by simmering domestically produced pork bone in water, has won high marks. Since no oil is used, the broth has a fresh, clean aftertaste. Everything, including char siu pork marinated in a secret traditional sauce in-house, and noodles brought in from Kyushu, is prepared with painstaking attention to the smallest detail, so that customers can enjoy the finest possible bowl of ramen. To reach the restaurant, take a bus from Kintetsu Nara Station and get off at the Kami-Umedani stop.

    会社の先輩と2人で、楽しみに訪問し、待ち合いの場所にて、女性店員に食券を見せて、ラーメン2つのお好みを言い、あと生ビール一杯、ご飯、煮卵を確認してもらい、店に案内してもらった。食券をカウンターの上において、しばらくすると、お冷やを注文を聞いた女性店員が、持ってきたが、食券を確認せず、違う場所に行ったが、注文は、食券を見せているから、生ビールを最初に持って来てくれるもんだと思って待っていたが、一向に...

  • Kyoto Ramen Koji
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto Ward, Karasuma-ku, Karasuma-kurokuroki Down Close Higashirochirokicho 901 Kyoto Station Building 10F
    This food theme park for ramen located on the 10th floor of the Kyoto Station Building was completely remodeled and reopened in the summer of 2016. It is home to nine of some of the nation’s most popular ramen shops, from Sapporo’s famous Shirakaba Sansou to Tokyo’s Tai-Sho-Ken, Kyoto’s Masutani and Hakata’s Hakata Ikkousha. In addition to local office workers and shoppers, it is also popular among tourists as a gourmet spot. There is also Oven-Baked Sweets Chasen, which serves Japanese sweets with new textures and is easy to use as a place to rest while shopping.
  • Shinpuku Saikan (Main Shop)
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    4.0
    303 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Shimogyou-ku Higashishiokoujimukaihatachou 569
    Shinpuku Saikan (Main Shop) is a popular ramen noodle shop that started as a food stall in 1938. It's known for its rich yet simple soy-sauce based soup with a tantalizing accent of Kujo onion added to deepen the flavor. They also have popular dark fried rice (called yaki-meshi) that's just as good as their dark hued soup.

    This ramen restaurant was recommended to me by a friend. I came here about 20 minutes after opening and there was already a line. The line did not take very long. We ordered the traditional ramen and...

  • Gion Muraji Ramen
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    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomotochou 373-3
    Gion Muraji Ramen in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward offers customers rich, white-broth ramen made with straight noodles and chicken bone stock. Simmered for a long time, the broth contains collagen and is made to be appealing even to people with smaller appetites. This restaurant does not look like a typical ramen shop and is on the second floor of machiya town house that seems hidden away from the rest of the city. Its traditional-style Japanese interior decor is also noteworthy.
  • Saika Ramen (Hachiman Branch)
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Yawatashi Yawata Yoshihara 12-3
    Saika Ramen is located in the city of Hachiman, Kyoto Prefecture. It bears the name of its most famous variety of ramen, with a dipping sauce made by adding garlic and hot sauce to specially-made soy sauce. This shop is famous as the birthplace of ramen topped with Chinese cabbage. Since the shop was founded in the city of Tenri in Nara Prefecture, its nickname is Tenri Ramen.

    昔は天理に数回食べに行った彩華が割と近くに有ったので行って見ました。他のランキングでは店員さんの評価を酷く書いてる人も居たので若干不安は有りましたが、店員さん全く問題有りませんでした。野菜多めで美味しく頂きました。お店は奥まってるので若干わかりにくいかも

  • Daikoku Ramen (Main Shop)
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Fushimi-ku Kyoumachidaikokuchou 118
    This ramen shop is in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City. It's about three minutes on foot from Fushimi-Momoyama Station. There are often long lines at lunchtime, and it's famous for reasonably priced pork bone broth soy sauce ramen noodles. Lots of the regular customers order fried rice to accompany the ramen. It's become a community institution and buzzes with the locals.

    3 of us had Ramen and gyoza. Great food, perfect Ramen with crunchy bean sprouts and spring onions with pork, fast service. Lots of locals, Normal size Ramen only ¥500 and gyoza ¥200, has English...

  • Aitsu no Ramen, Kataguruma
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    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Shimogyou-ku Nishishichijounishihattandachou 77 Guardians Aoyama 1F
    Aitsu no Ramen, Kataguruma serves ramen with pork bone and seafood broth in its restaurant in the Shichijo Nishi Hattanda-cho of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward. During the day, the broth is salt-based, and in the evening, it is soy sauce-based, so that customers can enjoy different flavors. Only 20 servings of the popular ultra tsukemen (noodles accompanied by a dipping sauce) are prepared each day. Local connoisseurs of ramen have made this a busy and popular restaurant.
  • Chuka Soba Takayasu
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    4.0
    88 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Ichijoujitakatsukichou 10
    Chuka Soba Takayasu is three minutes' walk from Ichijoji Station, and even though the neighborhood is a sort of battle ground for ramen shops, this restaurant always has customers lined up outside. The interior is decorated like a sunny cafe, with white as the main color tone. The owners have gone out of their way to make a meal at their restaurant an enjoyable experience. Pork bones and chicken bones are simmered for 22 hours to produce a mild, milky broth that goes well with the specially ordered noodles. One of the recommended dishes, available only in limited quantities per day is Suji Ramen, ramen topped with beef tendons that have been boiled until they are soft.

    This shop is situated in the most competitive Ramen area in Kyoto. There are loads of shop in this area and that this is consistently one of the best ramen shops speaks volumes. There is no deny...

  • Tentenyu Main Store
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    4.0
    39 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Sakyo-ku Ichijoji Nishi Sugi no Miyacho 49

    The street (around the Ichijoji station) is called ramen street from my personal point of view cause I found out there are roughly 16 ramen stores in the same street! You can tell the ramen is good...

  • ICHIRAN Kyoto Kawaramachi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Takoyakushidori Shinkyogoku Higashiiri Uraderacho 598
  • ICHIRAN Kyoto Yawata
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    4.0
    20 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Yawata-shi Yawataminamiyama 106-3

    国道1号線沿いにあり、赤い看板が目立ちます。 ラーメンに集中してもらうために一席一席に間仕切りがありますが、間仕切りは開放できることに今更ながら気付きました。 味は普通、博多ラーメンにしては 値段は高めだと思います。

  • ICHIRAN Kyoto Karasuma
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Shimogyo-ku Tachiurinakanocho 102-3 MUSE 389 Kyoto Building 2F

    Its a chain restaurant, but it has very delicious ramen with lots of flexibility. And, as an introvert, I was a huge fan of their private cubicle system.

  • Ramen Jiro Kyoto
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Sakyo-ku Ichijojisatonomaecho 4
  • IPPUDO Kyoto Porta
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    4.5
    51 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto Shimogyo Higashi Shiokojicho

    Very tasty ramen and not a very long wait at the queue. Got there at around 8pm but unfortunately, they had sold out of eggs. Ramen without egg didnt feel right but nonetheless husband and I stayed...

  • Hakata Nagahama Ramen Miyoshi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Ishiyacho 115 Tsujita Building 1F

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Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.

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