5 recommended Tokushima ramen! From a long-established local favorite to a topical shop

Speaking of Tokushima ramen, a representative of Tokushima local gourmet, sweet and spicy pork bone soy sauce tea soup is a classic! Eating raw eggs is also a major feature. Among the many ramen shops scattered around the city of Tokushima, we introduce the long-established and popular shops that cannot be removed. Check out the characteristics of Tokushima ramen and the specialty of each shop, let's go for a cup of concern.

First, let's know the characteristics of Tokushima ramen!

Tokushima ramen is said to have its roots in the milky soup ramen that was served at food stalls after the war. Today, there are three types of soup: the sweet and spicy pork bone and soy sauce "brown" soup that appeared around 1965, the "yellow" soup made with pork bones, chicken bones, and vegetables, and the light "white" soup, and there are many "brown" soup restaurants in Tokushima City.

Noodles are dominated by short straight noodles around 20cm which are easy to tangle in the soup. The ingredients are sweet and seasoned pork belly, but there are also shops where you can put char siu! The fact that there are many raw eggs, rather than boiled eggs, is one of the characteristics of Tokushima ramen, which also goes well with the rich soup.

This is the classic! The key to success is the brown, sweet and spicy soup at "Chuka Soba Inotani Daikumachi Main Branch"

In the wake of the opening at the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum, a famous restaurant that made Tokushima Ramen a national ward. You can enjoy royal road sweet and spicy soup, which is made from pork bone-based soup with thick mouth and tamari soy sauce. The store is filled with famous people's colored paper.

The homemade noodles, which have been around since the time of its founding, are medium-fine straight noodles and have a lackluster texture. The ingredients are slightly thickly seasoned pork belly, as well as plenty of sprouts and green onions! The topping of raw egg (iodine egg) is 50 yen.

■ Chuka Soba Inotani Daikumachi Main Branch

Address: 4-25 Nishi-daikumachi, Tokushima, Tokushima
TEL:088-653-1482
Open hours: 10:30-17 (ends when sold out)
Closed: Monday

“Ramen Todai Omachi Honten”, a famous “Brown-based” store representing Tokushima

It is one of the most famous shops in the prefecture as “brown-kei”, aiming to become the top of the ramen world. It is also possible to have a line on holidays.

The brown-based soup, which condenses umami, is stewed with pork bones, chicken gala and vegetables for a long time and is flavored with a secret soy sauce sauce. The noodles are medium-fine straight noodles. There is also a nice service that you can put in the raw eggs on the tabletop for free. Best match with soft pork belly!

■ Ramen Todai Omachi Honten

Address: 1-36 Omichi, Tokushima, Tokushima
TEL:088-655-3775
Opening hours: 11-4 a.m.
Closed: No Closed
Access: 15-minute walk from JR Tokushima Station
Parking: 9 cars

Pork roses and wonton fit in a white-based soup! "Ginza Ippuku Honten"

It is a long-established store that was founded in 1951 and was the first to incorporate pork belly. It is a well-known store that is prepared by the third generation and has many local core fans.

The soup is yellow-based, and its light taste is made by adding blended soy sauce to the white-colored pork bone soup. The noodles are medium-fine straight noodles. The ingredients are pork roses, which are finished with the added sauce, and handmade wontons are also popular.

■ Ginza Ippuku Honten

Address: 10 Ginza, Tokushima, Tokushima
TEL:088-652-2340
Opening hours: 11-close when sold out
Closed: Monday (the next day if it is a public holiday)
Access: 8 minutes from JR Tokushima Station
Parking: None

"China Soba wanwan-ken Honten" where the mouth-watering pork bone flavor becomes a habit

A shop in Aizumi-cho with a friendly, mass-dining-like atmosphere. The medium-sized straight homemade noodles and the specialty Brown-based soup are a gem that you can bet on if you like Tokushima ramen.

The brown-based soup has a wild flavor of stewed up to the pith of pork bones, and Kaeshi's seafood soup is also exquisite. The sweet and cooked pork belly is delicious, perfect for a white rice accompaniment!

■ China Soba wanwan-ken Honten

Address: 446-15 Tokumei Ushinose, Aizumi-cho, Tokushima
TEL:088-693-0393
Opening hours: 11-20
Closed: Thursday, unregular holiday once a month on Monday
Access: 3 minutes by car from Tokushima Motorway Aizumi IC
Parking: 18 cars

"Okamoto Chuka" where char siu full of equipment is attractive

Located on the south side of Tokushima City, Komatsushima City's representative Chinakoba store is a long-established restaurant that has been running for three generations, 74 years since its inception.

A mellow, full-bodied white soup made by simmering pork bones and chicken gala for a long time, often intertwined with medium-sized straight noodles, and is also very good with char siu using two types of pork! It's a cup that you can drink after taste.

■ Okamoto Chuka

Address: 60-1 Okubayashi, Chuden-cho, Komatsushima, Tokushima
TEL:0885-32-0653
Hours: 11-18 (end when sold out)
Closed: Thursday, third Wednesday

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