Ramen Adventures 2.0

Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy New Year from Ramen Adventures to you. I hope your 2020 wasn't too terrible. I hope you had a few good bowls of ramen, wherever you live. And I hope you'll continue to crush great bowls!

New Site

I ended my 2020 posts with my two Best Of Ramen lists. It was, despite adhering to Japanese government regulations, a very nice year to travel and eat within Japan. There was no formal quarantine here, just heavy encouragement from the government to stay home during a spike back in spring. After that, they started subsidizing travel, giving around 50% off in discounts. I took advantage and visited a few shops. Quite fitting to end with some best-of lists.

And no, the reviews aren't over, just on a slight break until the launch of Ramen Adventures 2.0.

The new site will feature a smoother design and an actual map. I hope this comes in handy for all of you ramen hunters out there. The site name will stay the same unless you are still using the old blogger web address. Stay tuned at:

www.ramenadventures.com

Twitch

I'm on Twitch!

Yes, I joined the live-streaming revolution. I'm not making any promises, but I'd like to do one or two ramen hunt streams a week. Tune in live to chat with me as I travel hours to a ramen shop, ignore you while I eat, and travel hours back home!

Please throw me a follow. User name RamenAdventures

https://www.twitch.tv/ramenadventures

YouTube

I made more YouTube videos in the last month than the last two years.

I admit the production isn't as great as older videos, but it feels good to get back out and do some filming. There are half a dozen English language ramen YouTubers out there now, so I either need to get on my grind or fade into internet obscurity.

Patreon

If you would like to support my ramen hunting, the best way is to become a Patron. Just $1 shows that you get something out of my ramen adventures. Thank you to the Crushed It Crew for supporting me for so long.

https://www.patreon.com/ramenadventures

Other Social Media

I'm on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. You know the deal. See you on the internet!

The BEST Ramen in Japan 2020

Here are the BEST 34 ramen shops in Japan! Your search is over!

As always, my annual list is just clickbait to drive traffic to the site, composing a list of the shops I blogged about in the previous year. I picked out my favorites.

And a quick sorry-not-sorry in advance. This list is long. In late 2019 I began working with Ramen Walker magazine, arguably Japan's top ramen-related magazine. Alongside nine other ramen critics, I help a bit with rankings and general comments on ramen shops. Said other ramen critics are some of the top guys in the game, and I felt like a small fish in a big pond. Could I effectively make a best-five list in somewhere like Saga Prefecture? Definitely not. So I made it an ongoing pursuit to hit all the highly ranked shops across Japan as well as I could. It's a monumental undertaking, with hundreds of shops around the country on my hit list. And, for the sake of my own best-of list, they are all winners.

Expect next year's list to be even longer.

いそのかづお (Isono Kazuo in Sapporo, Hokkaido)

鶏Soba 座銀 にぼし店 (Zagin Niboshi in Osaka)

ぶたのほし (Butanohoshi in Amagasaki, Hyogo)

杭州飯店 (Koshu Hanten in Niigata)

梅花亭 (Baikatei in Shiga Prefecture)

猪一 離れ (Inoichi Hanare in Kyoto)

好陽軒 (Koyoken in Nagoya)

ラーメンル・デッサン (Le Dessin in Shizuoka Prefecture)

わかば亭 (Wakabatei in Hiroshima)

けいま (Keima in Hiroshima)

宝来軒 (Horaiken in Oita Prefecture)

二代目ラーメンカヨ (Kayo in Oita Prefecture)

再来軒 (Sairaiken in Miyazaki Prefecture)

拉麺男 (Ramen Man in Miyazaki Prefecture)

ラーメン工房 龍 (Ryu in Fukuoka Prefecture)

来久軒 (Raikyuken in Saga Prefecture)

幸陽閣 (Koyokaku in Saga Prefecture)

丸星ラーメン (Maruboshi in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture)

Furari in Beppu, Oita Prefecture

きしもと食堂 (Kishimoto Shokudo in Okinawa)

らぁ麺 紫陽花 (Ajisai in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture)

つけ麺 丸和 (Maruwa in Nagoya)

総本家 好来道場 (Koraidojo in Nagoya)

らぁ麺 飛鶏 (Asuka in Nagoya)

らぁ麺や 汐そば 雫 (Shizuku in Nagoya)

恵那く (Enaku in Kyoto)

らーめん本竈 (Honkamado in Sendai)

ふじ屋 NOODLE (Fujiya in Sapporo, Hokkaido)

Japanese Ramen Noodle Lab Q in Sapporo

Men-Eiji Higarashi Base in Sapporo

富良野 とみ川 (Tomikawa in Furano, Hokkaido)

鬼者語 (Onimonogatari in Tsukuba, Ibaraki)

ふる川 (Furukawa in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture)

らあめん厨房どる屋 (Doruya in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture)

The BEST Ramen in Tokyo 2020

Here is my 2020 list of the BEST ramen in Tokyo.

Hmmm, how can I increase my SEO?

The most best top gourmet ramen in Tokyo, Japan! You won't believe number 12! Yes, number 12 is cricket ramen. OMG, I ate insect bug ramen and lived to tell about it (warning gross bugs!).

Did that work? Last year's Best Ramen in Tokyo has more hits than average, but I want more! Let's crush it in 2020.

Anyways, the list is better viewed over at my dedicated best-of ramen site

HERE

but if you just want to see the photos go ahead and scroll down. As always, this is just a list of shops that I blogged about in 2020 that I thought were standouts. It's not a solid top 10 list or anything like that, but these are all winners. Happy New Year!

case-K in Chiba

房総式ラーメン 人力船 (Jinrikisen in Chiba)

中華そば 螢 (Hotaru in Saitama)

道有楽 (Doraku in Kashiwa, Saitama)

麺ハチイチ (81 Noodle Bar in Kichijoji)

crab台風 (Crab Typhoon in Ningyocho, Tokyo)

迂直 (Uchoku in Ogikubo, Tokyo)

焼鳥 山もと (Yamamoto in Mitaka, Tokyo)

味噌っ子ふっく (Hook in Ogikubo, Tokyo)

味噌ぶりnoodleみやみや (Miyamiya in Sakuragaoka, Tokyo)

らーめん飛粋 (Hiiki in Kamata, Tokyo)

コオロギラーメン (Cricket Ramen at Antcicada)

IRUCA Tokyo in Higashi-Kurume, Tokyo

函館塩ラーメン 五稜郭 (Goryokaku in Ogikubo, Tokyo)

ぜんや (Zenya in Niiza, Saitama)

麺処 しろくろ (Shirokuro in Kamitakaido, Tokyo)

中華蕎麦きつね (Kitsune in Rokakoen, Tokyo)

ラーメン 健やか (Sukoyaka in Mitaka, Tokyo)