ramen at rouji

Rouji, a delicious ramen shop near Demachiyanagi station (map), serves their noodles tsukemen style, with the noodles separate from the broth. You dip the cold wheaty ramen into the fish-based broth. Boiled egg and char siu pork are optional, just choose at the ticket machine by the entrance. On a recent visit with friends from the U.S., I had an entertaining time finding the right buttons to press since none of us could read kanji. For any of you similarly handicapped visitors, here are the buttons, from left to right: “plain,” “with boiled egg,” “with roast pork,” “with boiled egg and roast pork.” Simple! (You’ll also need to choose how many grams of noodles.) A nice design touch: all the bowls, and the hot plates you can reheat the broth with, appear to be from Muji.