We arrived at 5:55pm on a Saturday night and we were seated by 6:30pm. There were fans and bug spray supplied while waiting outside. The staff were helpful and the food was yum. It was worth the wait.
David C.
Place rating: 5 Brookline, MA
Highly recommended. If you don’t speak or read Japanese, read the reviews by other Unilocal posters. The most important thing to remember — the vending machine does not take any bills greater than 1000 Y!!! There is a family mart nearby where you can purchase a small item so that you can change your high denomination bills. Enjoy!!!
Ji Y.
Place rating: 5 Los Angeles, CA
We spent 5 days in Japan, so we finally got the nerve to wait in line for food. We waited in line 30 minutes before the restaurant opened(opens at 11am). There were already 6 people waiting in line before us. So these are the steps for those who were lost like us: 1. The line continues from the right and then spaced out to the left side of the sidewalk.(Whoops, we were corrected). 2. Each person takes turn individually through the door to order from the vending machine. The machine is only in Japanese and has no pictures. You put the money in first, choose, and get a ticket.(We pressed all the expensive ones, haha). The machine does not accept anything above 1000 yen. 3. You seem to sit down on the set closest to the door then to the back. You hand the chef your ticket and get your food.(If you make a mistake like how I did, one of the chef politely used body language to correct the mistake). 4. Enjoy your food and then thank the chef when your are done. You leave the ramen house satisfied and stare at the even longer line out the door. Then you proceed on thanking yourself for waiting in line early.
Robin C.
Place rating: 5 Itabashi, Japan
My two dear friends took me there and kept telling me «very good ramen». After we arrived there, there was a long standing line. Then the window guy informed us that it was time to purchase our meal tickets from the machine. Then we returned to the standing line, the window guy showed us two kind of noodles, one was white noodle and other was light dark noodle. After we picked which noodle we wanted. He folded our tickets. For example, one ticket was folded half meaning dark noodle and other ticket folded doggie ear meaning white noodle. The line took about 10 minutes. Finally it was our time to go inside, the restaurant was cozy and smelled so good. Our ramen were ready after we settled down. My friends were right that the ramen was so deliśh! Wow. The soup flavor was unbelievable good and noodle, too. The flavor egg was the best part of the ramen. I was glad that I went there. Arigato, Motenashi Kuroki!
Alex H.
Place rating: 5 San Francisco, CA
This was some of the best ramen of my life. Now be warned: there are no English menus here. You order from a machine, and the staff is incredibly helpful but they will not be able to help you order as they speak little to no English. You’re gonna have a hard time if you cannot speak any Japanese. So to get back to this mind blowing ramen. I stood in line(for ramen!) and it took about 5 or ten minutes of waiting for me to finally get in. So I speak little to know Japanese, but they were willing to point, and I knew what I wanted to order from the machine so I managed to order their special shoyu ramen. This was a mind blowing experience, dear reader. Every part of the food made me want to say«oh my god» and every part of me wanted to cry at the same time. In short: I saw Jesus in my ramen, dear reader. God the shoyu egg was angelic. It’s my new standard for a perfect shoyu egg. I finished the entire bowl. It was a disgustingly good feat. I threw my traditional peace sign at the two men behind the counter who had prepared this heavenly meal, and proceeded to exit in an orderly fashion.