Tatsunoya

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND PLEASE GO HERE!
We loved it so much, we went here twice. Both times, I got the tsukemen style ramen aka dipping ramen. The noodles here are so freaking good, I still dream about them. If you like thick egg noodles, this is your jam! I mean, it was so good that when I tried to order extra pork, I ended up getting 2 pounds of noodlies instead. Must be fate.
At the end of my meal, the guy refresh my dipping broth and added rice to it and turned it into congee. SO GOOD! I’m not sure if this was because we sat at the bar.
The regular style ramen is also fantastic. Broth is VERY delicious but nooldes were not like the dipping ones!
Vending machine style ordering with no english and just pictures. Efficient Japan.

Does it worth mentioning that ramen is amazing here?! — absolutely!
Order process is with vending machine that doesn’t have English option :(but it does have pictures!
Do get extra pork — it melts in your mouth!

Excellent tsukemen style ramen where you dip the noodles in the broth. The noodles are a nice thick al dente chewy variety which holds up well to the very strong but delicious broth. The egg here is also excellent — just so rich full of flavor more than anything I’ve had in the US.
There was a line full of Japanese people even at 10pm.

The ramen was really good, and everyone who worked there was awesome. There was a 15 – 20 minute wait outside, but it was well worth it.
We tried ramen at many places on our 19 day trip throughout Japan, and this was one of the top 2 places for us (the top being the Ippudo in Kyoto specifically … we tried Ippudo in another city, and it wasn’t as good as the one in Kyoto). If you are in the area and in the mood for ramen, it’d be worth your while to give this place a whirl.
Also, as I mentioned in my tip, they do serve beer but it isn’t denoted in English or picture on the ordering kiosk/​machine: it is the button in the lower left-​hand corner of the kiosk (if you don’t trust me, ask the server and he’ll confirm :)).

This was our first meal in Tokyo after our plane touched down. We ate at several ramen places during our trip but this place was the best. The broth had a rich thick porkiness and great umami flavor. The noodles are a bit different that your traditional ramen noodles — thinner and less curly, almost more like soba noodles. The place is small but no long lines when we went. English is limited but service is friendly and very helpful.

I was in Tokyo for six days and was back twice!!! This is the best ramen in Tokio I would proclaim. It always has a line, but not insanely long. We even lined up one day while it was raining.
The noodle was al dente and what really hit me was the cha shu which were excellent!
Service was good as well!

Wow this is definitely one of the best ramen shops we’ve been to in Tokyo and we’ve been to a few. Amazing thick broth, our favorite style of ramen is tonkotsu (pork bone broth) so if that is your cup of tea this place is a must go. They will ask you if you want your noodles hard or soft (or med). The chashu pork is excellent, very flavorful with great texture everything about this bowl is 100% awesome. The free bowl of spicy bean sprouts (moyashi) they set at each counter seat is also a great accompaniment. Pretty easy to find and well worth a wait in line.

This was my second favorite ramen shop. Great service, cooks were very polite and happy. Happy cooks always make great food imo. I just got a tonkatsu ramen for comparison. The broth was terrific. Very flavorful and the noodles were good too. The chasu was not the most flavorful and the egg was just so so. I think the broth for sure is the best part here though. I would return. I do think this is more of a tsukemen place after I ordered. My friend did order this and she was very happy with it. The chef even was nice enough to give her a hair tie from the bar

This is by far one of my fave places in Tokyo for tsukemen.
Like I’ve mentioned before I like my noodles greasy and filled with flavour, and this place delivers ever time.
This place is famous for its tsukemen, noodles you dip into your soup rather than them already being in there.
And the soup is special because unlike other tsukemen soup it uses motsu — intestine.
Now if you’re not into internal organs this might not be the right dish for you but if you like it like I do you won’t regret having it for sure!
It’s quite heavy so I wouldn’t recommend going every week but defo once a month ;)
Make sure you leave some soup as they give you Okayu — rice porridge; that you dump into the soup and finish it off in all its glory!
Top picks in the city!
Enjoy!

Probably the best of several Ramens (spelling for plural? Ramen-​i?) we had in Japan. Rich flavorful broth, delicious egg and noodle. And fairly reasonable wait. Choose through the vending machine and when he asks you a question you don’t understand after you hand over your ticket, he’s asking how hard you want your noodles, to which the proper response is an ambivalent shrug unless you’re super picky about your noodle consistency and you think they’re going to screw you if you leave it up to them!

Disclaimer: I’m a dumb American who has never had ramen that didn’t come out of a plastic bag with a flavor packet.
With that out of the way, this place was awesome. You place an order at a vending machine that spits out a ticket.
My group all just picked the one with the biggest picture, it was 780 yen. They then asked me a question, i looked panicked until he said «hard? Soft?» in English. Turns out he was asking how hard I wanted the noodles. I said medium and we were off and running.
On the table was three dishes. One with some sprouts with some spices on them, and two others we couldn’t really figure out. The locals next to us put some sprouts on their little plate and ate them. I did this too. They were pleasant. Shortly after this, they brought out our ramen. The bowls were gigantic. They had ramen, sprouts, some other crunchy vegetable (cabbage maybe?), green onion, and a few slices of pork. The broth was amazing. I really enjoyed it.
In Japan, it is polite to slurp your noodles. I was the most polite white dude that place had ever seen.
While we were waiting a line formed behind us out the restaurant door, so the locals must like it too. Highly recommended.

Looks like i get to write the first gaijin review.
A colleague and good buddy of mine first brought me here when I came to visit on a business trip last year. That time, I was thoroughly impressed. Great atmosphere, nice staff, and slammin’ ramen. The soup base I was told has a ホルモン (roughly translated: chitterlings) base, so is very hearty and full-​flavored, but not as overpowering as you might expect soup made by boiling pig poop chutes to be. I know that’s not the most appetizing of descriptions so just trust me, it’s delicious. The noodles are excellent and in general the other ingredients are well done (spicy moyashi, chashuu, etc.). To top it all off, when you finish your ramen, they give you a bowl of okayu to mix with whatever is left of your dipping sauce (which they will kindly top off for you) so that you end up with a fantastic bowl of zousui.
Recently, I found myself in Tokyo again on another business trip, freshly deplaned and feeling super sh**ty thanks to the fact that I’d broken my cardinal rule of in-​flight dining — never eat the fish. (I was flying ANA and the good service and pretty FA’s made me let down my guard… it was only later that it occurred to me that ANA or not, I was flying from the US… meaning the fish would have had to have been prepared by a US caterer. Doh!)
Anyway, after spending 6 hours curled in a fetal position in economy class, I needed something hearty but not too harsh to set my gastrointestinal system right again. There were plenty of ramen places near my hotel, but 龍の家 was calling to me like a siren I could not ignore, especially the zousui. I hopped on subway until I got to Shinjuku and stumbled through the rainy streets, hoping that my vague memory of the location would get me there. Thankfully, it did. Line wasn’t too bad — just one couple ahead of me and we ended up standing outside for only about 10 minutes before we could be seated.
This time around, the ramen wasn’t quite as revelatory as I felt it had been the first time around… but to be fair, I had eaten that ANA fish, so I wasn’t really right to begin with. I was so exhausted and full by the time I finished the ramen that I didn’t even stick around to have the zousui that had been my goal in the first place.
All this to say, after my first visit, I would have given it this place 5 stars, but I’m holding one in reserve after this last visit until I get a chance to go again and determine which experience was more on the mark. So consider this 4 stars more like 4 and a half likely to be upgraded to 5.