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Japan’s first all-matcha ramen restaurant is now open in Kyoto【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2026 - Tweet
Ramen Nishiki Sui has a very fitting name.
Bear meat noodles?!? Tokyo restaurant adds a new kind of niku soba to its menu【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2026
Bears are everywhere in Japan these days – even in our noodles.
- Japan
- (bears • COK • crazy • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test • udon • wild game)
7-Eleven Japan’s ramen-cooking robot whipped us up a bowl of noodles【Taste test】
- SoraNews24
Dec 27, 2025
7-Eleven is trying to innovate beyond cup noodles, but does this new technology deliver the flavor ramen fans need?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Noodles • ramen • robots • SNJO • taste test • technology)
Disillusionment at Tsukiji’s tourist-target prices led us to a great ramen restaurant in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Dec 24, 2025
Mr. Sato bypasses the high-priced sushi that’s become the neighborhood’s new normal and finds a super-cheap, super-tasty bowl of ramen.
- Japan
- (China travel advisory • COK • Japan travel • Mr. Sato • Noodles • overtourism • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel • Tsukiji • Tsukiji fish market)
Has China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning shortened queues at this Ichiran ramen restaurant in Tokyo?
- Oona McGee
Dec 9, 2025
Shinjuku locations present a different side to the story that made international headlines.
- Japan
- (Chinese tourists • COK • food • Ichiran • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurants • restaurants • SNJO • tonkotsu ramen • tourism • tourists • travel)
Stamina-destroying “Paralysis Noodles” are Tokyo’s newest over-the-top ramen innovation
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2025
We head to Tokyo’s Toshima Ward for a new spin on stamina-style ramen.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • stamina ramen • staminga-style ramen • taste test)
Major Japanese noodle chain is closing on Christmas Eve so workers can spend time with families
- Casey Baseel
Dec 6, 2025
Marugame Family Night is for the Marugame families, not the customers.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas Eve • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Udon.touching • moving • Noodles • restaurants • society • touching • udon)
Popular Japanese ramen restaurant Ichiran’s lucky bags are great value for money
- Elliot Hale
Dec 5, 2025
Even at the cheapest option, you’re getting a fantastic deal.
- Japan
- (COK • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2026 • fukubukuro roundup 2026 • Ichiran • Japanese food • K. Masami • lucky bag • Lucky Bag 2026 • lucky bag roundup 2026 • lucky bags 2026 • Noodles • ramen • SNJO)
Tokyo’s Ueno Station has an unmanned noodle restaurant on its platform, and its no-joke good
- Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2025
A reason to make sure to walk all the way to the end of the platform.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japan travel • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • stations • tourism • trains • travel • Ueno Station)
We might have found the funniest dish in Kanagawa
- Elliot Hale
Nov 21, 2025
A geyser of crispy noodles, seeming to erupt out of the bowl, leaves customers in fits of laughter.
- Japan
- (big food • COK • crazy • food • funny • Kangawa • mapo tofu • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • Takuya Inaba • yakisoba)
Never forget that Mister Donut’s super-simple ramen is actually very hard to beat
- Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2025
The chain may not be called “Mister Ramen,” but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to make a really good bowl of noodles.
- Japan
- (donuts • food • Mister Donut • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
The deluxe disappointment and basic brilliance of Japan’s oldest standing soba noodle chain
- Casey Baseel
Nov 6, 2025
Miyako Soba may not be what we’d expected for the oldest standing soba chain in country, but maybe it should have been.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japan’s oldest • Noodles • oldest in Japan • Osaka • restaurants • SNJO • soba)
Kagawa’s Udon Gummies are so hard to chew they come with warning labels
- Elliot Hale
Nov 1, 2025
You might need some good dental insurance.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • gummies • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • SNJO • sweets • udon • weird)
Is it worth eating at Akihabara Ramen Center?
- Oona McGee
Oct 24, 2025
Tokyo noodle joint is open 24 hours a day, but it may or may not be what you’re looking for.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Akihabara Ramen Center • COK • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo restaurants)
Time-slipping travel at a roadside retro spot in northern east Japan【Kita Kanto Brothers】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2025
The Kita Kanto Brothers make an unexpected detour in Gunma Prefecture.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • food • Gunma • Kanto • Kita Kanto • Kita Kanto Bros. • Kita Kanto Brothers • Masanuki Sunakoma • Noodles • north Kanto • northern Kanto • retro • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • tourism • travel • vending machines)
Oodles of noodles! Udon chain pays homage to all 47 prefectures of Japan with 47 dishes【Photos】
- Krista Rogers
Oct 21, 2025
You’ll have to travel to Marugame Seimen locations across Japan to try each dish in its respective prefecture.
- Japan
- (47 prefectures • campaign • COK • food • gourmet • local • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • photos • SNJO • udon)
Man arrested for breaking into unoccupied home in Japan after mystery noodles found in fridge
- Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2025
A rare case of udon being unexpected in Udon Prefecture, but where they came from is still a mystery.
- Japan
- (crime • Kagawa • Kagawa Prefecture • Noodles • udon • Udon Prefecture • weird)
Why do tourists eat noodles with a green onion instead of chopsticks in this Edo town?
- Oona McGee
Oct 11, 2025
Charming old post town serves up a culinary tradition you won’t find anywhere else in Japan.
- Japan
- (cool • cool food • Edo • Edo era • Edo period • food • Fukushima • gourmet • local specialties • must try • negi soba • Noodles • Ouchijuku • post town • regional food • restaurants • SNJO • soba • travel • weird food)
Craft your own edible Mt. Fuji with Yamanashi’s Blue Udon
- Master Blaster
Sep 15, 2025
Udon is going through its blue period.
Supercomputer noodles bring the magic of Fugaku to the dining table
- Oona McGee
Aug 21, 2025
The Venn diagram of computer geeks and noodle lovers overlaps in a delicious way.
- Japan
- (COK • computers • cool • Felissimo • food • Fugaku • fujitsu • Japanese food • Noodles • RIKEN • SNJO • somen • supercomputer • taste test • weird • weird food)
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