Men Wa Kasugai — Restaurant in Osaka

This is the best shoyu ramen I had over 3 weeks of Japan trips. The service is quick (ticket machine and ramen is cooked in front of you once you give them your ticket - bring cash). The sides are also amazing, the char siu don is perfectly sized to compliment the ramen and is perfect moist and marinated.

The staff is kind but not overly bearing, they don't mind if you google translate ticket machine. The atmosphere is amazing as they have choice jazz music playing. The special ramen with all the toppings is 1100 yen and the char siu don is only 350 yen. Both are easily worth twice their cost. There seems to be lunch discounts as well but I am not sure of the hours.

Despite being here after 10pm on Christmas Eve in the middle of an entertainment district, the shop was mostly empty so there was no wait. Absolutely fantastic and I plan to be back before I leave Osaka at...

Small, local ramen joint with a single chef. One of the best things I ate during my 2 week Japan trip.

The shop has about 10 seats so it can fill up quickly. You also pay and order at the ticket booth, which didn’t have an English menu so google translate is your friend.

I got the shoyu ramen and my boyfriend got the shio ramen, and both were delicious. The real highlight though was the broth, especially the salt based ramen. The broths were very unique and I never had a salt based broth like that before. It is very salty though so I was glad I had the shoyu ramen (which again was delicious already).

Definitely worth a stop if you’re...

An excellent find. We stumbled across this nearby where we were staying and it was brilliant. Maybe seats 10 people, with one man serving up bowl after bowl of delicious ramen. He even came out to give us a quick run down of how to use the vending machine.

We had a rice bowl topped with chashu pork, soy ramen and a tsukemen spicy miso ramen. Everything was delicious but the latter was simply outstanding.

Well worth turning...