Ifu Akihabara — Restaurant in Tokyo

This was my first experience of having ramen in Japan, and it was great! My friend and I had just exited Akihabara Station and saw this place, deciding it was the perfect time to try some. You order at a kiosk (card, IC, or cash), and the prices were pretty good. It was ¥800 for a bowl of extra rich miso ramen (tonkotsu-style), and we also ordered lemon sours, though I don't remember exactly how much they were (maybe around ¥350-400?). I wasn’t a big fan but it's not surprising since I don’t enjoy most alcohol. My friend really liked his though. The place was small and cozy, with a few seats arranged around a central prep area where staff would refill our water and bring out our food - great service! The ramen itself was absolutely phenomenal - you could really taste the texture and richness in the broth and noodles, and how different it is from American ramen. If you are Japanese it's probably not phenomenal, but to 2 Americans it...

Don’t be fooled. Nothing is fresh here. You can literally see them microwaving the food especially the fried rice. It’s not fried. They take them out of a plastic bag then microwave it. The chashu (porkbelly) has an aftertaste to it meaning it’s not fresh. Nothing here tastes fresh. This coming from a person who lives in Japan. I know what a good ramen and a good chahan(fried rice) is. Gyo-za (dumplings) is bland. Stay away. There’s a lot of good ramen places around akihabara save your time...

秋葉原駅の昭和通り口に最も近いラーメン店の一つです。店頭に掲げた趣のある書体で刻まれた店名の看板が目を引きますが、実際に給仕されるラーメンはこの店ならではの特徴が無い、至って普通のラーメンです（強いて言えば万人受けのラーメンです）。 この店は1階にあるため障碍を持つ人でも気軽に利用できますが、店内は狭いため、車椅子での利用は不向きです。券売機が設置されているですが、入り口付近ではありません。狭い通路を通って券売機で食券を購入する必要があるため、食券購入の列が出入りの邪魔になる上に、その列を背中にして料理を食べる人からすると落ち着いて食事にありつけないでしょう。 スタッフの接客対応は決して悪くありませんが、あまりお勧めできるラーメン店ではありません。

This is one of the ramen restaurants closest to the Showa-dori exit of Akihabara Station. The signboard on the front of the store with the name of the restaurant engraved in a quaint calligraphic style is eye-catching, but the actual Ramen served here is quite ordinary, with no unique characteristics (if anything, it is a ramen for everyone). The restaurant is located on the first floor, so it is easily accessible to people with disabilities, but the interior is too small for wheelchairs. There is a ticket vending machine, but it is not located near the entrance. You have to go through a narrow passageway to buy a ticket from the machine, and the line to buy a ticket is a hindrance to entering and exiting the restaurant, as well as a hindrance to people eating their food with their backs to the line. The staff's customer service is not bad, but it's not a ramen restaurant that I...