Isshin - Toyama Station (Original Store) — Restaurant in Toyama

The food is only 4 stars but the service is 6 stars hence the 5 stars rating. I tried both the black ramen and spicy miso ramen. I could taste the fragrance of soy sauce when I was slurping the black ramen. Spicy miso was a little too oily in my opinion; I might be biased since I recently had an amazing bowl in Nagano that blew my mind. Overall, the ramen were great but not amazing. I wouldnt make the special trip to come back nor queue more than 15 minutes for this. But the staff was incredible - I told them that I’d like to have less noodles for my ramen (since we actually already had lunch but wanted to try ramen). They actually refunded me some yen even though I was happy to pay the full price - super high integrity that I gotta give...

It was my first time trying Toyama Black ramen and I was really impressed. Isshin ramen is well known and was quite busy at lunch.

You use a vending machine to order your ramen.

They have a variety of options to choose from - we ordered the spicy miso and black ramen. Both ramen soup bases were delicious - full of flavour. The star of the ramens were the noodles - made fresh daily in store with local ingredients. Probably the best noodles I’ve had in a long time.

The staff here were great - very friendly and nice. Our orders were brought out quite quickly despite being busy.

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Super tasty, took level 2 mild spicy, able to empty the whole bowl of Spicy Miso Ramen, miso flavour was utra smooth with hints of fish umami. Find it pleasantly unique unlike others. Handmade noodle also less heavy compare to the usual ones. Love their homemade kmichi with vinegar (add on your own). Char siew meat was very tasty n tender. Fried chicken optional (big size), draft beer recommended!! My partner tried their shoyu Ramen which we think was less savory and not very outstanding. Partially also we are not fans of...